My fiancé is Mr. Social Media, both at work and at home. If there is a way to incorporate the Internet into any place where there previously was no Internet involvement, he is all for it ( Read more... )

I am a hat wearer both by necessity (I need insane amounts of sun protection these days) and by inclination (hats are awesome ( Read more... )

We're currently in the process of trying to pick ceremony and first dance music for us. Well, actually, we're still stuck on the first dance. The trouble is that there is only one first dance, so if you're a couple that doesn't have a "song" (like us) coming to a consensus can be tricky ( Read more... )

Last Sunday I hauled my poor, long-suffering fiancé down to our closest large shopping centre to complete our gift registry. I had been putting off the registry for ages because, well, I feel weird about the whole registry idea in general. Rob and I have been living together for over a year now, so it's not like we're starting from scratch. We've ( Read more... )

After taking a couple of weeks vacation and doing absolutely nothing wedding-related, I took a look at my to-do list earlier this week and decided I really needed to get a move on. So I turned to the Internet and got back to researching. I fell in love with a whole bunch of ideas, but there's just one catch: they all use an aqua-and-red colour ( Read more... )

Attention all crafty types:

I am suffering from craft deprivation. After the holidays, I'm jumping back on the crafting wagon. What's more, I have a crafting plan, and it involves millinery. I want to learn how to make birdcage veils and other headpieces.


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I've been emailing back and forth with Padre Mike, the padre at the military college where we'll be getting married, and all of this time I've been thinking that his name sounded awfully familiar. Today it hit me: he's the padre who stood beside when I went to my ex's repatriation ceremony when they brought him back from Afghanistan ( Read more... )

I bought a wedding dress! It was a much less painful experience than I expected, thanks to White Toronto, where they give you big ol' private room to try stuff on in and make you feel very princess-y (in a good way ( Read more... )

Wedding dress dilemma solved. Rob has spoken to his mother.

In other wedding news, we've picked a venue and set a date: July 10, 2010 at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto!

I guess this actually means we're getting married.

If you are unfamiliar with my current wedding dress/mother-in-law conundrum, please see my previous post.

And now for the update.

At about eleven last night, Rob and I were getting ready for bed when the following conversation took place:

Kate: "So, you emailed your mother and told her I want to pick my own dress, right?"

Rob: "Yeah, about that ( Read more... )