The night before.....

And it was incredible....

 I have never been much of a 'wedding girl' and all the planning leading up to seemed to be a mystery to me.

 I had never been a bridesmaid either, so it seemed I had a very vague vision of what I wanted. 

Sometimes its even better to be surprised by the magical result of something that
 ( lets be honest here) seems to be a million pieces of a very vague and fuzzy puzzle!

But the idea of bringing together your closest friends and family?...wonderful

The groom to be's grand neck beard 

and stylin In-n-Out burger hat brought all the way to Toronto from California via my cousins and Aunt.

The best of the best?:

Capturing facial expressions that my friends do best.

 Even better?: catching them when they aren't looking.

 The grooms sister and my maid of honour to the left (yes I wrote honoUr, pure, blessed, Canadian spelling right there)!

And my oldest, dearest best friend Laura to the right. She is likely chatting with either her mom or her boyfriend. Awww

This was the day before the wedding, when there is a lot of energy in the air and a huge influx of family and friends arriving. 

It was still surreal to me at these moments. But we relished every one.

The time leading up....

Late January and early February.

These were the days and weeks leading up to our wedding day. And these days were filled with
hustle and bustle. Assembling...creating....picking up...dropping off....borrowing...buying....phew!

 But all those handmade details? Well worth it

 The deer head was generously loaned by our friend Vince from one of his hunting trips.
 Note the look of absolute fear in its eyes. I think its cause it got a glimpse of Vince and knew what was coming to it.

Bridesmaids gifts.

The sweet little songbird decor.
I am pretty sure my cat had some ideas in mind for that bird.........

Because one is never too busy to take cat pictures.