{Reality Wedding Story} | A Gorgeous Mexican Wedding Celebration - Jason & Sue

Photography by Sylvia Pond Photography (review)(website) | Story by The Wedding Ring

Bride & Groom: Susan (Sue) Alison Millar & Jason Graham Henry Martin
Wedding Date: Wednesday, March 13th 2013, 3pm
Engagement Date: December 24th 2011
How did you meet? “While working at Walt Disney World in Florida. We were both part of the International Program working in the Canadian Pavilion at Epcot.”
Ceremony Location: Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves at the Grand Palladium Colonial Resort and Spa, Mexico
Reception Location: La Laguna at the Grand Palladium Colonial Resort and Spa
Guest Count: 35
DIY project: “We purchased wooden fans from Micheals and attached ribbon in our wedding colours to give out as guest favours.”
Colours: Tropical green & pink

Jason and Sue wanted their wedding day to include their closest friends and family, and decided that a destination wedding was the ideal way to bring their loved ones together for a week-long celebration. The couple said  ‘I do’ at a beachside resort in Mexico and enjoyed a day filled with love and family in an idyllic setting.

{Reality Wedding Story} | A Vintage DIY Wedding - Crystal & Danny

Photography by Alicia Riley Photography (website) (read review) | Story by Alicia Riley

Bride & Groom: Crystal & Danny Abraham
Wedding Date: September 22, 2012
Ceremony & Reception Location: Whistle Bear Golf Club, Cambridge (read review)
Officiant: Christina Brighton, Celebrate Love and Life (read review)
Theme: Vintage-Travel

"DIY weddings are becoming more popular as brides like to personalize their day with little details and touches that they have made,” explains Rebecca of High Gloss Weddings. Vintage DIY brides are hitting antique shops, marketplaces and auction sales to find interesting and eclectic pieces to add to their décor, from vases to typewriters, to vintage books and cake stands, bringing old world charm to today's weddings."

{Reality Wedding Story} | A morning wedding at Golf's Steakhouse - Kristy Prior & Bill Smith

Photography by Sylvia Pond Photography (website) (read review) | Story by Rhianna @ The Ring

Wedding Date: September 8th, 2012

Ceremony Location: Grist Mill, Waterloo

Reception Location: Golf’s Steakhouse and Seafood (website) (read review)

Wedding Colours: Black, white and lime green 

What was the overall theme for your wedding day? We didn’t have a ‘theme’ really. We did try to have an overall feel of a quaint, relaxed, romantic wedding.

What inspired your wedding theme? We are overall pretty casual people (who don’t love to be the center of attention) and wanted our guests to enjoy themselves. The most important thing for us was that we were getting married and making this commitment to each other.

Reality Wedding Story | Modern style meets old traditions at Cambridge Mill

Catalina & Giacomo

Photography by Spirits Intrigued Photography (♥) (www.sipimage.com) (read review) Story by The Wedding Ring | Spring/Summer 2013 issue of The Wedding Ring Magazine Ontario

WEDDING DATE: July 14th, 2012

CEREMONY: St. John The Baptist Romanian Orthodox Church in Kitchener

Reception: Cambridge Mill (♥) (www.cambridgemill.ca) (read review) 

GUESTS: 85

INVESTED THE MOST IN: The venue. “It was well worth it and we would pay it again any day!”

SAVED THE MOST ON: DIY Favours - Jordan Almonds (from Italy) in glass jars that could later be reused.

For Catalina Berbecaru, meeting Giacomo Berther at a birthday party in 2009 seemed like fate. After all, Giacomo just happened to be visiting from Montreal and Catalina almost missed the party. But instead, she unknowingly made a life-changing decision to stop by the event where she’d meet the man she would one day marry. The connection between them was instant. The two hit it off instantly. In fact, within six months, Giacomo found himself proposing.

 A big, fabulous Serbian wedding { reality wedding story }

Dali & Nenad | May 14th, 2011 :: Serbian Monastery in Milton & Trinity Hall in Kitchener

Photography by Alicia Riley Photography (www.aliciariley.com)

It was July 18th, 2010 when Nenad took Dali to the 51st Floor (180 Panorama, set atop the 51st floor of the Manulife Centre) on Bay and Bloor. “I thought he was going to ask me and since I couldn’t wait I asked him and he pretended not to know what I was talking about.” The couple finished dinner, Nenad got the cheque, and then he invited her out to check out the view once more. By this time, she’d given up on getting a proposal that night. “But once we were on the balcony, he took out the ring and asked if I would marry him.”

Brennan & Dave: An eco-friendly affair with rustic, Fall flair

September 25, 2009 ::Grey Silo Golf Course, Waterloo

Photography by Stone Photography
Story idea submitted by bride and groom, written by Carla @ The Ring

Dave and Brennan almost missed the first encounter that would be the beginning of a lifelong love for both of them. Dave was in his final year of high school, and was just about to drop the class that Brennan walked into one day. But once Dave laid eyes on Brennan, he knew he'd be keeping the class, if only so that he could see Brennan every day. Dave became a true believer in love at first sight.

But their luck with timing didn't last forever, and before they had a chance to fall in love, Dave went off to University while Brennan took a year off to travel across Canada. It wasn't until Brennan returned that they ran into each other again. As Brennan began sharing her travel stories, Dave - even after all that time - became a captive audience. He got her number and called the very next day. “We’ve been together ever since!” says Brennan. They celebrated their nine year anniversary a month before their wedding day.

Laura & Steve: Leather, steel, glass & grass - an eclectic wedding day

September 12, 2009 :: Hauser Hall, Heidelberg

Photography by Captured Soul Photography
Story by Carla @ The Ring

Several years before Laura Wombwell and Steven Arkle spoke their wedding vows to one another, they both worked in the cast of a renaissance festival in Milton. During their last year working there, while Steve played Rasputin, the Mad Russian, and Laura played a button seller, push from a friend (who ended up being their wedding emcee!) got the two dating, beginning what they assumed was just a summer fling. But, it didn't quite work out that way.

Simple pleasures for a Fall affair

On October 17, 2009, Renee Hober married David Rose in an afternoon ceremony at St. Aloysius Church in Kitchener. Anne Edgar of Anne Edgar Photography was there to capture it all. The reception followed at Whistle Bear Golf Club, and while the venue was beautiful, the gowns were gorgeous, the flowers flourished and the cake was delicious, Anne told us that it was the simple moments throughout the day that made this wedding stand out. 

Wedding in sunny California was powered by love

August 15, 2009 :: Pasadena, California

Story by Carla @ The Ring

The summer of 2009 was a whirlwind of weddings that I went to and was a part of - four beautiful weddings of eight amazing friends of mine and Tony's (that's my boyfriend, in case you were wondering). I've always loved weddings, even before I found this dream job where I get to write about them, so even though it was super busy, it was also really fun. It's even more fun now that I'm on the inside of the wedding industry because I get to take note of all of the moments, details and unique ways that people personalize their weddings.

Kitchener-Waterloo wedding was home-grown and focused on fun

July 18, 2009 :: St. Agnes Catholic Church, Waterloo; Concordia Club, Kitchener

Story by Carla @ The Ring

The summer of 2009 was a whirlwind of weddings that I went to and was a part of - four beautiful weddings of eight amazing friends of mine and Tony's (that's my boyfriend, in case you were wondering). I've always loved weddings, even before I found this dream job where I get to write about them, so even though it was super busy, it was also really fun. It's even more fun now that I'm on the inside of the wedding industry because I get to take note of all of the moments, details and unique ways that people personalize their weddings...