Category Archives: Our Wedding 2010

Carmen & Elton’s Wedding (May, 2010) – Part 6: Script of the Procession and Vows

In this post, I am going to reprint the entire procession that I wrote for our officiant to use. I’ve also attached my vows and Carmen’s vows which we each wrote separately.  Enjoy! 05/05/2010 Wedding Procession Welcome. My name is  <INSERT NAME>  and I have the privilege of performing this marriage ceremony today. We are...

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Carmen & Elton’s Wedding (May, 2010) – Part 5: Ceremony Preparations

We had much to accomplish, so luckily we started early! From November 2008 to May 2009 we had roughly a year and a half to prepare. And we had to do a lot of things twice! Firstly, we had to choose the venue. Shortly after we returned to Toronto Carmen enthusiastically looked for a wedding...

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Carmen & Elton’s Wedding (May, 2010) – Part 4: The Engagement Party

On May 16th, 2009 we had our engagement party with a bunch of our friends at the party room of my sister Ada’s apartment (actually, we had 3 engagement parties throughout May…there were that many people!) It was a great party and we’re glad all of our friends showed up to have a fun evening...

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Carmen & Elton’s Wedding (May, 2010) – Part 3: The Invitations

Over the next year, we asked the help of Carmen’s sister Sarah to create a logo for our wedding event. There were some pretty good ideas (of course, since she is a graphic designer!): Both Carmen and I liked the butterfly concept. We then asked Carmen’s bridesmaid Elsie (also a graphic designer) to continue with...

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Carmen & Elton’s Wedding (May, 2010) – Part 2: The Proposal

So how did I propose? Well, I  had an engagement ring custom made by Birks, main diamond 0.73 carats (near perfect: Internally Flawless, D-F colour, Excellent Cut) surrounded by a band of smaller diamonds on either side. I was planning on proposing to her on our trip to Oahu, Hawaii in mid November, 2008. Before...

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