Just married!

Now that we're back from our honeymoon, I can post these photos from our wedding earlier this month. We were married in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, outdoors (in the misty rain under an umbrella!) and it was perfect. We had scoped out a beautiful, quiet nook a few weeks earlier, surrounded by trees overlooking the lower park, and because it was raining the park was absolutely empty and so peaceful.

The ceremony was beautiful and moving, led by a really lovely marriage commissioner and witnessed by our good friends, Mike (also the purse handler) and Mi ae (our photographer!).

As far as the details go, I made the simple bouquet in about 5 minutes right before we left in the morning, with Jamie's help to tie the ribbon. I'm not actually wearing all black despite what it looks like - I have a champagne silk blouse and sparkly gold cardigan on underneath... ;-) Like our matching coats? That was unintentional!

After we signed all the paperwork and took all our photos we went off for lunch with Mike and Mi ae and then drove to the airport in Seattle for our Irish honeymoon. More posts to come on our trip itself... I think I'll have to set up an online album for the bulk of them - the last of my 1500 photos are downloading now... ;-)

Here we go, on our path together as a married couple!! Our official marriage certificate arrived in the mail while we were gone - are we supposed to post it in the hallway at home, like how a restaurant displays their business license or maximum occupancy sign? ;-)