Well it’s the end of another weekend, and it marks the end of another perfect wedding.

Charles and Sarah got married kinda (more on that later) at a farm in Ottawa. My expectations were pretty low when I first heard that it was going to be at a farm… but man am I happy that I was sooooo wrong.

Turns out the Farm they chose was AWESOME. Saunders Farm is to farms as Walt Disney World Theme Parks is to parks. Probably a grossly exaggerated comparison… but what I’m getting at is that this farm wasn’t normal…it had mazes! I was pretty relieved that the venue was quite cool, and that the cheese had not slipped off my dear Chuck’s cracker.

The day itself was beautiful and quite an emotionally charged one too, even though this was essentially a dress rehearsal for their actual wedding day on Monday. You see both Sarah and Chuck’s parents are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversaries on Monday.

That’s not a typo, both their respective sets of parents tied the knot 35 years ago on the exact same day. So it was a little obvious that they were going to have to marry on that day too. So for that reason, a “mock” ceremony was done on Saturday with all friends and extended family on Saturday followed by a very real reception and barn blowing party.

So anyway, all that too say, there will be more pics for you to see either Monday or Tuesday and that I had a good time.

As you can see… expectations are always kinda skewed when an harmonica and accordion playing IT manager for Revenue Canada weds a playwright who moonlights as a Parliament Hill translator get married.

Important to note… the brides dress as well all of the bridesmaids and the officiant’s dresses (that’s 4 total) were all made, by hand, by Sarah’s Mom. (She’s the lady in the blue dress (also made by her) in the background)

There was much dancing on that night… but Chuck & Sarah really stole the show with their dance. I’ll add video later, it was pretty cool.

Oh, and I wore a suit. But managed to not have to wear a tie. Thanks Chuck for letting me maintain my no tie policy.

All pictures were taken by Claire-Lise on her iPhone and doctored using Camerabag for Mac.

Found this little Gem via The Editblog, the blogs author, S Simmons, couldn’t have summed it up better:

3 minutes of my life I’m happy not to ask for back after viewing Words.

Have a look see… view it full-screen, it’s worth it.

Here’s the first picture of my little sister as a beautiful bride. (click to enbiggen… warning it’s 2MBs)

The picture was taken by either Sarah or Claire-Lise, and then modified by me. More to come at some point.

I need your help desperately. I need to do some video tests for a future project. I have all the shots mapped out, but I want to be 100% certain of my new camera’s abilities. Soooo… is there anyone interested in having a music video done for either one of their own original songs or a cover?

Here’s the only stipulations I have, it has to be one individual only, it has to be either just singing or singing with an acoustic guitar and we have to shoot Friday night (it may take a few hours).

After everything is said and done… the video is yours, and I’ll even help you put it online.

Any takers? First come, first serve.

Leave me a comment if your interested.

Early Sunday morning,  I awoke with an itch to go take some pictures. Dawn is one of my favourite times to take photos. So off I went with my GH1 in hand.

I shot a good 100 photos in the span of 2-3 hours. Of those,  I liked 20 and of those 8 made my cut.

Here are the 20.

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