Life & Times When You Love a Highly Distracted Man

There are so very many things to love about my future-husband.

He has a thousand dazzling little mannerisms I've enjoyed documenting in our time together and I find I look forward to the reoccurrence of each as a charming catch-phrase of lovely nature. Each one another reminding proof of what I love best about him.

Highlights include: a delightful 20's accent he uses when stuck in a huge crowd in the rain and holding my long umbrella . He holds it aloft and declares, "Out of my way shitheads!" and it makes me laugh every single time.

His observation out loud of things occurring right in front of us in tones of such objective honesty that they light up with humour.

The way babies immediately regard him with looks of recognition and adorable shenanigans follow.

Our mutual enjoyment of moments like this one: A guy in front of the Air Canada Centre in a t-shirt with the words "What's going on here?" written on it looking at the large crowd outside the place and declaring "What's going on here?"

However, the rich volley of these delights I enjoy on a daily basis must be continually punctuated by interruption because my future husband....is easily distracted.

Yes the world is a buffet of such distractions:

- nearby conversations (I often here the phrase "Did you hear what that guy was saying!" to which I reply, "Alas, I missed it over the sound of my OWN voice as I talked *to you*!")

- local wildlife (sea gulls flying in slightly more personal arcs than one might expect can derail even the most dramatic of conversations)

- regular noises from the apartment whose volume or location has changed (that creak was in the west wall last week - sorry what were you saying?)

- old men riding barefoot down king street on skateboards (ok this one was genuinely distracting)

Today's treasure came mid-hug and astonished me with its distance. Standing in our kitchen getting a very nice hug when 22 floors down from the window across the street at the lights someone walked by wearing head-to-toe red.

Yes, mid hug the words, "Whoa, that is a lot of red!" greet me and I turn around and struggle to find the source of this distant yet all-powerful distraction.

Happily after this minion of hug destruction was out of visual range I got the other half of my hug. :)

So many people go into a wedding...

Time to call out some of the added resources to the wedding buffet :)

1. Eini & Co Cupcakery - Willing to make me cupcakes with zero food colouring and put one at each place setting in a clear chinese take-out container as our favour :) They also donate a portion of their charges to a charity of your choice so I get another opportunity to support the Canadian Cancer Society.

2. The Vintage Gardener - Recommended by my planner these guys were SUCH a pleasure to deal with. Elaine is one of those rare people who truly and deeply loves what she does, you can just tell. They also had a package of flowers that worked out perfectly for me :)

3. Talen Events - Amalia is my planner and I truly cannot say enough about having her. Her knowledge of vendors has saved me (and her voice of calm), she is super organized and has thought of things I definitely would have forgotten. Knowing she will be there the day of is a true comfort to me. I can just relax :)

4. Meringue Stationary - These guys are making up my table numbers and place cards and are remodeling an Eiffel Tower canvas design for me to do it. I saw the sample this week and am SO excited :)

Further highlights:

5. Calla Evans Photograpy - I mentioned her before let me mention her again because we just love love love her. She did our engagement shoot recently (a fave proof to the side there) and she is just so warm and easy to be around it made the photos feel relaxed and easy. :)

A gallery of photos to come when the digital high rez are ready :)

6. Breia Noble - King Edward Hotel - Our wedding coordinator at the hotel deserves a dedicated blog post (possibly a monument in her honour) of her own. She has been warm and wonderful and has honestly spoiled us rotten. She didn't just make our wedding & reception dreams come true, she made our honeymoon dream come true as well. We pretty much feel that choosing the King Eddy and meeting Breia was the luckiest decision we've made :)

7. Etsy Artist Ceeb Wassermann - This Australian Jeweller made my bridesmaids necklaces by hand. The Sakura one linked above was for Jenny and I sent her a sketch of a moon & star version for my sister that she happily designed to perfection. The girls loved them!

And one last thing! Finally found my 'evening drink' dress for the day of on the lovely Ruche online boutique. Hooray! Waiting for it to arrive by mail :)

Shoes & Ties

So, Drew got his shoes at the Bay and they are Kenneth Coles with a nifty sneaker ankle/sole for comfiness.

Mine are satin dye-ables bought for a song at a shop called "Celebrations" where the shopkeeper crafts shoe details by hand as a hobby. The shop has beautifully decorated shoes hanging all over the walls. She sold me two hand-made flower clips (seen below) that have rare egyptian gauze (yeah the kind used on mummies!) and little swarovski crystals in the centre. There was such love and care apparent in her for making these. She sewed up one of the petals right there :)

Groomsmen ties are from Tom's Place (so is Drew's wedding suit that we fitted him for this weekend past) and his tie is from the Bay :)

His cufflinks also arrived today - they are spitfire planes - cause Drew, you may not know this, knows every plane in existence and names them in the sky for me :)

Wedding details? Check.

Love in the Time of Dishwashers

Well Readers,

Like you I sometimes only find the energy to load yesterday (or the day before's) dishes after I get home from work. I'll keep on my headphones and collect all the cups and plates from around my nest with a renewed desire to see it tidy and happily pull open the dishwasher - only to find my future-husband has already been in there loading some dishes himself.

I love my future husband but I sometimes wonder if he loads the dishwasher on recreational drugs. It's like Escher hurled in there. Dishes coming out of other dishes. Dishes defying the laws of time and space. I half expect David Bowie to emerge in full Labyrinth regalia, spinning those inimitable glass balls.

My future husband works in IT. He identifies, categorizes and resolves major computer issues by discerning patterns in chaos. How is it this same mind looks into the dishwasher and jenga's our dishes at trigonometry angles that pythagorus could not write formulas for? Does this mean I should expect avant-guarde lego constructions from our children? How powerful does he think the jet/soap combination really is in our already leaky condo dishwasher?

As a rule I enjoy attempting to unravel what is often a baffling train of thought or series of distractions that lead him to an amusing amount of non-sequiter revelations in our relationship. This particular one however, speaks to a certain disquiet with spacial relationships which I already have in *my* genetics.

Sorry future-kids. Looks like none of you are going to be those solve-the-rubix cube types. I'll save myself the 20 bucks on those 3-D puzzles and stick to letting you re-write the code in your father's computer.

Cupcakes & Jewelry

I've been neglecting this lately as RSVP's start coming in and I update my spreadsheet (yes, a spreadsheet, the saddest of bridal accessories).

However, the last of my booking is done! Hurrah!

Cupcakes - which we're going to use as our favours since the tea comes with a lot of sweets.

http://www.eini.ca/

This place has agreed to make me chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with icing flowers and....no food colouring :) I'm very excited to NOT have to pick the pretty flower off my cake for...you know....the first time ever!

The hotel recommended this cupcake vendor and my experience with them has been very warm and positive. And I love that they donate a portion of their cost to a charity of your choice (for me the Canadian Cancer Society).

Each cupcake will be at a place setting in a chinese take-out container. (like in the picture - but all white)

I've been hunting around for jewelry on Etsy (I frigging LOVE Etsy) - I did want to wear pearls since it's tradition, but I'm not a huge pearl jewelry fan. Then I found this necklace....really simple and delicate. And the artist has agreed to make me a tiny matching bracelet. She's an artist in Tel Aviv (this is another reason I love Etsy)

I'm happy I found something gold, since our rings are gold. It's funny, growing up I never liked gold ...but when it came down to it, it just felt so old fashioned and romantic for a wedding. :)

http://www.etsy.com/listing/48109197/gold-filled-and-lily-pearls-necklace