When planning a wedding, finding an officiant is by far the most crucial task to tick off your to-do list, for without them your wedding ceremony will not be legal. With the importance which this person carries, finding them should be your first action; unfortunately, there are many steps you must take before one of these people will even sit down to talk with you. Continue reading
Author: Melissa Harrison
Love, Honour and Obey
At T-minus six months until our wedding, my fiancé and I have most of the ground work laid out for the planning of our reception; more important to us than the ceremony because we’ve both, independently, always viewed our future marriage as greater than our future wedding. However, now that the impending wedding date is looming, we’ve started feeling the pressure to get the ceremony situated. It would seem the biggest decision we must make regarding the ceremony, aside from the decision to marry each other, concerns the vows. Continue reading
Going Public
Through out our eight year relationship, my fiancé and I have frequently disagreed on how much affection we can appropriately show each other in differing social situations. We’ve always had a fairly old-fashioned courtship, so I accepted that we were the only ones who liked to keep it G rated in public and maintained a “to each their own” attitude towards others who push the line to PG; now that my nineteen year old “little” brother has a serious girlfriend for the first time in his life and his definition of the appropriate level of affection to display in public is completely different from mine, it leaves me wondering, how much is really too much? Continue reading
Sweet Beets over Nice Rice
With the fall harvest comes a cornucopia of root vegetables available fresh, local, and cheap in your favourite grocery store. Beets are by far the sweetest of all root vegetables, yet many young people today don’t know how to build a meal with them. It’s time to familiarize yourself with yet another one of those delicious flavours of fall: Sweet Beets over Nice Rice. Continue reading