Saturday was a horribly rainy and windy day. it was POURING!!! i felt for any brides that got married on that rainy afternoon, and although i'm not superstitious and don't believe in "luck," for those who are and do believe in it — apparently it's "good luck" to have rain on your wedding day.

Sunday, on the other hand, was gorgeous. not too hot, not windy, not overcast, simply a nice day. The ceremony was scheduled for 2:30 pm at St Mary's Armenian Church in Toronto, so we showed up fashionably late at 2:40 knowing full well that as Armenians always are, nothing would start on time. We were right, but it wasn't long before the ceremony setup was complete and the doors were opened! The colour scheme of the day was a fresh spring green, white, and some brown accents, and the ceremony decor definitely reflected that: pews were decorated with mini-pom flower balls (pomanders, i think, but mini-pom pomanders didn't sound right), the white aisle runner was flanked with white/lettuce green rose petals, and the front & back ends of the aisle were decorated with these gorgeous manzanita arrangements:

check out the custom planter it's sitting in... decals with their artwork & names! how cool?

and the ones at the other end of the aisle (near the entrance) were sitting in these tall glass vases with more custom decals on them!

i love all the thought that went into making this event so unique. i love my pomegranate artwork!!

After the lovely couple exchanged vows, everyone stepped outside to watch the couple drive off and thirsty guests were served bottles of water with custom labels (which i unfortunately don't have photos of), and we were off to the Embassy Grand for the much-anticipated reception.

So i unfortunately missed the cocktail hour, but managed to snap some shots of some of the details of the rest of the evening:

they had set up this counter — not sure what was there for the cocktail hour, but it was the spot for the candy buffet later on in the evening as well as the favour boxes.

little touches on the table including our place cards.. i'm liking the idea of a tri-fold menu though. hmm...




the vase had this curly stuff in it and 2 or 3 cymbidium orchids, as well as some curly willow sticking out of the top of the floral arrangement and some more cymbids.. quite lovely :)

all in all a very successful evening. i loved all of the details and loved more the fact that i was involved — it doesn't happen every time that a vendor gets invited to the wedding (actually, it's a very rare occurance), but when it does, it's special!! Thanks to Paul & Tzoline not only for letting me be a part of your day, but also for letting me see it all come to life :)