My Life By a Snapshot

  Hello again, friends! This is the next and final part of mine and Noah’s wedding story! If you’d like to read about why we decided to get married in BC with seven people and two weeks’ notice, you can click here . And if you’d like to read about my chaotic week in Montreal before the wedding, you can click here . All that has brought us to the final days leading up to the wedding! I landed in Vancouver on the evening of Friday, September 18th. After six months of being apart, it felt so strange to be with Carissa again. I’d never been to BC before, either. The boys—Noah and his best friend—had left Texas Thursday night to make the 35-hour, non-stop drive to the border by Saturday morning. So that morning, Carissa drove me to Peace Arch Park, where I was reunited with Noah, also for the first time in six months—and for the first time since we got back together. It felt like such a relief to be in his arms again. Unfortunately, we were only there for 45 minutes. We walked around th...

  Hi there, Two weeks ago, I had the honor of getting married to my best friend, adventure buddy, partner in crime, and one true love. It was such a lovely evening, only God could have put it together in such a short amount of time.  In my last blog post, I wrote about our plan to get married with two weeks’ notice. If you’d like to read the backstory, you can click here . Today, I’m going to pick up the story from where I left off. Before leaving Georgetown, I ordered some Polaroid film and my sister’s dress. Since we had such short notice, it was quicker to have these shipped to Texas for Noah to bring up to the Peace Arch with him. My own dress, however, I ordered to my grandparent’s house in Quebec. My grandmother is a seamstress, and I wanted her to be able to alter it if needed. I also ordered a mount for my tripod that would hold a cell phone because we were going to live-stream the wedding. I contacted an old friend who lives in British Columbia and asked if she would ...