To Kiss Or Not To Kiss…

During this process of planning the wedding, we have thought a lot about the people who we love and who love us and support us in return. We’ve also thought a lot about the people we’ve loved who have passed on who will not be here to share with us.

As I’m sure everyone knows, Deb (the Mother of the Bride), is not my biological mother. She’s my mother’s sister. My biological mother passed away from breast cancer in 1994.

As our way of honouring her, and the other breast cancer survivors that we know, we have decided to participate in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Kiss For A Cure campaign!

What does this mean? This means that there will not be any clinking of the glasses to have us kiss. Instead, we will be accepting donations to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s. Simply place your donation into the gift box and ring the bell (or other noisemaker as we’re not sure if we have a bell or not yet) and we’ll smooch it up!

Any donation amount is appreciated. Donate 1$, 5$ or if you’re feeling generous, 10$! If you would like a tax receipt, we’ll have donation cards on the guest book table.

Thank you to everyone for helping and supporting us in this worthy cause.

This Is It

Well even though neither Brian nor I have called ourselves single in quite a long time, this is our last unmarried Valentine’s Day. Next year we’ll be Mr. and Mrs. and will automatically have a date for the next 120 years.

How are we celebrating our last unmarried Valentine’s Day?

Well this morning Brian made pancakes (yum!) and then we ran some errands. As I write this, Brian is watching the Sens/Islanders game (we are an Ottawa household all the way). After a delicious dinner of steaks, roasted baby potatoes and sauteed green beans, we will settle in for a night of playing LEGO Batman.

Not romantic in the traditional sense, but we’re together eating good food and having fun. And that’s what we’re all about!

Besides, he did buy me flowers while we were out running errands.

Whether you’re single or taken, we hope you show a little love to someone you have the hearts for!

T-Minus 30 Days

Well so much for THAT New Years Resolution. You know, I’ve never been very good at keeping those…you’d think I would have learned not make them.

Anyway, since we are 30 days from The Big Day, I figured I should probably do a post to at least update everyone on what’s been going on!

As many of you know, the invites went out about a month ago. Weren’t they lovely? That flower was hand-drawn by my MOH, Erika. Talented woman, hey?

We’ve also finalized the menu for the dinner, which I will be posting shortly. If you have any food allergies, please let us know via the contact form so we can adjust accordingly!

In non-wedding news: Brian is no longer working evenings! Yay! I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to have him home in the evenings again. Him working 2-10:30 and me working 9-5:30 was totally screwing with our schedules. Now he’ll be working 7-5 Mon-Thurs and he’ll be back as an electrician, which makes life just that much sweeter.

So I apologize if we’ve been non-respondent in the last few months. Between unpacking (did I mention we’re STILL not unpacked?) and working weird schedules, it’s been a madhouse here at the Drought household. Fear not family & friends! We will be joining the land of the living soon enough.

That’s all for now! We look forward to seeing everyone next month!

xo