This past weekend, I had the pleasure of performing at Royal Ashburn Golf Club (http://royalashburngolfclub.com/) in the hamlet of Ashburn - about 35 minutes outside of Toronto.Glenna and Andy held both their ceremony and reception there and it was an all Scottish affair! Most of the men in the room were dressed in kilts, which in itself creates an absolute elegance.
The ceremony incorporated Scottish traditions both through the attire worn, but also by having live bagpipers performing for the recessional, processional and signing. Bagpipe music is extremely moving and something that guests will never forget.
Our good friend Dan Deveau of Life In A Flash Photography http://www.lifeinaflash.com/ was the photographer for this wedding.
Glenna and Andy were just an absolute blast to work with - they understood the need to play an active role in their reception by being out on the dance floor as much as possible. They also took the time to attend the second consultation with enough time to spend so that we had an opportunity to get to know them both well. This allowed us to represent them in a way that was representative of the people that they are.
One of my favourite moments of the evening was watching Andy's Dad dance & skip along the dance floor as he really enjoys music and knows how to have fun!
Glenna also took the time to incorporate the Scottish theme in to her wedding through a variety of different ways - from incorporating Scottish music to using shortbread as a favour. They also incorporated their interests in to the wedding - they are both avid skiers and had a custom made cake topper that looked like them (with skis on) and had a cake made that looked like a ski hill - how cool!
Hats off to Jim, their MC, for a terrific job of incorporating humor in to his role - he was one of the best MC's we have worked with and had an excellent understanding of his role.
1 comment:
Brad...
Well here I am finally recovering from all that dancing and the wild night! We had so many compliments from everyone that this was the funniest wedding that they've been to and Andy and I would like to thank you for helping to make it that. With your great energy and enthusiasm, your creative ideas and organization, everything ran so smoothly! I can't believe how quickly time flies when you're having fun, they're not kidding when they say the day goes by in a blur! Every time I turned around you were saying "time to do this" and "time to do that" and everything went perfect. Yes we had a huge play list but you played everything and got everyone up there as well, even for the chicken dance! Glad to see that all ages had such a good time and that we were able to include so many surprises. Andy got me well with the garter toss..he said that even you've never see it! And you have to admit the final dance was amazing! Thanks for putting it together. Hope that you had as much fun as we did that evening. Thanks again Brad for being part of our special evening. If you like I can send you a link to pics from the evening..could you add me to the email list for the group shot? Thanks again
Glenna and Andy Paton
"GlennAndy"
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