First a note: I’m so late getting this post up and I’m so sorry!!! I’ve split it up into two posts (because I’m so bad with choosing photos and I can’t choose just a couple from various parts of the day, I feel like I need post lots from each part of the day to better tell the story!) I have the second post ALMOST done right now, just need to to add a few more photos and that will be posted later today (or tomorrow morning at the latest)!
Okay on to Heather and Chris, who I so adore!!! I’m so happy and blessed to have met them, and they were the first couple to book me for a full wedding and put their faith and trust in me so that means so much!!! Before I even met Heather I knew I loved her, she had emailed me about my availability for their wedding date and setting a meeting, and I sent her an excited email back, and then she was so cute, she sent me another email with all kinds of factoids about herself and Chris and a photo of them with their two children so I could feel like I knew more about them before we met (since she knew so much about me from my blog) – how wonderful is that!! I remember being so giddy when I got it and telling my husband that I adored them already!!
Heather and Chris have such a sweet love story! They went to school together from a very young age but I don’t think they really knew each other too well. Their paths separated for awhile, and then when they were in college Heather was at the grocery store and saw Chris there with his mom (and was pretty sure it was him) and fell for his long golden locks, and she decided to look him up and send him an email and it was history from there!! They have two so cute and wonderful children together, Cody and Kayla. They are so sweet, so nice, so happy, and such good kids and as my husband said, that says so much about Heather and Chris. I know it was so meaningful to Heather and Chris to have Cody and Kayla there and being a part of their wedding day, and Cody especially had fun at the reception answering all the questions about his parents and their family!!! 
I started out in the morning at Chris and Heather’s house, where Heather was getting her hair and makeup done and getting ready. Chris answered the door when I got there and I said “what are you doing here?!” – he left before Heather got dressed but was finishing things up, washing and decorating his fabulous Trans Am, and then showering before going to his parents’s house to finish getting ready. I loved hanging out in the morning with the girls and there were so many laughs and fun stories, and when I ran over to take some photos of Chris (and Cody) getting dressed there were lots of laughs there as well!
The wedding was held at Transcona Country Club and luckily could be outside (lots of rain was forecast for the day but it was so sunny the whole day – yay!) Most of the guests had to stand because the grass was too wet but having the ceremony outside was so much better and more beautiful than the alternative! Their wedding ceremony was one of the sweetest and most emotional and touching I’ve witnessed. I have so many photos of them looking at each other with such love and it was so hard to pick just a few to post. And they both cried during the vows!! I loved that!!!! It was really so wonderful and filled with so much love and it’s one of the things I’ll remember most from their wedding day.
I’ll stop the story here and continue it in the next post! Here are a few of the wonderful vendors from the day:
Hair :: Carrie Whitford, Magic Scissors
Makeup :: Sandra Reynolds (Heather’s sister and maid of honor) and TBA
Venue :: Transcona Country Club
Commissioner :: Leni Lousier
Flowers :: made by Heather (she did a fabulous job!!!)
And here are just a few of my favorite photos from the morning through the wedding ceremony (and I’ll have a link to a slideshow in a few days when I have all the photos edited).
I LOVE the way Chris is looking at Heather here, it’s one of my favorites!!
Chris wiping his tears, too!
To view Part 2, CLICK HERE!
by Rebecca Whitney
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