Not Your Typical Beach Wedding

Our handmade rings and medicine bags

When someone says "beach wedding", usually what comes to mind is flowing dresses and sun kissed skin in the warm weather.... not parkas and hot tea in the winter winds. 

Technically, we haven't been calling it our "wedding" per say. This was our little civil ceremony, and we're having our 'real' wedding in September. Brendan is from the United States and I'm from Canada, so when we got engaged we decided to legally marry as soon as possible to get started on the paperwork (let me know if you have any experience/advice in this area!).  We're planning out our September wedding to make it the ceremony we envisioned, but still wanted to make this civil ceremony special. It turned out to be such a wonderful and fun day I can't wait to get married again! 

It was a flurry of activity and perfectly chaotic as there wasn't much time for planning. We decided to have it on a Sunday as we wanted to work the Saturday market since it was our busiest month at Enter The Sun. My first words of advice... take the day before your civil ceremony off! It worked out in the end, but it was definitely a whirlwind!

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Beach Bum

Photos from Enter The Sun | Goldfish Kiss | Roam | California Dreaming All Day | Loads of other places... just let me know if I have one of your photos up and I will gladly site you! 

I wanted to get in a post before I went away for the week... I was hoping it wasn't going to be so late (I have to get up in 5 hours... ahh!), but I won't have internet connection for the next week so I thought I'd better get it up! The shop will still be open and orders will be shipped out starting Monday :)

This is a small collection of the massive collection of inspirational beachy photos I have saved to my computer. I have been spending a lot of time at the beach, even more then normal so I guess I've got the ocean on my mind! It's always an inspiration, and right now I'm dreaming up some sand dollar creations to put up once I get back! I found a little shark on the beach and a living conch shell (photo by a friend), which was really neat, I've never found those while roaming the beach before. 

Anyway, just a quick post before I leave... hope you enjoy the photos! Tumblr, I'm learning, is an endless pool of inspiration. 

Hope you're enjoying summer and you're getting a chance to swim the sea and breath the salty air! 

xox, 

Janelle

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