Music Monday: Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers

I'm so excited for this week's Music Monday! It was the ECMA's here this week (East Coast Music Awards) and my boy Ben Caplan took home the award for Rising Star Recording of the Year. 

I first met Ben some years ago, and it's been so amazing to watch him grow as a musician. There's no doubt that he and his unmistakable beard and roaring voice are something special! These days he's busy touring around different countries... check out his touring schedule on his website, he may be coming to a place near you!

Congrats Ben, I'm so happy for ya!

Hope you enjoy! All my love,
Janelle
xoxo

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Where The Ocean Meets the Greenery

Wahoo the first Music Monday!
It was a challenge deciding on what to feature first... there are so many musical things I love. And there's so many musicians I love here in Halifax! In the end, I decided to go with local homegirl Halifax-based storyteller, poet, and musician Tanya Davis.

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!