Merry Christmas! It's a happy holiday edition of the PopMarriage podcast, featuring Jenn and Jordan talking about their favorite Christmas season weddings, offering advice on carving out your own traditions as a couple, and laughing about best and worst Christmas gifts, great movies, and if Santa is, just maybe, a woman.
(Also available on iTunes by searching PopMarriage!)
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
PopMarriage Podcast #2
Hey! Check out our second PopMarriage podcast!
We talk about our favorite nervous brides (including one who lost her lunch) and how to manage those wedding butterflies. Then it's on to a discussion on polygamy, some marriage advice (Tell each other what you need), and finally a discussion of our favourite TV married couples.
It should be up on our iTunes feed soon (search for JJ Weddings), but in case you can't wait, here it is:
Saturday, November 5, 2011
PopMarriage #1: The Jenn and Jordan Podcast
So Jenny and I are trying our hand at podcasting, and are proud to show off the debut of PopMarriage. It's 40 minutes of talking about funny wedding stories, what makes a great ceremony, plus some marriage advice on surviving change, and a debate on Mexico's plan to offer two year marriage contracts. And an autoposy on the Kim Kardashian 72-day marriage odyssey. Hope you enjoy it!
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Tahitian Touches
Today I had the pleasure of marrying Sean and Jeri-Lyn at Milner Chapel. They are having a really sweet family wedding and then heading off on an amazing Honeymoon in Tahiti, and they incorporated that into their wedding with some beautiful exotic flowers and a steel drum player.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Destination Weddings
One thing we tend to see more and more often, especially during the chilly Vancouver winters, is couples taking off to gorgeous beaches like Mexico for a destination wedding.
These weddings are gorgeous and tons of fun however we have heard from many couples that filing the paperwork can be difficult. So we have expanded our services to help couples having a destination wedding. If you don't want to go through registering in another country and doing the blood tests and whatnot we can help you by performing your marriage here.
It should be noted that we totally value and understand that your 'real' wedding (and anniversary) is that beautiful wedding away and we don't want to take anything away from that. However, the date your license is signed is your 'legal' wedding date, they can't be back/ forward dated.
We can do a couple of things, either before you leave or after you return from the wedding:
1. We can meet the couple, along with 2 witnesses and sign the paperwork. It's easy and quick, we'll just meet up at a coffee shop, have a chat and sign the license.
2. We can do a simple but meaningful 'vow exchange' for the couple and close friends and family. We can do this at your home or a park. We'd have you choose your vows (and ring vows if you want to exchange rings). Even if you're just looking for something simple I think there are some ways to make it very personal and special for the couple without being really drawn out or over the top or taking anything away from real wedding in Mexico. We've done quite few intimate weddings for couples who get married out of Canada. So I am confident we could help create something that you would be comfortable and meaningful! We would do planning for this over email.
If you're interested in this service (or booking us for your wedding here in the Lower Mainland!) please email us- weddings@jordanbateman.com
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Sweet Ride
Saw a couple fun and unique ideas in the way of 'wedding day transportation' this month and wanted to share. Last weekend, while doing a wedding for Sarah and Kevin at Newlands I spotted these outside....
They actually belonged to another wedding party- but what fun! Can you imagine how great the groomsmen photos with those would be?
Also, when I married Gordon and Chelsea at Harrison in August her dad drove her into the ceremony and pulled up at the end of the aisle in this baby:
It was a car he had restored himself and she looked pretty cool stepping out of this!
Nice to see some fun and creative ideas!
They actually belonged to another wedding party- but what fun! Can you imagine how great the groomsmen photos with those would be?
Also, when I married Gordon and Chelsea at Harrison in August her dad drove her into the ceremony and pulled up at the end of the aisle in this baby:
It was a car he had restored himself and she looked pretty cool stepping out of this!
Nice to see some fun and creative ideas!
Gorgeous Locations
It has been an extremely fun and busy wedding season for us and that has made tough to keep the updates coming.
One of the best parts officiating is all of the gorgeous locations we get to see. This summer we had a couple weddings at Brock House, and it's STUNNING! In fact, seeing Jericho at sunset was so lovely I planned a date night there for Jordan and I the following week because I wanted to share it with him. Hard to beat that view and the romance of the beach at sunset!
Another great spot I was at last month was Harrison. I did the wedding out on the point with that crystal water in the background. It was windy and sunny, and I had to make sure I held on to that wedding license ;) But I had forgotten what a pretty spot that is.
One of the best parts officiating is all of the gorgeous locations we get to see. This summer we had a couple weddings at Brock House, and it's STUNNING! In fact, seeing Jericho at sunset was so lovely I planned a date night there for Jordan and I the following week because I wanted to share it with him. Hard to beat that view and the romance of the beach at sunset!
Another great spot I was at last month was Harrison. I did the wedding out on the point with that crystal water in the background. It was windy and sunny, and I had to make sure I held on to that wedding license ;) But I had forgotten what a pretty spot that is.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Retro Wedding Fun
Good fun again today as I got to be part of Dirk and Jackee's fun and fabulous
wedding with a retro 60's diner theme. Girls rocked some adorable yellow
dresses and red lips, boys decked out in checked bow ties and gorgeous Jackee
looked perfect with her pin curled hair and crinoline skirted dress.
I tried to look the part too with a red flower in my hair and red lips and
nails.
Most fun part was when the entire wedding party danced our way back down the
aisle to 'You Make My Dreams Come True by Hall&Oates. They all looked like they
were having a blast!
I snapped this pic of the couple in their pink vintage Bel-Air before they left.
Cute, right?
Monday, August 8, 2011
Cool Twist on the Sand Ceremony
Last week I had a chance to marry Shawn and Geneva at Chateau Cargill. Instead of a regular sand ceremony they did a sand ceremony using an hourglass. It was the first time I had seen one (found online here).
During the ceremony I gave this description as they poured the sand:
"For the sand ceremony, each of them has a container of sand which represents their life each with all of it’s many parts and beautiful color. Today these lives are joined together. As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be.
Shawn and Geneva’s ceremony is a bit different as the vase is being replaced with an hourglass. In the beginning the colours will be separate but every year on their anniversary they will turn the hourglass over. Each year the colours will mix a bit more until the sands are all one colour. This is to symbolise the merging of two families and the creation of a new family as the years go on."
It's nice to see something new and I especially love the idea of turning it over every year on your anniversary.
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