I love weddings.

This post is long over-due, but better late than never, right?

So last weekend, my family went up the Sunshine Coast for a very close family friend's wedding (we're talking cousinly-love-family-friend-close). The wedding was at the Westcoast Wilderness Lodge in Egmont. My sister was especially excited for this, because that was where her grade 7 class went for their year-end trip. She had good reasoning behind her excitement though.... because what an amazing location, seriously. The wedding itself was, of course, great. Everything was beautiful, from the scenery to the food to the bride.

The couple who got married, Morgan and Mike, are about the cutest couple ever. Not only are they both very well-rounded (you know, graduated from MIT, gorgeous, athletic, Canucks fans -despite moving to Boston-, friendly, and ridiculously nice) but they are totally story-book in love. Okay, that sounds cheesy, but I've never seen a couple that seemed so perfect for each other, or so relaxed together. And the groom proposed in Paris. PARIS. A few hours before the wedding, we were driving along, frantically trying to find somewhere to eat before the ceremony, and we see the bride... just casually going for a run with one of the bridesmaids, looking calm as can be. Seriously, the wedding speeches sounded like something from a movie (in a good way, I promise).

This is only the second wedding I've been to that I can remember/really know the people getting married, the first one being my cousin Ariel's wedding last summer. Having noted my limited experiences, can I just say that I love weddings? Seriously. All I want is all the mid-to-late twenty and thirty-somethings in my life to hurry up and get married already, so I can attend the festivities.

I'm quite lazy when it comes to actually writing things (a good quality to have in a blogger, I'm sure), but fortunately I brought my camera, and took a lot of pictures (like... more than 500). So check them out after the jump. And congratulations Morgan and Mike!

Riot couple

Okay... I love this photo. If you don't know about it already (I hear Antarctica is nice this time of year), here's the story.

Even Wikipedia mentions it! (June 23rd, 10:45 PM)

So, among all the destruction that occurred during the riots, this photo stands out as a tiny bit of good that came out of it (okay, so the circumstances weren't so good at the time; but it's all good now, and these two are getting crazy publicity). While the whole throwing-these-two-into-an-international spotlight is kind of ridiculous, it's better than this photo being looked over all together. Anyways, this photo just really stands out to me as an amazing composition. It seems like it's on track to become an iconic photo, to be remembered for a long long time. And hey... why not?

Wizard Smoke

My sister's friend's brother directed this. It is awesome in so many ways.



Awesome.

I like.

This makes me happy:

I think everyone could use this kind of confidence. Not in a cocky way, just in a "appreciating that I'm awesome" kind of way. So remember: being awesome can be pretty much the same as being happy.

Study-break

As someone who works at a kayak shop but, sadly, does not kayak that much, this looks like pretty much the funnest/most awesome thing ever. I just wish I knew what they were saying. Here's your daily dose of procrastination/youtube video:


Keep calm and study on!

Vader

So, due to the fact that it's FINALLY stopped raining and has been nice and sunny the last few days, and I have lots of extra time on my hands, I headed downtown today to enjoy the sun and walk around downt-

 

IS THAT DARTH VADER? PLAYING THE VIOLIN? Why yes. Yes it is. A common sight in downtown Victoria, this guy plays a mean violin. And nothing else I did today is interesting in comparison.

P.S blogger you are stupid because you won't let me post the edited versions of my pictures, which are much more awesome.