Ceremony Stories

Kelsea and Jonathan planned their UBC Boathouse wedding with one important guest in mind: their Mini Bernedoodle, Gus. From walking down the aisle as ring bearer to staying beside them during the ceremony and adding his paw print to their Unity Certificate, Gus was simply part of the day.

A firsthand look at a multicultural Chinese tea ceremony at The Arbutus Club in Vancouver, and what I noticed while serving tea and watching two families experience the tradition together.

Boris had already helped shape their family years before leaving their pawprints on their ceremony.

When we organized a pop-up elopement event at the Chilliwack Sunflower Festival, we expected to remember the flowers. Instead, what stayed with us were three very different stories about marriage, family, and the reasons couples choose to say "I do."

When weather grounded a planned helicopter elopement in Whistler, Bobo and Thomas faced an unexpected choice. Rather than postponing everything, they honoured a meaningful wedding date with a legal marriage ceremony at Green Lake and returned two days later for a symbolic ceremony in the mountains. What followed became one of the most memorable ceremony stories we have witnessed, not because of the helicopter, but because of the perspective they brought to the experience.

When Tina and Howard asked about including Pawfect Witness™ in their intimate elopement ceremony, we thought we were designing a ceremony for a beloved pet. What we discovered instead was an entire family that included a dog, cat, bunny, horses, and even aquarium companions. This ceremony story explores how paw prints, a horseshoe, and a strand of horse mane became meaningful ways to acknowledge every relationship that shaped their life together.