Our wedding is now just a little over a month away. We’ve been meeting with dressmakers, tailors, caterers and event space folks, sending out invitations, booking cakes, and attempting to connect with photographers and florists and the other usual weddingy things people do. It’s a flurry of excitement and nervousness.<\/p>\n
And a healthy dose of tediousness – I could pretend the wedding planning process is 100% fun, but it’s not.There are a lot of hard choices to make, or easy choices, sometimes you have to be stubborn, and hold your ground, sometimes you have to find a compromise.<\/p>\n
I’ve spent a lot of time crying over this process, but I’m happy to say that most of those tears were spilled feeling absolute joy. I’m crying over traditions, new, old, and created and since it’s a little over a month away, things are feeling very real, and very soon.<\/p>\n
We received our wedding invitations and RSVP cards from the printer yesterday, and they were perfect. By the way, word of advice, if your wedding is a month away – you probably should have sent your invitations out already, Oh well! Better now than next month right?<\/p>\n
So what do I love this week?<\/h3>\n
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Vegetarian Food Festival.<\/h4>\n
This event is one of the things that helped me to fall in love with Toronto<\/a>. And it’s back again this weekend. I use the Vegetarian Food Festival<\/a> as an easy way to keep track of how long I’ve lived in Toronto. And this is going to be my fourth year attending the festival, and third year living in Toronto.<\/p>\n Kind of incredible what an amazing three years this has been.<\/p>\n I can’t wait to try the KarmaKaMEALeon food truck fair, the awesome stuff it looks like Apiecalypse now has in store, Bloomers Bakery, and really, the list is endless.<\/p>\n![\"Vegetarian](\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4083\/4982217347_caf26e1e70.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nDough.<\/h4>\n
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<\/a>These are lumps with so much potential. I love putting my hands in dough, manipulating it, and making something out of it. Preferably something edible by real humans. There is something viscerally satisfying about making that happen. Thinking about gluten matrices while I kneed it on a table designated (by me) for making bread Braiding it, pulling it apart, watching the dough rise, getting a loaf to brown just so. It could be absolutely anything, and then it’s something.<\/p>\n