Keirsten and Ben's Beautiful Sugar Bush Wedding | Ottawa, ON | Wedding Photography
Keirsten and Ben are married!
The wedding took place on July 26th at Temple's Sugar Bush in the Lanark Highlands. The theme was rustic vintage, with beautiful simple floral arrangements, soft pastel colours, and the great outdoors as their backdrop.
This is their love story, in Keirsten's words:
The Clarkes and the Walkers go way
back, you could even say that Ben and I met before we were born. Terri Clarke
was the “Welcome-Wagon” representative for the town of Almonte. She showed up
on the Walker’s doorstep when they moved to Almonte, and welcomed each new
Walker girl as they were born. When I
(Keirsten) was born, Terri (Clarke) showed up again bearing gifts and well
wishes – she was 8 months pregnant with Ben at the time. As our mothers already
had 3 daughters each that were the same ages, they were sure that Terri was
having a girl. They were wrong! Growing up, our families’ paths intertwined,
from girl guides, to school, to sports’ teams.
Ben and I met again, years later, when
I was finishing teacher’s college. We ran into each other over Christmas at a
local pub, and again in the spring when Ben was playing an open Mic in Ottawa.
We decided that the universe was trying to push us together, so we got together
for a walk in the country one day in the spring. We had no intention of a
relationship, as I was moving to England at the summer to teach, but fate intervened.
After an adventure-filled year apart, I came home to see where things went with
our relationship. The rest is history.
Ben
proposed under an old tree on a country road near his childhood home. It is a
road that we walked down often, to watch sunsets, to look at the leaves, and to
find time to ourselves. Thanksgiving weekend of 2013, when the sky was so blue
it was almost blinding, we went for a walk before heading to a family
thanksgiving dinner. I was shocked when he dropped to one knee, and when he
finally popped the question, I replied with an ecstatic, “Of course!”. We continued walking
to savour the moment before heading back to face our families. It could not
have been more perfect.
All the best, Keirsten and Ben!
- Amy xo
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