Daily Dose of Joy: Near the Canadian Border

A few weekends ago, we traveled to Canada. Not really, but basically. We were in the state of Washington, in a town a mere 4 miles from Canada. It is GORGEOUS up there! I mean seriously gorgeous.

And then we went to this house... (I want to move into this house)

To attend this...

No no no... not a play... a WEDDING!! Both Matt and Chelsi are actors and so their wedding was not lacking in drama! LOVE the PLAYBILL! (program for the ceremony)

So the owner of this home has extensive gardens. I took MANY pictures and made a LONG to-do list for our garden. I think Ty deleted some of my pictures so that I couldn't try to make him replicate it. Just kidding, I have all of the details to show you! Allow me to share my To-Do list...

# 1 Plant HUNDREDS of flowers in rows.

See that tree line? that's Canada. I think. It's that close though. Look at that lighting. So COOL!

#2 Move to a farm. Near Canada.

#3 Build a magnificent trellis and cover it with gorgeous purple flowers. Do this next weekend.

#4 Get a cute bird bath near the trellis so people realize how GIGANTIC my trellis is

#5 Plant LOTS of COLORS! Tonight.

#6 Figure out the name of this flower. Do this yesterday.

#7 Sit and enjoy the garden.

#8 Have ZERO weeds anywhere.

#9 Make fake windows and fill them with cool grass plants and put on my deck.

#10 Act like that is super easy to do when you're friends ask about it.

#11 Pretend you came up with this idea on your own.

#12 Make AWESOME walk ways with stone and moss and plants spilling over the edge.
(This is my favorite part) (well, after the gi-normous trellis)

#13 build a wrap around porch and hang HUGE baskets of trailing plants from it.

#14 surround your house with more great walk ways.

Well, that's the end of my to-do list. I think we (I mean Ty) can accomplish that by the end of the month! Want to come and visit?

On to the wedding details...

This cute wagon holds the gifts as you walk up (on the cute walk way)
(If I put a cute wagon in front of my house, will people just randomly fill it with gifts? Note to self: try this next week)

LOVE the "parasols" to shade you (even though we were 4 miles south of Canada, it was HOT at 2:30 pm)

GORGEOUS!!

LOVE this!! I want to use cute baskets filled with glass beads and white roses at a dinner party soon. I LOVE THIS!

WOW. Stunning

Here comes the bride!!

I did not watch the bride enter, I watched the groom's face. and I took this picture. It was VERY obvious when he first saw her at the end of the aisle. I LOVED that!

Husband and Wife!

Matt and Chelsi!!

Ty and Matt grew up together and we spend every holiday with Matt and his family here in Texas. Now Chelsi gets to join in the fun!! I am always thankful for another girl to join our party!

On to the reception!!

In the back of the house they have a huge airplane hanger decked out like this...

They do weddings each weekend.

Very Unique.

Very cool.

The table setting.
I love this. So simple. I'm thinking of replicating this for a vintage Christmas table.

Oh- and just in case you thought we weren't there... we were!

No worries, we decided at NOON on FRIDAY to leave at NINE pm THAT NIGHT! and head to Washington for a wedding the next day.

SO out of our box!
And SO tough to figure out in less than 9 hours what you are wearing to an OUTDOOR wedding 4 miles South of Canada.

This is what I came up with straight out of my closet.

Shockingly, I was the only one in cowboy boots.

weird.

The Bride's Bouquet

Don't you adore the pearls and sparkle? you could see it sparkle across the room. So neat!

The guest book... they had a book made with their engagement photos, but they left all of the background white and had a lot of background space. Very neat.