I’ve known Nicole for a couple years, in fact she was hired at her current job to assist my wife.  Her role grew and when Robyn and I moved to Halifax, she took over the position and I’ve heard she’s doing a great job.  I worked at that company for about 6 months before the move as well, so I got to know Nicole too, as well as learn a bit about her boyfriend Aaron.  My hockey team was looking for players and Nicole mentioned that Aaron may be interested in playing.  Sure enough he was and we signed him up.  Little did I know that less than 2 months later I’d be living in Halifax, so I never actually got to play hockey with Aaron, but we did meet.

I was happy to hear from Nicole and Aaron when they got engaged and were in need of a wedding photographer.  While back in Ontario for another wedding this summer, I met up with these two for engagement photos in Burlington and we each got a feel for how the process was going to play out at their wedding in September.

As their day approached, the weather forecast called for a 100% chance of rain…great.  The ceremony was at the Grand Olympia and they decide whether the ceremony will stay outside or not at 9:00 in the morning to give enough time to get everything organized properly.  Of course, at 9:00 am it was pouring.  The indoor ceremony was quite nice as they used one of the halls instead of their tiny chapel.

Much to all our surprise, the ceremony ended and we went outside to find sunshine, actual sunshine.  All of our worry and discussions about what to do if it rained were happily tossed out the window and we made our way to Puddicombe Farms.  I had never been there before, but I will recommend it to anyone getting married at the Grand Olympia in the future.  The one knock on the Grand Olympia, which does everything for you, is the lack of photo locations.  That problem has now been solved.

Puddicombe’s little locomotive takes you around the property to a variety of beautiful spots.  They have a few train cars at the front which can also be used, and as you’ll see below, we did.  The people there were friendly and helpful,  I think everyone was satisfied with Puddicombe.

After the photos, the real fun began at the reception.  I’ve never seen the Groomsmen so committed to the dance floor like Aaron and his guys.  They spent most of the night dancing, and well, I might add.  The little ring bearers had some stellar moves too.  I spoke to one of them when I was outside the Halton room taking photos and I asked him if he was getting tired of all the dancing.  This was 2+ hours into the dancing at this point and he’d been out there the whole time, so he should have been exhausted.  He looked at me and said “I was born for this” in a very matter of fact way.  I couldn’t help but laugh.

It was a great day and I was happy to be there to capture all of the moments.

Congratulations Nicole and Aaron!!!

Enjoy!!!

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