new barn venue

the barn's lovely surroundings

Look at these doors - your guests would enter these fine doors and proceed upstairs to your wedding. Caterers can work downstairs so you wouldn't even see them!

The entire barn is made out of reclaimed barn materials found from all over Canada and the US

Just one big open, raw blank slate...and the whole side slides open onto a patio - hello!

The builder has these really awesome antiques in there and he lets you use them. For instance, this old antique wagon is the bar!

Beautiful windows that the owner made - this is on the way downstairs and out the marvy doors...

The barn has these lovely antique wagon wheels hung all over as chandeliers - you can put your candles inside for a romantic candlelit effect

AAnother little corner of the barn

The property on which it sits.

The Bloomers got to visit a new, potential barn venue only a few weeks ago, and boy oh boy was it a marvy piece of parvy (i don't know what parvy is but it just came out of my fingers!). Take a look at some of the pics. Just located just outside the GTA, and really close to the 401, this barn is so beautiful and raw. It's like a Martha Stewart Weddings magazine barn just waiting to be decorated...by us!! You can only access by giving us a call - so if you're interested, let us know!

my neck of the woods

I thought I would post today on the lovely little neighbourhood where I live. Just outside of Toronto, in the 'burbs', I live in a community called Cornell in Markham. And as far as suburbia goes, I think it's a pretty nice place. The homes are fairly new, however they were built to resemble Victorian houses with porches and gingerbread detailing. All of the garages are built behind the houses, so that neighbours can mingle on their front lawns and porches. And there are a lot of eco-friendly touches added to the homes when they were constructed - even before eco-friendly became trendy!

Recently some live/work townhomes were built just down the street from me - homes that can also be used as storefronts. What a great idea! This little retail area encourages our statistically larger suburbia bums to walk to the corner store, instead of so easily hopping in the car.

This neighbourhood makes me happy. Recently P. and I started looking at some other houses in other areas of Toronto. But soon enough we realized...we are not ready to leave Cornell and it's charm just yet!

outside my apartment window...

...are the most beautiful and romantic-looking trees, worthy of being poladroid-ed! I can't get over how insanely amazing these trees are - I wish they would stay bloomin' all year round!

Nuit Blanche

As per Jenny's request {thanks for your comments Jenny!} I am posting some photos from Nuit Blanche. Our original Saturday night's plans changed a bit, as Pete and I got last-minute tickets to the Toronto Maple Leaf game. We did walk around the city a bit afterwards, and saw some of the outdoor exhibits though.
I'm not sure if the photos do them justice though...the windows of Toronto's City Hall were somehow transformed into 'pixels' that created a giant canvas of movement and light. The 'canvas' - each side of both curved buildings - kept changing with shadowy images. We also saw the plastic bottle waterfall, which was pretty nifty. All in all, though, I think I was most amazed by the number of people roaming around the Toronto in search of works of art. The entire city was crowded and abuzz!