Real Glö-Vites & Sites

You all are going to LOVE these email save the dates and Glösite from Jillian and Terence. They sent over some spectacular words about their upcoming wedding celebration – so rather than me try to do them justice…..

Tell us a bit about your upcoming celebration

We did not consider ourselves the wedding type and always talked about not getting married.  But on our five-year anniversary, Terence surprised me with a proposal that went along the lines of, “I know you don’t want to get married, but I though maybe you’d consider marrying me?”.  It was very irresistible.  In the beginning, we weren’t sure how to go about planning the wedding we never really wanted to have.  We knew that we loved each other, wanted to be together and to build a future together, but kept questioning why we needed to legitimize our relationship through a legal marriage, and with the formality (not to mention, expense) of a wedding.  In the end, we decided that we could decide to legalize our marriage when and if it was right for us, but in the meantime we just really wanted an excuse to bring our friends and family together and celebrate our commitment to each other, with the people who were nearest and dearest to us. We basically just wanted to throw one really amazing party with all our family and friends.  How often do you get a chance to really do that?

We totally agree guys! How many times DO you get to have all your favorite people in one place at one time?

What was the inspiration for your Glövite and Glösite design? And how did you make it?

Jill would describe her technological abilities as being “slow to develop”.  Terence has dabbled in flash and web stuff, but not really enough for us to make a functionally fabulous site of our own.  That’s when we discovered Glö (yay for Jill’s obsession with wedding blogs!).

Terence loves music and has been dj-ing for years so we loved the idea of a red, white and black themed event- inspired by vinyl records!  We found a Glö template that matched our colour scheme and looked pretty rad and used it.

We’re mostly excited about the option to design and upload our own invitations and save-the-dates.  We wanted to do something really un-traditional that emphasized what we want our wedding to be- a unique and memorable night that is above all else- LOADS OF FUN!   Our save-the-date was inspired by our joint-love of movies, and by Jill’s obsessive love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer!  Terence has a background in fine arts and he drew the original design, scanned it, worked some photoshop magic and voila!

Check out this bad-boy of a save the date – crazy coolness!

What nifty things are you doing on your Glösite?

Jill (the technologically challenged part of this pair) did most of the webiste since she is on vacation and Terence is a slave to his office.  But using the very helpful tips and suggestions on the Glö page, she successfully added a weather widget so that her out-of-town guests can see the forecast for Toronto and a countdown to the wedding!  We are also adding a photo slideshow.

What fun twists on tradition are you adding to your wedding celebration?

We liked the basic template of most weddings, with the ceremony and some food and dancing, but we wanted ours to be a little more unexpected. So we kept some things traditional and added some of our own twists to the evening.

We set our date in December so we could take advantage of the holidays, without waiting for another summer and fighting for a venue during the “wedding season”. Off-season is definitely the way to go!  We booked a restaurant where we will host the whole event- from the ceremony to the singing and dancing at the end.

We’re both super big vegan foodies (well Terence is vegan 90% of the time, except in the presence of really good-looking dessert) so we arranged to have an all vegan wedding menu!  The chef at the restaurant where we are celebrating was happy to accommodate, which is freaking fantastic.  We’ve taste-tested his creations and they are spectacular enough to knock the socks off of even our most carnivorous guests! We are having some of our close friends and family bake red, black and white vegan sweets to adorn our dessert buffet table, which will also include a tower of vegan cupcakes.  I’m drooling as I write this.  We are also really into sustainable living and will be serving mostly local and organic wine and beer.  We love our city!

Other fun twists:

• We are walking down the “aisle” together and we have decided not to have a wedding party
• Our centerpieces, decorations and favours (cd’s of love songs) are all diy- homemade!
• Terence’s band Cobra and/or two of our friends are going to sing a few songs live at the event
• Jill’s little sister is a film graduate and is making a surprise wedding video (which includes interviews with Terences and Jill’s family and closest friends) to be shown for the first time at the wedding!
• We are hoping to rent a karaoke machine for the later part of the evening

What more can I really say? We can’t wait to see the wedding photos!