FAQ

On the wild chance that you decided to check the FAQ page first, there are two venues that will have stuff happening.

The wedding will be at Hart House Restaurant. We will also have a welcome event the day before and farewell event the day after at our home in The Belgravia.

Now go look at the Schedule page for more details, you crazy rebel, you.

It depends on the weather! If we get some cooperation from Mother Nature, we’ll have the wedding ceremony on the lawn of Hart House. If it decides to rain, it will be held on the 2nd floor of the restaurant.

The event space in the Belgravia is indoors, but if the weather permits, we can host it partially in our lovely public garden next door too!

On time. Duh.

But the real answer is that the wedding day is the only time-sensitive event. You should aim to arrive no later than 10:30AM.

For the other events, you can drop by any time during the festivities.

The good news is, everyone can park in the Hart House parking lot for free as long as there’s space!

The other good news is, there is also plenty of free street parking within walking distance of the Belgravia.

So I guess the short answer to your question is that you can park anywhere you like!

For the welcome event and farewell brunch, please wear clothes.

For the wedding itself, please wear clothes that are semi-formal.

The weather can be temperamental, so we recommend you bring layers.

Mostly! The good news is that Vancouver is the one part of the country that is merely cold and wet between fall and spring instead of frozen and horrible. We invite you to join us in pointing and laughing at Alberta.

October can be lovely on a sunny day, especially with the autumn colours. However, rain could happen at any moment and with minimal warning. (It likes to keep you on your toes like that.) We recommend bringing layers so you’ll be ready for anything.

Unless you plan on going to the mountains, you won’t need snow gear.

Click the RSVP button in the top-right corner of this window! If you’re on mobile, click the menu icon to find the RSVP button.

Since we’re nice, here’s another option. You can click here.

Yes! If there’s only one name on your invitation, you are more than welcome to bring a +1!

If you are already bringing a +1, or if you are someone’s +1, you do not get to bring another +1. The venue does not have space for infinite +1s.

We’re pretty sure we’ve counted everyone’s kids correctly, so there shouldn’t be any problems there. That being said, if you have another kid before the wedding, give us a heads up!

Of course! We’ll have a professional photographer for the event, and we’d appreciate if you didn’t interfere with them, but you’re welcome to take pictures yourself. We’d love to see what you get!

We will not be providing booze at any of the events.

Short answer: no.

We wanted a reception that was more conversation-focused so we could catch up with everyone.

However, we’ll have music at all events, and it’s not like we’ve made dancing illegal. Feel free to bust some moves like everybody’s watching. Any floor can be a dance floor if you’re brave enough.

No. Nice try though!

Short answer: We just think they’re cute. Sometimes they hold paws to keep from drifting apart, which is so cute it ought to be illegal.

Long answer: In July of 2020, just four months into the pandemic, the Vancouver Marine Mammal Rescue Society rescued an orphaned baby sea otter, estimated to be about ten days old. He was so young he required care around the clock, and they weren’t sure he’d make it. They named him Joey.

Since people were desperate for (a) good news and (b) literally anything to do, the Vancouver Aquarium decided to livestream his rehabilitation.

At the time, Lauren was three months into a new job, which she could luckily do remotely and which had lent her a company laptop to work on. She developed the habit of tuning into the livestream when she started work every day, using her personal laptop as a makeshift second monitor. She passed word of the stream along to all her friends, in case they also needed something cute to keep them going throughout the pandemic. (She is grateful they are still her friends, after about a year of listening to her talk about virtually nothing but sea otters.)

Happily, Joey survived, but was deemed non-releasable as he wasn’t able to learn the survival skills needed to compete with other sea otters in the wild. He now lives at the Vancouver Aquarium with several other rescued sea otters. You can see some of his criminally cute baby pictures here.

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