Hello. Introducing two of the kindest, open-hearted, dreamboat sweethearts the world has to encounter.

Full disclosure: Julia & Luke are my friends, friends through cousins, they’ve spent time at our family cottage, they look out for my teenagers at music festivals. They are generous, genuine, incredibly fun people who’s wedding I luckily got to be a part of.

And wow what a wedding.

Set in the rolling hills of Caledon, at Luke’s family’s giant Swiss-Canadian farm: big house, big barn, big rocks. Being landscapers, these guys sculpted their property into kind of a wedding carnival grounds. A natural auditorium with hay bales and quilts for seating (who has this many quilts?!!). A scrubbed barn interior decked with party lights, picnic tables and ornamental grasses. A cocktails yard with lawn games and firepits. And a tent city, just beyond the trees, for all the crashers.

Pink champagne. handmade necklaces. a light-filled loft for a bridal suite. the groom in a kilt, and all the accompanying regalia. a pretty bride, almost continuously in tears.

Checked shirts and flower prints. breezes and fields and split rail fences. true looks. true friends.

A post ceremony wedding team shotgun—yaas, please let this be the new tradition of the age.

Platefuls of home-cooked deliciousness. bottomless goblets of wine. couples taking after dinner strolls, enjoying the last light of the day.

Then big-hearted words of welcome and appreciation, tearful hugs and joyful tears. Particularly Julia’s tears.

The toasts. The dance. And finally, the fire throwers! What a party true love like this makes. Thanks to you J&L and many many anniversaries to come. xo