These two are the sweetest, most welcoming couple and their day was filled with love, laughter and tears. Lauren & James truly executed the most beautiful Nova Scotia backyard wedding this summer, overlooking the Minas Basin.

Let’s play a game… Never have I ever… gotten a Journal post up so quickly!

Yeh, truth. As soon as these film scans hit my inbox, I immediately uploaded them to my site, because, well – you can see why.

Elegance, youth, and joy. Now, I can speak to many attributes of a beautiful bride, but I’d say those three aren’t a half bad start! Elegance: a graceful nature which surpasses time. Youth: a liveliness, a curiosity, a vivacious and wild zest for existence. And Joy: the kind of undeniable happy that sees beyond circumstance to an enduring bliss.