Some wedding pics

Just thought I would let everyone know that I have put up some pictures from the wedding if anyone is interested or hasn't seen any of them yet. They are in no particular order from the wedding, so dont expect them to follow the actual days events. Enjoy.

Wedding Impressions

The most interesting thing about our wedding, is that the entire time I was participating in it, I thought it must be a dream, that it cant really be happening. At about the time Sarah starte walking down the aisle though, it started to sink in that just maybe this is real. I know for me I started to wonder about our decision to get married. That was, until Sarah was standing opposite me. Then I knew for sure that we had made the right decision.

The morning of the wedding I went golfing with my groomsmen at the Digby Pines for 9 holes. After the 2nd hole I decided to stop keeping score and just play to enjoy myself. We stopped for lunch with some of the other guys. Then, before heading back to the cottage to get ready, we stopped by the house for Andrew to practice driving the buick. By this time, it was starting to get rather late, and I was glad not to run into any RCMP officers on the drive back to the cottage for us to get ready.

I think by the time we got back to the cottage, my Dad was almost ready to have kittens, he was starting to get a little worried about the time. And I still had to get Mom to cut my hair. Needless to say, Andrew and I were to the church on time. And everything went off without a hitch. Except for Dan continuously thinking that it was still morning. And everything at the reception ran longer than planned, but we had expected that to happen.

So, it is 3 1/2 months in, and I dont regret anything. And I know we will continue to say that in 70 years. Thank you to everyone who helped make our wedding happen, we will remember it always.

Cheers,

-Robert

back from wedding and vacation

Wow, its hard to believe that it has been 11 days since the wedding. I've been a married man for 11 days. Crazy. It is really taking a while to sink in, mostly I think due to how little has really changed in our relationship since we got married. I mean sure, our personal life has changed, and we are now living in the same apartment, but how we interact and how we treat each other is still the same. So it's been a little surreal. Mostly its been tiring. Getting ready for a wedding, and then travelling to Mexico, and coming back was a very tiring experience. I think we are both just really starting to recover from it all.

On the other hand, it has also been an incredible experience. I want to thank everyone who came to the wedding (all 170 of you, wow, what a crowd of people), as well as everyone who helped us get everything done for the wedding. Especially our parents, without whos support there would not have been much of a wedding at all, nor much of a honeymoon (thanks to both moms and dads). I also want to mention how wonderful everything was, and that we wouldnt change a thing. I know I personally kept making the joke during the planning that we should have either eloped, or just gone to a resort to get married and told people where and when. However, in retrospect, I think that everything was wonderful, and a completely seperate honeymoon is definitely the way to go (keep that in mind as you plan your own wedding Dan).

So when will I get pictures up from the wedding and honeymoon, or even an actual post about it all? Thats a good question. We dont have many pictures from the wedding as of yet, as there werent many taken using my camera, and we are still waiting for pictures from the photographer. The honeymoon pics I just need more time to go through a little more, and then I willl probably start putting them up, as well as a running commentary about the trip (leaving some things out of course). If anyone reading this was at the wedding, and you have any pictures you would like to share, either by sending them to us or through a website, please feel free to send them to us or send me a link to a website where they can be viewed, that would be great.

Before I close, I do want to mention one more thing. The last day in Mexico, Sarah and I went to this little spa in Playa del Carmen, Kristines. They have a massage room with two massage tables, and do full body relaxation massages for $35 USD/person, so Sarah and I got a massage together. It was worth every penny, and was at least as good as any spa massage offered by the hotels. It is just by the Playacar side of Playa del Carmen on 10th avenue. If you are there, check them out, I am sure that Jenny & Karla will set you up.

Digby ferry schedule

I just realized that when I put up the information on how to get to Digby, that I never put a link to the ferry service. On the Bay ferries page you can see the schedule (remember, wedding is on May 20th) and find out how much it costs. The trip is only ~ 3hrs if the weather is good, obviously it gets longer when things get nasty (of course, we know the weather will be good that weekend).

Accommodations in Digby!

For everyone traveling to Digby for the wedding and needing a place to stay (sorry, I don't think our hotel room will be big enough for everybody), there are blocked rooms available at the Siesta Motel, starting at $50 plus tax (queen bed & full bath). Just make sure to mention that you will be attending the Trask-Flight wedding. Other rooms are available for other prices.

I should also mention that the Siesta Motel is within walking distance to the church, taking away some of the worry about parking at the church.

Please contact Bob or Helen at 1-902-245-2568, or email: eisener.bob "at" ns.sympatico.ca (just put in the @ symbol where you see "at").

Even if you are staying at another location, please be sure to make your reservations in advance, as the tourist season will be starting by then, and finding rooms on very short notice will likely be difficult.

Actual maps

For anyone having problems with the map links I posted before, this might be a little easier. In all cases, the destination (Church or Reception Hall) is circled in red, and the roads to follow are highlighted in green.

Just click on the image of the map you want to get a full size image.


Here is the map for getting to the church from Halifax (Church is in red, route is in green).












This one is to get to the church from the Ferry terminal.













And this one should help you get to the reception hall in Cornwallis.















Remember, if you want to know how to get to Digby, then you should check my previous post on this subject.

I hope this helps everyone.

-Robert

Maps to Church and Reception Hall

I have managed to create some maps showing the location of the church in Digby with a line showing how to get there from the highway and the ferry, as well as to get to the reception hall in Cornwallis.

Unfortunately I am having trouble embedding the actual images in the post, so I am going to do it using links instead. Just click on the map you want below.

Church from Halifax. (Church circled in red, route in green)

Church from Ferry. (Church circled in red, route in green)

Reception Hall. (Hall in red, route in green)

If you can't view these, please let me know, and I will try again, or I could also email them to anyone who wants them.

-Robert

Gift Registries!

Hi Everyone!

We now have our gift registries up and running. Just a couple of notes:

If you purchase online, the registry should be updated automatically. If you go to the store, please make sure you inform them that the item is for a wedding registry so that it get's updated. Thank you very much, and we'll see you in May.

-Robert & Sarah

The registries:

Rob Macintosh - China and stemware

Home Outfitters - Help us outfit our new home!

Sears - Everything

Just click on the links to the registries, and you'll be there. You may have to type in one of our names to actually find them. Remember, search for Sarah Trask, or Robert Flight.

Accomodations

There isn't too much to tell yet. Sarah and I will be contacting one of the hotels in Digby and will have a block of rooms reserved for wedding guests that you can then make a reservation for. As soon as we do that, we will let you know here and probably by word of mouth as well.

In the meantime, the only hotel I really know about is the Digby Pines, which is a very nice hotel. I'm not dissing them or anything, but the rooms are not worth the price, unless you just want to say you stayed at the Pines. You can find a list of other accomodations in Digby here, if you want to start checking your potential options.

Travelling to Digby

For those of you who will be coming from away (particularly my side from NB, ON, MB and other areas way out there), there are a few different options to get to Digby.

Fly into Halifax International Airport, then drive to Digby. The drive from Halifax to Digby is about 2 to 2.5 hours depending on traffic that day.

Fly into Fredericton Airport, get to Saint John, NB, and take the ferry across to Digby. Of course, getting from Fredericton to Saint John might be iffy, but it can be done. This would also work flying into Moncton, and then going to Saint John. (Moncton to Saint John)

Given the ferry in Saint John, if you can find a flight to Saint John directly, that might also be an option as well.

If anyone is thinking of driving around from Moncton or Fredericton to Digby, I would not reccomend that, as it is a really long drive going straight through to Digby.

General Info: Date, place etc

Allrighty. So the wedding is to take place May 20th, 2006 (that's the long weekend for those party animals out there) and is being held in Digby, Nova Scotia. It is shaping up to be a fairly traditional wedding, with a church service and a reception to follow. Actual times and other particulars will coming in your invitations.

Questions?

If you have any questions about anything posted here, please leave a comment at that particular post. We will either reply to the comment, or post more information related to the post. I have set this up so that as people post comments we will recieve an email with the comment, so any questions we will try to answer as soon as possible.

Background

Some background information before I give out information about the wedding.

Sarah and I met here in Halifax last October (2005), and within a week of meeting I asked her out. To my surprise she said yes. Since then, we haven't looked back. That spring (May 2005) I asked her to marry me, and she said yes again. And now we are about 7 months into planning our wedding, and it's full speed ahead. And man is that day coming soon.

-Robert

What is this?

This blog is just a forum intended to allow Sarah and I to pass information to those invited to our wedding in a fairly simple manner for anyone who is connected to the internet. It's incredible the questions we are already getting from people about the wedding, and of course many questions we hear over and over again. So, in order to try and make our and your lives a little easier, I thought we would try putting this up in order to answer frequently asked questions. I hope that it achieves it's purpose, and becomes a useful resource for everyone. I'm planning on making each post topic specific, in order to make it easier for everyone to find what they want to know, as not everyone coming here will be looking for exactly the same information.

And who knows, maybe Sarah and I will keep this up after we are married, and keep everyone apprised of various goings on.

Love,

Robert & Sarah