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"I wanted to be able to give her a wedding that she would really remember" Left: Kimberly and David felt strongly about recognizing their parents equally, so both were walked down the aisle by their mom and dad. Below: "The man who married us actually played hockey with David growing up, so he knew us both really well," says Kimberly. "We all went to high school together." pg32-40_ComeWay_OnceTime.indd 38 capture the proposal, as he led her down a quiet Denver street to an X marked on the ground where the perfect shot of their special moment was already lined up. "It's just us in the middle of the street in the snow. It's pretty romantic," she says. After that, Kimberly shifted into high gear. "She's been reading wedding magazines since she was born, pretty much," David jokes about his bride, who actually made a business out of planning weddings after orchestrating her own. "I'd hired a wedding planner and realized I liked things I was thinking of even better," says Kimberly, who launched Love of Fair wedding and event planning with Chanel Holt — who coordinated the Joneses' wedding — after realizing her knack for "everything to do with planning and organizing." More than 70 per cent of their guests were coming from out of town and as the wedding began to take shape, Kimberly planned an experience that beautifully wove together the fabric of the couple's history, with personal touches like tucking Deep Cove's famous Honey Doughnuts inside the guests' welcome bags. "When you're from Vancouver, you really take pride in your home, and because we're not here most of the time, it became a big feature," says Kimberly, who now splits her time between Denver and Vancouver, of incorporating so many elements of their country, their province and their hometown into their wedding. "We really wanted to showcase the West Coast," says Kimberly, "and for it to be a destination, but not too far away." For the wedding itself, she envisioned an old-fashioned English garden party — "very romantic and light and elegant" — and in keeping with Victoria's British heritage, she hired a small fleet of doubledecker buses to shuttle guests between the hotel and castle. "We didn't want 200 people flying in to see a hotel room," says Kimberly. "We wanted them to see the outdoors and the water and all of that. And we really wanted people to stick together." With so many friends and family arriving as strangers to one another, it was Kimberly and David's intention to foster a spirit of camaraderie amongst the group by bringing everyone together for various activities. Guests all stayed at the Delta Ocean Pointe overlooking Victoria's scenic Inner Harbour, where the bridal party had a common area in their shared corner of the hotel for breakfasts and cocktails together. The rehearsal dinner was held two nights before the wedding in a private room at Ferris' Oyster Bar in downtown Victoria. The day before the wedding, the guys golfed and the girls visited Butchart Gardens and enjoyed afternoon tea at the Fairmont Empress Hotel. And that night, many of the guests gathered for a big welcome dinner at Bard & Banker, a British-style pub in one of Victoria's historic buildings. 12-09-24 12:55 PM