Elope Toronto: August 2014

Wednesday

Hart House Chapel - delightful family wedding

Hart House Chapel

Funny moment at a lovely family wedding at the non-denominational chapel at Hart House, University of Toronto. We have held many elopements in the chapel, and it's good for a small family wedding (the maximum capacity is 25-30, but kind of squishy).
Lovely photos are by Nika Jaksic

Photos at the Carillon tower

Thursday

Le Select Jardin - lovely indoor/outdoor downtown venue for a family-size wedding

Le Select Jardin wedding

Here's a great recent wedding at Le Select on Wellington (the lovely bride is an elegant dancer!) We are standing in front of the wooden wall, to the right of the greenery and fountains (panoramic view below). Their overhead canopy is useful with inclement weather, and you can have a private brunch or lunch or dinner in the adjoining dining rooms. Great atmosphere, great food!

Le Select Jardin

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I am Mary Beaty, a certified Wedding Officiant licensed by the Registrar General of Ontario under the auspices of the Ontario Humanist Society to provide legal marriage services in the Province of Ontario. I am a librarian, Humanist Chaplain at the University of Toronto , a writer, a human rights activist, a grandmother, and former organic sheep farmer, interested in sustainability, and green issues. I have been marrying couples since 2004, and offer simple and meaningful secular (non-religious) Humanist wedding services, including both traditional and modern ceremonies, for couples who wish to design their own weddings. More information and sample Ceremonies at WeddingsofToronto.com

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You may obtain a marriage license from any municipality in Ontario, and use the license in Toronto or any other Ontario city. The fee can be paid by cash, money order, certified cheque, or credit card. The City will not refund marriage license fees once a license has been issued. The license is good for 3 months, and there is no waiting period for marriages; you can obtain the license and be married the same day. Either or both of the persons to be married may obtain the license.

The Best Science Books of 2012 | Brain Pickings How do we fall in love? Author Jeanette Winterson offers this breathlessly poetic response:

You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.) And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.
PS You have to be brave.

Wednesday

Hart House Chapel - delightful family wedding

Thursday

Le Select Jardin - lovely indoor/outdoor downtown venue for a family-size wedding

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