Let’s cast a highly critical eye over the most inescapable element of traditional wedding design: the standard rental tablecloth. For decades, couples have...

Let us take an unapologetically honest look at the traditional wedding soup course. We have all been there: you take your seat in your formal evening wear, and...

We have all been there. You have finally found the look. It’s tailored to within an inch of its life; it fits perfectly, and whether it’s a flawlessly cut one...

When your guests finally find their seats amidst the glow of flickering taper candles and dramatic autumnal floral installations, their culinary expectations...

The era of the $80,000, colour-coordinated, hyper-structured theatrical performance masquerading as a wedding is certainly evolving.  I’m not saying Gen Z...

If the wedding ceremony is the emotional soul of your big day, the cocktail hour is its beating, incredibly stylish social heart. It is the exact moment when...

Picture this: It is the morning of your wedding. You have spent the last year meticulously agonizing over the dress, the veil, the shoes, and whether or not...

Let’s be entirely honest with ourselves: for the better part of the last decade, autumn wedding catering was held hostage by pumpkin spice. If a dessert or a...

If you want to understand where a luxury wedding budget can quietly hemorrhage money, look directly at the center of the dining table. Floral decor costs can...

This week, as many caterers and planners begin to close off the summer season, lets have a frank conversation about wedding budgets. There is a distinct, often...

There is a very specific, unspoken moment that happens around 10:15 PM at almost every great wedding reception. The teary vows are done, the multi-course meal...

Ask anyone to recount their favourite wedding memories, and the conversation almost never lands on the font of the seating chart or the exact fold of the linen...

As September approaches the predictable aesthetic trap of late-fall and early-winter weddings seem to fall around us. We’ve all walked into a reception in late...

Let’s be completely honest about the traditional wedding reception first course. We’ve all been there: you find your seat at a gorgeous table, butter your...

The Honeymoon Edit By Margot Hale The honeymoon question used to have one obvious answer: the two of you, somewhere far away, alone. It’s not that simple...

Wedding Psychology By Margot Hale   A few nights after the invitation list incident, my husband and I sat down and made a rule: Tuesday nights, no wedding...

Wedding Psychology By Margot Hale   I cried over the invite list. Not because anything was wrong with it — because I’d been staring at 75 names for...

The Olive Oil Masterclass Welcome back to our olive oil masterclass series. In our previous installment, we broke down the structural chemistry of pure extra...

Welcome back to our special two-part segmented hair series. Last week, we explored the five key trends setting the mood boards on fire for fall 2026 and...

As the crisp autumn breeze sweeps across Eastern Ontario and the foliage shifts into deep ambers, burgundies, and muted golds, the bridal-style landscape is...

On the Blog This Week: The Olive Oil Masterclass When it comes to elevating a meal from simple sustenance to a true sensory experience, few ingredients possess...

Planning an outdoor wedding—whether it’s a private estate in Manotick, a rustic farm in Almonte, or a scenic venue overlooking the Gatineau Hills—is incredibly...

There is an undeniable magic to an outdoor, tented wedding. Picture a historic estate in Manotick or Rockliffe, a rustic family farm in Almonte, a 10 acre...

The Venue Edit — Issue 01 By Margot Hale Last Spring, I stood in an empty room one evening, coat still on, trying to picture five hundred details that...

For a brief, fleeting moment over the last few years, the wedding industry seemed poised to fully surrender to the digital age of communication. Pushed by the...

Welcome back, lovers and planners, to The Ottawa Wedding Edit. If there is one thing we know for certain about modern weddings, it is that the culinary...

Let’s be entirely honest for a moment: we have all been to *that* wedding. You know the one. You arrive in your finest, slightly restrictive formal wear, sit...

Let’s address the elephant in the dining room: mention “soup” to a couple planning a mid-July wedding or a high-end summer gala, and you will...

There is an unspoken, universal truth in wedding and event design: almost every client who walks through the door has an eternal, unwavering love for peonies...

During a recent trip to Seattle, my girlfriend and I stumbled upon a patio in front of what looked like a make shift ‘resto-shack’ with a line snaking down the...