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Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill

Love Story

Emma and Andrew met online in 2019, and what started as easy, low-stakes conversation quickly became something neither expected. “We met online in 2019 and instantly connected. What began as simple conversations quickly turned into a relationship built on love, trust, and unwavering support,” Emma says. Over the years, they built a relationship defined less by grand gestures than by steady trust and consistency. They celebrated milestones together and slowly became the kind of couple who knew, long before any proposal, exactly what kind of wedding they wanted: something small, deliberate, and entirely their own.
The proposal came in November 2023, in Hội An, Vietnam, a choice that carried real weight for Emma. Her family is Vietnamese, and Hội An’s old town had held a special place in her heart long before Andrew suggested a trip. The proposal was a complete surprise. The couple later returned to Hội An for a mini photoshoot at the exact spot where it happened, a gallery they’ve kept alongside the wedding photos. The connection to Vietnam ran deeper than a single photoshoot: they later held a second celebration there, with their Canadian photography team traveling to document it alongside the wedding at Cambridge Mill.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

About Your Wedding

On September 18, 2025, Emma and Andrew married in front of 28 guests, just the closest family and friends, at Cambridge Mill in Cambridge, Ontario. They spent nearly 19 months planning, starting in February 2024, working toward one clear vision of how they wanted the day to feel. “We envisioned a timeless, vintage romantic wedding that felt intimate, elegant, and effortlessly beautiful,” Emma says of the vision that shaped nearly every decision - soft candlelight, garden-inspired florals, and classic details chosen so they wouldn’t feel dated in twenty years.
Keeping the guest list to 28 was, by the couple’s own account, the hardest decision of the planning process. But it also shaped everything else - a single long harvest table instead of scattered round ones, a first look and private vows exchanged away from any audience, and a day focused on being present with the people they loved most, rather than managing a room full of them.

Morning Details

The morning began with two separate households on either side of the same property. Emma got ready at Cruickston Park, a Victorian-era home whose architecture and gardens matched the vintage-romantic vision she and Andrew had built the wedding around. She was surrounded from the start by her mother, mother-in-law, and girlfriends who did her hair and makeup. “Being surrounded by the people I love most made the start of the day feel calm, joyful, and meaningful,” she says. Andrew got ready with his best friend on the opposite side of the house, kept out of view so they wouldn’t cross paths before the first look.
Both invitations and paper stationery came from a customized Minted template, with Emma choosing the color palette and paper texture herself to set the tone before a single guest arrived. A handful of quieter details filled in the rest of the morning: hand-lettered signage from a close friend, custom linen pieces ordered through an Etsy seller, and a thrifted vintage gold mirror Emma repurposed as a second welcome sign at the reception. None of it was expensive or elaborate, but each piece was chosen specifically, which is exactly the kind of detail that tends to matter more on the day itself than it does on a planning spreadsheet.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

Bride Getting Ready

Emma’s dress search didn’t go the way she expected. She’d walked into Frankie Jane Couture Bridal with a fairly clear picture of what she wanted, only to discover once she started trying on gowns that the styles she’d imagined didn’t actually suit her the way she’d hoped. The dress that finally worked was Sandra, by Alon Livné. “It felt timeless, romantic, and effortlessly elegant, perfectly matching the vision I had for our intimate, vintage-inspired wedding,” she says.
She completed the look with a cathedral-length veil trimmed in delicate lace, her mother’s pearl necklace and matching earrings, and a pair of classic Prada square-toe block heels. Her bouquet, designed by Sofiya Yamnyuk of Windflower Floral & Events Inc., combined white calla lilies, cascading phalaenopsis orchids, trailing amaranthus, and soft greenery - a quieter palette than the reception’s fuller arrangements of white hydrangeas, snapdragons, Queen Anne’s lace, and more cascading amaranthus. Her bridesmaids wore dresses from Park & Fifth.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

Groom Getting Ready

Andrew and his groomsmen wore custom suits from Indochino, getting ready in a separate wing of Cruickston Park with his best friend by his side. It was a simple, low-key morning by design, deliberately kept apart from Emma’s side of the house so that neither of them would catch a glimpse of the other before the moment they’d actually planned for. Andrew, who works in finance, brought the same understated approach to his own look that Emma had brought to hers - nothing flashy, just details built to last well beyond the day itself. The custom fit from Indochino fit naturally into the same vintage-classic sensibility running through the rest of the wedding, right down to keeping the morning itself unhurried and quiet.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

First Look

Emma and Andrew’s first look took place in the hydrangea garden at Cruickston Park, chosen specifically to give them a quiet moment together before the rest of the day took over. Andrew later said he couldn’t quite believe how beautiful Emma looked, and that watching her walk toward him made the entire day suddenly feel real in a way it hadn’t until that exact second. For Emma, every nerve she’d been carrying disappeared the moment she saw him. “The moment I saw him, all of my nerves disappeared,” she says, and the private vows they exchanged right there in the garden only deepened how ready she felt to marry her best friend.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

Photoshoot Before The Ceremony

Rather than splitting the day across multiple locations, Emma and Andrew chose to keep every portrait at Cruickston Park itself. Cruickston Park has stood since the Victorian era. That afternoon, its hydrangea garden held its most important guests yet. Staying in one place wasn’t just a stylistic choice - it also meant more actual time with family and friends instead of hours lost shuttling between photo locations.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

Ceremony

The ceremony took place outdoors at Cambridge Mill, overlooking the Grand River, with the venue’s stone architecture framing the moment as warm afternoon light poured in. Emma walked down the aisle to “Daylight” by Taylor Swift. In place of a traditional flower girl and ring bearer, the couple’s two dogs took on the roles themselves: Oreo, wearing an oversized tulle bow, served as flower girl, while Cooper, dressed in a classic bow tie collar, carried the rings. “Standing together overlooking the Grand River as warm sunlight poured through the windows is a moment we’ll never forget,” the couple says of the ceremony itself, surrounded by the small group of people who mattered most.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

Photoshoot After The Ceremony

The vows were barely finished before the vintage car and the Mill’s stone façade took over - an enduring backdrop, a setting they already knew, no need to stray far from their guests. Staying on-site kept the timeless, elegant feel the couple wanted for their photos without pulling them away from the celebration for long. It echoed the same instinct that had shaped their pre-ceremony portraits back at Cruickston Park that morning - fewer stops, more time actually spent with the people who’d shown up for them. By the time the last frame was taken, their guests had barely had a chance to miss them.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

Wedding Venue & Decor

Choosing a venue for just 28 guests turned out to be harder than the couple expected - most spaces built for intimacy either felt too small or lacked the architectural character they wanted. Cambridge Mill solved that problem directly. “It overlooked the Grand River, had stunning floor-to-ceiling windows, and perfectly complemented our romantic vision while allowing our guests to feel cozy and connected,” Emma says.
The color palette leaned soft and neutral throughout: ivory, white, cream, and sage, with natural greenery filling in the rest. Early fall gave the hydrangeas just the faintest blush of pink, one of the most romantic small details of the entire day, while fresh figs woven through the harvest table added deeper tones of purple and burgundy against all that neutral softness. A handful of personalized touches carried the day’s intimacy even further - custom pizza boxes printed with the couple’s names for a late-night snack, cocktail napkins illustrated with their two dogs, an engraved cake knife and server set, and the vintage getaway car finished with a custom “Just Married” bow.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo

Couple's Advice

“Prioritize the moments that matter most to you and don’t be afraid to make the day your own. We also highly recommend doing a first look and private vows; it gave us a quiet moment together before the celebration and allowed us to be present for the rest of the day truly.”

Reception

Dinner ran on a seasonal menu, with guests choosing their entrée on the day rather than committing months in advance. Two signature cocktails carried the evening along - a Crown Royal apple cocktail and a spicy margarita - both of which became instant favorites among guests. Late in the night, the couple’s personalized pizza boxes made their appearance, and in an unplanned, thoughtful touch, their Italian pizza vendor gifted Emma and Andrew a box of fresh cannolis meant just for the two of them.
The couple’s first dance was set to “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls, a song Andrew chose specifically for how closely its lyrics matched what the two of them were feeling as they stepped into this next chapter. Their wedding cake came from Guelph Cakes, made by April - a baker who has made a cake for essentially every milestone they’ve celebrated together, long before the wedding itself. “Gathering everyone around one long harvest table created an intimate, family-style atmosphere where everyone could celebrate together, just as we had envisioned,” Emma says of the night as a whole. Looking back on the vendors who shaped the day, the couple singles out their photographer, Sara Claudia Photography, as the one who changed the experience most - not only for how comfortable she made them feel in front of the camera, but for traveling all the way to Vietnam with them to photograph their second celebration there as well.

Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Their Ring Bearer Wore a Bow Tie and Had Four Legs: Emma & Andrew's Wedding at Cambridge Mill photo
Wedding Team
  • Photographer @saraclaudiaphoto
  • Venue @cambridge_mill
  • Getting Ready Location @cruickstonpark
  • Florist @windflowerxbbf
  • Hair @serenhairstudio
  • Makeup @thebeautysuiteaesthetics
  • Wedding Cake @guelphcakes
  • DJ @hellothedjco
  • Officiant @marttipajunenofficiant
  • Late-Night Pizza @pizzeriamotola
  • Tableware Rentals @simplybeautifuldecor
  • Bride’s Gown @frankiejanecouturebridal @alonlivne
  • Groom & Groomsmen Suits @indochino
  • Bridesmaid Dresses @parkandfifthco
  • Invitations & Paper Stationery @minted
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