Check Your Mailboxes

... because the invitations are out! We hope that you will all be able to join us for our wedding, but we need to know one way or the other. Instead of sending out the traditional RSVP cards, we're asking you to RSVP either by phone or online. Hey, we're Generation Y-ers... at least we're not asking you to text and/or facebook message your reply!

(1) Phone - call us at the phone number provided on the RSVP card. If you get our voicemail, feel free to leave a message. For each guest, we'll need to know what you'd like to eat - steak, salmon, or something vegetarian.

(2) RSVP - visit www.jonandtamar.com. Go to the RSVP link:


Then type in your RSVP code that's on your RSVP card (note: it's case sensitive):


The page will generate the names of each person included on your invitation. For each invitee, please list if he/she/you can attend or not, the entree selection (steak, salmon, veggie). Feel free to leave us a message as well!

We've Registered

We're happy staying simple, but with our ever-increasing culinary skills (thank you, Food Network) and ever-threadbare sheets and towels, we have gone ahead and created our registries.  It took a bit of work - we had to brave bridezillas with scanning tasers and pushy salespeople - but our online registries are up and running.  

We're registered at the following places: Bed Bath & Beyond, Crate & Barrel, and Williams-Sonoma.  All of them are web-based with shipping information on file, so this should make things easier than having to visit one of these stores.  Since we live in California and will be getting married in Canada, it would be wonderful if you could send any gifts via mail, as we won't be able to carry much on the plane.  If you need our shipping address, just shoot us an e-mail (jon@jonandtamar.com or tamar@jonandtamar.com).

Of course, your presence at our wedding is more important to us than anything else.  However, if you would like to purchase something from our registry, we're hoping that we've made the process as painless as possible.

Public Square at Bloor & Yonge?

Tamar here.  It's been a busy week (despite only 3 work days) and I'm happy to say that the Save-the-Dates are out.  As noted on the cards, if you would prefer to receive an eco-friendly e-mail invite (designed by Jon, of course), shoot us an e-mail at invites@jonandtamar.com.  Otherwise, feel free to explore our website.

When I was in my second year of grad school, I was living at Queen's Park (Avenue Road) & Charles Street, which is a couple of minutes walk to each of our host hotels.  I'd constantly frequent the intersection of Bloor Street & Yonge Street (right by the Marriott) because I could catch both transit lines there, it was near the Dollar Store (which is amazing when you're an RA on an annual budget of $6/resident), and it was near plenty of restaurants and pubs.  During this time, there was a planned project at 1 Bloor Street East - right at the southeast corner of the busiest intersection in Toronto.  They knocked down a bunch of smaller buildings and were planning to build an 80-something story building with a hotel, residences, and retail uses.  Toronto, in my opinion, is primarily a low-rise city, so this would definitely shake up the skyline a bit. People waited overnight during the winter for the opportunity to buy a condo in the first stage of construction.  

As a result of the recession, the project's developer thought about reducing the height of the building to save on construction costs, and ultimately the project died before fully going for review.  The Toronto Star recently published an article about how there's some interest in turning the space into a public square, similar to that at Yonge and Dundas.  And it looks like the Toronto Public Space Committee is backing this up.

So when you come to the wedding, you may be across the street from a public square, a blank slate, or maybe even a condo tower (though the latter is unlikely).  I guess you'll just have to wait and see. 

A rendering of the (now dead) One Bloor East project

Yonge-Dundas Square

Save the Dates Almost Out!

Jon designed our save-the-dates and we received our copies in the mail this weekend.  So now we're busy writing out addresses and getting them ready to mail.  Hopefully we'll have them all stamped and sent at the end of this week.  Though if you've found our blog, then you already know our date!

We still have a ways to go before sending out invites, but if you prefer to receive your invite as a PDF (by e-mail) to save (part of) a tree, just shoot us an e-mail at invites@jonandtamar.com.  

Our wedding planning has been progressing, and we're excited to send all of the details with you soon!  In the meantime, check out our website, also designed by the fabulous Jon.