The Wedding Album: Gwendolyn & Joshua transformed the Evergreen Brick Works into a homespun country fairground
Gwendolyn & Joshua | July 3, 2011 | Evergreen Brick Works
By Meaghan Binstock, Emily Landau and Simone Olivero
Photography by Mango Studios
“You choose a place in the same way that it chooses you,” says Joshua Kauffman about the Brick Works, where the Toronto native married Houston-born Gwendolyn Floyd. The couple, both 32 and co-founders of a design firm, were drawn by the venue’s sustainable mission and post-industrial aesthetic. To commemorate both Canada Day and the Fourth of July, they transformed the place into a homespun country fairground. The wedding incorporated elements from both Joshua’s cultural Judaism and Gwendolyn’s southern comfort. After they were married by a humanist rabbi, under a chuppah built by Joshua’s father, a klezmer band played the mezinka. Guests sipped whisky sours, ate caramel corn and, instead of a wedding cake, wailed on piñatas packed with candy, fake moustaches and toys.
Sources:
Photography: Mango Studios
Bride’s dress: J. Crew
Groom’s attire: Our Legacy suit, Bass shoes, American Apparel socks
Venue: Evergreen Brick Works
Catering And Pies: Presidential Gourmet
Flowers: Coriander Girl
Music: Beyond the Pale (klezmer band) and DJ Medicine Man
Invitations: Made them themselves
Guests: 170
Cost: Undisclosed
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120843 In addition to wedding rings, the pair wear cameos of each other, handcrafted from coral—they love how the cameo both remembers and idealizes its subject The Wedding Album | Gwendolyn & Joshua The Wedding Album | Gwendolyn & Joshua https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TLWeddings2012_BrickWorks4-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TLWeddings2012_BrickWorks4.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TLWeddings2012_BrickWorks4.jpg 420 624 [] https://torontolife.com/style/real-weddings-2012-evergreen-brick-works/slide/tlweddings2012_brickworks4/ tlweddings2012_brickworks4 0 0
120844 Guests participated in traditional Jewish dances, like the hora and the mezinka, to raucous Balkan music by six-piece klezmer outfit Beyond the Pale The Wedding Album | Gwendolyn & Joshua The Wedding Album | Gwendolyn & Joshua https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TLWeddings2012_BrickWorks5-96x96.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TLWeddings2012_BrickWorks5.jpg https://torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TLWeddings2012_BrickWorks5.jpg 420 624 [] https://torontolife.com/style/real-weddings-2012-evergreen-brick-works/slide/tlweddings2012_brickworks5/ tlweddings2012_brickworks5 0 0
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