“But I’m really glad that we waited and did it at home with everyone.We are gathered here today to lay to rest Google Inbox. “The thought of eloping certainly crossed our minds,” Kane says. The next day, the remaining guests enjoyed a family-style dinner of leftovers, capping a three-day extravaganza. Guests partied late into the evening, including a surprise dance by the couple’s moms, both of whom are named Janet. After the ceremony, the groomsmen got together in a cabin and passed around a bottle of Scotch. Right after exchanging traditional vows, the bride and groom (who have changed their surnames to Kannon, an amalgamation of both last names), headed to a secluded spot and recited private ones to each other. “I was a little hungover the next day,” Shannon admits. The night before the wedding, they hosted a giant barbecue, where they caught up with everyone they hadn’t seen in two years. They got married at Sandy Lane Resort in the Algonquin Highlands, renting out cabins and inviting family and friends to join them for the weekend. “At one point I did buy a second-hand dress in a panic, but everything worked out.” “I was really wrong.” She was still hemming the dress’s five layers up until the day before the wedding. I’ve made cocktail dresses before and thought, ‘What’s a wedding dress if not that but a bit longer?’” she says. Kane opted to make her own dress every time she worked on it in Australia, she would roll a clothing rack with a sheet pinned to it to hide her progress. Kane’s aunt, a reverend, officiated, and Sarah’s 16-month-old nephew, Camden, whom she’d never met while living in Australia, served as the flower boy. Shannon’s father built the arbor under which the couple said their vows, while his mom baked a carrot cake topped with wooden Kookaburras, a nod to the couple’s time in Australia. Luckily, their families stepped up to support them. “We had no decor planned whatsoever,” Kane says, “because we didn’t want to invest a lot into a wedding we weren’t even sure was going to happen.” They stayed with Kane’s dad at her childhood home in the Beaches and spent every spare moment finalizing details. The following autumn, the couple arrived back in Toronto - with just three weeks to spare before a rescheduled September wedding. There they enjoyed what Kane calls a “surreal freedom,” as there were no COVID-19 cases and very few lockdown restrictions. So, they instead packed up and moved to remote Cairns, Australia, a tropical paradise 2,500 kilometres north of Sydney. The couple hoped to wed in June 2020, but the pandemic had other plans. “He was circling around us and zooming in.” Shannon asked a stranger to take a picture of the couple, then secretly whispered to shoot a video instead, as he got down on one knee to propose. Kane was less than enthused, as it was a dreary cold day, but went along with the plan. In 2019, on a road trip across Australia’s Great Ocean Road, Shannon insisted they stop for some wine on the beach at the Twelve Apostles, a tourist destination where limestone plinths jut out of the ocean. “I had this vague dream in my mind, but he was the one who made it happen.” The couple moved to Sydney in October 2017, spending much of their spare time exploring their new homeland. “As soon as I got home, I realized, ‘I don’t think I need this anymore,’” he says.Īfter just five months together, Kane floated the idea of relocating somewhere warmer, like, perhaps, Australia? “I was surprised by how on board he was,” she says.
I think I’m going to fall for this guy.’” Shortly after, they decided to be exclusive, and Shannon revealed he had deleted his dating app profile immediately after their first date. On the ride back, Kane says, “I thought to myself, ‘Oh, boy, I’m in trouble. A few months into their courtship, Shannon planned a day date canoeing around the Toronto Islands (“It feels like you’re in the middle of Algonquin,” he says) and packed a picnic lunch.
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