The flask guy: a love story

As an Ottawa wedding photographer who is married. I get asked about my own love story a lot. Here is the lo down on how I met my husband.

I wasn’t even unpacked yet. It had been two weeks since I came back home from Santo Domingo. During my three month trip, my sister Vanessa had met someone. Nothing was official yet but she wanted me to meet him. I did not feel like going out to meet new people that day but I had to see what this Bryan guy looked like.

The flask guy

The evening was spent watching New girl while Bryan repaired Vanessa's cracked Iphone. There were a few more of Bryan's friends and I saw something that caught my eye. A guy with dark hair was holding a cool looking flask and I went over to talk to him. I learnt that his flask was from amazon and it doubled as a shot glass. I walked away saying: 'well, if you ever want to buy me a gift, you know what to do'.

It took me months to remember his name after that evening so I just called him the flask guy. We bumped into each other from time to time but it wasn't until a few months later that our friendship started and another couple months before we started dating.I remember feeling like this relationship felt different than any other. From the start, he just felt like mine. We were in complete sync and communicating my feelings had never felt this easy. No struggle and no compromising who I was. Just me and him sharing life stories and talking about our favourites books.It was at a slow and steady paste that we took steps towards marriage. It still makes me giggle that our story started with him me asking him about his flask. At our four months dating anniversary, he gifted me my own flask that matched his. It came full circle when we had whiskey from our flasks on our first look and our honeymoon in Ireland. Photo credit Tracey Jazmin