Our Wedding

Our wedding will take place on Saturday, June 3, 2006 outside Donald and Judith Knudsen's nineteenth century stone house, McKinley Place, in Perth, Ontario.

For directions or accommodation info, please click on the links above.

Time to be announced.

About McKinley Place

This house has been featured in many books, photographs and paintings. Built in 1849 by a man named Thomas McKinley, who was coming back from the California Gold Rush. The McKinley family lived in the house for most of the nineteenth century. Their Scottish heritage is betrayed in the intricate gingerbread carvings along the porch - notice the Scottish national flower, the thistle. In the late nineteenth century, the Spalding family occupied the house for approximately thirty years, followed by the Allan family. The last member of the Alan family passed away in the 1970's and following that the house remained vacant until the late 1980's.

Christian's mom, Judith Knudsen, while on a country drive with her best friend, Alfreda Swaintson, found the house, in terrible disrepair, gutted to its walls and surrounded by thornbushes, and tall field grass. She fell in love with the house and for the next thirty years, Christian's parents have slowly restored the house back to its original grandeur.