musicians and florists.said Bruce Sinclair, principal at Toronto-based retail and  cheap wedding dress fashion consultancy Sinclair Strategies.It works as a good adjunct business to their gift registry.They are also carrying some smaller Canadian designers, which in the fashion industry is important; it's important for our designers to get support from big stores.Rodbell did not divulge the size of Hudson's Bay's gift registry business, but said it is growing in the double digits and had 50,000 registrants last year.Historically the largest registry business in the country, HBC's competitors tend to be much smaller or niche players, such as Williams Sonoma and Pottery Barn, Mountain Equipment Co-Op, Lee Valley Tools and Ashley's.Home Depot and Canadian Tire pulled out of their registry businesses years ago after they failed to gain traction.Kleinfeld is part of an ongoing bid by chief executive Richard Baker to transform less productive square footage by adding top brands as franchises to Hudson's Bay stores, exemplified first by the company's success in incorporating nine boutiques from U.chain Topshop into Bay stores across the country.on their big day, but many don't think they'll be able to foot the entire bill, according to a new study.The BMO InvestorLine survey of 500 adults revealed that nearly 40% of respondents believe their ideal wedding is out of reach.Canadians surveyed expect to cover 60% of the costs associated with their wedding by drawing on investments or other savings.For the remaining costs, they predict they'll rely on parents and gifts from friends.at how little respondents would allocate for a potential wedding.I think retirement falls into that category where people will typically underestimate what they're going to need to spend and then they get surprised.she said in a phone interview Wednesday.Barker-Merz was also surprised by respondents who said they'd rely on credit cards and/or lines of credit.Typically, lines of credit and credit cards when it comes to weddings is for those unforeseens, things you didn't plan for and anticipate.The fact that the people surveyed have that  wedding dress mermaid as part of their plan just points to the need of really getting smart on how to plan, how to budget, how to save money and plan for what you can afford.recalled Gorman, editor of Wedding Obsession, a Canadian wedding blog dedicated to the modern bride.for approximately 150 guests.Basically, money I had allotted for other things I used to pay for my wedding.Gorman said one reason her budget surged was underestimating the cost of feeding guests.per person for food.Depending on whether you want an open bar, limited bar, drink tickets, all of that stuff adds up.Barker-Merz suggested individuals start putting together a budget and setting aside money monthly for an affordable event.She recommends a tax-free savings account as a good investment vehicle.RelatedAsked Answered: The Juliet cap veil is the bride's head, revisitedTrending: Brides say 'I do' to milkmaid braids and big frizzy hairTo help scale back on costs, Gorman took on a lot of do-it-yourself projects such as packaging her own favours.But as she reflects on her day four years on, she admits she would approach the process differently today.I loved my wedding and I have no regrets.But if I could have gone back I would have scaled it down, I would have made it more intimate.And I think a lot of things I worried about and wanted to spend money on probably weren't really worth it.The online survey of 500 adults who are not currently married but at least somewhat likely to get married in the future was conducted for BMO InvestorLine by Pollara between April 11-15.The margin of error is plus or minus 4.percentage points, 19 times out of 20.In June 1985, a bomb planted by Sikh terrorists exploded on board Air India Flight 182 over the Irish Sea.The 329 dead were nearly all Canadians, by birth or naturalization, a fact which initially escaped notice in Canada.With the passage of time, however, the impact  modest wedding dresses of the tragedy on our historical memory seems to have increased, as evidenced by its chronicling in Canadian journalism, fiction, film documentaries and so on.This is understandable.Such trust we have in our aircraft.As the disappearance of Flight 370 reminds us, few things are more chilling than the spectacle of that trust betrayed by human malice.But the Air India episode had local dimensions.an act of brown-on-brown terrorism that a (nearly) white government failed to prevent or even properly to investigate.So we have history woven into this ambitious novel, as well as philosophy (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle makes an appearance), religion, domestic drama, the politics of multiculturalism and so on.Carrying this load is the protagonist Ashwin Rao, who leaves India in 1969 to study medicine at McGill, and becomes a psychologist.His project in the novel is to collect stories from relatives and friends of the victims of the bombing to see how they managed their bereavement.monolithic notions of their identities, their histories, and, most importantly, their destinies.By inserting himself into the process, moreover, he understands their stories better and understands himself better.In furtherance of this work, Ashwin installs himself in the British Columbia town of Lohikarma, where he very much makes himself part of the narrative process by befriending a university physics instructor named Seth, and his wife and two daughters.Seth had no family members on board the flight but has close links with many who did, including a family friend and university colleague named Venkat, whose wife and son were killed.Venkat manages his loss by embracing Hindu nationalism, Seth by immersing himself ever more deeply in a religious movement headed by a guru named Shivashakti, sometimes regarded by his devotees as God.Shivashakti's followers believe.It's simply easier, especially if a god has been so kind as to manifest in your lifetime, to conceive of the Ultimate Reality