Weddings
Inside a joyful Island party with a musical parade
Jennifer Danahy and William Reid first met at the University of Toronto, where she majored in English and he majored in voice studies. They had mutual friends, but were never alone together. “When you live in res with 400 people, you don’t really date,” says Jennifer. “It’s more like hanging out.” It took a year and half for them to have what Jennifer calls their “first pseudo-date” in the quad. Two weeks later, they crashed a house party in Kingston together and became an official item. “Will got the point after I kissed him,” Jennifer says. “I was always the loud, obnoxious one. He’s a little more reserved.”
In 2014, after seven years together, William invited Jennifer to the Lula Lounge to see his band, Yasgurs Farm. At midnight, the band played “Your Smiling Face” by James Taylor, a song they had both enjoyed at his concert earlier that summer. After the show, the couple grabbed milkshakes at the Lakeview. When they got home, William proposed to Jennifer—in bed at 3 a.m., while they were both in their PJs. “It was intimate because it was so thoughtful and laid back,” says Jennifer. The next morning, they shared the news and went shopping for a ring.