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tinytortoise

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How descriptive did you get when talking about your wedding? How you met? How the relationship has developed?

I've just started writing notes and I have 4 pages already. Did you add anecdotes?
 

Azsereth

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I don't think we wrote more than a paragraph or so about how we met, but we made a timeline with significant events covering the entire length of our relationship (including visits, dates of ceremonies, the date he proposed, anything else that might affect our relationship/decision-making processes, etc.). The timeline ended up pretty long. When writing about our ceremonies (we had one in Canada and one in the US), I don't think I was very detailed about the ceremonies themselves, but I did explain to the best of my ability why my family didn't attend the ceremony in Canada and why his didn't attend the ceremony in the US. And we included a few pictures of each ceremony in the description (with I think more pictures from the ceremonies included in the section where we included supporting evidence/pictures from visits).

I suppose you will want to balance ease of reading with thoroughness.

You may want to take a look at http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/how-i-organized-our-applcation-and-a-summary-of-all-helpful-tips-i-have-learned-t92449.0.html to see how this person organized their application. There are probably many right/acceptable ways to organize an application (and if you asked, people would probably all give different answers), but if you plan ahead and have an idea how you're going to put it all together, it might make it easier and more efficient.
 

LeisaP

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How we met was about and page and a half long.
But we also did a journal timeline full of events and pictures that took place since we met.
 

CharlieD10

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How we met was one sentence, and could have been reduced to one word.

Our relationship timeline took up 10 pages as written by me, and an accompanying summary written by my husband was 2 pages.