About Us

our story

We met back in 2012 while working together as video editors for a national TV broadcaster in Toronto, Canada. When we first started dating, we loved going for day trips and road trips together.

I (Lauren) loved creating photo scrapbooks of our adventures together. Eventually, the book ran out of pages and I had way too many photos to fit inside a book.

So, in 2013, just after we moved in together, I created Justin Plus Lauren as a digital scrapbook to keep track of our memories and trips together.

our travel blog...

It didn't take long for us to become obsessed with traveling. After our first road trip to Montreal, our first cruise of the Caribbean, and our first overseas trip to Italy, I wrote all about our trips...first, in a journal and then, transcribed to our blog.

Before long, I spent most of my free time travel blogging, editing photos, sharing on social media, and later, attending conferences devoted to travel blogging. In 2018, I quit my job in TV to become a full time travel blogger and content creator...and never looked back!

Justin continues to work in the television industry, but spends as much time travelling as possible. He also creates stunning travel videos for the Justin Plus Lauren YouTube.

our engagement and wedding...

In 2022, after the global pandemic, we took a long awaited trip to Italy, Austria and Germany. From the top of the mountain in Innsbruck, Austria, Justin proposed and of course I said yes!

In October 2023, joined by 30 friends and family members from Canada, the USA and the UK, we had our dream wedding at the Ghillie Dhu in Edinburgh, Scotland. Then, we went for our honeymoon for a week in the Algarve, Portugal.

our future...

What's in the future for us? While we are part-time travelers, spending much of our time at home in Ontario, Canada, we are slowly making our way around the world.

As we travel, we continue to create new itineraries and guides on this website.

We're both dual citizens of Canada and the UK. While we don't have any plans to leave Canada, maybe someday we'll spend more time in Scotland, who knows!