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Yay! They look so wonderful. I'm always happy to see someone able to use my brochure tips. I also had a lot of issues putting mine together. But, they were totally worth it. Guests loved them. They were my favorite wedding project.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kristie Ottinger i love it!!!! ok, i have to tell you the parts i got the chills:) ok, right after the ceremony when it turned b&w and you two were sitting on the rocks kicking the water, when U2 was still on and i love the ending how it goes up and shows the palm trees and the i love how mike kicks when you two were playing on the shoreline, hes so funny!! great job! how fun to see my pics going through it too yay! Those were all parts I loved too I also love the part of mike pointing & me pretending to look at it. Glad he made us do that. twice. My mom has been inviting all of her friends over to watch it. I sent her a copy of the full version. Once I can clean up this edit I know it will be something I want to watch all the time. my photobook came in yesterday too. so much post-wedding fun!

I've been working on taking more artistic photos of nibblets. This is one from today.

don't worry rebecca. I haven't forgotten about the dance mix

Quote: Originally Posted by Kits55 perfect! i never thought about a script, i didn't even know that you could do that. thanks for the great advice! as long as you are doing the symbolic ceremony (in mexico). There is a thread called "share your ceremony script." You might find some ideas there. If you do the legal ceremony in mexico, it's a set script.

Quote: Originally Posted by lyrebard The ceremony was certainly different...lol. I'm glad that comes through! I think we were just trying to make it as "us" as possible, and to reflect our definition of marriage. The stone-throwing ceremony is an ancient Celtic tradition that we found, and really liked because A) His mom's side is Irish, and it allowed everyone to participate. Yes, it really comes across as unique & something reflective of the two of you. I would have loved the stone throwing. It would have been fun to get everyone involved like that. I was super antsy just standing there until we had a "task." But, there were people kayaking nearby so I would have hated to hit one with a stray rock.

Here is a very rough draft of the edit I'm making. I haven't figured out how to do still pictures in adobe premiere so I just used the slideshow I made previously. I plan on redoing the transistions. too much zooming in & out. Also, there is a clip of waves at the start that shouldn't be there so the title slide is messed up. After about 9 minutes there is some new stuff I haven't uploaded yet. It's the post-ceremony footage. The whole thing is 15 minutes. First draft of the picture + video version on Vimeo

Quote: Originally Posted by Kits55 lol, i would FREEEEAK OUUUUT if that was my wedding. that's exactly what i'm telling whoever performs our ceremony. my FI is not religious at all and definitely is NOT a believer and i'm not such a believer myself. if there is any mention people will see me as they've never seen me before. although our parents would LOVE for god to be in ceremony. I emailed the WC the script we wanted. That way it didn't have anything in it that didn't reflect us.

Quote: Originally Posted by FelicityEve These are so funny! I was in this wedding and towards the end of the night, she started opening her gifts...at the reception, in front of everyone...Some one had given her this pricey collector doll, and she opens it and looks at it with this disgusted look, throws it to the side, and then says thank you to whoever, very sarcastically. I was embarrassed to even be there! Not a funny mishap, but..some people! I have never seen a bride open the gifts at the reception. I guess she just couldn't wait. Quote: Originally Posted by *lauren* i just remembered another long one..and we have it on video, lovely ending... anyway, traditionally at a jewish wedding, the husband steps on a glass, usually a lightbulb, wrapped in a napkin, to symbolize unbroken love and a whole bunch of other junk. in order to appease both sets of parents (who weren't thrilled w/ a minister marrying us), dh was going to break it. i realize halfway thru the ceremony - he's not wearing shoes!!! the minister says mysteriously, "and we have a surprise for everyone!" and i whisper, "no, he can't, no shoes!" she says, "huh? why aren't you wearing shoes?" and then madness entails.....my cousin (6'+, huge feet) throws a flip flop from the back row to dh (who's 5'8" on a good day). dh puts it on and can't get a grip to break the glass b/c the shoe is so damn big. cousin screams "consider that your wedding gift". dh breaks the glass by slamming his foot down - he was afraid that it wouldn't break, and had he not slammed so hard, it wouldn't have ... even after we told the wc to use a lightbulb, she still wrapped a glass up...and not a wine glass, or a champagne flute...a thick glass that you would ordinarily get a soda in. This is so funny! OMG there are too many hilarious stories that I had to stop multi-quoting. Rachel, those pictures are too funny.

I'm worried I gave my boss a bad rep He is wonderful. But, I still get stressed before the meetings because I have so much to read & organize.

Trisha, I'm so glad to see you are blogging too! I am totally going to be the stalker type too when I photograph. I want people to take pictures of, but I don't really have many "subjects." I could see myself wandering around a fair taking pictures of strangers Mike got me a book for my birthday called, "understanding exposure." I'm learning so much. I know my second weekend of photographs will be much better than my first. I really just wanted to blog those to look back on once I learn how this works.

Quote: Originally Posted by TammyB Morgan I was finally able to view the ones you have so far. Great start.. Are you going to post the "A's" as your official A's or are you going to try to find more? I'm retaking them. Those were done with my P&S. I want to redo them with my new camera. My photography class is heading to the duke gardens where I took those A's so it will be easy to redo. I'll look for more while I'm there. I plan on keeping my eyes open for all letters, but I'll just post on the right week.

I tried to email it, but it was taking forever to attach. it must be too large.

we should figure out a way to share them in high resolution so that everyone can build up a nice collection. I'm emailing you my pictures now...

Quote: Originally Posted by becks Don't ask... I'm pre-wedding... and I'm getting punchy. PWSing? Pre-wedding syndrome. I think my brother has a case of PWS right now. he souds pretty frazzled when he calls & uses emoticons like this when he emails.

I also wrote every letter in the sand incase there were certain letters i couldn't find so it could be a filler. I'm really excited you are starting this up tammy. I was just thinking about how I needed to resume this project.

OK I found the thread. We were talking about inexpensive gifts & wisco4 shared the idea of finding letters in nature. Then you could spell out the new couple's last name, a babies name, etc. So i started the project. it's funny that it was actually a year ago today. This is on the other thread, but I'll post it here too. This is how far I got. and here is an example of what you can make PERSONALIZED PHOTO WALL ART | Unique, Customizable Home Decor Gift Spells Words with Photographed Letters found in Nature, Architecture | UncommonGoods should I make that picture smaller?

I already know where I'm finding my A I started this project a while back, but didn't get far. Now I've got to retake all the pictures with my new camera & photoshop them properly. I'll find the thread so you can see what I was trying to accomplish. it would be really cool if we could all share the letters for this project so we all have a nice collection. brb & it will make more sense...

The cermeony looked like it wasa so unique. Did the guests throw stones in the water in the middle? I love all the interaction. Why is he wearing a picture frame? Watching the slideshow made me want to see a video. It looks like you did so many cool things with the ceremony. There are also so many awesome pictures of guests. I love the kids asleep on the floor.

I am a mess! I have stuff all over my desk. it's even piled on the floor. In 4th grade there were empty desks surrounding me so no one had to have my stuff invading their space. I called it my "mess moat." but, I wouldn't have been mean to you. were we passing notes with ferret pics on them? I bet we were. I dreamed about Yari once. She was an accountant in the building next to mine & we were meeting for lunch. I was excited to have someone to talk about wedding stuff with because I usually try to keep that to a minimum with my friends. The other night I dreamed that Ann & another girl from BDW that I didn't know were in town so we met for coffee. Then we were driving on a scary road on a motorcycle. it was a pretty chaotic dream. I also got in trouble for stealing a newspaper from the coffee shop.

Quote: Originally Posted by cja1976 Happy Birthday. Hopefully your boss will be nice to you today. he is always nice. It's just getting prepared for the meeting that ruins my wednesday morning. But it's my bday so i'm on BDW instead Thanks!!!

I hope your wedding is WONDERFUL!!!

I love it!! My birthday isn't getting off to a great start. Wednesday mornings are always stressful because I have to meet with my boss. This really brightened up my morning!! I set the ferrets to my computer background.

Quote: Originally Posted by starchild BTW since you're so good w/tech stuff...when I put our wedding DVD in the computer is says it can't play it because of the format or something, I forget the exact message. Did you have to download something to play yours or is my computer just lame? It plays other DVDs just fine. do you know what kind of file it is? mine was a .vob file. You can just change the extension to .mpg & it behaves much better. Mine played fine on the computer. But, I couldn't edit it until I changed it to a .mpg & then converted the .mpg to an .avi. I did a bunch of editing tonight. I am really starting to love the video now. I just have to import the music & draft 1 will be done. it's good enough for the AHR. I'll probably improve it later. I just want something finished before we fly home so I don't have to share the making out video with the entire AHR.

Quote: Originally Posted by starchild I enjoyed that, thanks! I was laughing when you two were talking amongst yourselves while the officiant was talking, right before the vows haha yeah we were total brats. It's just weird when you are so full of excitement & just want to be together but you've got to just stand there side by side. I put way too much script in the beginning I think. I'm so glad it was short. I don't know how people make it through a long ceremony.