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Miss Onion, NYC/Burlington, VT Age and Occupation: 26, PR & Marketing and Jazz Singer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Data Analyst Engagement Date: April 2, 2006 Wedding Date: September 2007 Blogging Since: July 11, 2007 Venue: Restaurant in Burlington About Me: I didn't think I'd be "that girl," but I am having so much fun planning our wedding (mostly by myself). I'm a PR and Marketing Director for a major jazz festival and camp by day, and by night, a romantic jazz singer and bride-to-be! I hope all my research can help other brides in their planning.
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The Onion Slideshow

June 12th, 2008 @ 2:33 pm by Mrs. Onion

Mrs. Penguin’s recent post “The Penguin Slideshow,” reminded me that I never posted about our slideshow.

I seem to have taken on the role of family historian since my 8th grade genealogy project. I carefully stored all my family’s historic photos, interviewed my father’s great aunts (who have all since passed away) and soaked up as much as I could. When Mr. Onion and I got engaged I started asking his mother questions about their family history and a few weeks before the wedding I asked her if I could go through her photo collection.

Naturally I wanted to share some of this history with our friends and family at the wedding where we would be starting our own chapter of our families’ histories.

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Mrs. Penguin, Sacramento Age and Occupation: 26, Video & TV Producer/Director/Editor Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Doctor of Physical Therapy Engagement Date: January 29, 2007 Wedding Date: June 7, 2008 Blogging Since: September 14, 2007 Venue: Winery in the Gold Country About Me: I'm a silly mess of a girl who, above all else in this world, LOVES the Spice Girls. I eat sushi at least 3 times a week, and feel guilty about how much it costs the other 4 days a week. I love designer jeans and cheap accessories. I don't like sweets, but I love the UCLA Bruins!
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The Penguin Slideshow

June 5th, 2008 @ 5:48 pm by Mrs. Penguin

Alternatively: “It all falls apart”

Miss Penguin here, two days before our wedding! I’d been planning a “surprise” slideshow since we first got engaged. By “surprise” I mean that, being a video professional, it seems like it would be ridiculous for me not to be making one, even though I don’t really mention it to Mr. Penguin. I started out slow and steady, putting fun blurs and painstakingly cutting out people to mimic movement on still pictures, but with less than 2 days left till go-time, I had about half the slideshow done and only an hour to finish it…so you’ll notice that unfortunately, it kind of falls apart at the end. I had the idea to split the slideshow into three parts, separated by song:

1. Us as kids (through high school)
2. Us in college with our friends
3. Us together

Well, 1/3 of a slideshow of JUST pictures of us is really, really boring. In the end, yes, this is our wedding, but at the same time, I think guests enjoy seeing themselves as well, and unfortunately, I just did not gather enough pictures from enough people.

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Mrs. Tiramisu, Annapolis, MD/Maine Age and Occupation: 26, Eye Doctor Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Project Manager/Real Estate Management grad student Engagement Date: May 15, 2007 Wedding Date: July, 2008 Blogging Since: March 4, 2008 Venue: Oceanfront lawn and tent About Me: I was born and raised in Maine, now living in Annapolis, Maryland and planning a hometown wedding from afar. I’m nothing short of obsessed with wedding planning, and am loving the do-it-yourself madness that has now taken over my life! As for me, I’m a craft-loving, martini-drinking, girly-girl who loves traveling, photography, my schnauzer, and above all, spending time with Mr. Tiramisu.
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Animoto

May 17th, 2008 @ 10:36 am by Mrs. Tiramisu

Animoto is this great slideshow making tool that I found out about on the Soiree Special Events blog. I tested it out by uploading some of my favorites from the engagement shoot we had with Girls With Big Cameras. It turned out so cool that I wanted to share it with you all! It’s super easy to use - basically you just upload your pictures, choose music to set the slideshow to, and voila! It’s free for a 30-second slideshow. I decided to pony up the three bucks to try out the full-length version, and here’s what I came up with:

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Mrs. Eggplant, San Francisco Age and Occupation: 28, Human Resources Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Associate Marketing Manager Engagement Date: January 19, 2007 Wedding Date: October 20, 2007 Blogging Since: May 31, 2007 Venue: Ceremony at a cement and stained glass cathedral and reception at a boutique hotel ballroom About Me: I'm a shopping junkie who lives to discover great deals and a craft addict that loves to scrapbook and knit. My profile picture was taken on the day I got engaged which is why my smile is so huge!
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It has officially been six months since the wedding (happy half-year, Mr. Eggplant!). I thought I’d celebrate by sharing one of my most favorite parts of our wedding: Our slideshow. I’ve written about how we used media as an inexpensive means to make our wedding incredibly personal. You’ve already seen our entrance music video and heard our first dance songs. But the grand media finale was a thoughtful, embarrassing, and slightly cheesy slideshow that Mr. Eggplant created.

Slideshows usually aren’t the main event at weddings. Some brides opt out of making one for fear of boring their guests. After all, who wants to inundate people with an endless barrage of baby pictures? Well, when our wedding was over, a comment I repeatedly received from our guests was how much they enjoyed our slideshow. Many even told me that it was their favorite event of the night. What? No one noticed my hand-punched place cards that took weeks to assemble? What about my color-coordinated jellybeans? Apparently, our slideshow received the most bang for our buck, in terms of wedding prep hours.
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Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant Engagement Date: February 18, 2007 Wedding Date: April 19, 2008 Venue: Historic Inn About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
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Side by Side Photos in a MAC Slideshow*

April 12th, 2008 @ 10:31 am by Mrs. Lovebug

You know when you were in school, and you had a “stupid” question you were afraid to ask? Remember how teachers always told us, If you don’t understand something, chances are, someone else doesn’t, either.

Well, that’s the premise behind this quick post. I had a EUREKA! moment the other day, and while chances are there’s a much easier solution to my problem than I realize, I still thought that maybe one or two of you might find the subject of use (it’s pretty demographic specific)…

The subject is How to Do a Mac Slideshow With Two Photos at a Time.

iPhoto has that great slideshow option built into it - we all know this. It also has the very cool Ken Burns effect (which is that slow, random zoom or pan that makes a slideshow pack a visual punch) and music. Great. But I didn’t want just one photo at a time. I wanted two at a time - one each of Mr. LB and I. Starting from babyhood on, I wanted pictures of us at the same age sliding across the screen together (or even crossing!), showing who/what we were at the same point in our lives.
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Mrs. Jasmine, Chicago/LA Age and Occupation: 25, Attorney Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Attorney Engagement Date: March 24, 2007 Wedding Date: June 7, 2008 Blogging Since: September 20, 2007 Venue: Hotel on the westside of Los Angeles About Me: I'm a happy-go-lucky, imaginative spirit trapped in the body of a lawyer. I love reading, shopping, dining out, and exploring my beloved adopted city of Chicago with my fiance. We're planning the wedding of our dreams in my hometown of Los Angeles and we're excited to incorporate our cherished Indian/Pakistani customs and traditions.
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Gonna Make You Love Me

January 25th, 2008 @ 11:02 am by Mrs. Jasmine

In my previous post about our wedding slideshow, I mentioned that we were still trying to figure out the song to play during the photos of Mr. Jasmine from childhood to present.

Well, we found it!

Ryan Adam’s "Gonna Make You Love Me", from the latest Cingular commercial and Sweet Home Alabama (yes, we aren’t terribly original people). We both love the song and I think it fits so well with our other two choices, KT Tunstall’s "Suddenly I See" and Queen’s "You’re My Best Friend". It amuses me to no end that our uber-Indian wedding will feature a slideshow set to a guitar-heavy, folksy, rocking soundtrack :)

Yay for wedding decision-making. What decisions have you made lately?

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Mrs. Jasmine, Chicago/LA Age and Occupation: 25, Attorney Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Attorney Engagement Date: March 24, 2007 Wedding Date: June 7, 2008 Blogging Since: September 20, 2007 Venue: Hotel on the westside of Los Angeles About Me: I'm a happy-go-lucky, imaginative spirit trapped in the body of a lawyer. I love reading, shopping, dining out, and exploring my beloved adopted city of Chicago with my fiance. We're planning the wedding of our dreams in my hometown of Los Angeles and we're excited to incorporate our cherished Indian/Pakistani customs and traditions.
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Suddenly I See… A Slideshow

January 18th, 2008 @ 11:23 am by Mrs. Jasmine

Anyone who knows me knows this much is true: I’m a sentimental, schmaltzy sap. I cry during commercials for long-distance telephone services. I coo over adorable babies and in my eyes, *all* babies are adorable. I save ticket stubs, stuffed animals, greeting cards, invitations, notes, letters, old photos, fortunes from fortune cookies, etc.

So I knew one thing was given: there was definitely going to be a slideshow at our wedding. I know a lot of people find slideshows really boring and I think they can be if the right elements aren’t in place. But when a slideshow is well-done, it can be a poignant, funny, sweet moment during the reception.

– First, the slideshow has to be a reasonable amount of time. Always leave people wanting more! Ten minutes is the absolute maximum length of time before even your own mother starts zoning out.

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Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant Engagement Date: February 18, 2007 Wedding Date: April 19, 2008 Venue: Historic Inn About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
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Not Even The Pets Are Safe.

January 7th, 2008 @ 6:08 pm by Mrs. Lovebug

A few days ago, star pupil LB asked how the development of our overwrought, overthought - erm, I mean, wondrously clever - wedding theme was coming along.

(If you missed the epic, here’s the Cliff’s Notes: Our wedding is themed “The Sweetest Type of Love.” Motifs of typing and candy with a romantic vintage twist.)

FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK, LB. Because I happen to have graphic evidence of just how seriously I’m taking it.

I’ve been compiling short videos of Mr. L ever since we got engaged; my thinking is that maybe I could make them into a short movie to show at the reception. So to practice using iMovie, I concocted a little flick - an homage to our pets, for Mr. L. Titled to match our wedding theme, natch!

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Miss Onion, NYC/Burlington, VT Age and Occupation: 26, PR & Marketing and Jazz Singer Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Data Analyst Engagement Date: April 2, 2006 Wedding Date: September 2007 Blogging Since: July 11, 2007 Venue: Restaurant in Burlington About Me: I didn't think I'd be "that girl," but I am having so much fun planning our wedding (mostly by myself). I'm a PR and Marketing Director for a major jazz festival and camp by day, and by night, a romantic jazz singer and bride-to-be! I hope all my research can help other brides in their planning.
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Family Connections… Part II

September 30th, 2007 @ 3:58 pm by Mrs. Onion

As I mentioned in a previous post, we shared a photo slide show with our guests at the reception and it was very well received. I think our families enjoyed seeing childhood photos of both of us as well as photos of themselves (we had a photo of almost every single guest). After the historic and childhood photos we moved on to photos of us with our friends and family during our courtship, and finally some engagement photos. Enjoy!

Best friend, his wife and Mr. Onion

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Mrs. Poppy, New York Age and Occupation: 27, PhD Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, High End Retail General Manager Engagement Date: February 25, 2006 Wedding Date: July 2007 Venue: Astoria World Manor, Queens, New York About Me: I'm a graduate student majoring in Piano Performance. I love knitting, crochet, cooking and learning languages ( I know six so far!). You can find me at your local karaoke bar, yarn shops, sheet music store or any store with Hello Kitty!
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Final Music Video

September 5th, 2007 @ 6:20 pm by Mrs. Poppy

My first attempt at working with our pictures and trying to capture a little video turned out just ok. I played around with it some more and after a couple days this is what I came up with. I used a program that comes free with any apple computer called iMovie. It’s so simple, literally drag and drop, tweak and done!

So what do you think? :) Feel like you were at my wedding? Hope so!