Wedding Blog

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

Many of our guests were amazed with the venue we chose, the delicious food and all the little DIY details that went into our beautiful day. As much as I could take credit for all the work, I must thank our bridal party for being by our side. The first person I’d like to thank would be Stan. He not only stood beside Mr. Violet…

…as evidenced by this picture at age six with my wedding gown Barbie.

I’ve been scanning pictures for our slideshow and it’s brought back a flood of childhood memories. Poring over my family’s old photo albums has actually been one of my favorite parts of wedding planning. It’s so much fun reliving my childhood!

Perhaps one of the most special parts of our wedding was our slideshow. I used ProShow Gold which I downloaded for $69.95. I figure, it’s cheaper than paying someone to do it and I can use it again for vacations, my nephew, anniversaries and other life events. It’s a great program and very easy to use. Everyone at the wedding raved about the slideshow. (Probably…