High(er) Resolution Wedding Slide Show
Posted on October 24, 2007
I just stumbled upon stage6 and decided I’d finally upload a better quality version of the wedding slide show like I promised months ago. The experience has been good thus far except the site forces you to donvert to divx before doing an upload. Since I didn’t have anything to do that with it took me a bit longer than I had hoped but worth it in the end.
[Stage6 is no more, so this Stage6-hosted video cannot be displayed.]
Our Wedding Video
Posted on October 18, 2007
This is the video taken during the wedding by Bryan. Some parts are a bit shaky but you get what you pay for.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7774850876999663582Marry Me
Posted on October 6, 2007
According to the New York Times there’s a new trend going on in the world of proposals. People are paying lots of cash to have photographers disguise themselves in order for them to capture the moment. Normally this is a very private and very special occasion however people are beginning to publish everything about their life on the Internet and what’s the sense of leaving out the most romantic part of your life? To that end I’ve decided to share our story for everyone to read.
Our engagement story is both romantic and spontaneous. Maybe that’s the same thing? I had the ring in my possession for months in advance just waiting for the right time to ask. In October of 2005 we found out that our good friend Charles was living in London and he offered us a place to stay. We looked into flights and since it was past high-travel season the flights were dirt cheap. We were able to fly direct to London from jersey for under $300 a piece. After talking with Charles we found out that London would be celebrating Guy Fawkes day in 3 weeks and we made our plans to start our vacation that weekend.
At that time I had still not decided whether to use this opportunity to reveal my intentions or not. In fact until 5 minutes before walking out the door for the airport I still hadn’t made up my mind. At the time I knew of no truly romantic places in London. However, as many of you know, just before leaving the house I did decide to take the ring with me.
Once there, and after talking with Charles I decided that the top of the London Eye would be the perfect place. It took some effort, but I convinced Rachel to wait until the last day of our trip to ride it. This was so we could end our trip with the best part of all (providing she said yes).
When we were finally at the top I asked a gentleman who was in the capsule with us to take our picture, much to Rachel’s dismay. She couldn’t understand why I would want a picture of us at the top when we wouldn’t even be able to tell and she asked:
Why don’t we get some shots of the beautiful scenery?
Then, while she was posing for the picture, I bent down on my knee and she began to ask “he’s taking our picture, why are you tying your sho….ohhhhhH!”
Will you marry me?
and we all know her answer.
In the beginning the only plan I had was to ask a stranger to take our picture at a romantic place and pop the question while he did. I think it turned out beautifully and the spontaneity just added to the romantic feel of the moment. What does this mean? That I’m 2 years ahead of The New York Times.
Thank you Everyone!
Posted on September 17, 2007
One and a half years of planning, four months of frenzy, a one day celebration and 2 weeks of relaxation… We did it!
Life as a married couple has been good to us so far. We’d just like to say a final thanks to everyone who made our wedding the most beautiful and blissful day a couple could wish for. Not to mention all the fun we had! We couldn’t ask for a better start to a long happy life together.
Special thanks go out to:
The Parents, without your love and support we wouldn’t have been able to do it at all
The Bridal Party Consisting of:
- Lisa Jordan - Maid of Honor
- Anthony Ventura - Best Man
- Lisa Day
- Miriam Cortez
- Tess Hey
- Jennifer Lehr
- Brian Wilson
- Charles Rich
- Michael Heath
- George Heath Jr
Claire Masten for her touching reading from 1st Corinthians
Elizabeth Fino-Radin from The Starry Strings Quartet for the beautiful violin
Annette Dragon for all the beautiful photography
Whirlin’ Disc DJ for getting everyone on the dance floor
Mike from The Burgundy Basin for making sure everything went smoothly
Phaedra Andalora from Liberty Travel for putting together our Honeymoon
Wedding Photography
Posted on September 17, 2007
The photos from our wedding have been available for a while now but we completely forgot to let everyone know!
It’s not the best of, or even completely in order but they’re all there so feel free to take any that you’d like! Our Photographer Annette Dragon did a wonderful job.