I got my wedding DVD finally! Wanna see?

My wedding DVD finally got here (wedding was in May) and I have excerpted bits of it onto YouTube…

There were a few Dopers there, but if any of the rest of you are curious, here are some bits:

Ceremony - Includes what you’d expect (like me in a really poofy white dress!) but also: our Roomba as ringbearer, vows based on juggling as a metaphor for relationships, passing juggling clubs in lieu of a unity candle, and updating Facebook as part of the ceremony. Comedian/juggler Michael Rosman was our officiant.

Michael Rosman entertains - while we got our photos taken, our officiant did part of his act for the guests. (Note: all the “bumbling” is part of his act. He could do all of that flawlessly if he wanted to.) This also features our own Geobabe (she hands him the knives and is supposed to “catch” the bowling ball.)

First Dance - we picked “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel. I wish we could have practiced more but in the weeks leading up to the wedding I got 2nd degree burns over most of my right hand, which made just about everything really hard. (Plus I graduated from college the week before, so that added to my lack of time!) Overall though, I think we did ok. :slight_smile:

Juggling at the reception - Dan and I juggle, obviously, plus all of Dan’s family, our officiant, and several of the guests. We wanted to simulate what a juggling festival is like (since that’s how we met) so we had a sort of big chaotic juggle thing. Toward the end several of the guys played Combat, which is a juggling game where you juggle 3 clubs, and the last person still juggling wins. In the meantime, you do whatever you can short of hitting someone physically to make them drop. Oh, and at the end I juggle knives.

Bubble Wrap - we had a contest to see who could pop Bubble Wrap fastest. (The company that makes it donated the Bubble Wrap, by the way!)

Rock Band II - while the DJs took a short break, Dan’s brothers and their wives played a 3 song set on Rock Band II while Dan and I danced. We couldn’t get anyone to dance with us, though. Party poopers. :wink: This was actually uploaded from someone else’s camera, and it cuts off when someone in the band accidentally hit pause. I will probably put up a snip from this from the DVD when I get a little more time.

That’s all for now. I want to upload pics of some of the dancing, more from the Rock Band, the Groom/Best Man salsa dance (with another guy friend cutting in. Watching three guys salsa together is pretty fun), and maybe a few other things. I’ll post them here when I get those done.

Oh, other videos:

The obligatory “growing up” slideshow.

This is a video I made that showed before the ceremony; it’s about how we met and includes very fancy special effects.

Rock Band II

Groom/Best Man dance