By OpalCat

tags: fun, humor, ija, romance, story, video, wedding

NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS PASSED. THIS ARTICLE IS HERE FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES ONLY.

I’m putting together a video that will be played at our wedding (May 24, 2009), and one of the things I want to have is a bunch of people telling stories of how they “allegedly” heard we met. We want these to be as wacky as possible, and I know that my friends are a creative bunch. The format would be along the lines of these:

“I heard Dan and Katherine met…”
“Oh, Dan and Katherine? I heard that they met…”
“The story I heard was, that…”

For reference, the real way we met was in an acrobatics workshop at a juggling convention we were both attending in Buffalo, NY in July 2004… as meeting people goes it’s a decent enough story in its own right. What we’re hoping to collect is stuff like “I heard they were the only two survivors of a plane crash over the ocean, and the Navy found them huddled together on an iceberg 3 days later…”

We want as many as possible, and they can be elaborate and full of details or short and simple. It can be one person looking at the camera, interview style, or multiple people adding to or arguing about the story (“I heard it was 2 blah blah…” “no, I heard it was 7! And they were purple…” “actually the way I heard it it was 12 and they were on fire…”) I only request that there be no profanity or stuff that would offend grandparents and stuff. Um… let me think. In case it’s relevant, at the time of the wedding I will be 37 and he will be 32.

Obviously the better the video quality, the better, so if you’ve got an actual video camera that would be ideal, but even the little video clips that you can take with a digital camera, webcam, or even a cell phone would be fine.

You can email me (opalcat at gmail) video files, upload things and send me links, post them on youtube and I can grab them from there, or you can send me a physical disc or something (I will happily cover postage) or any other way you can think of to get it to me.

And yes, I’ll definitely post the finished video so that everyone can see what we came up with! So, who’s in? (And no, you don’t need to know us! We don’t need to know you! Total strangers actually make it even funnier, as it takes on the whole aspect of “rumors gone wild” you know?)

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