Theme Song: "I Want Your Love" - Jody Watley
"YOU GOT ENGAGED?! FOR REAL'S? OH MY GOD, I'M SOOO HAPPY FOR YOU!" This response has never flown so easily or so FREQUENTLY from my mouth. I swear, in the last 6 months, at least 4 of my closest friends have gotten engaged. And I'm more than happy to be apart of all their weddings. You know me--any excuse to wear taffeta! ;-D Although personally I've NEVER wanted to marry young (if at all), I'm starting to ask myself, "Am I missing out?" I decided very early in life that I was gonna put my schooling and career first, but that was in order to make getting married and starting a family less of a hassle. As Mr. Billy Dee Williams said in Mahogany, "Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with." True, true. And all my rational fears have been compounded by my summer job of choice... a wedding videographer.
What's it like working in the wonderfully chaotic world of weddings, you ask? Two words: HEC-TIC! Better yet, how about 2 more? BITCH-SLAP! Which is what I'm gonna do to somebody if I hear Pachelbel's Canon ONE MORE TIME! RRRRrrr. Most of my time in the churches, community centers, and cathedrals has been spent taking mental notes of good ideas and gagging at others. The ceremonies are typically very standardized and boring, but at the receptions, those people go BuckWiLD!! That reminds me, add ONE more song to the shit list: Cha-Cha Slide--I've heard that one at least twice at EVERY single frickin' reception! *grabs hair*
Click Here to watch a sample of one of my 1st wedding DVDs!
One of the most difficult things about filming weddings is "collaborating" with other Starr Productions workers, mainly Sheila and Sean, the still photographers. I guess sometimes they forget that they're both 8 feet tall and just randomly walk in front of my camcorder. DUCK, dammit! Oh well, it's just more post-production editing for me to do. And yet Sheila gets EXTREMELY testy during the photo shoots, preventing all the wedding guests from taking pictures, even with their rinky-dink disposable cameras. She practically cursed out this 7-year-old boy for taking a few photos... honestly, are you afraid he's gonna sell 'em on the black market or somethin'? Chill, he's just a kid. To make matters even more upsetting, I also have to deal with wedding planners, male and female, hittin' on me at the reception... must be the free flow of alcohol. *cringe* UnClean!
Click Here to watch Britney & Madonna's VMA performance and to see that wedding cake replica I'm about to talk about!
Whew, all this talk of other people's weddings has got me thinking about my own nuptials someday. Since I sure as hell don't heart NY, I'd probably book a banquet hall on the West Coast or somewhere in the vast wilderness of New Zealand, Australia. In terms of wedding songs, I've always been partial to I Just Wanna Be Your Everything by Andy Gibb. It'd be AWESOME to have a 50-foot tall, tiered plastic wedding cake so the two of us could base-jump off the top, deploy the parachutes, and land at the podium. At the podium, I'd love to have my own little "wedding posse" of my favorite peeps since we wouldn't have "bridesmaids" exactly, and last time I checked, Jai was licensed to marry couples, so that would be sweet. BUT... when all is said and done, I don't actually plan on getting married until I'm 35 years old (unless I'm financially SET before then) at the earliest.
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