The Wedding Trailer

One thing Hilary and I have tried to do so far in planning this wedding is try to do things the way we want, even if it flies in the face of CWW (Conventional Wedding Wisdom). For those that know my father, you know he instilled in me a healthy skepticism of tradition; just because something is done a certain way doesn't mean it must be so.

It doesn't mean we are reinventing the wheel here - we're not parachuting into the ceremony or Superman-ing a ho during our first dance - we just want (like most couples) to make our event our own.

One thing we wanted to do was an email Save the Date (Note - we realize we are not the first to do this. Our friends Joey and Jenn did one as well, which we want to make sure to mention. To the best of our knowledge, they are the first to ever think to do this and should be credited as such. And we bring this up only because we want to, not because they reminded us repeatedly that they did it first).

The best part about doing an email was it allowed us to do something new - a movie trailer. Our friend Matt did a couple of these for his wedding back in November, and we thought they were hilarious. His company, Blue Blanket Productions, specializes in doing just this kind of thing (shameless plug - he also does trailers for bar mitzvahs, birthday parties, whatever you need!), and we thought it'd be a fun thing to add into the mix.

Hilary and I are thrilled with the way the trailer turned out, which is great, because our creative insights for the project didn't exactly mesh going in. If our feelings about it were a relationship health book, it's be entitled "Men Are From Mars Where They Understand Comedy, And Women Are From Venus Where Nothing Is Funny, With The Possible Exception Of The 1980's Film Girls Just Want To Have Fun".

Eventually we compromised my artistic vision, and to Hilary's credit, the final product is a happy medium of both of our styles. We hope you agree!

-- The Wedding Trailer
-- Blue Blanket Productions