Surprise! We got married!

Don't worry if you didn't hear about it beforehand, because it was a surprise that we pulled off during our college graduation party. Only the bride, the groom, and the judge knew about the marriage (or even the engagement) even twenty minutes beforehand. It's kind of like eloping, but we did it in front of everyone.

We got all the people into the same room by having a slide show about our lives. One of the last slides of the show announced our engagement and invited all in the room to attend our wedding, which was met with applause. ("Awwwww....") The last slide said "The wedding will be starting in a few minutes", which was met with nervous laughter and a few people saying "Huh!?". They then turned around to see Emily and the judge standing in the back of the room. See it for yourself in the video, pictures, and text below.

Experience It

• Text

  A friend blogged the event. He does an excellent job describing the whole event. I encourage you to read it.

• Photos

  Photo Gallery

• Video

  Some of my friends had video cameras, and I had them bring them over. They were a little confused why I wanted so many video cameras at a graduation, but they figured it out eventually. I edited down about four hours of video, and I hear I did a good job. Two versions of the video:

  • Abridged Graduation (And A Wedding)

    16 minutes [Download 84 MB] [YouTube Pt. 1] [YouTube Pt. 2]

  • A Graduation (And A Wedding)

    82 minutes [Download 178 MB]
  If your browser has a hard time downloading it, right click on the video and select "Save Target As" or something similar. The videos are in standard MPEG 4 format, so they should play on just about anything recent.

• DVD

  The DVD is available! It should be playable on any DVD player. To be sent one via regular post, send Seth an email with your name and address.