Make your wedding dinner unboring!

July 14th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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Picture yourself at your cousin’s wedding dinner; was there anything that interested you besides the possibility of the food being good or the company of your relatives? Face it: you attend any wedding dinner you’re invited to not to be entertained. I’m not saying they’re always boring, but there are always the little things that they can do to bring it up a notch. Here are the steps to ensure that YOUR wedding dinner has a little more zest.

1. Get the photographer . Hiring a photographer may be more important than you think. If one of your good friends or relatives is suitable to do it for you, you can save a few bucks and worry less about privacy. The photographer should document everything: the start, the in-betweens, the finish. Everything. In fact, consider two video cameras wandering around, otherwise I recommend a second person to handle photography. You want to make sure no detail is left uncaught on camera.

2. Get them to interview guests . If the dude on the video camera is able, ask him to interview the people who are present at any of the wedding events. Your friends and family must have something or plenty to say about you, how proud they are, etc. Catch all words on tape; they wont be able to speak their minds in full during the brief moments they actually see you in person.

3. Get a techie to piece “Part One” . Edit the video of all events prior the dinner into a single video. It shouldn’t take too much effort as it will only be presented during the wedding dinner for your guests to watch. Also, get the techie to prepare an automatic photo slideshow accompanied by music.

4. Repeat step one and two during the dinner itself. Catch it all on tape, this would be “Part Two”.

5. Show “Part One” at the wedding dinner on a wide screen . Some of your guests should at least pay attention as there are people talking nice about you, instead of a video only showing what happened before the dinner. Then, show the prepared photo slideshow at the end while the conversations are thrown about.

6. Give the photographer the liberty to take as many good photos as possible . Photographic evidence of your friend’s presence will go a long way. Extra: remind the photographer to pay attention to the highlights of the event, not the guests as they watch.

7. Find a more personable emcee . Your guests will more likely pay attention if the host for the night is at least interesting himself. That would be better than just a waiter speaking out of cue cards behind the pillar. Again, a friend or relative would be preferable for this, otherwise you can try a local celebrity to spice things up.

8. Make the finishing video. Combine parts one and two into a single masterpiece for keeps.

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