Rejected Wedding Ideas

Construction themed wedding

First Baptist Sanger is currently under renovation. More precisely, they are building a new multi-purpose building, and thus the parking lot looks like a construction zone because...well... it is.

So, Brandon had the bright idea to have a construction themed wedding to go with the construction that was going on. (Don't worry, the construction will all be done well before the actual wedding).

The Construction Theme would entail:

• Color theme of orange and yellow
• Yellow hard-hats for the wedding party
• Decorations of caution tape
• Orange road cones for the candle holders
• Pastor uses a megaphone for the ceremony

The bride's response: VETO

Idea: Smoke and lights full production

To gain some perspective on this one, it should be stated that one of Brandon's many talents is sound engineering and running sound and lights for various productions. He has been doing this for over ten years. Add to that the fact that First Baptist Sanger puts on a very elaborate and well executed Christmas production every year. The lights, sound board, and infrastructure is all in place. All that would be needed was a script.

The full production would entail:

• Groom and attendants emerge at the beginning through the smoke of a smoke machine to the music of 2001: The Space Odyssey
• The lights dim, and then with pyrotechnic brilliance, the bride enters to the music of The Flight of the Valkyrie using a stage-issue zip-line.
• The pastor conducts the ceremony in the voice of Morgan Freeman.
• The pronouncement and kiss are backed by Carl Orff's Carmina Burana finale performed by live musicians.
• The couple is picked up by a sleek, shiny black limo-helicopter
• The guests all get pop-corn and fountain drinks during the performance.

The brides response: VETO

Idea: Wedding: The Musical

A little less over-the-top than the previous concept, this one would again utilize the amazing talent and infrastructure of First Baptist Sanger. The music director there is absolutely brilliant at all things musically related. As such, the entire wedding would be choreographed and put to music with elaborate costumes for the participants.

This theme would entail:

• Everyone wears stage make-up
• All traditional spoken parts are sung
• Random full-chorus song and dance numbers occur throughout
• A brief intermission would occur before the final scenes
• The vows are done as moving solos
• Big final reprise for the recessional
• Big cast party afterwords (a.k.a. the reception)

The bride's response: VETO

Idea: Betazoid wedding

All the Star Trek fans out there should know what a Betazoid wedding is like. Needless to say, this idea was very short lived, and really not that practical nor really that good of an idea. In fact, this was just a bad idea for countless reasons besides the fact that everyone would be uncomfortable, and not to mention that the wedding is going to be at a Baptist church. Enough said.

The groom's and bride's response: VETO

Idea: Digital wedding

This one has a lot of practicality, but alas is not very romantic, nor traditional. However, as both the bride and groom are very skilled in technology, it could work.

This theme would entail:

• The entire wedding is web-casted live on www.brandonandcheryl.com
• The actual ceremony takes place in an IBM server room
• The entire ceremony is spoken in UTF-8 binary (Pastor: "0100010101100010101...")
• Couple registers only at www.thinkgeek.com and www.tigerdirect.com
• The honeymoon is just the Virtual Reality games at Dave and Buster's

The bride's response: VETO

 

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