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June 30, 2007

Borrowed and Blue

By Jennifer Baumann

Cinderella got to have glass slippers, horses, and a grand ball to which the whole kingdom was invited. Princess Diana got a crown and scepter and world-wide syndication. How does the image of what you've envisioned for your dream day match up to your check book balance?

Unless you have extremely wealthy and generous parents, think about the debt you can incur planning your dream day. You could be $25,000 or $50,000 in wedding debt before you even leave for your honeymoon. Is it worth all that? Or would it be better to have a smaller affair and spend that extra dough on something else - like a down payment on a house?

Last summer, my family witnessed a wonderful, unusual beachfront wedding at our condo on Panama City Beach, Florida with a balcony that faces the ocean. While relaxing on the balcony near dusk, we noticed two sunburned men in tuxedo shirts and white Bermuda shorts dragging a plastic rose-laden trellis down toward the ocean. Stopping 10 feet before the water, they tilted the flowery rental piece upward until it was vertical and shoved it in the ground, digging the latticework into the sand with their bare feet.

Two minutes later, a bottle blonde in a white vinyl minidress hauled out a boom box and placed it next to the trellis. Next, a man who appeared to be the father of the bride, (also Bermuda-clad, with a boutonniere) dragged a blanket printed with "Holiday Inn" down to the trellis and spread it out in front. Next, three kids and five adults came and sat on the blanket, two disposable cameras in tow. The woman in vinyl pushed "Play" on the boom box with the bare big tow of her left foot, and "Here Comes the Bride" warbled out the speakers, with extra bass.

Miss Vinyl then ran back to the rec room of the condo, where she quickly reappeared holding the hand of her loved one. A minister in a flowery Hawaiian shirt followed them. They step-touched their way to the lattice, which blew over in a big ocean breeze - but the father of the bride and best man saved it before it smacked the kids in the face. They shoved it back into the sand.

Those two got married that evening, at sunset, facing the waves and everyone who was important to them on a blanket. If we squinted our eyes, we could see the word "MONICA" tattooed on the groom's calf with a pierced heart underneath it. They kissed passionately. Then they invited everyone on the beach back to the rec room, where there was cake from Piggly Wiggly and margaritas waiting on the pool table.

My point? Yes, your wedding day is a big deal. But it's only the first day of a long, hilarious, hard, exciting journey. Your can still have a wildly romantic wedding and a wonderful party for all your friends and family without breaking your savings - or, even worse, going into debt. When matching your Dream Wedding with your Reality Balance Statement, think outside the box.

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The Electric Slide ... It's Safe Now :  )

Did you know that the guy who invented the Electric Slide was suing folks under the DMCA for, among other things, doing it wrong? Good news today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which reports that Mr. Richard Silver has come to an agreement under which he will stop asking people to take down noncommercial videos of the dance (or dance attempts, as you will). He will, in fact, be licensing the dance under a Creative Commons license, making it freely available for all noncommercial use. Your wedding-dance plans, in other words, are once again safe and legal.

But wait a minute. That's all well and good, and I hope that anyone doing the Electric Slide at a festive occasion will take a moment to think good thoughts in Mr. Silver's direction -- not required under the term of the license, mind you, but one good turn deserves another. But what about this business of People Doing It Wrong? Some cheery lunatic at the EFF has whipped up a demonstration of sorts (I'm guessing that's a limited-time display, so check it out now), but how are we going to clear up this accuracy issue? Oh, wait -- here's the man to show us how. Spidey and a Transformer are also present on that page to demonstrate, leaving everybody in the universe but me with no excuse not to do the dance properly. Go.

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