Thursday, October 09, 2008

Images & more from Chris & Tia's wedding

In my last blog post, I wrote about how honored I was to be performing at Chris & Tia's wedding last Saturday. I wrote about how I wasn't just making announcements for five hours...I helped them and their families create a lifetime of memories.



Documenting the memories were Kim & Nate from Aihara Visuals, and they have teaser pics up on their blog. Check it out!

This is one of my favorites:



Tia, Chris, and their guests are surely having a lot of fun, aren't they?

Here's another one:



You may be wondering why there is a picture of a Heineken bottle instead of a table number. It was one of the fun ways we personalized Chris & Tia's wedding and how we got the guests involved during dinner.

Those who know Chris & Tia know that they are very social drinkers and connoisseurs of beers and spirits, and they and their friends are very knowledgeable about drinks. So instead of the banquet captain traditionally releasing their tables to the buffet, we played a game! Each table was named after one of Chris & Tia's favorite beers or spirits, and throughout the evening, I would read trivia about these drinks. Guests would guess which spirit or drink I was speaking of, and when they guessed correctly, the table named after the spirit would go next to the buffet. Instead of guests simply sitting bored at their tables, guests got into the fun by yelling out the answers and encouraging the correct tables to go to the buffet! And for those guests who were not drinkers, it helped them to understand one of Chris & Tia's major passions.

Tables were named after the following spirits and were released in random order unless otherwise noted:
  • Dirty Skyy Vodka Martini - Chappell/Waits Family Table, first to be released
  • Jameson Whiskey - Sablan/Hayami Family Table, second to be released
  • Newcastle English brown ale
  • Bass English pale ale
  • Guiness Irish dry stout (mmmm...Guinness...yum)
  • Red Stripe Jamaican lager beer
  • Boddingtons English bitter, "the Cream of Manchester"
  • Heineken Dutch pale lager
  • Pabst Blue Ribbon American beer
  • Spicy Bloody Mary
  • Bushmill Irish Whiskey


Here's how Chris & Tia's final timeline looked like:

Sequence

Time

Event

0

4:30pm

Wedding Ceremony in the Maile Gardens

1

5:30pm

Doors to the Waikiki Ballroom open to the Guests; Cocktail Hour; Receiving Line

2

6:30pm

Welcoming of Guests, Grand Entrance, Greetings & Welcome by the Newlyweds

3

 

Announcements (e.g., parking validations, restrooms, etc.); Invocation/Blessing of the Meal by Chris’ uncle TIM

4

 

Meal (Favorite Beers Table Release; Kissing Games)

5

7:30pm

Recognition of Family & Out-Of-Town Guests

6

 

Cake Cutting

 7

 

Toasts & Speeches by Maid of Honor MYLA; Best Man DAMON; Chris’ father GEORGE; Chris’ stepfather WAYNE

8

 

Bouquet & Garter Activities (Bouquet Surprise; Traditional Bouquet Toss; Traditional Garter Removal & Toss; Reverse Garter)

9

 

Centerpiece Giveaway (Hot Centerpiece Time)

10

 

Video Slideshow, presented by NORTH SHORE VIDEO PRODUCTIONS

11

 

Mother/Son Dance (Chris dances with his mother TERRI) (No Father/Daughter Dance)

12

 

“Father/Daughter” Dance (Chris dances with Tia’s daughter ABIGAIL)

13

 

First Dance, into Money Dance

14

 

Open Dancing

15

 

Grand Finale



And here is Chris & Tia's final reception soundtrack:

  1. Kool & The Gang - Celebration (Bridal Party Grand Entrance edit)
  2. KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight (Chris & Tia's Entrance edit)
  3. Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife (cake-cutting)
  4. Natasha Beddingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine (Maid of Honor toast intro edit)
  5. Bob Marley - Jammin (Best Man toast intro edit)
  6. AHA - Take On Me (instrumental - women to floor for bouquet)
  7. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (bouquet catch edit)
  8. Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle (instrumental - men to floor for garter)
  9. Herb Alpert - Love Potion #9 (Garter Removal & Toss)
  10. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (Reverse Garter)
  11. Shrek soundtrack - I'm A Believer Reprise (RGarter Reveal)
  12. Vengaboys - We Like To Party (Centerpiece Game)
  13. Kenny Rogers - Through the Years (Mother/Son Dance edit)
  14. Temptations - My Girl (Father/Daughter Dance edit)
  15. Jimmy Cliff - Rebel In Me (First Dance)
  16. Spandau Ballet - True (Money Dance)
  17. Percy Sledge - I'll Be Your Everything (Special Dedication to Rachell & Shawn)
  18. Semisonic - Closing Time (Last Dance)


Special thanks again to Kim & Nate from Aihara Visuals, as well as Les from North Shore Video Productions, for documenting Chris & Tia's story. They are all awesome people to work with! Mahalo to the catering and banquet staffs at the Hale Koa Hotel for being so super, too!

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