Last week, we finally received the raw footage. That's the last piece of the package.
I also realized why they sliced and diced the music in our ceremony edit. It's because the entire audio track came from a mic attached to V. And V just couldn't resist singing certain parts of certain songs, so his voice was super loud in those parts. So they had to edit around it.
Speaking of which, I had fun listening to this audio track. It's basically an hour and half long recording from the moment they gave V the mic (about half an hour before the wedding) until they took it off. Highlights include:
- V asking the music director, "Hey are you going to set up the choir mics? WHAT? They were stolen?". And then afterwards, "It's kind of funny to be standing between a priest and a cop."
- His GM giving him tips on not messing up his vows; V responding that he was afraid he might say something like, "I, John Smith..."
- About 5 mins before the ceremony, "Alright. Time to get my married on."
Fun. I kind of wish I had recordings of my last few minutes before the wedding. ![]()

Re: The video saga is over
Love it!
That seems like such a neat thing to have.
We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
Oh... someone broke into our church the morning of the wedding and stole a somewhat expensive omnidirectional mic, and some of the wireless mics that the priests use. The equipment was about a year or two old. There were a couple of cops still doing their investigation before and even DURING the wedding.
Honestly. Who steals from a church??
I actually noticed the cops still hanging around after the wedding. I wondered what they were doing there... and then I thought, "Well... nice of them to drop by!" Haha, I was so oblivious.
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I kinda thought it was against everyones rules to steal from church. I also think it's funny that it was strange for cops to be at your wedding while mine was filled with them. We had several cops on duty show up at our wedding and they held up traffic it was hilarious!