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Charles Barton (Airbarton)
Member
Username: Airbarton
Post Number: 376
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 8:25 am: | |
Congrats and good luck Chris! |
Bill Sawyer (Wsawyer)
Member
Username: Wsawyer
Post Number: 742
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 2:00 pm: | |
Congratulations Chris! That's a great story. I've been married 16 years and it was the best decision I ever made. |
Tyler (Bahiaau)
Member
Username: Bahiaau
Post Number: 655
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 1:40 pm: | |
Chris, that's fantastic! Congrats! |
Brian C Thenhaus (1day)
New member
Username: 1day
Post Number: 26
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 11:57 am: | |
Congrats and best wishes! |
DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member
Username: Sickspeed
Post Number: 3141
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 11:33 am: | |
Chris, congratulations, that's so awesome...! That's a really cool and unique way to propose, too, i'm not surprised she was shocked... You sound like a real class act... Congratulations, i hope the fairy tale never ends... When's the wedding...? |
Taek-Ho Kwon (Stickanddice)
Junior Member
Username: Stickanddice
Post Number: 228
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 11:25 am: | |
Congratulations!
I know the feeling well, being married just under a year. I wish you the best! |
Jim Schad (Jim_schad)
Member
Username: Jim_schad
Post Number: 931
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 11:18 am: | |
congrats! so you both were wearing bras and corsets? interesting.... |
chris cummings (Entelechy)
Junior Member
Username: Entelechy
Post Number: 180
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 10:46 am: | |
Hi Everyone,
Just days ago, months of planning finally came together, and Heather (my girlfriend of a the last year-and-a-half) and I became engaged. For months I'd been planning to propose to Heather during the most romantic scene in our film. In the scene, Ewan McGregor's character has planted 10,000 daffodils outside the home of his beloved (her favorite flower). I arranged with casting for Heather and I to be extras in the scene (complete with 50's attire and hairstyles). Poor Heather had been waiting for her scene since 5:00am in an uncomfortable corset, bra, shoes, and an itchy dress. Twelve hours later, just before wrap, with the sun setting in the background, Tim Burton and the A.D.'s cleared a small path in the flowers right in front of the camera. They picked Heather out of the crowd and brought her front and center down the path. She thought other extras were behind her and suddenly the AD's yelled rolling, and Tim yelled "action". Heather started looking around for what she was supposed to be watching, when I snuck in from the side. She turned to see me down on one knee and the look on her face was priceless. I told her I had been waiting for her all my life and now my life was complete, I love her beyond words, and would she marry me? She was literally stunned with shock, but managed to get out an excited "yes!" The whole crew burst into applause and came up to congratulate us, while the AD's announced to everyone in the background what just happened. Many both on and off the set were moved to tears and the whole thing was very touching.
Tim's assistant, Derek, did a wonderful job getting the whole thing on video. They also filmed the "scene" for real and will be getting a copy to us soon. All in all the whole thing couldn't have been more magic, or gone better. Heather loves the ring and I was able to breathe a huge sigh of relief!
If you're interested in seeing the Quicktime video, the download should only take a minute or two on a cable modem; let the whole video download on the gray bar before playing for best viewing.
~Chris
http://homepage.mac.com/heather.email/Proposal/iMovieTheater14.html
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