This was the AVP wedding presentation I made for my good friends Mark Casquero and Rose Bina who got married last sunday! It was a wonderful wedding and I was more than happy to be part of it and doing my share to make it more special.

What made it work as well as it did was the fact that they also made an album of songs they recorded where they played all the instruments and they along with some of their singer friends sang the vocals. I was left to match the music with the theme and the pictures they had available.

I also had the pre-nup pictures by Dave Fabros to cap of the presentation. The pictures were fantastic and I thought to be the best way to end the presentation.

Mark told me about the AVP a week before the wedding! And I had a business trip that week which makes it more difficult to find time to work on it. Fortunately it all worked out and I thought it could have been better but I think it came out great.

How I made this? Well... suprisingly Vista's new Movie Maker works fairly well. Thanks to YouTube, Paint.Net and all the other free services and tools, I didn't have to spend more to get any other software (and I didn't have to resort to piracy either).

UPDATE: The original video below abruptly stops at the 10min mark. Here is the complete presentation split between part 1 and part 2. If you've seen the video below, you only need to view part 2 which was the part that was cut.

Part 1: http://sqlocarinas.multiply.com/video/item/22
Part 2: http://sqlocarinas.multiply.com/video/item/23


Enjoy

I've seen the original in broadway but I was curious enough and enjoyed the show the first time that I had to see the local production!

One thing was evident... the quality of singing is a notch better than the original! Especially with Rachel as Kate. The puppetting could have been better since in the broadway original I hardly notice the real actors as I was focus on the puppets all the time. Here, I saw some lapses in puppetting... or maybe that's because i'm much closer to the stage this time :)

The production was comparable although I felt the broadway show was more "grand". The local production has made up for it with small changes in scenes and timing of lines.

The cast were great! Everyone was a step up on singing. Performance-wise, it is a split for me with some doing better than the original while the others not but definitely comparable. I definitely enjoyed it and for those who haven't seen it yet... you still have a chance! Don't miss it!

They've posted these samplers of Rachel Alejandro singing. These are not from the show itself since recording is obviously not allowed inside.

Rachel as Kate Monster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjrFVEs6Yi8

Rachel as Lucy the Slut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v97PmRL2Sxs&feature=user