Proclaim your love for each other with a short film that captures the essence of your love with style and humor… Your guests will take pleasure in your wedding tale played on a large screen display... and besides it’s a great way to start your wedding reception. These masterfully produced short films are far more then you can imagine, and it's all about you... So be a Star... Shine Bright... and have FUN doing it!

Bride: Kristine M. B.

Wedding: September 26, 2008

Mark and I met in 2002 doing a production of the musical "Anything Goes" together. At the time we were both in other relationships. The only conversation between us would occur when I was working on homework (as I was a sophomore in college at the time) and when he would be sitting in the back corner of the theatre reading. I was shocked that he was reading just for fun! At the closing of the show we went our separate ways in separate relationships and thought nothing of it. Little did I know that our paths would ever cross again. Four years later I got a phone call from a director friend. He needed a girl to play the role of Chava in his production of Fiddler on the Roof. It worked out perfectly, as I had just decided that very day to turn down a job out in Virginia performing at Busch Gardens. I had a feeling it wasn't the right move, but I wasn't sure why. It was the next week or so when I was on my way to the first rehearsal, and I drove up and down Palatine road looking for this place. I must have pulled into five church parking lots. So finally I decided to call the director, Dan's phone as I was already twenty minutes late. The voice on the phone answers "Dan's phone, this is Mark." And I said, "Hi Mark, this is Kristine Burdi. I am supposed to be attending rehearsal today...." And he cut me off before I could even finish my sentence. He said, "Do you remember me?? We were in Anything Goes together." I of course remembered him and we chatted it up until he directed me to the rehearsal space. When I finally arrived he was standing there in the parking lot waiting for me. It was really bizarre, because we hadn't spoken in four years. As I parked my car, he opened my door for me and he hugged me hello. I really knew at that very moment that he was going to be special. We went into the rehearsal together and as we spoke, I learned that Mark would be paired as my romantic opposite with me in the show. He flirted with me, but in my eyes (he will tell you something different) he was flirting with all the girls. But I could tell that he liked me. I knew it. I think at the end of the second rehearsal, he asked me for my phone number. He made up some excuse that it was so that he could let me know about some show that everyone was going to see together two of three weeks from then. I continued to My Space stalk him. I found out that he was single and the kinds of things he was into. I would think about him all the time, wishing that he would just call me. But I thought that would never happen because who just calls someone they don't really know that well. And then my phone rang. At the time, I was living with my mom. And as soon as I found out it was him, I ran up to my room like I would when I was in high school. He invited me out for appetizers and drinks at the Khalkidhiki (a Hawaiian themed bar/lounge) where some of his friends were meeting up. We had a great time! We talked for hours on our way because he got lost. Apparently I was distracting. We opened up to each other right away. We talked about our pasts, our present and future. We were extremely honest with each other. But we were definitely on the same page. And from that point on wee were inseparable. On our second date we had plans to go to our favorite gay bar in the city with some of my friends for musical theatre Monday. On our way there as we were talking in the car, we decided we wanted to be exclusive. November was when things got really difficult. My best friend Carrie and I had made plans to move to Orlando Florida and work for Walt Disney World. We had decided this long before Mark and I even reacquainted and I wasn't going to back out of it. It was something I had my heart set on. So we moved there and it was truly the hardest three months of my life. Mark came and visited and we would talk on the phone all day. We missed each other so much. I decided in the beginning of December that even though I couldn't really afford it, I was going home for Christmas. I couldn't think of being anyplace else
or with anyone else. I guess if I hadn't I would have gotten my dream of being proposed to in front of the castle at the Magic Kingdom. But instead, I got the best surprise in my life. The night before Christmas Eve, we went out for a nice dinner to our favorite restaurant, Wildfire. We love it there. We sat in our favorite booth near the bar and the night seemed nothing out of the ordinary. Mark had brought in my Christmas present. He said he wanted me to open it that night because it wasn't family appropriate. I'm thinking hmmmm.....So as I am opening this box I unwrap a blue tee-shirt. The way it was folded, I could only see that he had my name printed onto this shirt. I unfold the shirt and it reads, "Kristine, will you marry me?" And before I knew what was happening, he had swept me out of the booth and was on one knee in front of the entire restaurant. Some how I said yes, I was crying and shaking. And I think from there we live happily ever after. I moved home from Florida a month later and Carrie and I got an apartment with my other best friend Jackie. I now live 30 minutes from Mark and we are so excited to be planning our wedding!!

Bride: Alesha L. A.

Wedding: August 23, 2008

My husband to be and I met on the internet site www.Blackplanet.com. He sent me a note there telling me about himself and was very thorough and respectful. A week later we went on our first date to a bowling alley. We didn't get to bowl, but we bonded over drinks in the bar area. We continued to date for a few more weeks and made our relationship official on January 20th

 From there we spent every weekend together, went to weddings, funerals, and after about 9 months decided we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. He proposed to me using a toy pyramid that he bought from the Field Museum. He put the ring inside of it and showed me that he finished the building the pyramid. I look inside and there was the box. He got down on his knee in the car, which was very entertaining, and asked me to marry him. I said yes and the rest is history.

Bride: Samantha L.

Wedding: July 3, 2008

Ron from Chicago and Sam from New Jersey met on the Sovereign of the Seas cruise ship in August of 2006. I was attending the wedding of a friend in the Bahamas when on the last night of the four day cruise I met Ron, which has changed my life forever. We stayed out all night walking the boat attempting to catch up on everything that we have missed in each of our lives. i was the first person that he noticed on the boat and prayed that he would get the opportunity to say something to me. Well he got his wish. We departed the ship reluctantly and haven't missed a day of talking since. Immediately we began earning frequent flyer miles traveling back and forth as we began planning our life together. In February of 2007 Ron surprised me and planned what I thought was a birthday get together for me and some of my friends. They kept the secret that he was coming, and I would never have guessed since I had just left Chicago the week before for my birthday celebration. What they didn't know was that he had planned the perfect proposal. Each of my friends husbands took the time to introduce their wife and when it came to Ron, he thanked them for getting me there and planning the surprise, and followed up with "And my name is Ronald Wright and I would like to ask Samantha if she would become Mrs. Wright." Well I couldn't believe my ears and eyes. He had the most beautiful ring in his hands and I was over whelmed with joy. It's now June of 2007 and I am moving on the 7th of July. I can't wait!!!
We have chosen the weekend of the fourth of July because that would allow for our families to relax and celebrate at the same time. We're hoping that after the Thursday night wedding, people would enjoy the Navy pier on the 4th and the Taste of Chicago for the other days.
I hope that you find our love story worthy of a Love story video.

Bride: Emily W.

Wedding: June 2008

I would never have met the love of my life if it weren't for a pair of mittens. That's right, a seemingly insignificant pair of suede brown mittens that are soft but smell of too many Chicago winters. When I was in my senior year of college I got a ride home from a concert by a very sweet and shy guy. The next day I thought nothing of it and never even realized I left my mittens behind in the man's car.
A year passes.
I'm at another small local rock show when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around to face a tall stranger I slightly remember. He told me my mittens were lonely and informed me he had thrown them in the trunk of his car. He reunited me with my mittens! I thought any man this thoughtful is worth a chance.
Four years later he proposed in St. James Park in London in front of a crowd of geese and swans.
He is the funniest and sweetest man I have ever met and I'm humbled to spend the rest of my life with him.
And in case you were curious, . . .we still have the mittens.

Bride: BreeAnna T.

Wedding: March 15, 2008

I met Keith Stegall in July of 2001 at Camp Hope in Ewing, Il. We hung out for a week and went to the week end banquet together. We then wrote back and forth for a few months and stopped. In August of 2006, we met up again at the Free Will Baptist Bible College in Nashville TN. We instantly became the best of friends. By September, it had become more than friends and on September 9th, he kissed me for the first time and we began dating. A few short months later on January 26th as we were headed to my house to see my sick grandfather, he pulled off the road to go to supposedly use the restroom. However, he continued to drive. He drove to Camp Hope (where we originally met) and took me out to the bonfire (which is my favorite place) and had me sit on a log and got down on one knee and proposed to me! Now we have a date set for March 15,2008!

Bride: Veronica  P.

Wedding: June 22, 2007

Jason & I have been in love for the last 10 years. We met at my first job when I was 17 years old and he was 18yrs old. He really is the best person I have ever met. There is nothing perfect about either one of us however we really are a great fit for each other.

We compliment each others strengths and laugh off our weaknesses. We are total opposites yet often the same. We make each other laugh all the time. I love that we can do nothing with each other and still end up having a great time. What I love is how great he is with my sisters, the rest of my family, and our friends. He is so generous and treats them like his own family. I love his family as well. I can not tell you how excited I am to be his wife and start this new chapter in our lives. I know this sounds cliché but I always tell him how he truly is my best friend because he's the only person that I can not only vent about others with but I have no problem telling Jason when I am upset with him.

 There is definitely one reason that we have stayed together for this long and will be married for the rest of our lives. That reason is something our parents instilled in our lives, which is respect. Our relationship began with respect for each other.

He respects me as a woman since he was raised as a gentleman. We respect each other as equals and mostly we respect this relationship that we are in. Having respect in our relationship lead to friendship, communication, honesty, forgiveness, trust, and love.

Falling in love and staying in love was the easy part. Please choose us for this great prize because there is nothing more special to us then being able to tell everyone how we fell in love and how much we have stayed in love.

Bride: Christina K.

Wedding: June 16, 2007

Hmm.. Where to start. We were introduced by a teacher in high school our sophomore year. We talked every once in a while. I ran cross country on the girls team and he was the manager of the boys team, so we saw each other a lot. Our senior year he asked me to our homecoming. I kind of thought he was cute and considered dating him, so I figured prom would be a great time to maybe get to know each other better then at homecoming. SO I asked him to prom. He said NO!! I was heartbroken. I thought, well he probably didn't like me.

Flash-forward a couple years. I was in the 3rd year of college and we got in touch with each other. He came to visit me and we had a wonderful weekend, and no matter how many times he asked me out, I refused. I know doesn't seem like much of a love story. The next year, my 4th year in college he came to visit again. That was when we had our first kiss. We tried the dating thing, but he was in Chicago and I was in Bloomington. It just wasn't working. I came home that weekend and I broke it off, telling him the long distance thing isn't working. I felt bad, but I thought it was for the best. I even grew to not like him and annoyed whenever he called and what not. I once told him I hated him and never wanted to talk to him again.

Again, I know not much of a love story. I came to realize that while I was in college I wasn't ready for a real relationship. I graduated from college in 2004, after 5 years and 2 years of not talking to him. I knew I was lying to myself when I told him I hated him, etc.. I always wondered about him and my mom often asked about him. My response would be who cares!? Flash forward to January 2005, I got a phone call from him asking if I could come over to help him with his homework for a college class he was taking. I said sure, since I was helping in English, which is what my degree was in. That night I saw a different side of him and I knew that I would eventually date him. We would joke around, etc.. He made a good choice of never asking me out while I was helping him with his homework.

On Valentine’s Day I took him over to my best friends house so she could give me her opinion of him. She made dinner and we ate with her and her boyfriend and their daughter. We watched a movie and I made myself comfortable with him on the couch, trying to show him that I was interested. My friend pulled me aside and told me that I need to tell him how I feel, but at that time I wasn't sure how I felt, just that I thought it was a possibility and I was going to see where the road led us.

On February 17, I went to his house to help finalize his paper, well we decided to watch a movie afterwards. During the movie my best friend called. She asked to talk to John. I was a little puzzled, but oh well. After he got off the phone he kissed me. But this time it was different. I felt something and I knew that I wanted to date him. I later found out that my best friend told him to kiss me already, I've been waiting for him to make a move. I was mad, but also glad.

In June 2005 he told me he had to run somewhere. Afterwards he came and picked me up and I found out he went and bought my engagement ring. I was ecstatic. But he bought a little ring that would have to hold me over until the time was right to propose, sort of like a promise ring.

Four our 6 month anniversary he called me and told me to look in something that was Made in Mexico in my room. I was confused and I told him everything it probably made in Mexico or China in my room. But he hung up. I was mad. So I wandered around my room, being so confused. Then he called back and asked if I'd found it and I said no. He told me, "I’ll give you a hint, it's hanging on your wall." Then it dawned on me, the sombrero I bought back from Mexico. I looked behind it and there was a little box and I pulled it out and there was a ring in there with a note that said I love you! I called him back and kept saying thank you. I thought that was the engagement ring, but no that was just another ring/gift. I also later found out that the ring had been sitting in that hat since he bought it in June and it was August. My mom even knew. My mom keeps teasing me saying, it shows how often I clean!

In October he told me not to make any plans for October 13. He also told me to find something dressy to wear. Since I'd gained so much weight from medicine I was on, nothing fit. On October 13, he took me shopping to find a dress to wear. Of course I couldn't find anything to fit me. We finally found something to wear at Field's and had an hour to spare before we had to leave he said. He dropped me off I did my hair, etc.. He picked me up and he started heading downtown. Then we passed downtown. I finally realized where he was taking me. To a restaurant that I was in love with. We got there and I knew something was up. As we ate I kept thinking when's he going to ask?? I ran to the washroom and when I came back he was looking really nervous. Finally, he looked at me and said, "I love you and I don't know how to ask you this, but will you marry me?" But my first words weren't yes, they were "IS THAT WHITE GOLD!?!" All along he kept telling me he couldn't get the ring I wanted in white gold. I was bummed, but it was no biggie. All along he was lying. I later found out he had designed the ring and everything himself. I was so happy I was glowing.

I later found out also that he didn’t want to do it at the restaurant. He wanted to do it at the beach, but he realized that we were at the restaurant later then he planned.

The next day his car got rear ended. That kind of ended the "glowing" part. We plan on tying the know on June 16, 2007.

Bride: Tiffini W.

Wedding: May 27, 2007

LeVar and I grew up in the same neighborhood, but did not officially meet until February 27, 1999. We spent nearly every day together after that until the end of April, when I had to go on a school trip. We missed each other ridiculously while i was gone for 2 days, and that is when we knew our connection was real! On May 27, 1999, we began our exclusive relationship.

We decided early on that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, but we were too young to get married then. We wanted to get married on a Sunday, so on May 27, 2000 (our senior years of high school), we decided that we would get married on May 27, 2007. Since then, we have been to and through college, and are now into our first careers.

On Christmas Eve 2005, LeVar proposed to me and I said yes with no hesitation! We are getting married on May 27, 2007, and the day that seemed so far away is now approaching quite quickly. We are both looking forward to the day that we begin our lives together as husband and wife!

Bride: Heather B. D.

Wedding: May 5, 2007

Where do I begin it was love at first sight: February 5, 2005 Saturday the hour 1:00am Place: Parking Lot Estate ( Night Club). Do you believe in Fate or Cupid and Destiny. Well this is the story for you My 23rd birthday was approaching, but my heart had gotten broken from a previous lover from my pass he told me we couldn't be because he had started a family with another woman. So, my heart was crumbled in my hands I wanted to fold and give up on the possibilities of love and romance, a flame within me push me to get up out of bed put on the sexy outfit and celebrate my 23rd birthday. My sister and my girl came out we had an official ladies night the Whole night leading up to my arrival at estate I had a feeling I was going to meet someone special who's going to change my life. I dance the night away holding onto to this feeling, as the club let out I was in the parking lot and there he was standing there searching through his phone not aware of his surroundings so as I pass him my heart jumps and I yell out my number, and keep walking he looks up and I turn and see his face I glide over to him we exchange numbers but I ask for a hug, we hold each other for 5 minutes as though we knew each other. I was excited as a cheerleader so I immediately dial his number that same night throwing out the rules of when and where to catch a guy. We talked until 6:00am wanting to talk and talk until there was nothing left, to do, this Incredible Guy was heaven sent now naturally through the course of time our love has been tested with a lot of outside factors family trauma, women, men, and career changes. Through it all our love has stood the test of times we our patient as each day comes to grow stronger and stronger. Recently he casual propose to meet while he was visiting family in Texas he explain how we our destine and soul mates there is no other woman in this lifetime who could fill his void only a woman of my value can make him whole, he ask me to be his wife. I accepted with tears rolling down my cheek.

The date we set is his Birthday he said making me his wife is the greatest present he could receive. How will you know if the Love is true if its never tested. When we had stints of separation I could turn on a television his name would appear I could read or meet someone who had his name or initials the signs always pointed back to him chose us because love is what I found in his eyes cause he is my mate to my soul.

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