Topic: Help two adorable hip thirty year olds win lots of money! (Read 12080 times)

squawk · « **on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:01 »

My sister and her boyfriend of six years are getting married this October! They are the dorkiest people in the world. I have a handful of rambly stories about how they make wedding planning very entertaining but I'll leave those out here.

Anyway, Crate and Barrel has this contest for couples who are getting married wherein the prize is $100,000 and weddings are expensive as fuck so this would definitely be helpful. My sister was debating entering or not but she asked me if I could get her lots of votes and I was like "sure! I know the internet!" and she was like "what does that mean" and i was like, "...things." She says they need 300 votes by the end of this month and over 1000 votes total.

We would definitely appreciate it if you voted for them, their entry is here: http://www.ultimateweddingcontest.com/entry/153425
Look how cute and interracial they are!
It takes like two seconds if you have a facebook account. That way you don't even have to register!

If you could also get yo friends to make a small number of clicks to help us out that would be awesome too~~~

Thanks friends.

jhocking · « **Reply #1 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:11 »

ah man I would really love to vote and help you guys out, but I don't want to give over my account to Crate and Barrel:

Quote

The Ultimate Wedding Contest is requesting permission to do the following:

   *
   Access my basic information
   Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone.
   *
   Send me email
   The Ultimate Wedding Contest may email me directly at [email protected] ·
   *
   Post to my Wall
   The Ultimate Wedding Contest may post status messages, notes, photos, and videos to my Wall

It's that last one that bothers me most. Sorry Wedding Contest, I value my friends too much to become the reason you're spamming them.

squawk · « **Reply #2 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:15 »

Fuckin facebook. Okay I just checked and you can still remove it completely after you do it, I know they use the facebook feature so that they don't get people cheating and having spammy ways of voting.

jhocking · « **Reply #3 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:17 »

Thanks for checking, as long as I can remove it after then I am totally down.

squawk · « **Reply #4 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:26 »

Yay! Thanks Joe Hocking.

sean · « **Reply #5 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:29 »

i cant figure out how to remove it, this blows. i dont want wedding people stalking me!

jhocking · « **Reply #6 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:30 »

On the top right click on Account and go to your Privacy Settings. It's pretty buried, and I'm not sure why removing an app is part of your privacy settings, but there it is.

sean · « **Reply #7 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:37 »

ugh there were settings set that i didnt know about in there what the fuck facebook. time to turn the app platform off, i guess.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #8 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 12:37 »

I have voted, because weddings are AWESOME (if they win will they invite us?)

squawk · « **Reply #9 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 13:00 »

It's in San Francisco on October 8. I'll ask.
But if not maybe you can just creep
Why is everyone asking me this lol

Barmymoo · « **Reply #10 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 13:22 »

Oh mannnnnn why'd they have to go have their wedding on a day I can't make it?! I mean that is just rude.

Alex C · « **Reply #11 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 13:52 »

That's nearly as rude as when my sister got married during the Starcraft II beta.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #12 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 14:02 »

Done.

Drill King · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 14:03 »

It's nearly as rude as my mom getting married on my 18th birthday in las vegas while I was left in rural nova scotia alone with alcohol. Now my parents celebrate my birthday sort of but mostly just their anniversary so birthday dinners I get to awkwardly sit while they make goo-goo eyes.

ps anna I voted, they're cute.

Katherine · « **Reply #14 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:48 »

They are a beautiful couple, I hope they win (and I voted to help make it happen.)

Lunchbox · « **Reply #15 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:50 »

Votedddd

scarred · « **Reply #16 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:53 »

Quote from: Alex C on 13 Mar 2011, 13:52

That's nearly as rude as when my sister got married during the Starcraft II beta.

This happened to one of my friends! He was kind of angry but I mean, weddings vs. video games. Can't really waffle that one.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #17 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:01 »

Yeah, weddings are kinda boring after all.

calenlass · « **Reply #18 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:05 »

I may have just stumbled upon a great theme for a wedding in a friend's facebook photo album.

scarred · « **Reply #19 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:07 »

calenlass · « **Reply #20 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:28 »

I am not sure how you would have a wedding themed "retarded", unless you just had lots of people with serious mental handicaps show up. Also you could probably do a nice educational talk on birth defects, I guess, and what it's like to live with mental retardation. Not particularly suited to a festive or romantic atmosphere, I think, but I guess it is for you? You should probably talk to Tania about this, really.

calenlass · « **Reply #21 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:32 »

right, because "just the two of us at the courthouse downtown in jeans and tshirts" sounds like so much more fun

tania · « **Reply #22 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:37 »

your friend (assuming she's the one getting married) has a pretty rockin' booty

tania · « **Reply #23 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:42 »

hey, tommy ruined this thread first

calenlass · « **Reply #24 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:43 »

Voting now!

tania · « **Reply #25 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:44 »

Quote from: calenlass on 13 Mar 2011, 17:28

I am not sure how you would have a wedding themed "retarded", unless you just had lots of people with serious mental handicaps show up. Also you could probably do a nice educational talk on birth defects, I guess, and what it's like to live with mental retardation. Not particularly suited to a festive or romantic atmosphere, I think, but I guess it is for you? You should probably talk to Tania about this, really.

i'm down with this

celticgeek · « **Reply #26 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 17:49 »

It looks as if the presiding official is wearing a kilt. I'm good with that. I'm also interested in the "black and white" theme, as well as the masks.

squawk · « **Reply #27 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 19:00 »

Stop making my thread weird! Oh later on in a few months (probably over summer when I am finally free from the shackles of school) I'm gonna need help picking good wedding music of the hipster flavor (okay that's just the easiest way to say like, indie-rock/indie-pop/whateverleaningidontevenknow), like good modern love songs (like "brand new colony")

Sorry I'm in loquacious mode I took some ADHD shit for studying and it is very effective.

Anyway, I don't know much about the wedding planning details yet but I know that my sister has most things planned out and stuff. I should ramble about that when I learn about it because it'll probably really cool. But here are some random details on how dorky and awesome these kids are together:

-- For table themes during the reception, my sister wanted to have every table designated by a different Simpsons character. Her boyfriend was considering having every table have a picture of jasmyn doing a different dance move so that like when you'd ask someone what table they were at they'd just do that dance/pose. Jasmyn's other consideration was having the tables named after made up band names like "Stink Monsters of Fire".
-- For their wedding photoshoot or whatever, Jasmyn wants Jon to have a mustache. For some reason. I don't even know. So for now he just has his full beard (it's a pretty magnificent beard, the qc beard fandom would def approve) since he doesn't want to walk around having just a sketchy mustache for a while.
-- When they were ~~testing out~~ tasting out caterers, Jasmyn said that they were apparently in high demand around the catering business, because "[they're] just that awesome," she said, but really because they're both foodies and have specific menu requests, which makes them really fun and interesting to work with from the catering companies' points of view. They turned down one caterer and later got a really sad email from the guy they were talking to and how sad he was that he wouldn't get to work with them. They felt really bad.
-- Jon proposed to her last November and apparently the first thing Jasmyn said after he presented the ring was just "What? You're crazy!"

Why did I write all this outttt. welp, back to studying! Thanks for voting, everyone! (Look at how much cooler they are than all those other couples.)

squawk · « **Reply #28 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 19:06 »

maybe they could if you posted it on EA

(just kidding you don't have to do that)

calenlass · « **Reply #29 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 21:40 »

Quote from: celticgeek on 13 Mar 2011, 17:49

It looks as if the presiding official is wearing a kilt. I'm good with that. I'm also interested in the "black and white" theme, as well as the masks.

The "presiding official" is the friend of mine, actually, and I don't think he is officially anything. He wears that damn kilt everywhere, which I guess is fine? but like dude get a second one in a different colour to keep things interesting maybe because photos make you look like you never change your clothes.

celticgeek · « **Reply #30 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 09:05 »

Quote from: calenlass on 13 Mar 2011, 21:40

Quote from: celticgeek on 13 Mar 2011, 17:49
It looks as if the presiding official is wearing a kilt. I'm good with that. I'm also interested in the "black and white" theme, as well as the masks.

The "presiding official" is the friend of mine, actually, and I don't think he is officially anything. He wears that damn kilt everywhere, which I guess is fine? but like dude get a second one in a different colour to keep things interesting maybe because photos make you look like you never change your clothes.

Well, I just figured that he was an official something, since he's the one who has to stand there in front of the gods and everybody, and declare the bride and groom to be husband and wife "by the authority vested in me by {some civil and/or religious organization}" and also to sign papers to that effect. The authority can get to be pretty nebulous at times, though.

And his kilts are all the same because they are the Clan Tartan.

It does look like it was a lovely wedding.

Lines · « **Reply #31 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 10:08 »

Voted! They're super adorable, I hope they win.

squawk · « **Reply #32 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 19:30 »

Ahhhh. Big thank you to everyone who voted, looks like my facebook spamming helped pull in over 100 votes on the first day. Sister is happy but wants more. She keeps emailing me!

Problem is I'm not sure where else to go with promotion, I want to exploit the high volumes of tumblr but I'm not quite sure how since I'm not friends with all the people I follow whose lives I know creepily too well (kind of like how i started out here hehe)... someone help.

Anyway this will also be a bump, now I need to go fulfill requests and feel slightly guilty for spamming everyone again via facebook event page message and then i'm gonna go sleep and PUT A REST TO THIS NEVERENDING DAY

KvP · « **Reply #33 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 19:50 »

Quote from: tania on 13 Mar 2011, 17:37

your friend (assuming she's the one getting married) has a pretty rockin' booty

Man we've been over this, you hate girl ass

KvP · « **Reply #34 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 19:51 »

When Tommy and Tania have their wedding ceremony we'll all have to remember to lead them into the wicker man before we start the song and dance.

squawk · « **Reply #35 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 02:19 »

bump.

Okay, it's been a week, and I don't really know how to promote this further. Marketing is really hard :[ and my sister is getting sad. She is relying on me to gather the Youth Vote because with her own friends, "other people are getting engaged and are deciding to join the contest too, so it is really fucking annoying!" That just broke my heart.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can campaign this further? Or help me out if you are bored, I don't know...

Tom · « **Reply #36 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 02:29 »

Stick up a flyer or two in a student lounge or common room.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #37 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 03:34 »

leafletting, door-to-door, cold-calling, spam, junkmail, skywriting, social networking, graffiti campaign, purchasing billboards, guerilla billboard appropriation, radio spots, TV spots, Pirate radio spots, newspaper ads, sponsor a sports team, kill the wife of a famous film director and write the URL on the wall in her blood, etc.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #38 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 05:35 »

$100k isn't a short amount of money and while weddings are known primarily for costing a shit-ton of cash, you could probably siphon of a bit of that. What really gets people voting is a sense of engagement. You won't be able to match the emotional engagement of things like reality shows, so basically you're down to bribery. Either use some of the cash to stump for a prize paid for out of the winnings to be raffled out to a voter or line up some of the wedding items for the same thing (veil, top hat, figurines from the top of the cake, bouquet, etc...) or if their feeling really bold, a guest of honour at the wedding who gets to cut the cake or something. The local media will get all over it and with a nudge it could go wider.

Alternatively, hire Khar as your marketing director as the dude has mad skills and tons of commitment.

Inlander · « **Reply #39 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 05:41 »

Hey I'm 30+ and I need money too, and I'm adorable as all get-out you fuckers so cash me up.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #40 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 05:43 »

Pay attention son, we're just voting on people getting money. If you set up a website, I'll definitely vote that you should get some money from somewhere.

Inlander · « **Reply #41 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 05:44 »

Are you saying I don't deserve money because I'm not in "a couple"? PREJUDICE! PREJUDICE! God now I know how black people feel.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #42 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 05:49 »

No, I'm saying that I haven't voted for you to get some money because you haven't set up or subscribed to a web based voting mechanism. Now you know how a luddite feels. A sad lonely luddite with nothing for company but a sticky rag and a Sears catalogue. Now that is some niche prejudice, and I ain't ashamed of it.

Disclaimer: Some of my best friends are luddites and do not judge them on the size of their collection of Sears catalogues.

Inlander · « **Reply #43 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 05:54 »

What's this voting thing you're talking about I haven't read the thread I'm just saying you should all give me money.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #44 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 06:29 »

And all I'm saying is that I'm quite prepared to vote in favour of that.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #45 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 08:16 »

Quote from: Inlander on 23 Mar 2011, 05:54

What's this voting thing you're talking about I haven't read the thread I'm just saying you should all give me money.

Has Australia so abandoned democracy that you've forgotten what voting even IS? DAMN THIS CARBON TAX

valley_parade · « **Reply #46 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 09:01 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 23 Mar 2011, 03:34

sponsor a sports team

If United were sponsored by "Anna's sister is getting married" I would get like 12 Ryan Giggs jerseys.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #47 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 09:10 »

Dude, I don't think she's marrying Giggsy.

valley_parade · « **Reply #48 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 09:28 »

No, but he's my favorite footballer and "Anna's sister is getting married" would look way cooler than Aon's logo.

Patrick · « **Reply #49 on:** 23 Mar 2011, 11:37 »

I still think you sound like a Derek Jeter fan.

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