Jeff & Erin's epic save the date video
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on January 20, 2010
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I'm seeing more and more folks doing Save The Date videos instead of cards — but this one from Jeff & Erin pretty much takes the cake. There's an eye patch! There's an evil kitty! There are Vietnamese subtitles! In a time ... when height meant everything ...
The video's currently got about 4000 views ... let's see how long it takes before this one goes viral. 
UPDATE: After we posted it here on Offbeat Bride, as we predicted the video went completely viral and showed up EVERYWHERE online and even international TV. For some reason (possibly related?) the youtube video is now private. You can still find it here, though.
About Ariel Meadow Stallings
Author of Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides, Ariel acts as the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire websites. She lives, loves, and dorks out hard in Seattle, WA.
Amber said
They're my clients and they're that cool in person! Their wedding is going to be faaaabulous!!!
Ragani said
This is OVER THE TOP! I love it!
Stephanie said
This is EPIC! Absolutely LOVE it!
Gina said
This is the best save the date EVER!!!
glam said
OMG this is awesome!!!!! I love it!
Crystori said
Oh wow…. I don't think I can ever hope to do anything that awesome for my save the date. (I just realized why no one has ever tried to shorten that – STD just doesn't quite bring in the same effect.)
Kate said
People totally shorten it all the time! On the OBT, on other wedding websites, all over the place. And it makes me giggle far more than it should!
OffbeatAriel said
Clearly you haven't read Offbeat Bride the book — I talk alllll about the STD acronym.
Julia-Gulia said
Wow! I mean just wow! I wanna know how they got movie phone guy.
Klee said
AMAZING!!!! *jealous*
G1tana said
this hits a new level of AWESOME!!
Kate said
This is FANTASTIC!!!
Tiffany said
That is totally totally awesome.
I had to show my boyfriend, he loved it too. Haha.
Point202 said
Um. Wow. I have no words to describe the awesomeness of this!
Carren said
I'm freaking out about printing my STD on magnet paper and they go and do that! LOL That is the most awesome thing I have ever seen (wedding related anyway!!)…holy cr@p!! LOVED IT!!!!
Carren said
And yeah, I went there….I shortened "save the date"
Evita said
Brilliant! I posted it to my journal and now it's starting to make rounds on my friends list…with OBB credit, of course.
TheBonnieBunnies said
I died when they got to the eye patch & the cat. Too cute!
cynzia said
Very cool …. first I thought they were going to say 10-10-10 but in the end it said october 9 2010 … but the show was very well thought out and very unique way to make save the date cards…. Nice … great looking couple.. Congrats!
isidri said
OK, that is pretty much the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Sarah Deignan said
OMG!!! Oh… MY… GOD!!! This is the BEST thing I've ever seen! This is on so many levels of awesome I can't even express it.
Who made this movie?! I want to know. Did they hire someone? Or do it themselves? The opening 20th Century spoof logo is a program design in and of itself! Wow!
Erin said
Thanks Sarah! We only hired someone for the voiceover; he is a voice actor named Larry Wayne. The trailer started out as a simple idea, but then we got a new camera that could record in HD and the ideas just kept on coming! Once we heard the voice, we knew we had to make the video live up to the sound. As for the 20th Century logo, it was a template model created by "blazer003" in a program called Blender. We just followed his tutorial: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=7…
Melissa said
I dig the use of the Requiem for a Dream music, aka "Epic Movie Preview Music."
Kristen in Oregon said
So freaking awesome!!!!!
Eliza said
OMG this is amazing! And they're such a beautiful couple as well!!
@rachieeeee said
I so agree!! But I'm biased since I'm a white girl and my fiance is Vietnamese
Brooke 'Johnson' Krafthefer said
So. Much. Win.
kat_magdelina said
Amazing production quality and some really well done effects! Just for the Save the Date? WOW!!
So I did some searching and found some more awesomeness like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqs-b4Gjqqg
(I thought this one was taking itself too seriously… until the lightsaber! ROFL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-T0ZILXo9g&fe…
(short, but also well done)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QyveJ8DQcU&fe…
(HILARIOUS! But I can't imagine Grandma enjoying this one!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8pbSdX7nc
(SO %$#@%#$ FUNNY – I think I laughed at this one the most!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl_rzxL8Vdw
(Playing off of Mr & Ms Smith… cute!)
Pure Awesome.
Sarah Dolan said
This has just appeared on a national news network here in Aus… and OBB found it first! Whoo-hoo!