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iGroom checking in...I got the idea to visit the A...

2007-11-02T16:06:00.000-07:00

iGroom checking in...

I got the idea to visit the Apple Store on our wedding night before the Leopard Launch was announced. I had intended for us just to come and play with the computers, or perhaps buy some software for doing finances.

When I found out that Leopard was being released on the same night as our wedding, the opportunity to cause a scene was too good to pass up.

I called the Apple Store two weeks in advance, and asked the store manager for permission to have photographers in the store. She would have to check with Apple's Media Relations about the permissions for private photographers in the store, but she liked our idea so much that she wanted to have videographers present and make a bit of a publicity stunt. With such little notice, however, I doubted she could have alerted the local media, so I wasn't expecting much of a fanfare.

On the big night, we had a chauffered driver let us out right in front of the store. Our two photographers tagged along with us, got out of the car, and started shooting as we approached the store front. There was a substantial line of people waiting to go inside, and then we noticed the four employees outside holding cameras, rapidly firing off shots in our direction. Then the store manager let up a whoop and started clapping. We entered the store and were greeted by a store full of customers lining the side walls, leaving an expansive aisle in front of us. We ran straight down toward the registers, the thunderous applause and vibrant cheers reverberating in our ears.

When we finally reached the front of the store, photographers tagging behind, we started looking around. There were videocameras everywhere, behind the velvet rope and along the sides. I hardly noticed who was there or what was going on, except when our photographers told us to look at them and smile or kiss.

It was excitement. We felt like celebrities. My wife's dress was dragging on the ground so I had to hold it in my hands.

We purchased a copy of Leopard--we debated whether to buy a single license or a Family Pack. This was a very difficult issue, one that I spent about 30 seconds debating in the store. The silly joke about the wedding is that "we're going to need a family pack *eventually* (wink wink) so we might as well buy one." Truth be told, Mac OS X has never required serialization, so you can technically install it on as many computers as you like. Yet between us there are four Apple computers: an iBook G4 1GHz, a PowerBook Titanium G4 1GHz, a MacBook White Rev.A, and an Intel iMac 20" Rev.A. Additionally, we were under pressure to conform to the expectations of a marriage: yours and mine is ours. So we only needed one box, not two. In the public light, though, you have to be completely honest and follow the law to its fullest letter.

Besides, everybody knows that computer geeks never have just ONE computer in the house. ;-) The same goes for Macintosh users.

So, the Family Pack was in order. With Apple Gift Card discounts, the total came to $114.42 after taxes.

By the way, we also sent a wedding invitation to Steve Jobs. Don't know whether he's had a chance to respond yet.

We had a blast, and we're still waiting for the official images to come back from our wedding photographers. Once we get those they will most certainly go up on the web.

Cheers!

Aww! Thanks and no prob. That was the smallest nu...

2007-11-01T15:39:00.000-07:00

Aww! Thanks and no prob. That was the smallest nutshell I could give in comments. There's more of course, and I hope to write it up at some point and incorporate all the Apple related things we did. To mention one, we didn't do a regular guest book, we added Apple's Photo Booth to the mix.

Again, thanks so much! We just thrilled to be married, and then to have Leopard come out the same day.... well that was just perfect!!

Thanks, thinkmilly! What an honor to have the iBr...

2007-11-01T15:29:00.000-07:00

Thanks, thinkmilly! What an honor to have the iBride herself post a comment on our site. =)

On behalf of the Tech Pulse team, thank you for sharing your story with us, and we wish you a long and happy marriage!

Best regards,
~Josh

From the source... us:)The iBride and iGroom, (yes...

2007-11-01T10:07:00.000-07:00

From the source... us:)

The iBride and iGroom, (yes, geeky, but would you expect anything less?)met at the Manhattan Village Apple Store in Manhattan Beach California 2 years ago.

We both had been hired at other stores, the Groom at a store in Orange County and myself at a store that in West Los Angeles, at which I was a part of the opening.

We both got transfered to the MV store for reasons of distance to work from home and school and all that and both worked side by side with other to open this new store.

The groom is actually a switcher, still builds PCs, and is now working as a Graphic Retouch Artist at a southland pre-press. He types like 90 WPM and is very musically inclined.

The Bride, (me), is a long time Apple geek and have been working in I.T. in the public, entertainment, and private sector. She cooks a mean jerked chicken and is a fluent Spanish speaker.

We bumped heads during the pre-opening which is a story onto itself;)

I fell in love with his style of running the various workshops they assigned him to conduct. He says he fell in love with my smile:)

I brought my iBook to our first date and we discovered our mutual love of Cars.

Incidentally, we looked forward to the release of said film by PIXAR (yes, like I said geeky;) which we love to point out to people the connect-the-dots of PIXAR-Steve Jobs-Apple connection;) And got occasion to do as much at the Wedding when people asked about our unconventional cake topper:

Sally and Lightning.

We did consider having an iWedding. But it was too impractical. So we just had touches here and there.

The ultimate surprise was hearing that Leopard was to be released on the day of our nuptials. We couldn't be more tickled! Especially when we had set our date over a year ago.

Thank you again for being kind in your blog. I hope to hear the podcast soon. We had a great time on a honeymoon, doing what one should;) (Though upgrading was quite tempting, as I had my MacBook with us;)

Oh yeah, we did send a last minute invite to the iDo Launch to Steve but we have yet to hear back:)