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Engagement Video

• I tried to match the picture content and the lyrics as closely as possible.  Originally, I wanted to have the pictures in the video as chronological as possible, but basing it on content provided for a better flow.
  
• The chorus pictures are: us at a wedding | funny | date/serious | my birthday (Valentine's), with each chorus showing chronological pictures.  The last chorus doesn't contain a birthday picture, because we first met in 2004.
  
• The food pictures (during the instrumental solo) are also in chronological order.
• The Scion "update this slide" picture was "left in" for humor purposes   The creation of the picture probably consumed more time than actually taking a picture, resizing it, and recompiling the video.  Plus, having Carol pose in the Scion xA would've aroused her suspicion; it's hard enough keeping surprises from her!
  
• All of the pictures were not post-processed (white balance adjustment, noise reduction, etc) - they were only cropped to fit.  Not that there would've been time for it - the final touches were made 30 minutes before Carol's flight touched down.
  
• The Chinese characters are a play on words - the equivalent of their/they're/there.  "Like" is pronounced "xiang" in Chinese, which is also sounds like "elephant.  (See Backstroke of the West for an hilarious example).  There was definitely some help from the parents for "semicolon" and "close parenthesis".
  
• The three lines across the forehead is a fobby way to express "banging one's head against the wall" (=_=''') (The pink drink is a "Hello Kitty Bubble Tea".  Apparently the waitresses on duty have never had a customer order this, and had to consult the recipe book)
  
• Yes, I know Connick is misspelled