This is one time where the bridesmaid wore white, sort of upstaged the bride and nobody minded.
Renee Armstrong appeared via FaceTime on a white iPad to participate in her best friend’s wedding. Armstrong was at home in Virginia, some 1,600 miles away from where the wedding took place in Denver, Colorado.
Armstrong in iPad form walked down the aisle on the arm of a groomsman, stood by for the ceremony and even appeared in the wedding photos.
“She got to see the whole ceremony. She got to meet everybody and be here for the reception,” said bride Jamie Alberico.
The iPad wedding had a few hiccups, though. During rehearsal, the iPad was dropped and the screen shattered. The quick-thinking bride — who just so happens to work in an Apple store — replaced the device in time for the nuptials.
iPads are becoming more common at weddings, it’s easy to imagine guests who don’t want to get gussied up (let’s maintain our dignity sans bridesmaid dresses, eh?), can’t afford to spend money on the trip or are better off without the almost inevitable hangover — but still wish the happy couple well.
Armstrong said the iPad more than did its job.
“I got all teary-eyed during the ceremony and I couldn’t have gotten that from pictures,” Armstrong said.
Via 7News
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14 responses to “Bridesmaid Appears at Wedding via iPad”
xdd
I just paíd $20.87 for an íPad 2.64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UP S.I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch L E D T V to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
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Troll
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My church’s pastors have officiated weddings with iPads. They used they use a dodo case and nobody can tell.
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Sorry but this story makes me want to barf. it just reeks of laziness or cheapness the way that it has been told.
Had it been due to a huge storm or the bridesmaid is in rehab cause she can’t walk or some such perhaps. But this was just doing it to do it.
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Really? Quick-thinking bride?
There aren’t a lot of choices for when the device is dropped and broken.
1) The remote person no longer gets to participate.
or
2) They get a new device and the remote person can continue to participate.
Maybe the writer meant that the bride is a quick decision maker?
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