Fundraising. · 7:05pm Sep 9th, 2014
Yes, it's that time again, that time when I bring up my wedding which is happening this July. I'm pretty sure I said December last time, but it's next July now. If any of you have been following me for a while, you know I have a fiancee that I have been dating for just shy of six years now. So yes, marrying your high school sweetheart is a very real thing.
So my fiancee and I have calculated (and cut) the cost of our wedding and made it as cheap as we can, but we need some help But I'm not asking for your money for free, so I've set up an Indiegogo here. You can get a lot of cool stuff for donating like signed thank-you cards from us, mini-plushies, actual plushies, two plushies, two copies of TD the Alicorn Princess, or an invite to our wedding if you donate an obscene amount.
I'm just going to be honest here: I feel embarrassed having to do this, but six years (and over one year of being engaged) is too long to not be married at this point, and we need all of the help we can get. Any little bit helps us, seriously. If every one of my followers donated three dollars, we'd go over our goal, because you guys like my silly pony words for some reason.
If you can donate, you have given us something we can never repay. If you can't, I totally get it, but even your well-wishes mean a lot.
Typo? July was two months ago, dude.
Still, congratulations. I wish I could donate, but I'm broke. All I can offer is hope that you two have a long and happy marriage.
2441419 As in July 2015
Take a credit?
2441473 Yes, it does take credit cards.
Just one question: Is your fiancee dressing up as Cherilee?
Seriously, congratulations on the upcoming nuptuals. Plenty of time to work on them cold feet.
Is there a way to do it via PayPal? I don't have a credit card.
2441478 I said I'd put in an order, so I'm going to.
Just a logistical question or two first. In addition to the pledge amount, how do you want to handle things like overseas shipping charges? I notice there's an option to add an additional custom amount.
Secondly, can we add the difference to get a second pledge reward such as a plushie and a mini plushie?
2441519 I see no reason why not.
2441536 1. I'm not sure. Hmm...
2. Totally.
2441563 In that case, I'd like to pledge for a plushie, and then a set of three mini's
Pledge the 50 for the plushie, then add in a custom 45 for the mini's?
sorry I can't help but good luck very few people can from true bonds
2441614 Sounds delightful. Just follow the link to donate!
I can't donate sorry, but I think I can try and get a bunch of people in on this. So I'll help you out.
I'm going to donate, and I would have even if you didn't offer rewards for it, I just like you that much. Congrats on getting married (In July)
2441640 pledged 95. 50 for plushie, and 45 custom for mini's
I kinda wish I had an extra 5000 dollars laying around so that I could go to your wedding.
you should try to model it after TD and Cheerilee's wedding!
2441939 Ah... I'm trying to steer clear of TD and Cheerilee stuff. That way it's personal to us.
2441705 it means so much, man, thank you!
2441688 that would be awesome!
2441997 Awwww, I think it would be have been funny if when the guy doing the ceremony said "You may now kiss the bride" and you and you wife said "Nah, we're good." and it turned out a member of your party was one of your followers and didn't know that you're BronyWriter untill that moment.
For anyone wondering why they should bother to donate, I want you to consider something. The generally accepted length for a novel is around 80,000+ words. Most mass-produced paperbacks cost just under eight dollars. Bronywriter, at this current moment, has 1,256,409 words published on FimFiction.
For the sake of argument, pretend that all of us have to actually go and pay for our pony words at a bookstore like most people do for their fictional tales. Assume that the average Bronywriter follower has read approximately a third of his published words. That means that the average Bronywriter follwer has read around 418,803 words. Taking into consideration the average cost of novels and the average novel size, the average Bronywriter follower in this example would have paid somewhere near 41 dollars.
I know that I've read far more than a third of Bronywriter's published works. Honestly, I feel like I owe far more than just 41 dollars to such an amazing storyteller.
I've been carefully budgeting for a while to save up for other stuff waste my spare time on, but I think this takes precedence. Instead of playing video games, looks like I'll be reading even more Bronywriter. I'll have to make sure to eventually pay that back as well.
100$
I would totally be happy to throw some money your way, but sadly, being without mulah, I cannot. Either way, well wishes on your guys' wedding!
(one, two, three, four, one to love, forevermore, five, six, seven, eight, don't forget to consummate, nine, ten, 'leven, twelve, gonna hope your evenin's swell! x'D
2442328 You are so awesome...
2442420 Meh I'm just Canadian.
The story commission thing sounds fun.
... but it seems to me that a blog would be fun. Like the commissioners could choose to have there ideas put in a blog were they would be commented on (hopefully).
Even if every idea I could possible come up with has already been done.
But not by BronyWriter.
So how would the process work?
Maybe I'm crazy
I mean I would hate to say make a story were Twilight invents flubber before the changeling invasion. Flubber powered main 6 battle ensues. Then everybody's like Simpsons did it.
I'm a little worried about indiegogo having 50 complaints closed with BBB in last 3 years | 25 closed in last 12 months - See more at: http://www.bbb.org/greater-san-francisco/business-reviews/internet-services/indiegogo-in-san-francisco-ca-372843/complaints#sthash.xfoHycv2.dpuf
But they do have good standing so maybe I'm just worried over nothing.
Even so I will trust you judgement so I donated.
So I got 60 days to sell my unneeded stuff and donate. Also, a question: Can you ship things to EU?
2441559 There wasn't a button for it, that's why I'm asking.