I think it would be impossible to be in a place that is as tacky and as hilarious and as awesome as Niagara Falls with the hopes of finding a couple to star in a reality television show, and not find the perfect couple!
That being said, it wasn't nearly as easy as I thought it would be to find a couple who would agree to let us follow them around for the next sixteen hours and turn the rest of their day into a reality television show for the entire country to see! Not until the two most wonderful people I have ever met came strolling towards me.
Everything we do on this show is entirely unscripted and off the cuff which is ironic because the entire show is all about how scripted and completely manufactured most reality shows actually are. I find it funny sometimes when stuff happens that actually looks kind of planned out because of how perfect or seamless it comes together. Meeting this weeks reality television stars was one of those time.
One minute I'm doing everything I can to try and convince some guy about how awesome it would be for him to star in his own reality television show and the next minute I'm looking over his shoulder at some dude wearing a tie die shirt and casually saying "what about you dude, ya want to be a reality television star"! Dude says "lets do it" and just like that we begin following him and his new wife around with our cameras and we make a reality television show.
I'm not sure if I even explained to him exactly what we were doing. Dude was totally cool with us following them around so we just kept shooting footage! If I was watching this show at home and a couple like this who were absolutely prefect to be cast in a reality television show went walking by me the way they did and were as cool and quick to agree to do this as they were, I would assume for sure that this was staged and they were picked and cast to do this.
I get the feeling that the honeymoon will last forever for these guys and I hope that in a gazillion years, they both think back and smile about the day I spent with them in Niagara Falls. There is a good chance that most of the details will probably be a bit foggy but that's what made these guys awesome! |