Of Love, Voodoo and Internet Explorer
A bit over a year go I posted instructions for creating an Internet Explorer Voodoo Doll, and was amazed at the huge response from web designers and developers all over the world. I didn’t expect it to take off in the way that it did, and I definitely didn’t expect this story I’m sharing with you now.
Not long after posting the tutorial I was contacted by Jörn, who runs a company in Germany. He liked my idea enough to ask a tailor friend of his to make one for each of his staff members as a Christmas present, beautifully packaged and everything.
IE Voodoo Dolls from Jörn
I thought it was fantastic, especially seeing photos of so many of them! But that wasn’t the end of it. Just after Christmas this year, Jörn contacted me again. He said that after calling his tailor to tell her how successful the Christmas party and presents were, they started talking more, going out together and fell in love.
In October they were married in Berlin, and guess what they decided to model their wedding cake after in memory of how they got together?
IE voodoo wedding cake
Yes, that is a giant Internet Explorer voodoo doll cake, complete with a giant needle!
So there you have it, a tale of love, voodoo and Internet Explorer. Thank you to Jörn and Julia for allowing me to post their story, and I wish them all the best for the future.
Oh my gosh Teresa that is amazing! Looks like hatred of IE brings people together :P Congratulations are in order! (And the voodoo doll was a very good idea indeed.)
That is an amazing story; it made my mouth fall open!
What a wonderfully connected, random and beautiful world we live in.
Go Chisa!
See told you that little voodoo IE was cool and had massive potential.. Still think it does.. People hate IE6 :)
What a random and cool voo-doll story! Does this sort of make you a grandmother?
wow! what an amazing story! very inspiring. ^_^
people just love to hate IE. hehe.
Awesome!! :D
THAT IS SO COOL
That’s such a sweet story. And just goes to show how one person or something small can impact other people. wow.
:)
Ha! that’s hilarious. I got off of ie ages ago but still hear the horror stories. Love your work!
Oh my gosh Teresa that is amazing! Looks like hatred of IE brings people together :P Congratulations are in order! (And the voodoo doll was a very good idea indeed.)
Dear Teresa,
since today is our FIRST anniversary it is high time to drop a little comment to this post which is dedicated to us.
A couple of days ago we visited the location we celebrated our wedding at in Berlin (http://www.mxwl.de/). The (excellent) cook and the whole team still remembers our wedding pretty well – especially the blue-e-wedding-cake. By the way: it’s quite hard to recognize in the image above: the sewing needle and thread, sticking in the ‘e’, were made of melted sugar – a work of art. The whole cake had approximately 30 centimeters in diameter.
Telling “our story” to somebody who doesn’t know it yet is still a big pleasure and people react quite similar to the commenters above. The reaction is a mixture between a good laugh and a romantic “oh – is this really true?!”. On our wedding we distributed little booklets to our guests. In that booklet we had written down our story. The title was “Do you really want an (tailored) ‘e’ ?”. That was the first question of Julia as I told her what I wanted her to tailor. Why? Because she is a passionate and exclusive Mac user. She didn’t really know IE and its logo until that day in December 2007.
We send a big, warm thank you around the globe to you Teresa – we are so thankful that we found and fell in love with each other. The e-story is our happy-end to something we really dislike: IE. And it is a story about how the web literally connects people.
The best wishes from Germany
Julia and Jörn