Nine Questions

1. Describe yourself in 3 words.
"Dreamer, Creator, Laugh-er."
2. Describe Kat & Kent in 3 words (or Kat OR Kent).
"I'll describe Kent here, "My Whole World". "Kind, funny, loyal", "Patient, handsome, silly", "Sweetness and Light", "Protective, Loving, Dedicated"... Obviously I could go on."
3. You have your dream job - what does your business card look like and what does it say?
"It's interactive in some fashion, and it says "Kat VanDieman, Solutions, Joy, Success"."
4. What is your least favorite wedding tradition?
"I dislike when weddings feel like proms. We will not be playing "Celebrate" by Kool and the Gang. Sorry."
5. What is your "guilty pleasure" song?
"The entire High School Musical 3 soundtrack. Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind. And FINE, if you're going to make me admit it, The Sweet Escape and Holla Back Girl by stupid, stupid Gwen Stefani. They're just so dern fun."
6. Name a hidden talent.
"I make awesome scrambled eggs, I can cross my eyes in a hilarious manner and know where everything is in my entire store at all times. It's kind of scary. I've devoted too much of my brain to it."
7. How did you meet the bride and groom?
"Well, first I was born. Then, I got to know me. We had some conflicts, disagreements and the like, but we've come to realize we depend on each other. Then, I met Kent and realized he was everything I ever wanted at exactly the wrong time. Lucky for me, he was willing to chase me around the playground pulling my pigtails until I agreed that now was as good a time as any."
8. What is a book you've been meaning to read and why?
"The Historian, but my brain can't handle anything thicker than tissue paper right now."
9. Who would play your part in "Kat & Kent's Wedding: The Movie!"?
"Drew Barrymore?"

Nine Questions

1. Describe yourself in 3 words.
"The Ordained Minister."
2. Describe Kat & Kent in 3 words (or Kat OR Kent).
"Totally In Love."
3. You have your dream job - what does your business card look like and what does it say?
"It has a graphic of the comedy and tragedy faces, and it says 'Professional Actor'."
4. What is your least favorite wedding tradition?
"The garter nonsense."
5. What is your "guilty pleasure" song?
"Would I Lie To You? by Eurythmics."
6. Name a hidden talent.
"I have an excellent memory."
7. How did you meet the bride and groom?
"I met Kent while we were in the Chelsea Area Players production of Oliver! in 2001, and I met Kat during the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre production of Tom Jones in 2006."
8. What is a book you've been meaning to read and why?
"The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, because my wife told me it's incredible."
9. Who would play your part in "Kat & Kent's Wedding: The Movie!"?
"Kevin Kline."

Nine Questions

1. Describe yourself in 3 words.
"Courageous, kind, wise"
2. Describe Kat & Kent in 3 words (or Kat OR Kent).
"Partners in crime"
3. You have your dream job - what does your business card look like and what does it say?
"Classy, chic, understated; Angel Dahnke, Business Development Expert"
4. What is your least favorite wedding tradition?
"Dollar dance"
5. What is your "guilty pleasure" song?
"The Climb, Miley Cyrus"
6. Name a hidden talent.
"Foot massage/reflexology, tarot reading"
7. How did you meet the bride and groom?
"Cousin'd Kat, inherited Kent"
8. What is a book you've been meaning to read and why?
"Raw Foods Detox Diet, by Natalia Rose. I have agreed to do this with a gf.... *cringe*"
9. Who would play your part in "Kat & Kent's Wedding: The Movie!"?
"Charlize Theron (can you be any more perfect?)"

Nine Questions

1. Describe yourself in 3 words.
"Creative, spontaneous, cute."
2. Describe Kat & Kent in 3 words (or Kat OR Kent).
"Amazing, original, genuine."
3. You have your dream job - what does your business card look like and what does it say?
"My business card will have the Chinese symbol for Serenity, and it will say 'Kristin Marie [Moriarty], Business and Home Organizer by Day, Actress by Night.'"
4. What is your least favorite wedding tradition?
"My least favorite wedding tradition has to be the throwing of the bouquet."
5. What is your "guilty pleasure" song?
"My guilty pleasure song is… London Bridge by Fergie… I know, it’s terrible."
6. Name a hidden talent.
"My hidden talent is planning ahead. (i.e. School schedules, etc.)"
7. How did you meet the bride and groom?
"I met Kat and Kent when I auditioned for Ann Arbor Civic Theatre’s first Playing Around Series ever, for a show called “Come, Beauty.” Kent was Directing, I was cast, and Kat filled in for one of the lead roles. We’ve been besties ever since!"
8. What is a book you've been meaning to read and why?
"I’ve been meaning to read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee because I have always been fascinated by Native American history and culture."
9. Who would play your part in "Kat & Kent's Wedding: The Movie!"?
"Um… me? Duh."

Nine Questions

1. Describe yourself in 3 words.
"Funny, Considerate, Awesome."
2. Describe Kat & Kent in 3 words (or Kat OR Kent).
"Loving, Understanding, Family."
3. You have your dream job - what does your business card look like and what does it say?
"An illustration of a goofy skull with two bottles crossed behind it. Green and Orange background. The name of a band....oh wait, that is my business card. I really do have my dream job."
4. What is your least favorite wedding tradition?
"The part where I have to make out with someone's great aunt....wait, what do you mean that's not a tradition?"
5. What is your "guilty pleasure" song?
"Roll With The Changes by REO Speedwagon"
6. Name a hidden talent.
"I can stick an empty beer can to my forehead..."
7. How did you meet the bride and groom?
"Beating the snot out of each other in the woods."
8. What is a book you've been meaning to read and why?
"Zombie Survival Guide....because you just never know...."
9. Who would play your part in "Kat & Kent's Wedding: The Movie!"?
"John Cusak...or maybe one of the Wilson brothers...which ever is the better looking one."

Nine Questions

1. Describe yourself in 3 words.
"Reliable, Organized, Outgoing"
2. Describe Kat & Kent in 3 words (or Kat OR Kent).
"Kind, Patient, Understanding"
3. You have your dream job - what does your business card look like and what does it say?
"Sandy Beaches on the ocean during a sunset with an airplane flying into the sun"
4. What is your least favorite wedding tradition?
"Chicken Dance"
5. What is your "guilty pleasure" song?
"Ticks by Brad Paisley"
6. Name a hidden talent.
"[I can] move my ears"
7. How did you meet the bride and groom?
"Brother of the Groom"
8. What is a book you've been meaning to read and why?
"Harry Potter, I have seen the movies and everyone tells me it is a better book then a movie."
9. Who would play your part in "Kat & Kent's Wedding: The Movie!"?
"Sean Connery"

Nine Questions

1. Describe yourself in 3 words.
"Brutally honest, viciously intelligent, gentle, kind, very wise, good with numbers, and, most importantly, insanely modest."
2. Describe Kat & Kent in 3 words (or Kat OR Kent).
"Beautiful, loving people, who are a joy to be around, and an inspiration to everyone who comes in contact with them. We're all blessed to know them. Surely if there's a heaven, it will be populated by people just like Kat and Kent."
3. You have your dream job - what does your business card look like and what does it say?
"It will be 108 yards high, 108 yards long and be displayed at the top of a 1008 story tower and it will read 'Master of the Universe, Ruler of All He Sees, Dispenser of Wisdom and Knowledge, Conqueror of Ignorance and Disease...and I make house calls.'"
4. What is your least favorite wedding tradition?
"Anything that has to do with forced kissing on the part of the bride and the groom. I don't care if it is clinking of glasses or tooting of horns, I think it's a disgusting and repulsive custom that turns the loving couple into circus freaks. Other than that, I guess I don't really have an opinion, which, TRUST ME, is rare (see business card above)."
5. What is your "guilty pleasure" song?
"Well first, I don't think 'guilty' and 'pleasure' are two words that should be used in the same sentence. If it's fun, that's all you need to know, so I don't see any room for 'guilt' in the equation. Unless in whatever you're doing you wind up owing me money or getting me in trouble with the federal authorities. But if I did happen to have a guilty pleasure song, it would probably be the one by Neil Young that starts off with the lyrics, 'Sailing heart-ships on broken harbors...' whose title eludes me at the moment. And I do feel guilty about that."
6. Name a hidden talent.
"I can do a credible imitation of a Gila Monster."*
7. How did you meet the bride and groom?
"Well I met the bride in the delivery room at Henry Ford Hospital and she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen in my life. The nurse finally had to pry her out of my fingers so that they could put her under the heat lamp to warm her up. I cried so hard that even the delivery doctor needed a handkerchief by the time she left the room. Kent I met on the 2004 Shoreline Bicycle Tour all along the northwest coast of Michigan, where I discovered his secret talent of flying kites in hurricane-like weather and his quick adaptation to Three Person Chess. I immediately found him to be a likable, even adorable person, a fact I could not reveal to my daughter (due to certain rebellious tendencies) until the plans for the wedding had gone past the point of no return. Kent, I love you, dude; if I had a son I'd want him to be just like you. Oh, wait, I DO have a son, and he IS YOU!"
8. What is a book you've been meaning to read and why?
"Read? I don't READ books, I write them! Or, at least I would if I had time. As many of you know, I have several Pulitzer Prize winning ideas, just waiting for the opportunity to be put on paper. With compelling, grandiose plots, fetching characters, complex intriguing story lines, that will probably alter the course of human literature. These works will make future generations look back on this period as the golden age of literature. In the mean time, I'm reading The Black Swan."
9. Who would play your part in "Kat & Kent's Wedding: The Movie!"?
"Well, if he were still alive, I think Clark Gable would be an excellent choice, or maybe a young Tom Cruise, although Brad Pitt does come to mind. Arnold Schwarzenegger is out since he quit lifting weights. And I couldn't entirely rule out Cate Blanchett after her performance playing Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, but in the end, it probably doesn't matter, because my part is so compelling, at least as I've written it, that any actor would rise to the challenge and turn it into an Oscar winning performance, since, after all, the Father of the Bride, IS the most important person at this or any ceremony."

*Editor's note: That is SO true!

Nine Questions

1. Describe yourself in 3 words.
"Enthusiastic, (com)passionate, and youthful"
2. Describe Kat & Kent in 3 words (or Kat OR Kent).
"Kent is intelligent, enthusiastic, a dreamer; Kat is beautiful, enthusiastic, and mystical"
3. You have your dream job - what does your business card look like and what does it say?
"My business card has an apple logo with a bite taken out of it and it says 'If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours'"
4. What is your least favorite wedding tradition?
"The Macarena, hustle, hokey-pokey (or any other group wedding dance)"
5. What is your "guilty pleasure" song?
"Adagio for Strings Op.11 – Samuel Barber"
6. Name a hidden talent.
"Psychological counseling"
7. How did you meet the bride and groom?
"Kent was unavoidable; Kat at a dinner at her apartment in Ypsitucky"
8. What is a book you've been meaning to read and why?
"The Shack – for theologically philosophical ecumenical reasons"
9. Who would play your part in "Kat & Kent's Wedding: The Movie!"?
"Javier Bardem"