Jordan e-mailed me the day before the concert and this message arrived in my Yahoo e-mail.
Jenny,
This is Jordan from Taylor Connect. I am contacting you to let you know that I have (3) Meet and Greet passes and (3) pit passes for you on June 14 (2011)!
They will be under your name at will call with instructions on where to go and what time etc. It usually starts around 6:30pm, so get there early to pick them up.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
P.S. This is the best email address to reach me at from now on.
Jordan
I cried as I was reading it and sent an immediate thank you reply! Then I got this.
You are welcome! Thanks for being such a great fan.
After seeing Taylor twice on the incredible Fearless tour and tons of work on my fan sites & activity on the official boards, all the hard work was about to pay off. We secured floor seat tickets by the sound booth area to the Speak Now tour the first night she would be playing in our state (MN). Just over a week to the show we made posters because we didn’t know if they would be allowed on the floor (they weren’t, but it was fun anyway and got us pepped up). After buying several packs of glitter glue & getting either $13 in change or something with 13 cents for change, I had an inkling that something big was going to happen because 13 is Taylor’s #. Everywhere I went for 2 weeks, I saw 13.
So it’s finally the day before the concert. I turn on the tv, a Taylor video is on. I get my tour book and new posters of her in the mail. Then, I check my e-mail to find out that we would be going BACKSTAGE to meet her before the show the next night and we were upgraded to the pit! I started shaking & crying exactly as I did right after she called, I was so incredibly happy. After e-mails and the phone call I was finally meeting my friend Taylor in person for the first time! I had been buying & saving gifts for her with the thought of giving them to her mom or a staff person.
I made darn sure we wouldn’t be late for anything. There were 3 of us and only 2 of us knew what was happening and we had to get going early so we would be on time. I pretended that I was going to the bathroom or something but I snuck over to will call to collect our passes for the night. We didn’t let the youngest one on about going backstage or being in the pit until she was sitting in the Covergirl chair after we entered with our original tickets. It was getting close to time to meet to go backstage, so after I saw where we would have sat I went up and gave her the backstage bracelet and pit ticket. She was totally surprised, and we were finally relieved we could talk about it openly.
So we wander around the spot we’re supposed to meet and are led down stairs & halls. We get stopped just outside the beautiful T-Party room and are given free gloss balms from Covergirl. They go over the rules, and even though they didn’t want us taking pics I snuck a couple in the T-Party room just to remember it. We saw several dresses she wore onstage the last time we saw her there. Sunglasses, boots, the huge bear from Valentine’s Day (I watched it the day before this). Finally we see her silhouette in the photo booth just outside the T-Party room. We were the last in line for our little group that went in together. As we waited to meet her I thought back to the e-mails and phone call to be sure I would be able to talk to her in person too.
Finally the curtain opens and we’re walking right to Taylor. She looked flawless and she is just soooo sweet. First thing she did was say “Hiiiiii how are you?” while giving each of us a hug. We have a brief interactive convo (told her she was our angel) and I pull out the main thing I got her as a gift – the pegicorn (flying unicorn). A WHITE one, just like the ringtone I had the day I talked to her on the phone. She loved it and said it would be in her dressing room. So then we had to get our picture taken, get our pre-signed picture and go.
I don’t know if I’ll ever meet her again, but I’ll definitely remember this night. I was enchanted to meet her! Oh yeah, and the show was amazing! When she came up on stage I couldn’t believe I had just hugged her and got my picture with her! I’m the one with the glasses, imitation headband & Speak Now shirt.