Ha! That was great, lol!

It's becoming trendy to have a professionally choreographed first dance done by the bride and groom, there's a reality show about that ; I like the joyfullness of it, but I have to admit that after 20 seconds of the above dance in the church, it was getting redundant, imo.....
once the bride came in, she was not the star, imo......

I think all those shows, like "you think you can dance" are having an effect on the general population.

And just to be more of a wet blanket, lol, Chris Browne song , not a good choice, but I guess that must have been filmed before he became a wife beater.

Yes, the wedding party stole the bride's big moment. I would have saved it for the recessional.

This is all new to me but I liked it a lot that the bride was not the star. It was sweet. I feel like it takes a village to keep a marriage together sometimes, and if everybody is in the dance there's a better chance of success. I do prefer live music, though.

Gives new meaning to the term "rehersal dinner". I think she chose a great dress for her figure, too.

Wow, that's really exuberant and a wonderful expression of joy on a joyous occasion.

For me, I feel the joy should be tempered a bit. I think it is pretty serious stuff, taking those vows and there is plenty of time to be joyous later in the day. I can't stand the announcement/entrance bit at the reception by the obnoxious DJ, but maybe that would have been a better moment for the raucous fun.

Just as the bride emerged, YouTube crashed. maybe too many people watching. We are just a few of the 8.5 million. Can you believe it?

It was on AOL's home page yesterday and it also got passed around a few weeks ago from another site. I thought it was hysterical in the beginning but have to agree that once the bride came out, it was anti-climatic. I like this kind of an entrance for the reception. There have been many of these passed around on Youtube for years for receptions. This is the first time I saw one for the church. I sent it to my cousin who is getting married next year but her fiance said "fat chance" LOL

I must be getting old ... I thought the whole thing really detracted from the solemnity and importance of the occasion. But hey, to each her own, right?

I think the thing that made the bride "not the star" was her note of solemnity/sincerity/seriousness. And I did feel the dancing was restrained in the sense that it wasn't overtly sexual, and it was confined to the "T" shape of the isle and altar, and the costumes were regular un-fabulous wedding clothes.

The dance was a unique expression of the couple's love and of their friends' love for them. When everybody starts trying to make a TV show wedding it will deteriorate quickly to something less wonderful.

Looking back at all the seriousness that staying in a marriage takes, I say begin it with a joy dance. You need to generate and store all the lightness you can, whenever you can.

Of course, I am the type who wanted to sing at my own wedding. Didn't - too inhibited - but wanted to.

and the costumes were regular un-fabulous wedding clothes.

I don't ever want to see us go back to the bridesmaid dresses of years past, but waaaaay back then, the Catholic Church had a dress code for bridesmaids and brides. Cocktail dresses with exposed arms and V-necks would not have made it into the church. (Not judging, just an observation.)

My DD2 sent this to me with the note that she wished her fiance would be up to it. This was last week...before it became uber-viral.

I thought it was cute as all get out, but now, after it's been seen by everybody, not so much. It'll be the flavor of the week for a few million weddings, then it'll be old hat.

Not all weddings are solem events. DDs is going to be fun & funky. I also want my funeral to be that way. Life should be fun, a celebration, and you can be serious with joy and laughter too.

Hey, it was simply my opinion ... I felt like the whole thing was akin to "showboating" and making a spectacle of the occasion, and I just didn't like it. As I stated, to each her own.
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I loved it! It filled the room with joy and laughter. It wasn't a "professionally" choreographed routine, per say-- the bride herself arranged it, and they practiced for just an hour or so (pretty darn good for that!).

I'm glad that not everybody feels he/she has to walk down the aisle to "Ode to Joy" or "Here Comes the Bride."

And then they got back to the solemnity of it all, with someone officiating.

(And for me, THANK GOD some brides are considerate enough to choose re-wearable dresses for their bridesmaids. I've only been in 3 weddings, but those dresses I had to wear? Yikes! Nothing was re-wearable; you couldn't even cut them up to make a quilt. At least I only had to pay for one of them.)

On the "Today" show's website, in addition to linking to this wedding video, they linked to a "first dance as married couple" video. Check it out.
[If you want to know the lyrics of the song, Google "Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts)"]

Here is a link that might be useful: first-dance video on youtube

I saw it and thought it was boring, not joyous. It was too staged, way, way too long, and anti-climatic when the bride finally arrived (and was the least comfortable or natural looking "dancer"). Showboating is a great word for it.

My SIL's father is a minister. He said often couples put all their thoughts & efforts into the wedding & reception and not enough into the marriage. I'm not saying that it's the case with these people, I hope they're still awkwardly dancing every day of their married life. I just mention it as a side discussion about weddings & celebrations.

(make that "per se"--stream of consciousness typing, i guess!)

It's becoming trendy to have a professionally choreographed first dance done by the bride and groom

My great-niece did her own choreography for their first dance. They got off on the wrong foot ... timing was off or something ... and rather than just flow with it, she made the DJ start over. It was a little sad.

Weddings are productions. I'm glad I never went that route.

My friend got married in an old castle in Scotland, complete with a bagpiper (her cousin) who was supposed to proceed in front of her down the aisle, playing "Here Comes the Bride" as she walked in on her father's arm.

OK - sing the first note of "Here Comes the Bride", then sing the first note of "Happy Birthday To You" ... identical, right? Guess what her very nervous bagpiper began playing as he started the march? Yep ... and he continued leading the somewhat shaken bride in to that old familiar tune that so many of us have blown out candles to, instead of being joined in wedded bliss to.

It was hilarious, though. After the bagpiper overcame his mortification, we all got a good laugh out of his little faux pas.

Wow, I loved it and while I understand many of the above comments I still loved it for it's joy and expressiveness. It's a liberal wedding anyway just based on having a woman minister and the bridesmaid dresses but I still loved the dancing and the liveliness. I'm not up with who's who in the music world so I don't know who Chris Brown is at all.

I don't equate the seriousness of ones vows with not dancing though.

I guess I'm officially an old fuddy duddy! I would have loved that at the reception. In church? Not so much.

This was on the Today show yesterday. I was watching showbiz tonight & they had them doing the dance on the Today show.

When I watched the video yesterday my eyes were rolling. When I watched it last night (the Today show version minus wedding attire) and again this morning, I still rolled my eyes.

I think that if the song was shortened it may have had a different affect, but it was a bit too long; I wondered how hot, thirsty they all were from dancing up the isle, then running through the hall back to the main door to do it again.

I also think if the dancing was a little better it would have made a difference; unless it was supposed to look like a bunch of men that couldn't dance and women that partially could.

I give everyone credit for trying to be original but it's getting to be expected to see a choreographed dance at some part of the wedding. Next we will see the bride & her father along with groom & his mother choreographed.

I loved my last wedding. Hubby & I went to Cypress Gardens in FL, just the 2 of us. The day was about us.

My 28-year-old stepson got married in April, and they did a variation on this as their recessional. I hadn't seen this video then and thought it was something these crazy kids had come up with on their own. After all, they chose to get married on a Monday . . . which just happened to be 4/20, which just happened to e the annual celebration day for the Cannabis culture. Who am I to judge?