The comments at youTube seem to indicate it’s fake.
One guy says that its a girl from acting class at his college. One guy says he saw it on the news that it’s a fake. Not exactly rock solid straight dope, but there ya go.
It’s funny how people co-opt the comments on popular videos to promote their own videos and websites. Totally expected, of course.
It’s fake IMO. More damning evidence from her myspace page:
It also lists her status as “single”
If it’s fake – and I wouldn’t have guessed it was – the stuff before the bride’s entrance is wonderful in it’s realistic banality. Random phone call, talking over each other, sweaty armpits, etc… shrug seemed pretty real to me.
If it’s viral marketing for champaigne, you might expect them to mention the brand, right?
Great find. How on Earth did you come across that? Esther from the video is listed as one of her friends.
Boredom. 
Oh come on now, seriously, how did you find it?
-FrL-
Oh, OK. I debated giving you some technical BS explanation about my mad skillz, but…
A poster to the youtube page posted a link while I happened to be watching it (can’t even find it now there’s no many new posts) and I followed it, noticed Esther from the video so knew it was the right Jodi, then read the interesting comments about being single and an actor and posted them here. No real wizardry was involved, I’m afraid.
On the bright side, no one will be threatening to burn you for witchcraft.
-FrL-
Reasons why it seemed real to me
The reactions when the cutting began. The best friend (the one actually in the bathroom with her) is the one who seems to be the most afraid while the others are cracking up. That seems real.
The dialogue seems real. The comment about the hair looking like Shirley Temple curls, and the best friend’s How-Dare-You! reaction. Both seemed very realistic.
The way the best friend closes the bathroom door and demands that everyone get their shit together and be supportive. It seemed so real that I actually felt guilty for laughing.
The bride’s reaction does not seem over the top too much, given the situation and the way people’s nerves work right before they are getting married.
Reasons why it seemed fake:
The perfect timing of the bride’s entry following the champagne toast, camera rolling and all. And then we see them constantly pushing the champagne on the poor bride…who then guzzles it down with perfect comic timing. (Also notice how they are still drinking champagne in the bathroom).
The ugliness of her hair. That kind of hairstyle doesn’t just magically appear. Even the most clueless bride would have some idea of what she wanted her hair to look like before she sat in the chair, so I can’t see how she could have let it get to that point.
She’s alone when she arrives. I can buy the idea that her and her girls pitched in for a hotel suite that would serve as a staging area for a moderately-sized wedding. Doing so does not mean that she’s a high-maintenance Bridezilla. However, I can’t imagine that she’d not bring anyone with her upon returning to her hotel room. No proud mother or aunt? No sisters or best friend?
Well, perhaps she had company but they went to their own place to get ready. But it seems like whoever she was with would have stayed to help calm her ass down. If this really is fake, they could have made it all the more convincing by having someone walk through the door with her.
5.The laughing friends. Now I can imagine laughing before the cutting. In fact, I would be rolling on the floor (because I’m a sick meano). But laughing afterwards? When it’s clear the woman is crazy? I’d be picking up a phone, dialing someone’s mama and/or exorcist. Not laughing about hair in the toliet.
I’m leaning towards fake, especially given the more recent posts in this thread, but if it is, I think it’s a good one.
I was going to post to say the same thing. They’re very good actors.
Having said that, I think they could be just that - really good actors. We know for a fact that the bride is an aspiring actor. What twinges me as fake about the whole thing is
The bridesmaids weren’t at the salon with her. That’s just not the way it works in any well planned wedding with a bridal party. They ALWAYS have their hair done together.
The camera work is suspiciously good.
I suppose there’s no way to ever know for sure, but I’d bet more than I could afford to lose that it’s real. To sum up my math: too much recognizably real about it; too few reasons to fake it. Occam says it’s real.
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According to the myspace page, her name is Jodi Behan. I checked Macy’s, Crate & Barrel and Pottery Barn’s wedding registries and didn’t find her name. I couldn’t find Nordstrom’s registry. She hasn’t been to her myspace page since late December. I bet that she has a lot of add requests.
Isn’t she from Toronto? Quite sure they only have one or two out of those three.
But yeah. Not that actresses don’t freak out on their wedding days, and not that the whole thing didn’t seem utterly plausible (even the camera work- especially if they were in charge of making a wedding day video diary), but the MySpace thing makes me 99 percent sure it’s fake.
Too bad one of the girls didn’t expose the champagne label-- they could have gotten some sort of promo deal.
Actually, no. It would be more likely that you would hear “the good stuff,” like you did, and catch maybe a glimpse of the label (I don’t remember if you could see it or not). After the video gets popular, but before it gets to saturation, it shows up in a tv or web commercial, with the tagline, “the good stuff.” It seems to the naked observer that this video existed, the champagne company realized that they were in it, and then used it for their commercials, which is kind of cool. It makes the people who have seen it feel like they’re in the know, and they tell their friends about the video when the commercial comes on, and everyone in the room winds up watching and listening to the commercial, instead of talking over it or going to the bathroom or whatever. If it were a viral marketing campaign, the commercial would premiere during the Oscars or the Super Bowl, or some evnt like that.
CBC Newsworld just reported that it’s a fake, and that the star is an aspiring actress.
It was still fun to watch, you gotta admit.
Well, that confirms it. Here’s an online cite: Homegrown Bridezilla a hoax, from the Toronto Star.
Ironically, according to that cite, it was her real hair :).
No, not luckier, more clued in. And it wasn’t that we “don’t know someone like that” it’s that she was a bad actress.
They just had the “bride” and the other girls on Good Morning America. It was fake and just done as a film project. None of the girls are related. It was the brides real hair though.
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While that is usually how it happens, it is not ALWAYS how it happens at all. I’ve shot over a hundred weddings, and there have been at least three that I could think of off the top of my head where the bride had her hair done separately from the bridesmaids. Not common by any stretch, but not unheard of at all.