Remember that video of the wedding where everyone danced down the aisle to some Chris Brown tune or other? It was the one spoofed last week on the Office.
Someone tells me that turned out to be fake, part of a commercial for something. But I can’t find any reference to this online. Just to make sure, does anyone here know of any evidence that the video is not of a real wedding?
Found this, which argues that the video went viral because of a behind the scenes push from Sony, though the video itself was not fake. Maybe the person I mentioned in my OP heard a distorted version of this claim.
I know for a fact that it wasn’t fake. That’s my congregation, Christ Lutheran Church on Capital Hill in St. Paul, MN. I know the bride’s mother, and the video was shown in an adult forum after worship. (The office phone was ringing off the hook for a couple of weeks afterward, and some of the callers were very, very hostile. The forum was to discus this issue.)
If you search the archives of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, you’ll find a couple of articles about it, giving names, details, interviews and quotes. (Maybe the Minneapolis Star Tribune had something similar, but I don’t read the Strib.)
Why would people be hostile over this video?
Your location says Virginia; your post says “I’ve never been to America.”
Heh.
@Nyctea, there was even a little bit of hostility from one or two participants in a thread about the video on this very message board. Not outright hostility, but negative feelings were expressed, concerning the propriety of the dancing and so on.
If there were a few people here who were mildly disturbed, it’s a sure bet there are tens of thousands of people in the country, at least, who were violently upset.
ETA: For example see the ninth post in this thread.
I wondered briefly if it was manufactured by Chris Brown’s agency. If you go to the website for it, you’ll see that it’s very slick and polished, and in fact is professionally done by a company that generally targets large corporations, not ordinary couples. Of course, if they have a friend that works there, that could explain it.
Because it came out around the same time it was revealed that Chris Brown liked to beat up Rihanna, and they’re dancing to one of his songs (though I believe it was shot before any of the news came out). In response, the couple set up a link on their site where people can donate to a charity for victims of domestic abuse. Which, I think, was a very cool thing to do.
the Rihanna beating was months before this video came out.
Nonetheless, it engendered controversy for that reason.
I admit I’m not sure when the actual wedding was, or when they chose the song. I suppose the most likely answer is that that’s the song they chose and practiced to and they didn’t consider the implications until it had been posted. Or until it went viral and ended up boosting his sales.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. So I guess it was pretty much uptight or conservative people who were complaining… figures! 
I don’t know about complaining, but certainly the domestic abuse angle was mentioned in nearly every commentary on the wedding video at the time. EW, Gawker, Mother Jones, the DC City Paper, the Above the Law blog, commenters on Jezebel, DoubleXX, the NYT tech blog, etc. Salon later criticized NBC for re-using the wedding dance on “The Office” without similarly benefiting any domestic-violence groups.
The song itself was originally written as a promotion for Doublemint gum, hence the use of the lyric “double your pleasure, double your fun.” But I do not think the video was an advertisement.