I recommend not using the wedding celebrant my brother used. After the ceremony, several friends (atheists, agnostics or non-practicing Catholics; all members of Nerds’R’Us) mentioned that “if I’d run into a priest who quoted Yoda and Tolkien ten years ago, I might still be going to Mass.”
It’s a wedding, not a funeral. It should be fun!
I agree. A few years ago two of my friends processed into their Catholic wedding mass to a live classical guitar version of the Imperial March from Star Wars.
The priest, who hadn’t been briefed on the tune, twigged what they’d done - I saw the realisation then a little smile about one minute in, and started his sermon by saying “The force is strong in these two.”
It was priceless, and about two thirds of the congregation got the joke and cracked up. Maybe I don’t have the right to comment as I’m an avowed atheist, but I appreciated the wit of the priest in the context of the joy of the ceremony, and people still talk about it to this day. Joy = good.
I think it’s great. “All acts of love and pleasure are acts of worship.”
Heck, funerals should be fun, too, if you ask me.
I think some people in this thread are getting “solemn” confused with “serious”. A wedding absolutely is and should be a serious matter, but that doesn’t mean it has to be solemn. Is that the sort of wedding I’d have? Maybe not, but then, that wasn’t me in the video, so that all works out fine. It’s there wedding, and if they want to celebrate it by, well, celebrating, more power to them.
First of all I’m not upset about anything. Look in the mirror next time before accusing others of “inventing personalities” for people. And secondly, over-planned weddings have been, universally, in my experience, a sign of under-planned marriages. I just said what I thought was likely based on my experience. I even allowed for the possibility that I was wrong.
But, like Scarlett67 said, thanks to everyone for validating my thought that a wide range of opinions isn’t really welcome here.
My SIL and BIL got married in a very traditional Methodist church.
However, since both of them were active in English Civil War re-enactment, the entire wedding party (and a lot of the guests) dressed up in period garb. My FIL was stunning in a royal purple outfit with stockings.
The minister was very supportive, saying something like God gave us imaginations and smiles when we use them. I don’t think taking exuberant joy in getting married is ever inappropriate, and any God that would frown on a couple laughing as they begin their lives together is not a God I would want to see overseeing my marriage.
YMMV, but I think it’s delightful.
Heck - we boogied back up the aisle to Barry White “You are my first, my last, my everything” and everyone boogied with us!
Everyone looks like they had a blast I know we did.
Each to their own
You’ve never been to an Irish funeral, I take it…
Now that I think about it. it’s been awhile since I’ve been to a good party. Wonder if I have any obscure cousins ready to kick off…
some churches are looser than others.
the church i belong to has near tissy fits if someone dares to clap at the end of a wedding. so there isn’t “hear comes the bride” played nor does one get the chance to pick what songs will be played. marriage is a sacrement and there is centuries old service that is done as written.
the reception is a completely different thing and let the vodka flow!
other churchs have different traditions. all are respected. the couple in this video felt that this song and dancing up the aisle showed their love and joy for each other. the church and the person officiating agreed. great for them it is a day they will never forget.
it did make me smile and laugh. it did show the joy of the day and of their friends in participating in the wedding.
my personal sensibilities would have the dancing away from a church because of how i was raised in the church i belong to.
I can’t speak for ‘most Jews,’ but I’ve been to many dozens of Jewish weddings, mostly Orthodox ones but a few not, and have never heard either of these played. I walked down to an instrumental version of an Israeli song of several verses from the Song of Songs. It’s popular at Orthodox weddings nowadays, as are 15-20 other songs, but the list changes over time, and no one song ever dominates.
I was at a Bukharian Jewish wedding once. The very large extended families walked down to music that might best be described as Arabic Klezmer techno, with a WWF-style announcer (exhuberant, stentorian, entirely in Russian) presenting each family member as they came in. Some walked down in a more traditional manner, some went waving like Miss South Carolina on a parade float, and the grandmothers bopped down the aisle waving their arms. It was very cool, and I had no sense that people weren’t respecting the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t in a synagogue (most Jewish weddings aren’t), but I don’t think that my opinion would have been different if it had been in one.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25841277-5006022,00.html
The horror. “We’ll do it with beautiful people. And choreographed dancing. It’ll be heaps better. We haven’t missed the point of the original video at all!”
Right. I can’t think of a better way to express joy at a wedding.
…or to assume we know what their vows were.
They just got married last week. A week ago Saturday I believe. The groom put the video up a week ago today, Monday.
Brown beat up Rhianna months ago.
Only their politics, eh?
Now, that is tacky as all get out. Way to ruin a small, good thing. :mad: :rolleyes:
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My Born Again (and Again) sister and her youth pastor husband were married in a Lutheran church in Austin, TX with the whole church family around them. I don’t know if it’s a Missouri Synod thing or not, but once the vows were done they had the band play as they skipped their way out the church, with thousands of bubbles raining down. People thought it was cool.
I saw this couple on The Today Show, and honestly they did not come off as attention whores at all. They were sweet and down-to-earth. The bride is a dancer and wanted to have some fun. Simple as that.
And Matt Lauer said it best: having this much fun on their wedding day bodes well for the rest of the marriage.
Huh? If I avoided entertainers because of political differences, I’d see very little movies or listen to very little music.
I think it was creative and fun and have no problems with the couple doing that dancing entrance whatsoever.
However…
Now EVERYONE is going to start doing the same thing. Everyone who is making wedding plans will want to do something similar and it will get old quick.
This type of thing has happened before. How many videos are there on YouTube showing a married couple at their first “dance” together and having the music suddenly change from soft and romantic to Hip-hop (Basically putting on a dance show for the guests). Now everyone is doing that same thing. It is being overdone. Now the “dance walk down the aisle” is going to be over done too. Is it fun? Absolutely, but come on! Be more creative, people.
See, there are already copy cats.