Meh. Brown recorded “Forever” a year and a half ago. It was a decent, tolerable song then and is a decent, tolerable song now.
You aren’t just expressing a different opinion. You’re acting all offended that everybody else disagrees with you. And you are continuing to point out your displeasure, as if your opinion, being different, should be more important.
Finally, you’re commenting negatively on what many consider to be a sacred institution. A lot of people feel the same about criticizing weddings as you do about “inappropiate” behavior in church. So, expect people to disagree and make negative comments about your “disrespect.”
The local (Minneapolis) NBC affiliate said this evening that they’re actually going to fly the entire wedding party out to Australia to dance on the show.
My first thought when I saw the vid last week was … dayum, how did they get everyone (in the wedding party) to agree to this. I think it says a lot about the couple and the people they hang with that they pulled this off so successfully. I only wish I would have thought of it first.
The second link from the videographer in the UK was also brilliant. I’m sure this trend will be overdone in time but it sure brings joy to what should be a joyous event.
I think I’ve heard of certain churches nixing Wagner and Mendelssohn, now that I think of it.
FriarTed, of all the weddings I’ve ever been to/in, only two have used the traditional music, and one of them was Jewish.
In both cases where these two traditional bridal tunes were used, the bride was kind of musically naive. Which is to say, the first one, if you’d played a popular tune of her time and then asked her, “Okay–was that Glen Campbell, or the Rolling Stones?” would have had no idea. Her wedding was in a Church of Christ so there wasn’t any kind of musical instrument, so the wedding marches were played on a tape recorder for the occasion.
The other bride–the Jewish one–was about the same. She could probably tell the difference between the Lohengrin Wedding March and The Star-Spangled Banner, if she thought about it. I believe they played the wedding march because that’s the only way she would have known when to start down the aisle. Short of the organist stopping everything and saying, “Okay, let’s go now.”
I should say that possibly the reason I haven’t encountered the wedding marches at real weddings, as opposed to Tv and movie weddings, is that my family and a lot of my friends are extremely musical and in many cases have earned their living teaching or playing or both. But I honestly thought that using Lohengrin was mostly a TV/movie thing and not something real people did.
I have to say, when my son got married I was a little worried. If my DIL had used those songs for their wedding it would have lowered my esteem for her–not that I would have ever said anything. I was quite relieved when she picked other selections.