Saturday, July 25, 2009

First Dance

Weddings can send signals about the happy couples involved.

Formal affairs connote conformist attitudes -- of either the bride and groom or their parents. Unusual venues -- outdoors, on bungee platforms, underwater -- imply various degrees of the opposite.

Jillian Peterson and Kevin Heinz felt the urge to get in step with the times -- and ended up inviting a larger-than-usual number of surprised guests to their St. Paul, Minnesota, wedding. The video of them and their wedding party boogieing down the aisle had been seen more than 1.7 million times on YouTube before it was taken down for copyright reasons.

They then recreated the performance, to Chris Brown's "Forever," Friday on NBC's Today show.

Check it out, and feel free to join in.

2 comments:

  1. And in one of those curious media moments this morning Today Shower Carl Quintenilla asks "how did it become so popular?" Duh! It has been on The Today Show four days in a row. Now how do I get that kind of coverage for something like hard news?

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  2. All you lack is a good choreographer.

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