I wondered how long it would take before this would turn into a Footloose kind of debate.
Church weddings are to glorify god. Or so some say on google.
Can you Church Dance? Why Not. You Church Sing.
Uplift the hearts, feel the joy...
SOme churches have a “praise dance ministry” - whatever that is.
one might wonder about the choice of singer but the lyrics gave them joy.
Who are we to Judge? It is wanted they wanted. They felt joy and expressed it. It might not be what someone else would want for a wedding...but it made them happy. It is their life.
I guess if God doesn’t like it he can smite them.
My daughter got married ten years ago and they set to popular movie music at the time. I still watch it. It was truely awesome. She walked to the theme of Last of the Mohicans.
It made me teary. In a good way.
But I am lame like that.
:D
That was AWESOME!!!
Amusing, but you couldn’t pay me to be a groomsman in that tacky, circus-like ceremony. Too bad the vid cut off when it did — I was curious to see if the vows were equally ....nontraditional.
It’s shocking because it’s unexpected, but it is joyful and an obvious celebration of marriage.
I have always felt it to be shameful that so many people are so quick to declare joyful things shameful, especially while wrapping themselves in religion. What arrogance to dare strike at any form of worship, simply because it doesn’t fit into one’s dogma.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and there is no more dangerous place to stand than between a joyous heart and God.
Why does everything nowadays have to be about entertainment?!
UUUUGGGHHH!
It’s an awesome entrance and it made me smile — but the setting was beyond inappropriate. If you choose a church for the wedding, they you act like you are in a church!
I would have loved to have done this at my own wedding as the entrance to the reception
Thanks for posting!
This video shows a total lack of respect.
Sorry. This choreographed demonstration was about these individuals wanting attention. Nothing more.
Anyone trying to make this out to be “for God” is wrong.
The church ceremony is about joining two people in marriage under God as he instructed.
If this “show” was really about a joyous outburst of love of life or love of God, then it wouldn’t have been obviously rehearsed and planned.
I thought it was great .. maybe not what *I* would have chosen, but seems to have worked for them.
What isn’t covered is the couple’s and their friends’ backgrounds. It could be they do local stage performances .. there was a certain amount of choreography done to make this work, which would make it not only fun but a labor of love and exhibition of their God-given gifts.
I should hope if I am ever lucky enough to get married again that I would have the dignity and respect for my bride-to-be that I wouldn’t let a bunch of yayhoos carry on like drunken frat partiers...
My co-worker found this today, and shared it at work.
I think it was delightful and joyous. How great to have a circle of friends, family who celebrate the joy of the start of a marriage with such exuberance. All I could think of was “make a joyous noise unto the Lord.”
I am Roman Catholic, but have been to a lot of different weddings. I have seen dancing at AME churches...it was wonderful, and happy (and the groom sang at one! Awesome!)
Weddings are celebrations; in my Irish family...wakes are “happy” as well.
I really enjoyed the video...btw...there is (on YouTube) a “History of Dance Wedding Reception” with a couple doing their first dance. Oh wow...the groom is the bomb!!! He is hysterical!
I’d like my funeral to be like this. Not because everyone would be happy to see me gone but happy that I’d be gone to a better place.
That was great!
I can hardly believe all the bitter, wet blankets who posted to this thread. Sheesh.
It’s embarrassing.
Never thought I’d see something like that at a straight wedding...
>>>Friday and this is a feel good story.
Not for everybody. Now the rest of the story:
July 25, 2009 —
A NEWLYWED couple from Minnesota became the latest victims in the vicious morning TV booking wars, when ABC had them thrown out of their hotel and canceled their airline tickets to fly home.
Kevin and Jill Heinz were left stranded after they committed the unpardonable crime of appearing on NBC as well as ABC. “We’ve been kicked out of our room,” Kevin told Page Six yesterday from the lobby of the Millennium Hotel. “New York is cut-throat. That’s what we’ve learned.”
The Heinzes became a sought-after “get” for ABC’s “Good Morning America” and NBC’s “Today” after the video of their June 20 wedding march — featuring the ushers and bridesmaids doing a funky dance down the aisle — became a sensation on YouTube, with 1.4 million hits.
Producers at “GMA” booked the couple on yesterday’s show, flew them to New York and put them up at the Millennium, but the newlyweds also agreed to pretape an appearance on “Today.”
“We did it by the book,” a “Today” exec told Page Six. “We said, ‘Come in at 6:15 and we’ll have you out by 6:30,’ which is exactly what we did.” But particularly galling to the ABC execs, “Today” aired its Heinz segment before “GMA” put them on air live.
Then, when ABC execs learned that NBC had agreed to fly in the ushers and bridesmaids to reenact their dance with the newlyweds on this morning’s “Today” show, they decided to cancel the couple’s hotel and flights. NBC quickly moved the couple to another hotel and agreed to fly them home tomorrow.
“We figured they’d be happier staying with their whole wedding party on the ‘Today’ show’s tab. It certainly makes us happier,” a “GMA” exec told Page Six.
As for the Heinzes, maybe they picked Chris Brown’s “Forever” as their nuptial dance track because of the lyrics: “We can be two rebels breaking the rules, me and you, you and I.”
No father to walk her down the aisle? Wonder if he was too embarrassed.
Hm?....I’d say that their chances of being divorced are very high.