Youtube JK wedding entrance to Chris Love

Just watch the JK wedding video to Chris Brown's "Forever". Of course you can do this - or anything else your heart desires - Mozart would probably have loved it. As a native MINNESOTAN (the Other side of the River, in Minneapolis) I *heart* this vid, and their charming little brown tuxedos.

Hipster Wedding - PopUp Chapel in Williamsburg

We officiated at 5 lovely weddings at the Williamsburg PopUp Wedding Chapel in June. Lovely couples, arriving on Vespas,with pink hair to match the paper streamers, good music, hugs and happy families. Enjoy the pix. Pix by Sarah Sloboda

Note to Canadian Readers - 3 of the four couples included a Canadian! From Vancouver, Red Deer and Ontario. You can see some more pix from one of the Canadian photographers, Mango Studios, HERE.

Wedding on Twitter?

Well, of course people PROPOSE on Twitter. That's old news by now. But we were recently asked about a wedding service on Twitter (by a journalist, actually) so I guess I should answer. We have married people and recorded the ceremony and broadcast it on videophones, of course. We did this a few years ago when the groom's mother was refused a US visa, and she couldn't come to the wedding. We have also broadcast the wedding to distant relatives, absent friends, and friends in hospital. Twittering a wedding seems absurdly retro, in a way (Oh look, I got married and twitted and fell in a manhole...)

Of course our wedding couples from the EU text madly, sending congratulations, and updates:"We're just ready to start", "Yes, Mom, we just did it, I'm really married! -- So you can Tweet all you want about the event, as it's really just another cell phone call.

But if you want a "Wedding2point0" on Twitter - you could:
*Propose on Twitter.
*Tweet your ceremony assembly like a Flashmob Wedding ("If UR not Busy 2day, CU @ 1pm CentralPK fountain 4 our wedding, 4Mal dress Optional")
*Tweet directions and timing
*Tweet when the bride arrives ("Here she comes, rounding the bushes!")
*Live blog/tweet the ceremony to outsiders
*Tweet congratulations

But the point of a wedding, whether it's 4 people or 200, is so that a couple can face each other, in REALITY, in front of their witness/ friends/ family, and say in their OWN VOICES, "a public declaration of the private commitment that they have already made to one another", and that they are accepting the other person as their legal life partner, through whatever lies ahead of them. A Tweet is not a vow (though you can tweet the vows to others of course). (See this post on the minimum LEGAL aspects of a wedding ceremony).

Of course Nokia, Trou and Samsung would like you to queue for their Holographic Phone, and you can have a virtual Princess Leia wedding, if that's your costume play. Or if you want a truly surreal/Twitted (pace Colbert) 2point0 wedding, dress up your avatars and get "married" in 2ndLife. But if you want to share Health Insurance as well as bandwidth, just make sure you go to the Courthouse or get a live Marriage Officiant to perform a "Face Meet" marriage service for you - and use your voice, not your thumb.