Friday, 24 September 2010
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Here Comes the Bride, Here Comes the... Tweet?
So about a week ago, I'm bored at work, perousing my facebook newsfeed. I keep seeing these updates from the twitter account of this guy I knew in high school. Seems normal right? Not really. They were updates about his wedding. In real time. As they happened.
Bride walking down aisle.
Couple standing at the altar.
Bride hands her flowers to her sister, tears in her eyes.
Minister welcomes guests and couple.
And I'm thinking, no way. There is no way that he would be standing up there typing all of this, in his suit in front of the minister and all the guests. And he wasn't (thankfully for his bride). Turns out he enlisted a friend of his, one of the wedding guests, to live Tweet his wedding.
For some reason, I found this really repulsive.
First of all, anyone on a computer reading the live feed was obviously not invited to the wedding, so why would they want or need a play by play of the action? I mean, I wish them the best, but if we were that close that I'd need all that info, I'd be there.
Plus, the couple had a photographer and a videographer there to document the event (as I learned from the obnoxious updates), so it's not as if they were doing it for the sake of memories.
To top it all off, in the days following the wedding, the couple was tweeting and blogging their honeymoon experience. Is anything private anymore? Why would anyone care what you are doing minute by minute in whatever tropical location you're in? I mean, taking pictures and talking about the trip afterward is one thing, but while you're away, shouldn't you be focusing on each other, your trip, and oh I don't know, consummating your union?
Now, to every rule, there is an exception, because what this couple did was definitely funny. (Note: The couple notes in the info on the video that this was done as a joke.)
But when it's not a joke, I just don't get it.
Does social networking really have any place at a wedding? Would you enlist a friend to live tweet your nuptials?
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Oh MAN that video made me laugh... Actually, I'm considering webcasting my wedding, for those who can't make it. So... I don't think it's completely off base, to involve technology like that for a ceremony.
I think it does. especially if you had invited people and they couldn't make it for some reason. My friend had live video feed for her wedding. I was actually at the wedding though. haha.
As long as he wasn't the one actually doing it and it isn't as obnoxious as your friend's I don't see a problem with updating everyone the events of the day. Not the honeymoon though. everyone already knows whats going on there.
I spend so much time on Twitter I highly question my ever getting a spouse.
It reminds me of those churches who broadcast their sermons via web and attendees can access it straight from home.
While it might seem obnoxious at first, I agree with @midge4ever@xanga that it might serve a purpose for those who couldn't make it to the event and still want to feel involved. I know I wasn't able to afford the trip to my SO's sister's wedding this summer, and I felt so out of the loop because my SO was a groomsman and couldn't keep me updated :( They just posted pics (finally!) on FB so at least I get to enjoy it after the fact.
Updating much during the honeymoon is a bit much though. I mean I guess you can post a "leaving for [destination]," "safely arrived," and a "headed back from [destination]" just so people aren't blowing up your phone or inbox, but that's about it.i might right AFTER the wedding seeing as if i get married anytime soon its with a guy i met online, but thats just silly to do during the wedding.
That...is really stupid.
Twitter is lame.My mom updated her facebook from her phone saying "about to walk down the aisle!" when she was standing in the other room about to come out. i wouldn't ever give a blow by blow, and i don't even think i will do what my mom did, but i mean, it's their wedding, if that's what they want to do, more power to them.
Tweeting or Facebooking a wedding seems dumb. A live video feed, however, would make more sense. That way people who couldn't come could still see the wedding.
Well, I feel like sometimes people limit their guest lists and exclude people who would otherwise be there. Like two girls who graduated from my section didn't invite the entire section, but we were still really interested in how it went and probably would have watched tweets go online if they had done that.
That's really dumb :/ I mean, for the couple who did it as a joke, that's fine, but seriously?
Seriously?
No way. I don't feel that's acceptable.
I'm not doing any of that. No Facebook, no twitter or anything at my wedding..and I'll personally yell at any guest and kick them out if they do this. This is considered rude and just plain ridiculous. People can take their noses out of social networking for a second to enjoy a beautiful wedding.
I'd probably ask people to record the wedding..
Meh. I don't think this tops the guys who played a prank on their newlywed friends by putting a sensor pad under their hotel mattress that broadcast every time they had sex, how long it lasted, and gave a rating.
On twitter.
@TakingxOverxMe@xanga - i agree with you. honestly, i could kind of understand the concept, if they want to include people who didn't make it, but fb/twitter is stupid. it's not as though you can even document or write much on a status update. a video-feed would be more useful and less obnoxious. and documenting the honeymoon as it was happening via twitter? flat-out ridiculous, if you ask me.
i wouldn't do it. i'm not even planning on having much of a wedding. my boyfriend and i want to get everything done at city hall and use the money that wouldve been spent on the wedding on an apartment and furniture, all that stuff. & it sounds to me like this couple only got married in order to boast about it on twitter, haha. the couple in the video was cute, though.
First off, Twitter is gay, so why they would want to post every single thing to there I will never understand. Second, why would anyone need to post every second of it to begin with? For those not invited, it's obviously none of their business what goes on. For me, there's a reason why I didn't invite someone, and it's because A) I don't want them there! and B) because I don't want them there, it isn't any of their damn business what goes on!
the things he was tweeting were pretty standard wedding details. i wouldn't be too interested in reading those posts if i wasn't at the wedding. a "congrats blank and blank, what a beautiful wedding!" would be just fine.
i would before (ceremony starts in two hours, i'm so excited/nervous) and then after (at the reception, i love my new hubby/wifey). but not anywhere between that time period. and DEFINITELY not the honeymoon. at all. that's pushing it.
I wouldn't do that. I'd just probably ask my friend to record the wedding but tweet it and facebook it? What?!
The video was funny. I would never do that at my wedding though. Tweeting everything is just bizarre though