I offer this to start your weekend on a high–and humorous–note. This has to rank with the “dancing wedding video” as one of the most heartwarming (and viral) videos ever. (In fact, they have their similarities).
From the YouTube description:
On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent’s house for dinner. When she arrived I had stationed my brother to sit her in the back of an open Honda CRV and give her some headphones. He “wanted to play her a song”…
What she got instead was the world’s first Live Lip-Dub Proposal.
And what Matthew Cobb wrote when he sent it to me this morning:
You’d have to have a hard heart not to be toucherd by this. It’s already gone viral: >11 million views in less than a week. I don’t give a toss about marriage, but the woman’s increasingly disbelieving reaction is moving. And unlike many such things, it doesn’t appear to be an advert for anything. . .
I’m especially fond of the dancing Jews. Enjoy.
… just as long as this doesn’t have anything to do with Carly Rae Jepsen.
I see boots are in fashion there too.
Indeed–and don’t they look GOOD!
I was toucherd by that.
I’ve heard cynics say it’s an ad for Honda CRV. I can see where they’re coming from, but it doesn’t actually work as an ad, and I don’t like the attitude that motivated regular people can’t do cool things.
Yeah! When someone does something unusual or cool, a herd of lemmings always shows up calling it “fake, staged” et cetera lol.
Much like many of the reactions to evolution… I wonder if there’s a connection.
Pressure’s on for the wedding. How do you top that? I guess the 11 million+ youtube hits will help finance the table flowers.
Let’s not even talk about the honeymoon.
LOL
For 11M views with an average ‘click-thru’, the uploader would normally receive around £20k/$30k [approx 1/3 of the ad revenue]. However this video is linked to a copyrighted song so he will not see a penny from ad-sense.
That made me smile. A lot.
Thanks for a great start to a busy Friday.
(I’ve got two tests to take today.)
While her ongoing reaction was pretty clear, I still kept thinking “she better say ‘yes’ — or this video is really going to get embarrassing.” I’ve watched films of some very public proposals which didn’t go so well. If you do something like this, you better damn well be sure she’ll accept. Talk about putting someone on the spot …
Yeah, definitely. That’s what I was thinking, too. 🙂
Yep, the fiancé was a bit disappointing after the show. He should have worn a glitter suit and Ziggy Stardust makeup 🙂 Strangely, the video changed my mind about Bruno Mars.
sigh, I wish I had so many talented people to call on 🙂
very nifty. My husband’s proposal was “You know I want to marry you, right?” Very romantic in its own way 😀
I wonder if they’ll feel compelled to top the proposal with the wedding itself.
Bet they don’t do anything. Doing something that clever only needs to be done once.
Wow, that’s amazing, and well choreographed. They really put thought into what she would and wouldn’t see and how and where people should move to maximize her surprise. Must have been a lot of work!
I’d better not show this to my girlfriend, or else any proposal I may make in the future would be pale by comparison. 😉
Very touching, and very well done. Bravo.
oh oh. Now I can’t stop watching This made may day –thanks so much. My heart is melting.
Same here. I watched it four times already…so nice to see such joy in people’s faces.
Brilliant! I looked them up & the clip shows a group of around 60 friends come together to help the Portland actor Isaac Lamb propose to his partner Amy Frankel. The fact that it’s lovely, zany Portland & that there’s acting connections explains the high concentration of talent here.
The tune is Marry You by Bruno Mars & the chorus lyric is actually this:
So a nice hidden funning pun too given that it’s highly likely that Isaac & Amy are Jews
Thank you for allowing me to verify I still have a hard heart. I was afraid that I was being softened after seeing so many cats. This reaffirmed my misanthropic foundation.
Heart softener. Sounds risky.
I would agree, but the girl in the red dress made me a glutton for punishment.
Thanks for making a rainy day brighter!
Now the next Caturday clip have some stiff competition to claw down.
That was heartwarming; it made my wife cry. You know, I think it actually slipped in a powerful plug for gay marriage. People are watching this video, including some religious fundamentalists who are anti-gay, and like everyone else they are swept up in the joy and happiness of a timeless romantic story. But wait! What’s this?! Two gay guys kissing?! They appear to be happy, just as happy as a heterosexual couple! Could it be that gay people have all the same feelings “normal” people do?! [Cognitive Dissonance ensues…]
The whole thing was wonderfully inclusive. I especially liked that people who couldn’t be there in person were skyped in!
Yes, I initially mistook the husband for a priest–dressed in all black–and when he hugged the rabbi I thought that was a nice touch since those two holy men can be opposed to inter-religious marriages…in my experience.
i must have a hard heart. that is the worst song i could ever hear today. the sentiment IS nice, however but, what an awful song.
I don’t think it’s your heart. More likely your ears.
Romantic indeed, but I’m afraid that I rather pathetically thought ‘ooh, I hope they told their neighbours – one fed up bloke coming home from work and finding his drive filled with dancing loons could ruin this’
So, no pressure then.
I must say that lifted my spirits greatly after the “Ain’t No Homo Gonna Make It To Heaven” quagmire of the other day.
I’m not interested in marriages in general either, but I will confess to tearing up. This is so sweet. What a lovely bunch of family and friends!
Singing, dancing, colour … and then the groom-to-be clad in black from head to toe walks in looking like the village undertaker!
Absolutely awesome! Nicely choreographed. Heart-meltingly sweet. Makes me ashamed to admit that I ended up proposing quietly in the front seat of a ’74 Pinto. Just wasn’t that creative back then.
“a ’74 Pinto”
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Before or after it burst into flames?
Oh, Jerry, you’re the best. Thanks you for bringing such things to our attention. This is kick-ass!
~ M
“Special thanks to McGinerton, my pertner in crime and the best collaborator in the biz…”
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Who, oddly enough, only shows up in reference to this video. Which seems to be wildly popular in Japan.
Very enjoyable.
Boy, do I not buy that that’s genuine. (Or if it is, that it didn’t get funding/help.)