Comments on: Greatest wedding proposal ever: the lip-dub

By: Daniel Heneghan

Daniel Heneghan — Thu, 31 May 2012 02:08:00 +0000

These are the worst comments I’ve ever read. What a cute video and a fun, beautiful, and special way to propose. They’re obviously in love, I am happy for them.

By: zachstronaut

zachstronaut — Wed, 30 May 2012 20:31:00 +0000

I say congrats to this couple, and all of the performers!

The negativity of the comments here is kind of shocking.

By: geohump

geohump — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:17:00 +0000

TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME.
(repeat gogol times or as needed)

By: Repurposed

Repurposed — Tue, 29 May 2012 23:38:00 +0000

I imagine that if it was fake, we would fall upon it with all the glory that is internet rage. There’s a little 4chan in all of us.

By: simonbarsinister

simonbarsinister — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:06:00 +0000

Never ask a question you don’t already know the answer to.
– Old lawyers proverb

By: Will Porter

Will Porter — Mon, 28 May 2012 22:02:00 +0000

Yes to first question, no to second. =) She and her husband (shaggy-haired dude) are really good friends of the family, though!

By: Will Porter

Will Porter — Mon, 28 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Well, the street was really only “blocked” for the 5 minutes we were actually performing, so we had a negligible impact on local traffic. We didn’t set up cones or anything, and we let neighbors through during rehearsal time. I’ve never heard of anyone being cited for that kind of short-term activity in a side street — maybe in Soviet Russia? ;)

By: Shelley Barker

Shelley Barker — Mon, 28 May 2012 17:26:00 +0000

As a mature, sometime-cynic (ie., cranky old broad) , this marriage proposal video brought tears. Don’t let the romance out of your lives! We don’t all have actor friends to help pull off this kind of event but WOW it sure is great when somebody goes to this kind of effort for somebody else. Thanks Isaac and friends, LOVED IT!!

By: Ryan Lenethen

Ryan Lenethen — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:58:00 +0000

I prefer my marriage proposals to be by memo or facsimile.

By: Ryan Lenethen

Ryan Lenethen — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:55:00 +0000

That, or you are really setting yourself up for some soul crushing embarrassment. I recall seeing on TV some poor sap who proposed on the JumboTron at a baseball game (I think). She said no, shaking her head. I believe it was also on the highlight reals of the week. Nothing like getting rejected and crushed in front of 60 of your friends, or millions of strangers…

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Mon, 28 May 2012 09:16:00 +0000

Well at 1:45 they have drinks at “shots of Petrone”(sp?), but yeah, it certainly makes the video more interesting and helps steer away from the drunken proposal concept.

I also have to admire the complicated and tricky crossed-leggs spirit fingers bit they do twice, was really wondering how they got so many people to do that until I read one comment about how many of them are actually dancers. Props to everyone for getting it all right in one take, imagine having to try and schedule a reshoot??

By: bwcbwc

bwcbwc — Mon, 28 May 2012 06:39:00 +0000

Also she hugged the girl in the red dress at the end, so I think a few sisterly hints were involved in confirming the intent.

By: dragonfrog

dragonfrog — Mon, 28 May 2012 04:54:00 +0000

Yeah, you kind of suspect this happened after a number of conversations about marriage and family and such – conversations that pretty neatly triangulated the answer without getting quite to the point of asking the question…

By: mrbofus

mrbofus — Mon, 28 May 2012 04:53:00 +0000

@facebook-42007221:disqus :
The comment system wouldn’t let me reply to your comment below; I guess we’ve reached the deepest nested level the system allows.Anyways, the citation wouldn’t be for somebody dancing in an empty side street. It would be for a group of people blocking off the street without a permit. It’s like when you throw a block party how many cities require you to obtain a permit. Obviously you guys weren’t throwing a block party, but you were doing something where you [presumably] notified all your neighbors that you would be utilizing the roadway for a period of time.Anyways, it’s nice that your city officials are not being jerks. Or that you didn’t have to worry about them being being jerks in the future when you were planning and performing.

By: Will Porter

Will Porter — Mon, 28 May 2012 04:24:00 +0000

Citing somebody for dancing in an empty side street? That’s not how we roll in Portland.

By: Will Porter

Will Porter — Mon, 28 May 2012 04:20:00 +0000

Agreed 100%.

By: Cheryl Tay

Cheryl Tay — Mon, 28 May 2012 03:50:00 +0000

You’re absolutely right. Also, not only is Marry You overplayed, it’s also the WORST song one can use for anything wedding-related. He wants to marry the girl only because they’re both drunk & he doesn’t mind if it ends the next day! I know some people don’t care about lyrics but if that were the case, the groom-to-be might as well have just used some Lady Gaga crap.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Mon, 28 May 2012 03:40:00 +0000

I can’t find the button to up-vote this post so it stays at the top of the BB front-page….

At the same time, the complaints of “I don’t want that to happen to me” remind me of the TV-show within “Crimen Ferpecto”.

By: spiderman0521

spiderman0521 — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:25:00 +0000

When it comes to something like a marriage proposal (and there isn’t much like it to begin with), my style is much more like yours. Since the couple is obviously (not) asking for my opinion, here it is. For me, this is a work of art that I applaud and I can appreciate the sentiment, the effort, and the skill, but don’t have to love it, and for some of the same reason you give. I would be happy to do something creative and crazy like this for my girlfriend’s birthday, but not for a marriage proposal.
When I first saw this days ago, it made me uncomfortable because it treated something that, in my opinion, is one of the more intimate moments in a person’s life, as a public performance for friends, neighbors, and passersby. I have no suspicions whether it’s genuine. Not even I am that cynical.

I have spent time around theater people and I’ve lived in Portland as well; the intersection of those two groups obviously has some unreserved and generous people.It looks like everyone had a wonderful time, most importantly the engage-er and engage-ee. Bravo!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:23:00 +0000

It’s Disqus. We have no control over it. It’s a massive nuisance. I edit 5 – 10% of comments to remove extra line breaks.

By: EnglebertFlaptyback

EnglebertFlaptyback — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:22:00 +0000

Will Porter above has commented that the video was originally recorded with the intent of making available to the participants. Some of those participants shared it on Facebook, and it just snowballed from there.

This is a truly “viral” video. The concept has been bastardized by advertisers, but in the end those advertisements are *not* actually viral videos.

By: EnglebertFlaptyback

EnglebertFlaptyback — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:16:00 +0000

You’re trying entirely too hard.

By: EnglebertFlaptyback

EnglebertFlaptyback — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:11:00 +0000

It’s interesting to me how the excessively cynical comments don’t seem to get retracted even when a participant corrects them.

By: MrJM

MrJM — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:42:00 +0000

My subconscious has made up a whole back story for the lead dancer in the red skirt. Did she really choreograph the dance? Is she really Amy's sister? That's the story I've developed in my mind.

By: MrJM

MrJM — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:37:00 +0000

Will Porter FTW!

By: MandoZink

MandoZink — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:21:00 +0000

This was just awesomely cute. It made me tear up. I interrupted my wife’s zombie movie to make her watch this.

When I asked my wife to marry me she had a raging flu. It was midnight, Jan1, 2000. I made her get out of her sick-bed and sit on the couch, telling her this was a once in a lifetime event. She was so, so sick – she could hardly move. Then I popped the question. Five minutes late she was out in the street throwing firecrackers, saying she didn’t feel sick anymore. That wellness only lasted a few hours. She still had to finish out her flu.

By: mrbofus

mrbofus — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:08:00 +0000

Oh, I just assumed you would need a permit for something like that. I thought that if the city/police saw the video and they wanted to be jerks, they could cite you guys for something [not sure what the laws in your area are about driving with someone in the back with the trunk open, blocking off streets, etc...], so I thought you guys might have gotten a permit to cover yourselves legally.

I’m glad it all worked out though!

By: Will Porter

Will Porter — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:58:00 +0000

Honestly, the original intention was never to make a viral video — it was to make a great experience for Amy. Everyone involved (not to mention those who couldn’t make it that day) wanted video documentation, though, and of course we all shared it on our Facebook pages because we thought it was fun and hilarious. It just kind of grew from there…

By: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:55:00 +0000

I grew up with the choreographer. This wasn’t an AD haha.

By: Will Porter

Will Porter — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:55:00 +0000

I was there, and no we didn’t have a permit — we just cleared out of the street the three (3) times a car came by during our single rehearsal. I don’t believe one needs a permit for that kind of thing…