Bride Freaks Out On Youtube

[Toy Ranch]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=10VmJ-8XGA4

The bride comes in about 1:40 into it and it starts off bad and just gets worse and worse. This should be the Wikipedia definition of hysterical.

[Rawbunzel]

She seems a bit immature to be getting married.:1eek2:

[tekobari]

TR, I don't know if you've ever seen a Bridezilla before; probably more women than men have. But this is typical. They're all alike, although some start well before the wedding day.

Seriously.

[Toy Ranch]

TR, I don't know if you've ever seen a Bridezilla before; probably more women than men have. But this is typical. They're all alike, although some start well before the wedding day.

Seriously.

Bridezilla? What's that! :1eek2:

There's a name for it? A condition?

They all scream and cut their hair off right before the wedding?

[tekobari]

Oh, yes! There's a name for it. I think most women have known a Bridezilla. They think of their weddings as the movie of a lifetime, with them as the star. They must control everything. They will refuse to invite their best friend to be a maid of honor because they think she's too plump and will spoil the look of the show, for instance.

The hair is MAJOR. I haven't known of one who's cut it as this one did, but certainly ripped it out, along with the decorations, starting the hair over from scratch and delaying the wedding by hours. Bridesmaids must obey by wearing the dress she chooses, regardless of how flattering or ugly the cut is on them; the color she chooses; the hairstyle she chooses, ad infinitum. The costs to bridesmaids runs into the hundreds of dollars, and these women don't complain!

What I don't get is how nearly everyone surrounding them puts up with it. They think of their weddings as "the most important day of my life." I'm not joking. They don't think about the marriage, just the wedding.

There are even sites on the web dedicated to Bridezilla stories. Yup, they are a known personality disorder.

Oh, and after the wedding, they're likely to sue someone. The photographer or caterer or god forbid--the poor baker of the wedding cake! I'd never EVER bake a cake for a wedding, no matter what my skills are. They're insane.

My cousin was a Bridezilla, my first encounter with one. Terrifying.

[lol1uk]

if she had half a brain, she would have washed and blow dried her hair.....problem solved

[krisinluck]

OMG. I hope her groom got a load of this before he went down the aisle and tied himself to her...

That's fuckin' nuts.

[Toy Ranch]

Oh, yes! There's a name for it. I think most women have known a Bridezilla. They think of their weddings as the movie of a lifetime, with them as the star. They must control everything. They will refuse to invite their best friend to be a maid of honor because they think she's too plump and will spoil the look of the show, for instance.

The hair is MAJOR. I haven't known of one who's cut it as this one did, but certainly ripped it out, along with the decorations, starting the hair over from scratch and delaying the wedding by hours. Bridesmaids must obey by wearing the dress she chooses, regardless of how flattering or ugly the cut is on them; the color she chooses; the hairstyle she chooses, ad infinitum. The costs to bridesmaids runs into the hundreds of dollars, and these women don't complain!

What I don't get is how nearly everyone surrounding them puts up with it. They think of their weddings as "the most important day of my life." I'm not joking. They don't think about the marriage, just the wedding.

There are even sites on the web dedicated to Bridezilla stories. Yup, they are a known personality disorder.

Oh, and after the wedding, they're likely to sue someone. The photographer or caterer or god forbid--the poor baker of the wedding cake! I'd never EVER bake a cake for a wedding, no matter what my skills are. They're insane.

My cousin was a Bridezilla, my first encounter with one. Terrifying.

My wife got worried and a little wigged when my best man and I went off the day of the wedding and were looking for tuxes to rent and didn't get back until about 30 min before it started, but she didn't freak out or anything like that. We were trying to find powder blue ones but nobody had them. We had to settle for regular black ones. :-/

[sibs ling]

Toy, your poor wife!!

didn't get back until about 30 min before it started

DH showed up for our wedding 30 minutes before too. His dad was supposed to bring him and, at the last minute, decided he (FIL) needed cigars. Of course, he had to drive to the store 30 miles away.

I knew that DH was serious about getting married when he got himself AND DS1 ready (to include showers) with 5 minutes to spare.

The prewedding pictures had to be cancelled... My FIL was lucky I didn't physically hurt him.

'ling

[marble]

if she had half a brain, she would have washed and blow dried her hair.....problem solved

Amen - what a screaming nutcase! Her sisters (or whoever they were) kept trying to help her fix her hair and she just kept on .. chop chop chop.... good grief!!

"I HATE MY HAIR!! :1eek2: I HATE MY HAIR!! :1eek2: "

[Toy Ranch]

Toy, your poor wife!!



DH showed up for our wedding 30 minutes before too. His dad was supposed to bring him and, at the last minute, decided he (FIL) needed cigars. Of course, he had to drive to the store 30 miles away.

I knew that DH was serious about getting married when he got himself AND DS1 ready (to include showers) with 5 minutes to spare.

The prewedding pictures had to be cancelled... My FIL was lucky I didn't physically hurt him.

'ling

There wasn't a whole lot of giant planning involved for our wedding. We went to Vegas with family and friends and got married at the Graceland Wedding Chapel (http://www.gracelandchapel.com/)

Elvis gave the bride away and then serenaded us. Later he drove us to the airport. It was a blast! Very low-stress event... except that we were out hunting tuxes at the last minute, lol.

[Kandi]

Wow!

[nanastuff]

UMMMMMM.....her hair really did look like crap. :)

[nanastuff]

Marble....one of those sisters told her she looked like S. Temple. I'm just not so sure the bride wanted that look lol.

[Maison Rustique]

I've never understood why so many brides want to look so unlike themselves on their wedding day. What's wrong with the way you usually wear your hair? IMO a natural-looking bride is much more beautiful than someone with lacquered hair and a pound of make-up. That said, there are women who wear lacquered hair and a pound of make-up every day, so I guess that's normal for them...

[juliatheena]

My wedding day?

I did my own hair, my own make-up, etc....

I even catered my own wedding. Buffet style of course.

[tekobari]

Your wedding sounds like a rip, TR!! What fun. That you were looking for powder blue tuxes in itself is hysterical.

juliatheena, same here. We just had three witnesses. I wore a home made hippie dress and the JP said something like: I think these two will make it.

It's lasted 33 years, so I guess she was right. I give Bridezilla three years, tops.

[Heartland]

OMG, that bride is completely unhinged. :1eek2:

Now I'm dying to know how her hair looked for the ceremony.

[Emily Rose]

OMG, that bride is completely unhinged. :1eek2:

Now I'm dying to know how her hair looked for the ceremony.

LOL, it looked like someone took a machete to it!

[saabsister]

Dh and I got married in tee shirts and jeans thirty-six years ago. I should have saved our wedding ensembles. No fuss with the hair. His was slightly longer than mine and curlier.

[Helenjw]

Gee, what an outrageous reaction to a few curls.

Let's just hope that she doesn't have a similar displeasure with the tilt of the tits.

[Hepburn]

Dayum!

[Whammo]

I sure hope the groom buys psysho insurance before he goes through with the wedding.

[sadie999]

Bridezillas (http://games.amctv.com/bridezillas2005/) a WE original series.

Peace.

[zeldas]

Can you imagine her wedding night? :1cryhard:

[larruone]

Poor Brian....poor poor poor Brian.
That groom is in for a life of..... excitement.


poor Brian.

[krisinluck]

hahahahaha...Good Morning America has this on their lead in this morning!!! I'm doing kid duty here, so I don't know for sure but I wonder if we'll get the rest of the story!

Wheeeee.

[krisinluck]

Oh, man! The YouTube video is GONE. Maybe because mainstream news decided to pay them for it, or maybe because the scary crazy bride decided to murder the person who posted it if they didn't take that shit down!

[Kandi]

They had a blurb about it on the Today show yesterday but I only caught the end of it. They were asking her to come forward and be on the show. That would be priceless.:2headspin

[Pam]

Apparently, USA Today reported that the whole thing was a spoof.

[Kandi]

YES! She's on the Good Morning show right now. She's an aspiring actress and the whole thing was fake! OMG. Although she did cut her real hair for the "skit".

[krisinluck]

BluesBlvd - apparently GMA paid them more than the Today Show...

My first thought on learning it was a setup: Good thing they didn't do this in Boston. :2slampan:

[paleryder]

Heard on TV that Youtube pulled it....Netseed=an ad before the actual down- the-road ad. :rolleyes:

It seems like a real quick way to kill off interest in a site. Instead of delivering spam, they got you chasing their "netseed" spam. How long before this form of advertising gets old? :2gamecock


Net seeds like 'bride wigout' the way of advertising future

Mon, February 5, 2007

By LEE-ANNE GOODMAN, CP


TORONTO -- The advertising minds behind the now infamous bride wigout video that's created an international sensation call it a Net seed.

"You plant your seed on the Net, you nurture it, you watch it grow and then, hopefully, you watch it become a phenomenon that everyone's talking about, which is exactly what happened with the wigout video," producer Robbie McNamara said in an interview with CP over the weekend.

"It's what we like to call a Net seed -- it's our way of interactively advertising. It's more interesting, it's more entertaining, and it allows people out there to get involved."

McNamara and director John Griffith, who work for Burnout Productions, were hired by Toronto-based Capital C Communications to make a non-branded Internet commercial for Sunsilk hair products. Sunsilk wanted the word 'wigout' to be highlighted due to an upcoming, more traditional ad campaign in the works.

"It's a precursor to the ad," McNamara, 31, said of the six-minute video entitled Bride Has Massive Hair Wigout.

"They wanted to get the word 'wigout' to the masses."

To say the faux bride-to-be wigged out about her bad-hair day in the video, first posted to YouTube.com two weeks ago, is something of an understatement. The woman, played by 22-year-old Toronto university student Jodi Behan, has a full-fledged meltdown, shrieking, cursing and hacking her hair off with scissors as her horrified bridesmaids try to calm her down.

Behan can act -- her performance, in this modern-day age of women seemingly driven psychotic by the multimillion-dollar wedding industry, had the ring of truth to it. Griffith, 40, says he estimates the first million people who viewed the tantrum thought it was real, and the next two million watched because they believed it was fake.

"It didn't matter to us whether people believed it or didn't believe it -- just as long as they were watching it, sharing it with their friends and talking about it," he said.

Griffith and McNamara sent the video -- their first collaboration, and certainly not their last -- to just 20 people. They say it took a few days to come up with the idea, two hours to shoot it in a Toronto hotel room, and minutes to upload it to YouTube.com, the popular video-sharing website.

Within just a couple of days, an estimated three million people had seen the video, were frantically debating its veracity on various blogs and websites, with some even mimicking it by uploading their own bridal 'wigouts' on YouTube.

The excitement didn't die down even after the video was revealed to be a hoax, with the actresses doing the Canadian and U.S. talk-show circuits.

:sm1167:

source (http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2007/02/05/3530782-sun.html)

[KatieP]

They wanted words like "wigout" and "Net seed" to become well known. I am thinking of other words:

- deceptive
- manipulative
- cynical

Maybe unsuspecting viewers fell for it this time, but is any intelligent person likely to fall for it again?

[Meya]

While the video is fake, brides and their moms DO freakout at times. In the 5+ years I've worked at the salon, I've had the "pleasure" of being there on a few Saturdays when a wedding party comes in. Some have been fine, but a couple of times the stylists have had to deal with either a Bridezilla or her mother. The owner had to step in during one scene when the bride went off on one of the other stylists because of a mix-up with the scheduling (which wasn't the salons error).

The last time I worked during a wedding, the women all showed up in a huge white limo, were drinking champaigne at 10:00 a.m., brought in a make-up artist (without asking, then got mad because there was nowhere for him to set up), and basically took over the salon for 2 hours. They brought in at least 10 girls who weren't in the wedding, stood around and got in everyones way, and basically made a nuisance of themselves.

If a bride needs her hair done "up", the best thing she can do is have a practice "do" a few days before the wedding, especially if she is wearing a headpiece.

[paleryder]

This isn't the first time these staged videos have benn youtubed.

How many are going to go there just to watch teenage girls eat a live preying mantis?

They're just messing it up for people with real clips.

[paleryder]

While the video is fake, brides and their moms DO freakout at times

I'd watch the real thing, but why watch a lie? It didn't go down that way. It's actors performing in another commercial with a twist......it won't get the desired hits unless they deceive their audience.

I can watch commercials (whenever I choose to do so) and there are times I do watch them. At least I know I'm watching a sales pitch. It's upfront.

Katiep: deceptive
- manipulative
- cynical

Exactly....... Not interested in being played.

:sm1167:

[Whammo]

I was afraid she would fall off her broomstick and end up injuring or killing the groom.

Now that I know there is no groom, she's good to go. :1angelica

[Maggie]

It's like watching America's Funniest Home Videos, half of them look staged. Nobody likes to be played..