Surprise Wedding Dance Craze!
Plus other wild wedding traditions


Updated on May 18, 2011, 5:16 pm ET
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A bride dancing at her weddingIt's the sensation of this wedding season. The "surprise" wedding dance is now bigger than the bouquet toss when it comes to nuptial rituals.

If you haven't seen the clip of Jill and Kevin's Minnesotan bridal party dancing down the aisle to the tune of Chris Brown's Forever - you're missing out on five minutes of bridal bliss. (Warning: this clip is rated HT for happy tears.)


The video, oroginally posted on YouTube (thought the groom has since removed it!), spread like wildfire before finally landing on the Today Show last week. NBC brought the entire bridal party to New York to recreate their wow-worthy walk down the aisle.

This certainly isn't the first surprise wedding dance video (check out Surprise Evolution of the Wedding Dance, Surprise Thriller Wedding Dance and Surprise Father-Daughter Wedding Dance if you just can't get enough). But it's part of a growing trend of new wedding traditions.

Which begs the question - will wedding guests now expect some sort of surprise dance on the big day? Is choreographing kitsch now another chore for harried brides to add to their to-do lists?

Let's take a look at some of these new wedding traditions to see which are I Dos and which are I Don'ts ...

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hope_xo
#1. hope_xo on 07/31/2009 - 8:51 am (EDT)
I LOVE THIS! I think it's so awesome. haha - not sure if I could ever do it, but I give them a lot of credit. Make the best of it & have fun!
ellen
#2. ellen on 07/31/2009 - 9:36 am (EDT)
I love the wish tree idea! Also, there is a show on TLC all about The surprise wedding dance ... ROCK THE RECEPTION! It's pretty funny!
ellen
#3. ellen on 07/31/2009 - 9:37 am (EDT)
Video is no longer available up there -- might want to find a replacement for it! Dying to see it!
blondeambition
#4. blondeambition on 07/31/2009 - 9:45 am (EDT)
I SO want to do this at my wedding!
Manicmommy
#5. Manicmommy on 07/31/2009 - 9:45 am (EDT)
What an AWESOME way to start your life together as a married couple! I even had my hubby watching and he was cracking up! TOO COOL!
hipstergal23
#6. hipstergal23 on 07/31/2009 - 9:59 am (EDT)
This video is so great! I saw it on the today show and laughed so much. However I then read another commercial that said Jill and Kevin may have saved Chris Browns career
Fern
#7. Fern on 07/31/2009 - 11:16 am (EDT)
@Ellen -- seriously? I need to set my Tivo to that Rock the REception show
danggirl
#8. danggirl on 07/31/2009 - 12:45 pm (EDT)
I know -- it's so cute. But the Chris Brown thing is kind of weird.
MsFahrenheit
#9. MsFahrenheit on 07/31/2009 - 2:07 pm (EDT)
If and when I get married, EVERYONE'S dancing to Thriller. lol
cloo
#10. cloo on 07/31/2009 - 5:27 pm (EDT)
I found this video the other day, IT IS MY FAVORITE! What a fun wedding to have with great memories!