"JK Wedding Entrance" YouTube Wedding Dance Video Rocks

If You're Looking for Jon and Kate Dancing Down the Aisle, the "JK Wedding Entrance" YouTube Wedding Dance Video Ain't It

The latest video to go viral on YouTube is the "JK Wedding Entrance" dance video. And for good reason. It's a feel good video of a couple named Jill and Kevin (therefore the "JK") who, along with friends and family, somewhat choreographed their wedding ceremony entrance, everyone dancing down the aisle. The "JK Wedding Entrance" video was shot in a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, just like most wedding ceremony videos, looks to be another dull bit of video footage at the beginning. Thankfully, the "JK Wedding Entrance" is anything but dull, and what "JK" got was an excellent memento to last their lifetimes -- that is now being shared with millions.

Dancing down the aisle, the group in the "JK Wedding Entrance" YouTube video brings a festivity and joy to what is normally a pretty solemn occasion. But instead of the usual formality of the Mendelssohn and Wagner pairing of march and chorus introducing the wedding participants, the "JK Wedding Entrance" opted for a more modern processional: Chris Brown's "Forever" (made famous by its appearance as the backing track on the Wrigley's Doublemint gum commercial). Ignoring convention and the Chris Brown controversy, and one must for the song to work here, the five-minute YouTube video is simply fun to watch.

With a nod to the "The Stroll," that old "American Bandstand" and "Soul Train" all-inclusive dance that highlights one or two dancers that proceed down an aisle made up of other dancers, the ushers, bridesmaids, groomsmen, and the intended couple danced their entrance into the church and up to the altar in this video. Of course, the purists are going to scream "foul" and talk about the irreverence of Jill and Kevin. But those traditionalists should remember that Mendelssohn and Wagner did not write their music millennia ago (19th century), nor did they actually write their respective pieces of music to be used in weddings (Shakespeare's "Midsummer's Night's Dream" and "Lohengrin"). And for the biblical purists, a verse in the book of Ecclesiastes states that there exists "a time to dance."