Wedding Music Video: The 'Marryoke' Trend (VIDEO)

The wedding video is no longer a simple documentation of your Big Day. Since cheap cameras and user-friendly editing software abound, pretty much anything is possible.

From wedding videos and marriage proposals designed to look like movie trailers, to thoughtfully staged save-the-date clips, we thought brides and grooms had done it all.

But here's a new trend that might have some staying power: the "Marryoke" video (a play on "marriage" and "karaoke"). In these music video-style performances, couples and their wedding parties lip-synch to a chosen song at different times throughout their wedding. A production company tapes the footage, then edits it into a mock music video.

Marryoke filmmaker Katie May says couples see these videos as a way to capture their Big Day that's more memorable than a standard wedding video. "I think most people want videos they can watch over and over again and not get bored, we often joke that the high view counts on our youtube videos are mostly attributed to the brides themselves," she told HuffPost Weddings.

The trend emerged in the UK in 2009 and took off in the US last year when a marryoke video of a couple lip-synching to the Black Eyed Peas "The Time (Dirty Bit)" went viral. Now, there are dozens of marryoke videos on YouTube and a host of videography companies offering marryoke-making services to couples.

May explained that videographers try not to distract the bride and groom from their Big Day when filming their marryokes: "We'll pop onto their radar two or three times throughout the day and get them to sing/mime a few lines from the song -- we try to be as unobtrusive as possible often just tagging along to the photo shoot and getting them to stay in their poses and do their lines."

Click through the slideshow below to see some of our favorite marryoke videos, and let us know in the comments if you think this wedding music video trend is here to stay.

Comments

[Tonirelay2]

06:50 AM on 01/23/2012

Great performance!! Lol

[farrellclan4]

12:01 PM on 01/21/2012

WE USED TO CALL IT SINGING BY A PIANO BAR iT DEFINATELY WAS FUN a DIFFERENT NAME DOESNT CHANGE WHAT IT IS OR WAS.

[Conquering Thor]

09:12 AM on 01/21/2012

Ah yes, the laughing, comedic, hokey 'Marryoke' simply must be capture before the all but inevitable 'Divorcieyoke' There is a whole lot more screaming, cursing, backstabing and crying in the latter one though. Will the wonderful couple be hiring a production company to capture THAT event for posterity, so that it too may live on in 'infamy'?

[mr science]

09:06 AM on 01/21/2012

Oh boy!!!!!!! Yet another morning dose of how negative and critical online people can be.
You people are awful......as a professional vocalist and musician, I think artistic expression is part of life.....shure, people shouldn't have (overly) drunk idiots sing on their vedding video, but who the hell are all of you to say what's cool and what isn't? I'll bet, if we could zoom in on your sorry butts right now, we'd find ugly, overweight dorks at their computers. Thanks for another view of how our country has failed to produce decent human beings who wish each other well......

[Copernicus TheWinner]

05:00 PM on 01/20/2012

Looks like they had a lot of fun and tyhis matters more than what some boring cynics online think

[TheHelp]

09:59 AM on 01/20/2012

Complete Tool.

[KDog76A]

09:49 AM on 01/20/2012

"I think most people want videos they can watch over and over again and not get bored,"

I got bored just reading the article.

Hey live in the moment and stop trying to capture it... Make the memories of a lifetime instead of remembering how much time you spent documenting the event.

[badgerwoman]

08:52 AM on 01/20/2012

Well, to each his own I guess. Most of these videos make the couple's family and friends look like the worst or the worst amateur musical theater productions. I should think most people would want to remember their wedding day in a bit of a less cringe-inducing way.

[XM202]

08:48 AM on 01/20/2012

how sad

[GeorgeSmiley2010]

07:34 AM on 01/20/2012

makes me want to support SOPA

[GarbaGreto]

06:58 AM on 01/20/2012

I only watched the first one and it was hilarious. It was supposed to be funny, right?

[Mrsbean54]

06:49 AM on 01/20/2012

I had far too much else to do on my wedding day than make a music video.....it's true that most people don't really watch their video much, which is why we only recorded the bouquet toss. We have lovely pictures, and I really CAN look at those all the time.

[Assumed Name]

06:47 AM on 01/20/2012

...it's a blast if it's your own and boring otherwise.

[SweetWilliam]

06:43 AM on 01/20/2012

Damn fine job, I was prepared to dislike it (OK, I'm a crotchety old man) but I really enjoyed it. Well done.

[Marryokes]

04:38 AM on 01/20/2012

Hi everyone. A better example of our marryokes is here -- http://vimeo.com/29167421 -- the guy in the 'Perfect Day' video is actually a very famous popstar in the UK who we were just having a little fun with. The actual video we produced as a result of that wedding is at that link (or here: http://youtu.be/udufBfu_j9k but I don't think that link works in the USA) - Katie May, Marryokes

[Jaybird135]

04:56 AM on 01/20/2012

OK. well now I'm even less impressed. Now the word "awful" comes to mind.

[SweetWilliam]

06:50 AM on 01/20/2012

FWIW, I thought it was great. I thought the twins and teen-age boys stole the show. And everyone looked like they were having a great time!