Livestreaming a Wedding

anidorikiladra

I got a Facebook event invite yesterday. Two of my Facebook friends are getting married, and they are livestreaming their wedding for all their fb friends to see. I'm going to watch because I'm nosy, but what are your thoughts on this? Is it rude, weird, or a cool idea?

southernbelle0915

Rude. Assuming there are some people are actually invited to attend in person, I see this as a mix of b-listing and tiered wedding. 

ei34

I see it as AWish.  If they're livestreaming their wedding for all of their FB friends, I would consider it not so much B-listing as much as "look at us on our big day!". Given your choices of rude, weird, or cool, I'd say that it's weird.

OliveOilsMom

Rude, its one thing if granny can't make it, so you set up the livestreaming for her to view your wedding.  But just sending out the link to everyone is so AW and could be seen as gift grabby by some people.

I know that some Vegas chapels live stream their weddings, but that link should only go to people who can't attend your wedding but were invited to share the day and declined attending.

anidorikiladra

OliveOilsMom said:

Rude, its one thing if granny can't make it, so you set up the livestreaming for her to view your wedding.  But just sending out the link to everyone is so AW and could be seen as gift grabby by some people.

I know that some Vegas chapels live stream their weddings, but that link should only go to people who can't attend your wedding but were invited to share the day and declined attending.

Ok, this makes me feel better about my reaction. I thought it was in poor taste. I don't think they are doing it to be AWish, but more of a misguided idea that their friends want to see their wedding. They are both people I met working for a summer camp so they have a lot of Facebook friends from this. I think they did it to include them all somehow? 
Doesnt justify it but yeah. 

anidorikiladra

southernbelle0915 said:

Rude. Assuming there are some people are actually invited to attend in person, I see this as a mix of b-listing and tiered wedding. 

Yeah, I did feel very weird getting a Facebook invite for this. It's not a private ceremony either.

short+sassy

I'm in the "weird", with a touch of "rude", camp.  I could perhaps see this as being "cool and thoughtful" if ONLY guests who sent in declines were invited to view it streaming.

However, generally speaking, I would have less than zero interest in watching a live streaming wedding of a FB friend/acquaintance.  It would probably be a different attitude for a close friend/family member, where I had received an invite but couldn't go

emmaaa

The only way I find this okay is when the livestream link is only shared with those initially invited to the wedding. For example, I know a girl who got married her in the States but has a lot of family in Egypt that couldn't make the trip for the wedding so they skyped it to them,

thisismynickname2

Of all the things I could be doing on, I'm assuming, a Saturday afternoon, live-streaming an acquaintance's wedding ranks at about a zero. 
I'd probably be that person who gets a notification of "[xyz] was live 2 hrs ago" and saying, what the fuck? And looking for curiosity's sake for 10 seconds. 

hellohkb

emmaaa said:

The only way I find this okay is when the livestream link is only shared with those initially invited to the wedding. For example, I know a girl who got married her in the States but has a lot of family in Egypt that couldn't make the trip for the wedding so they skyped it to them,

This. I'm unable to go to a bat mitzvah of the girl I spent years babysitting and essentially watched grow up. I'm so sad I can't go, but now that I live 2000 miles away and I have a wedding close by to attend the day before, it is impossible. Her father mentioned setting up a livestream and I really hope he does.