I went to a wedding today.  There were over 7000 people in attendance.  Sort of. It was the wedding of well known YouTuber Corey Williams (aka Mr. Safety) and his fiance Stephanie and they broadcasted it live on ustream.tv (which is just like the BlogTV site that I use for my weekly webcam shows).  It was a great idea.  They basically just set up laptop as far I could tell, and had it facing them so you could see and hear what was going on with a great view.  There didn’t look to be that many people actually in the bar (yes, they got married in a bar), but there were some notable YouTube celebrities there who you could see come up to the webcam afterwards and say hello.

Corey had done a good job of building up hype for his wedding broadcast through YouTube and other social media.  He even went so far as to make a web site for it - www.SMPWedding.com I think he was claiming this would be some kind of a first, but other weddings have been done live on ustream.tv and other similar sites already.  Regardless, he probably got some good press and publicity out of it and obviously with over 7000 people tuning in, it was a success at getting attention.

I wonder what will be next… maybe someone will get a divorce live on the internet?  That probably wouldn’t be quite as fun to watch.

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