Get married live onstage: Hollywood, CA

If you like reality wedding shows,  you’ll love this one--unlike the television variety, this will be a REAL reality wedding, live on stage at the John Ford Amphitheatre here in Los Angeles (it's even adjacent to Universal Studios.)  You can even join in by being the couple getting married or by proposing to another audience member!  Sometimes you gotta love this town.

C. Derrick Jones and performance partner/wife Nehara Kalev are Catch Me Bird, an aerial dance theatre duo who married during a live performance  in 2004 called The Wedding Journey: Vows In Midair.  Their fourth anniversary performance Silk will feature a real-live legal wedding onstage, as well as a public proposal of marriage by an audience member. If you’re not the extroverted type but would like to join in this night of nuptials, you can get married before the show in a group ceremony outside the theatre. 

All this--along with Derrick and Nehara’s choreographed descent from two 60-foot stage towers at the top of the show--will assure that love will be in the air, literally and figuratively.

Silk will be performed on Friday September 5th, 2008 (alas, I will be officiating a wedding elsewhere, so you'll have to let me know how it goes) but you can get involved or buy tickets through the VowsInMidair website.  Unlike the just-announced Salma Hayek wedding reality show  (though she just cancelled her own big wedding day with billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault) and Mark Burnett’s new “dream wedding for a deserving couple” show  (the guy who thought Donald Trump deserving of “The Apprentice” and the rest of us worthy of the celebration of sociopathy that is “Survivor”), Vows in Midair won’t be exploiting you to make milliions for themselves and a TV network.  In fact, it sounds like a lively and artistic meditation on the meaing of being legally pair-bonded.  However, you might not want to invite Mom if she had a big church wedding in mind.

Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women, merely players”; neither the Bard nor I will to the marriage of true minds admit impediments, other than possibly the cost of a theatre ticket.  Enjoy.

Elizabeth Oakes welcomes your comments and feedback at weddingexaminer@gmail.com, and you can check out her L.A. officiation services website at MarriageToGo.Com. 

Topics: Unusual Weddings