Woman wears wedding dress on first dates, hilarity ensues
There are a few surefire ways to terrify someone on a first date.
Bring up how badly you want a baby, or seven. Discuss your antique doll collection. Talk about your cat, and your other cat, and your other cat(s). Casually say, “I knew I loved you before I met you” while gazing into your date’s eyes, and when they raise an eyebrow in confusion, whisper, “We could totally use that Savage Garden song for our first wedding dance.”
Or, best of all, show up in a wedding dress.
“With the help of a dating app, a secret microphone and some creepy phrases, I’m going on first dates in a wedding dress,” British YouTube comedian Laura Bubble proclaims in a charity video that has racked up more than 70,000 views since it was posted earlier this month.
In the secret camera stunt, raising awareness for the British branch of Stand Up to Cancer, Bubble meets up with several unsuspecting Tinder dates while decked out in a floorlength white gown with a veil and a bouquet in hand.
One chap pretends he doesn’t even know Bubble, despite clearly recognizing her from her profile on the popular dating app.
Another awkwardly says he needs to “give it a miss for tonight.” Yet another promptly dashes away.
“I should add you on Facebook and then we can make it, like, official,” Bubble says to one unsettled young man. He laughs nervously. “What do you mean, ‘Make it official?’ ” he asks.
One puzzled fellow named Philip asks if Dave — who is Dave? — put her up to it. “Am I being Punk’d or something?” he asks.
Yes, Philip. You are being Punk’d. Obviously. (Philip, by the way, kindly offers to continue the date anyway, even after Bubble ’fesses up.)
Chatting with the Star from across the pond, Bubble says she had “no idea what to expect” when filming the dates.
She wanted to prove that pranks can be funny when the prankster is actually the butt of the joke, but her ultimate goal, she says, was to raise awareness and encourage donations to the cancer charity. At the end of the video, she encourages viewers to donate to Stand Up to Cancer by text.
A vlogger with more than 36,000 YouTube followers, Bubble helped with the charity’s live event last year and jumped at the chance to get involved again.