Um Wedding
UM students Christine Robertson and Patrick Gauthier
Ah, to be young, in college and feeling prankish. That combo is all that's needed for a mock wedding procession down the aisle of a University of Michigan lecture hall.

As higher education writer Kellie Woodhouse recounts at Ann Arbor.com, this fall's elaborate stunt involved recorded music, videography and 54 students -- including women in gowns and men in red bow ties.

The prank included eight cameras, 2,000 rose petals and a lot of fake mustaches, according to Nathan Hartmann, a U-M engineering major and the video's director.  

Biology 171 lecturer Barry O'Connor, an uninvited guest, tells the news site he wasn't amused at first -- but tolerated the disruption and joined the applause. After all, who doesn't like a wedding? 

O'Connor tried to admonish the pranksters when they first began, yelling "We're in class" and trying to speak over the noise. His efforts were for naught.

"Given the large number of people who were invading the classroom, none of them were brandishing weapons or anything. . . . I just let it play out and tried to not make any scene about

The 3:30 tape of the ceremony below has been seen more than 13,720 times on YouTube.

Read more: AnnArbor.com