--- title: Dad Films Wrong Girl at Graduation In Ultimate Dad Fail description: In what might be the ultimate Dad fail, a father mistakenly filmed a girl who wasn't his daughter during her graduation ceremony. canonical: https://time.com/4868287/father-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-21T15:24:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:33.639Z og:title: Father Films Wrong Girl Instead of Daughter at Grad Ceremony og:description: Ultimate dad fail og:url: https://time.com/4868287/father-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab0acc0a9261ae67/6988d6abbc6cfc80823e2551/dad-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Group of graduates throwing mortar boards in air og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Father Films Wrong Girl Instead of Daughter at Grad Ceremony twitter:description: Ultimate dad fail twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab0acc0a9261ae67/6988d6abbc6cfc80823e2551/dad-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Father Filming Wrong Girl Instead of Daughter at Graduation Is the Dad Fail of the Year  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 21, 2017 3:24 PM UTC  USA, Washington State, Seattle USA, Washington State, SeattleThomas Barwick—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 21, 2017 3:24 PM UTC In what might be the ultimate Dad fail of the year, an [earnest father](http://time.com/4793295/fathers-parenting-daughters-sons/) mistakenly filmed a girl who wasn’t his daughter during her [graduation ceremony](http://time.com/4799575/subway-graduation-ceremony/). Georgia Wilde was walking during her graduation from the University of the West of England while her father filmed the procession — while focusing on the wrong girl! In the footage he captured, viewers can see the hilarity that ensued when Georgia pointed out to her father that he had been filming someone who wasn’t his daughter. They shared a chuckle before he offered the most fatherly of explanations. “I got carried away then,” he said. “I was looking at the wrong one, weren’t I?” Thankfully for this father, Georgia had a sense of humor and posted the clip that he had filmed to her Twitter account, captioning it, “My dad legit filmed the wrong girl going down the aisle at my graduation. Sums up my Dad.” Perhaps the funniest part of whole ordeal was that Georgia was graduating with a degree in filmmaking. Let’s leave the videography work to her next time, Dad! > [](https://twitter.com/georgiababyyy/status/888118756139872257) > [](https://twitter.com/GeorgiaBabyyy/status/888312586328059904) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4868287/father-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4868287/father-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation/"},"headline":"Father Filming Wrong Girl Instead of Daughter at Graduation Is the Dad Fail of the Year","datePublished":"2017-07-21T15:24:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:33.639Z","description":"Total dad move","url":"https://time.com/4868287/father-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","twitter","Funny"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab0acc0a9261ae67/6988d6abbc6cfc80823e2551/dad-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab0acc0a9261ae67/6988d6abbc6cfc80823e2551/dad-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Group of graduates throwing mortar boards in air","caption":"Group of graduates throwing mortar boards in air","creditText":"Thomas Barwick—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4868287/father-films-wrong-girl-at-graduation/","name":"Father Filming Wrong Girl Instead of Daughter at Graduation Is the Dad Fail of the Year"}}]}] ```