An Extraordinary Saturday: Let’s Dance
After our first dance, the floor filled with couples. I like this picture a lot, because the people in it are all important in our lives. One of the benefits of having a not-huge wedding, I suppose.
Shortly after our first dance, we played a “first dance” for my sister and her husband. They were married in Las Vegas in 2005. It was a fairly traditional ceremony with a big white dress and fifty-some guests, followed by a restaurant reception. In conversations with my sister since then, she’s said her only regret was not having had a first dance. So we played their song (Jimmy Buffett’s Now and Then), and cleared the dance floor for the two of them.
My sister and I have very, very different musical taste. DJ and I had a good laugh about it while making our lists for the DJ – you could almost quantify the space between us by drawing a line between Jimmy Buffett and Vance Gilbert.
The dance floor filled again with couples after that. This is the point in a wedding where I feel bad. There’s no good way to be single when this is happening. (Hey, it’s the newlyweds!)
DJ’s aunt and uncle. They are one of those couples that seems to still be madly in love after several decades and two children.
MOH Katie’s parents – also apparently crazy about each other after years and years and three daughters, and who knows how many trying life events. Katie’s mom calls me “girlie,” and has always treated me like a surprise extra daughter.
DJ’s parents, being cute. Something about weddings brings out the cute in couples.
We only had a couple of people who were either single or without their partner for the night, but that almost made it worse. I wouldn’t have been happy watching the slow dancing as a single guest, but I didn’t know what to do to fix that. Sorry, single guests. At least we didn’t do a bouquet/garter toss, and the dance floor did get more lively fairly quickly.
Kim from Bow Tie Photography takes great pictures.
there is something so romantic about all of your dancing photos. and to have all the couples join in is sweet!