Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Wedding receptions and dancing

Every time I attend a wedding with my spouse, I always look forward to the dancing part of the wedding reception and then am almost always disappointed when the music starts. The only dancing I really like to do is ballroom/partner dancing and it is rare that actual ballroom dance music is played. Although you can do ballroom to many tunes, most wedding reception tunes are not ballroom-danceable. Even if a song happens to be played that we can do a foxtrot or cha-cha to, everyone else on the dance floor is dancing their own thing and it looks very silly and pretentious for one couple to be dancing ballroom.

So...I am slowly learning to look forward to the dinner part of the wedding reception instead of the dancing part and I dance along with everyone on the electric slide and the YMCA song. The electric slide is pretty fun; however, I do NOT like doing the chicken dance although that seems to be a wedding reception staple for some strange reason. Is there anyone who seriously likes doing the chicken dance?

If my spouse and I ever renew our wedding vows, we are not going to play the chicken dance song at the reception...

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