Father/Daughter Dance
One of the sweetest wedding traditions is the Father/Daughter and Mother/Son dance. It gives the bride and groom a chance to spend some time with the people who made their life – and the blending of two lives – possible. Sometimes the two dances are combined in one song, sometimes they are two separate events. Other options include the partner swap, where the bride also dances with her new father-in-law and the groom with his mother-in-law. Think about which event fits your wedding best when choosing your song, or songs.
Wedding Planning Checklist
1. Kiss your sweetie everyday, and say I love you. No one ever said planning a wedding wouldn’t be stressful, so even on days when you’re not enjoying yourself, remind yourself why you’re doing it – to spend the rest of your life with this person!
2. Stay organized. This may not be everyone’s forte, but a little planning goes a long way. Set aside 10 minutes every day to make sure your paperwork is in order. Print out a checklist if you must.
Wedding Planning Checklist: The Slightly More Sarcastic Checklist
1. Find the most giant, heaviest wedding dress you can find. Ignore the discomfort – princesses feel no pain (disregard that ridiculous “Princess and the Pea” fairy tale). Force your fiancé into a penguin-like tux. Let the ramrod-straight posture stand for the true, unwavering nature of your love.
2. Pick a random pastel color and force your closest friends into frocks of that hue – pastels look good on every skin tone. Choose a form-fitting tube top dress, those flatter every body type. Ignore their suggestions, and assign them ever more ridiculous tasks. This kind of treatment strengthens friendships.
3. Invite everyone you and your parents have ever met. The last thing you want to do on your special day is actually make conversation with your close family and friends.
4. Get lost in the details. If the shade of the napkins on the tables are not exactly the same pastel shade of the bridesmaid’s dresses, people will talk and you will be publicly humiliated. Possibly on national television.
5. When interviewing possible DJ’s, ensure they play only wedding cliché songs. Your friends and family are coming, possibly thousands of miles, to celebrate your love by dancing like a chicken in formal wear.
6. Lose all sight of tact and dignity. Wedding vendors know that YOUR wedding is the most important of all their clients. If they forget this, or suffer from an average human mistake, remind them with harpy-like vigor of your special ranking. Forgo the honey, you catch more bees with talons and venom.
7. Also forget that you are human, with normal nutritional and sleeping needs. Stay up all night, subsisting solely on caffeinated drinks, convinced that you can stuff and address (with calligraphy) all 500 invitations alone. No one else can get them as perfect as you can.
8. Remember that since the world now revolves around you and your wedding, you are also in control of the seasons. If you are getting married in December but still want a bouquet of fresh spring flowers, you shall have them. If you are getting married in March but want the weather to be an even 70 degrees with sun, it shall be done.
9. Completely ignore the relationship that this wedding is meant to celebrate. Pick fights with your partner, and cry to get your own way whenever possible. The first years of marriage are the easiest, so any damage done now can easily be repaired.
10. Most importantly, ensure that the days leading up to the actual wedding, and the special day itself, are so jam-packed with activities and requirements that you get no rest at all. That is why you are paying for a photographer, so that you can have paper memories of your special day, rather than being so mundane as to slow down and enjoy it in person.
Alternative Option of the Day!
You might want to research the story behind a song and see whether or not it fits the story you would like to be told while you are dancing. Another idea would be to explain just why the song was selected. How does the song relate to the relationship you and your father have experienced over the years.
Alternative Option of the Day!
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