I was at a friend’s wedding on Saturday and they were in the midst of “The Dollar Dance.” For those of you unfamiliar with the tradition, the bridal couple splits up and wedding attendees can pay a dollar to dance with one of them for a certain amount of time. If you don’t mind a slow dance that lasts for 45 seconds and costs you a buck, it’s a lot of fun. As for the newly-married couple, all those dollars help pay for… whatever. Maybe some tequila shots during their honeymoon in Mexico, I don’t know.
The reason I bring this up is because the best man (accepting money for the bride) was letting people dance way too long. Like, a minute or something. (Okay, fine, I wasn’t using a stopwatch to check, but he definitely needed to hurry things up—there was a pretty long line forming behind us.) If you’re in a similar situation and want to help out, I suggest you follow the example of my cousin, my little brother, his girlfriend and me:
We all handed the best man a dollar each. It’s only fair—one of them might have a strong tolerance for tequila. When it was our turn, we walked up as a group and did a little “Ring Around the Rosies” action while she spun around in the middle. Then we all squeezed in together for a bridal wrap—it would have been a bridal sandwich, but there were four of us surrounding her—and rocked around in a “slow dance” for about ten seconds. Then it was hugs for everyone and we left the dance floor, watching the rest of the line slowly creep forward, each person hoping that the DJ wouldn’t run out of slow music before they all got their turn.
Oh, and one final note for safety’s sake: if your friend is the bride and you’ve only met her new husband twice, you better leave the groom wrap to someone else. If not, the emotional trauma he suffers could lead to so many tequila shots that we all fall down.
Emotional trauma? Just what kind of groom wrap do YOU partake of!?
p.s. I’d never heard of the dollar dance myself until the wedding I attended last summer. Interesting, uh, concept!
“… my little brother, his girlfriend …”
His Girlfriend?!!!!
Dude……
*sigh*
It’s pronounced “fee-ahn-sey”…**
** – http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fiance
Haha, better than saying “girlfriend” when it’s supposed to be “wife”, as has happened to a newly-married colleague of mine.
And shoot, I feel silly– Brent, for some reason I always thought you were *older* than Shawn!
He is older–I was referring to Justin, the youngest of us three.
And yes, they’re about to be married, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard them refer to the other as “fiance”, just “boyfriend” and “girlfriend”. Just trying to respect their preferences, that’s all.
Oh! Well, don’t I feel even sillier ;-P
So how many of you are there?
And there I go again– hastily writing before reading carefully. I think I’ll stop now…