The wedding

was great.

We were embarrasingly late.  We got there as the bridesmaids were filing down the aisle, so we waited in the foyer until Erin and her dad had walked to the front of the church, and were hustled in by the wedding coordinator.  Whoops.

It was a lovely, simple church ceremony.  Erin looked gorgeous in a strapless gown, with fabric swished about the bodice in a mock-wrap and sequins and beads on the bust (that lil’ description was for the WOMEN out there.  Men: she wore a long, white dress.)  She had her hair in a low bun and a simple net veil – so pretty.  And carried creamy white flowers.

***sigh***

They were just so bright-eyed and fully in love and adorable.  I got all emotional during my Uncle Steve’s (no resemblance to the gecko) dance with Erin, and full-on weepy when the groom danced with his mother. 

I kept thinking about dancing with the Fishmaster at his wedding, and it was kind of too much for my poor heart to handle.  When he was a  wee scooter, we used to dance to Emmylou Harris’s Ballad of Sally Rose before naptime, and I was just going back through those songs to see what we could dance to at his wedding.  (He used to cuddle and ask for Emmy-yoo!  Emmy-yoo! when it was cozy time.  Sweet little Fishmaster.)  Although I know I’ll be a weeping wreck if we dance to one of the songs we used to dance to when he was a baby, I think that’s what I want to do. 

(Yes, the Fishmaster is just almost-13 and will likely not get married for at least a decade, and, as Daddy J rather coldly pointed out, I’m going to have diddly squat to do with the wedding.  Besides, the Fishmaster, if/when he gets married, may just trot down to the courthouse in the county seat, or run off to Vegas.  BUT a girl can dream, right?  And his bride-to-be will WELCOME my guidance, right?  As will her mother.  Right?  RIGHT??!!)

Ahem. 

I love Heart to Heart, but it’s kind of a pledging-of-love song, so might be creepy to dance with him to.  Possibly Timberline will do the trick.  It’s also kind of a yearning-for-your-true-love song, but has a great fast two-step beat that would be fun to dance to.

Which, yeah, I just read the lyrics again and it looks like it wouldn’t work at all for a mother of the groom dance.  Bummer.

***edited to add***  Oooh Oooh!  We could dance to I Think I Love Him.  Now THAT would be tear-jerky.  Very few lyrics (but I could get the band to sing the lyrics twice) but so sweet – when the songs says he said ‘You are my sunshine’, it would be like singing that Sunshine song with him as a toddler and HOW CUTE IS THAT I ASK YOU.

(Let’s refrain from commenting about what it implies about me that I’m already planning my almost-thirteen year old son’s wedding dance with me, m’kay?)

Erin and Owen danced to Elvis’s I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You, which was very sweet. 

Which leads us to the Question of the Day:  Married people – did you have a band or dj at your wedding?  If so, whadja dance to?  And, if your kid(s) are married, whadja dance to with them?  And what did they dance to together?

Daddy J and I danced to Warm Love by Van Morrison (performed by the band at our wedding.)    I can’t find the whole song online, but here’s a preview.  We listened to the album Hard Nose the Highway last night and it was beautiful.

***sniffle***

Warm Love by Van Morrison

Look at the ivy on the cold clinging wall
Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall
Its not a matter of when push comes to shove
Its just an hour on the wings of a dove

I dig it when you’re fancy dressed up in lace
I dig it when you have a smile on your face
This inspirations got to be on the flow
This invitations got to see it and know

Its just warm love
Its just warm love
And it’s everpresent everywhere
And it’s everpresent everywhere
That warm love

To the country Im going
Lay and laugh in the sun
You can bring, bring your guitar along
Well sing some songs, well have some fun

The sky is crying and it’s time to go home
And we shall hurry to the car from the foam
Sit by the fire and dry out our wet clothes
Its raining outside from the skies up above

Inside it’s warm love
Inside it’s warm love
And it’s everpresent everywhere
And it’s everpresent everywhere
Warm love
Warm love