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Weddings
"Webster's Dictionary defines a wedding as the removal of weeds from one's garden"---Homer Simpson
This past weekend, Eileen and I attended a wedding. It was the 4th such event I've attended, and the receptions were seemingly all planned by the same person. 'Tis a sorry state of affairs that this great country must rehash the same wedding reception over and over again.
The music, first of all, is sorely lacking. If you're in a band and 50-year-olds are singing along to your songs, it's time to quit the business. And I'm still not quite clear why the union of two people in love is celebrated by doing the Electric Slide.
Because the music is so bad, the dancing quickly degenerates into girls standing in a circle and dancing with each other. No self-respecting male above the age of 7 and below the age of 40 would be caught dead singing along with YMCA or Loveshack, but if it was released in the 80's it attracts girls like an indie concert attracts tight jeans.
Is this the best we can do? We're the country of Las Vegas, the World's Scariest Police Chases, and Paris Hilton. Our wedding receptions should be huge spectacles of absurdity. Where are the midgets being shot out of cannons? Whither the chimp in a tuxedo and top hat? Instead of playing bad 70's and 80's songs, let the drunk guests do karaoke. Then if they want to make fools of themselves, they'll have to do it up on stage in front of everyone.
Nobody has fun at wedding receptions unless you're the one getting married or the one getting so drunk you mistook the wedding cake for one of the bridesmaids. It's time to change things up a little. One of these days...
Comments
I guess I'm an oddity (where I enjoy dancing regardless the song). I'm pretty sure that why all the girls are out on the floor dancing in a circle. As it is I have been thinking about a little "absurdity" for my wedding (doing a belly dance for my man possibly?) since I doubt he would care to be out on the dance floor (one of many guys that ignore te dance floor like everyone there has a plague unless it's a punk song). In general you don't want to alienate the parents (which stereotypically pay for the weddings and receptions) so you try to do songs which they would not be too offended by. Typically it means that there's few current songs at a reception. People try to go for the "tried and true" for wedding sons which sometimes means rehashing old, "get this song out of my head!!" songs.
As for the Electric Slide, it's the only place that you can do it these days.
Posted by: AtheneBelle at June 1, 2005 9:54 PM
You can still do electric slide at sparkles roller rink in Smynra....
some awesome quotes in this post chris...
Posted by: mse at June 2, 2005 8:48 AM
You should go to a Jewish wedding sometime. There's usually a lot of ethnic dancing and I can't remember the electric slide at any of them. We were at one last night in fact, but the dance floor wasn't big enough for many to dance at the same time.
Posted by: rkc at June 6, 2005 9:15 PM
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