One of the wedding traditions we typically do is called the
anniversary dance, and if you have never seen it before it works like this: All
of the married couples in the room are invited out to the dance floor to join
the bride and groom – and I have to give my good friend Bob credit for this
line - we tell the couples this is the Celebration of Marriage Dance, and for
every couple out in the dance floor with the newest member of the “marriage
club” that will add on year of good luck to their marriage. Sometimes, if the
guests are a little less than willing to participate, we have to nudge them a
bit into joining us on the dance floor by telling them that if they are married
and still sitting in their chair it is like wishing the bride and groom bad
luck on their wedding day (while you’re drinking their free beer).
We then play a song for all of the married couples but about
half way through we start eliminating couples by saying anyone who has not yet
been married five years can return to their seat.” Then it’s 10 … 15 … 20 … and
continues until we have one couple – the longest married couple – left on the
dance floor.
We then invite the two couples – the bride and groom and the
longest married couple – to join together for a photo op.
Now here is where it sometimes differs. Some couples have a
gift for the longest married couple, or sometimes the bride will give her bouquet
to them in lieu of tossing it to the single girls, but I like to take the
microphone to the senior couple and ask for their names, how long they’ve been married
and what advice they would give to the newlyweds to achieve that plateau. The
advice is sometimes comical, sometimes heartfelt.
My most memorable one though happened years ago in
Platteville, WI.
I first asked the wife of the senior married couple what
advice she would give the bride and groom, and it was something pretty typical,
like always listen to one another or never go to bed mad.
But when I asked her husband for his advice he just took the
microphone from me and took over the room.
“Well when we got married we went to the Smokey Mountains
for our honeymoon,” he told the guests. “We had a little cabin rented up in the
mountains but you could not get there by car so we got a horse and packed our
belongings on it for the trip up the mountain.”
About halfway up, he told his captivated audience, the horse
fell down, so he had to unpack everything, let the horse stand back up and
re-pack everything, but then he said, “I told the horse that’s once.”
“We went a little farther and the horse fell again, so again
I had to unpack everything, get the horse up and pack things again, and I said
to the horse ‘That’s two!’”
“We didn’t go much further and that horse fell again and I
said ‘that’s three!’ and I shot that horse!”
The guests gasped, but then he delivered his punchline.
“So we had to carry all of our stuff the rest of the way up
the mountain to the cabin by ourselves,” he continued, “but Marilyn was saying
‘Oh what did you do that for? That was not the horses fault. I can’t believe
you shot that horse!’ And I said ‘Marilyn – that’s one!’
“And I have never have had a problem since!”
The guests roared!! I was laughing too hard to take the
microphone back. But you want to talk about energizing the room! And I went
back to my set up and played Rocky Top.
These are the moments that make a wedding day, the moments
that will be remembered.
I can help create those moments
– and I can help enhance them with music.
What do you want your moments to be?
What do you want your moments to be?
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