Do the parent dances at a gay wedding have to change because the couple are two women or two men? We thought a lot about the traditional father/daughter and mother/son dances typical at weddings. The simplest thing would be to just dance with our fathers and be done with it. But that left our mothers out of the picture totally and we didn’t like that. We thought, very briefly, if we should dance with our mothers to Girls Just Want to Have Fun. (If you knew your mothers, you’d know that would have been a reasonable option.) But, we thought that would be too much like a performance for us.
Instead we came up with a plan to dance with our fathers and half-way thorugh switch to dance with each other and have the dads finish the song with the moms. We planned all this with our DJ (Guy from New Image Entertainment).
When the day was finally upon us and it came time for the parent dance, Galit and I danced with our dads to Phil Collins You’ll be in my Heart. (a wonderful song, if hard to follow in a slow dance. Sorry for crushing your feet, Dad!) Halfwary thorugh the song, the DJ nodded to our mothers who went and danced with our dads. Just as Galit and I started toward each other to finish the dance, both our brothers came to the floor and cut in! We were so surprised and delighted. It ended up being the best way to handle the situation and was set up by the DJ himself!
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