The most AWish first dance I've ever seen

lavenderfields13

I think this video wins for biggest AW actually. I came across it while I was trying to find ideas for our entrance song (we did not do an entrance dance!). I dare someone to make it even half way through because I definitely couldn't. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llKJZVMI8g

PamBeesly524

lavenderfields13 said:

I think this video wins for biggest AW actually. I came across it while I was trying to find ideas for our entrance song (we did not do an entrance dance!). I dare someone to make it even half way through because I definitely couldn't. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llKJZVMI8g

.... Is that a fucking joke? What did I just watch?

lavenderfields13

PamBeesly524 said:

I think this video wins for biggest AW actually. I came across it while I was trying to find ideas for our entrance song (we did not do an entrance dance!). I dare someone to make it even half way through because I definitely couldn't. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llKJZVMI8g

.... Is that a fucking joke? What did I just watch?

Seriously, I think that takes the fucking cake. Imagine being at that wedding! I might have left before dinner. 

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I forgot all about that Jai Ho song... yeah, that was awful

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lavenderfields13 said:

PamBeesly524 said:

lavenderfields13 said:

I think this video wins for biggest AW actually. I came across it while I was trying to find ideas for our entrance song (we did not do an entrance dance!). I dare someone to make it even half way through because I definitely couldn't. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llKJZVMI8g

.... Is that a fucking joke? What did I just watch?

Seriously, I think that takes the fucking cake. Imagine being at that wedding! I might have left before dinner. 

***damn boxes***

I say good they didn't do it after dinner or I might have lost mine. WTF was with that really second-rate dirty dancing lift?

erinlin25

The only time I ever enjoy stuff like this is when they are professional GOOD dancers.  I would have been at the bar during this performance

WinstonsGirl

What the fuck was that??  I don't get any of it.  Do each of those songs have special meaning for them??  Are they even Irish??  I can't imagine planning something that long with so many random songs

drunkenwitch

I have some friends who did a choreographed number for the first dance, the difference, they have both been taking ballroom for YEARS watching them is beautiful because the chemistry between them is amazing and they dance flawlessly. Oh sure, it was a little AW of them, but no one cared because it was a treat to watch them dance together.

jenna8984

lavenderfields13 said:

I think this video wins for biggest AW actually. I came across it while I was trying to find ideas for our entrance song (we did not do an entrance dance!). I dare someone to make it even half way through because I definitely couldn't. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llKJZVMI8g

I seriously do not understand why people think they themselves are so amazing, funny, cool. I actually really laughed that their name was Toole on their shirts because they sure looked like Tools to me. And the whole reception is for your guests thing? Yea I bet not the case with these snowflakes, a dance like this makes it seem like they only care about themselves.

Blue_Bird

jenna8984 said:

I think this video wins for biggest AW actually. I came across it while I was trying to find ideas for our entrance song (we did not do an entrance dance!). I dare someone to make it even half way through because I definitely couldn't. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llKJZVMI8g

I seriously do not understand why people think they themselves are so amazing, funny, cool. I actually really laughed that their name was Toole on their shirts because they sure looked like Tools to me. And the whole reception is for your guests thing? Yea I bet not the case with these snowflakes, a dance like this makes it seem like they only care about themselves.

I was waiting for someone to say it.

lavenderfields13

Blue_Bird said:

jenna8984 said:

I think this video wins for biggest AW actually. I came across it while I was trying to find ideas for our entrance song (we did not do an entrance dance!). I dare someone to make it even half way through because I definitely couldn't. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llKJZVMI8g

I seriously do not understand why people think they themselves are so amazing, funny, cool. I actually really laughed that their name was Toole on their shirts because they sure looked like Tools to me. And the whole reception is for your guests thing? Yea I bet not the case with these snowflakes, a dance like this makes it seem like they only care about themselves.

I was waiting for someone to say it.

Haha me too, I was thinking the same thing! They look ridiculous.

Blue_Bird

WinstonsGirl said:

What the fuck was that??  I don't get any of it.  Do each of those songs have special meaning for them??  Are they even Irish??  I can't imagine planning something that long with so many random songs

Considering the fact that he threw the flag on the ground, I'm guessing NO.

kaitlynmichelle

I skipped through most of that.  That was terrible!

snowywinter

It was tacky and obnoxious. That said, so they put on a show for their loved ones. Big deal. Every single thing about a wedding is AWish. From the bride in white with all eyes on her as she walks the aisle to ceremonial music that forces everyone to their feet to the ceremony itself where the couple stand up in front of everyone with all eyes on them to profess their love to the first dance to the father/daughter dance to the mother/son dance to the very special "cake cutting" (as if no one's ever cut a cake before) to bouquet and garter tosses (tacky with a capital T!). There's nothing about weddings that isn't AWish, so I don't see why a couple choosing to add on a show (obnoxious as it was) is any worse.

OllisaurusRex

I can't watch either video. Gak. Really, what is the point of that shit?

Apparently I am missing something because I do not get turning a wedding and reception into some crappy performance art.

Heffalump

Knottie92548810 said:

Is it just me, or do they have like 10 empty tables in the background...?

I'm guessing mass exodus to the bar.

WinstonsGirl said:

I think my favourite part was watching the 2 GM who had no idea what they were doing and kept trying to watch everyone else to figure out what they were doing.

jenna8984

snowywinter said:

It was tacky and obnoxious. That said, so they put on a show for their loved ones. Big deal. Every single thing about a wedding is AWish. From the bride in white with all eyes on her as she walks the aisle to ceremonial music that forces everyone to their feet to the ceremony itself where the couple stand up in front of everyone with all eyes on them to profess their love to the first dance to the father/daughter dance to the mother/son dance to the very special "cake cutting" (as if no one's ever cut a cake before) to bouquet and garter tosses (tacky with a capital T!). There's nothing about weddings that isn't AWish, so I don't see why a couple choosing to add on a show (obnoxious as it was) is any worse.

@snowywinter actually a lot of us don't do many of these things. Besides wearing a white gown, I didn't do anything you listed here. It's one thing to say You have watched me grow up and cared for me, please watch me take this next step and become married/ say vows than it is to say Please sit and watch my grand performance pretending to be Beyonce.

PamBeesly524

jenna8984 said:

snowywinter said:

It was tacky and obnoxious. That said, so they put on a show for their loved ones. Big deal. Every single thing about a wedding is AWish. From the bride in white with all eyes on her as she walks the aisle to ceremonial music that forces everyone to their feet to the ceremony itself where the couple stand up in front of everyone with all eyes on them to profess their love to the first dance to the father/daughter dance to the mother/son dance to the very special "cake cutting" (as if no one's ever cut a cake before) to bouquet and garter tosses (tacky with a capital T!). There's nothing about weddings that isn't AWish, so I don't see why a couple choosing to add on a show (obnoxious as it was) is any worse.

@snowywinter actually a lot of us don't do many of these things. Besides wearing a white gown, I didn't do anything you listed here. It's one thing to say You have watched me grow up and cared for me, please watch me take this next step and become married/ say vows than it is to say Please sit and watch my grand performance pretending to be Beyonce.

This. I couldn't figure out how to word it this nicely so thanks!

kimmiinthemitten

So this doesn't count for brides?  Damn, back to the drawing board!

snowywinter

jenna8984 said:

snowywinter said:

It was tacky and obnoxious. That said, so they put on a show for their loved ones. Big deal. Every single thing about a wedding is AWish. From the bride in white with all eyes on her as she walks the aisle to ceremonial music that forces everyone to their feet to the ceremony itself where the couple stand up in front of everyone with all eyes on them to profess their love to the first dance to the father/daughter dance to the mother/son dance to the very special "cake cutting" (as if no one's ever cut a cake before) to bouquet and garter tosses (tacky with a capital T!). There's nothing about weddings that isn't AWish, so I don't see why a couple choosing to add on a show (obnoxious as it was) is any worse.

@snowywinter actually a lot of us don't do many of these things. Besides wearing a white gown, I didn't do anything you listed here. It's one thing to say You have watched me grow up and cared for me, please watch me take this next step and become married/ say vows than it is to say Please sit and watch my grand performance pretending to be Beyonce.

Then I think you're a part of a small minority. Seems that most people have cake cuttings, first dances, etc. I don't know, I guess I'm just not bothered since it was their friends and family. I've gone to family reunions before (mine and my old college roommate's, my fiance's, and ex-boyfriend's when we were dating) and there's always some crap like that going on where people just try to show off for one another. Again, it was tacky, but I expect tacky at family gatherings. lol. No shock.

thisismynickname2

snowywinter said: jenna8984 said: snowywinter said: It was tacky and obnoxious. That said, so they put on a show for their loved ones. Big deal. Every single thing about a wedding is AWish. From the bride in white with all eyes on her as she walks the aisle to ceremonial music that forces everyone to their feet to the ceremony itself where the couple stand up in front of everyone with all eyes on them to profess their love to the first dance to the father/daughter dance to the mother/son dance to the very special "cake cutting" (as if no one's ever cut a cake before) to bouquet and garter tosses (tacky with a capital T!). There's nothing about weddings that isn't AWish, so I don't see why a couple choosing to add on a show (obnoxious as it was) is any worse.

@snowywinter actually a lot of us don't do many of these things. Besides wearing a white gown, I didn't do anything you listed here. It's one thing to say You have watched me grow up and cared for me, please watch me take this next step and become married/ say vows than it is to say Please sit and watch my grand performance pretending to be Beyonce. Then I think you're a part of a small minority. Seems that most people have cake cuttings, first dances, etc. I don't know, I guess I'm just not bothered since it was their friends and family. I've gone to family reunions before (mine and my old college roommate's, my fiance's, and ex-boyfriend's when we were dating) and there's always some crap like that going on where people just try to show off for one another. Again, it was tacky, but I expect tacky at family gatherings. lol. No shock.
Well, a lot of stuff is born of traditions hundreds of years old, if not older. Cake cutting is symbolic of hoping for a prosperous future together, for example. I don't know where everything came from though, and certainly nice symbolic traditions have morphed into tacky-ass displays where plenty of people do opt-out of doing them at all.  Luckily these days you can certainly pick and choose what you do and do not want to do. It seems to me that it's often (but not exclusively) older couples who choose not to do certain things, since they've been to enough weddings to wonder, "Why is this happening? This is dumb and I'm not doing it when I get married." (Like garter tosses... ugh.)