Need MOG dance song recs. Totally sentimental like “Sunrise Sunset” don’t work, DS has nixed funny things like “Baby Shark.” Something that morphs from trad into contemporary (or can be edited) would be great. (Apologies to the middle school theater teacher who did all those songs that started traditional and became rocknroll and I mocked her…)
@stradmom S and I danced to “child of mine” by Carole King.
My son loved Disney movies when he was young so we danced to “You’ll be in my heart” from Tarzan.
DS and I danced to Paul Simon’s ‘Loves me like a rock’. Fast paced, not too sappy. We did do a lesson at an Arthur Murray with the exact music to (try to) coordinate the footwork
Humble and Kind tim McGraw
there youll be Faith Hill
@mcat2, have a great wedding weekend!
It’s going to go great! All the things I was nervous about ending up being ok and I was swept up with the excitement and feelings of love and happiness. The speech will go well, it sounds like your son is going to help. And although I was nervous, the mother son dance was the only time I got to really talk to my son all day! I loved our conversation during the dance. Embrace all the traditions is my advice
One of the first things the kids told me was that there would be no Mo/son dance, etc. they truly are doing it their way. Still, lots of thought goes into it.
Navy, off-the-shoulder. Not my usual style at all!
As a follow up to @deb922’s suggestion, stay focused on the positive, @mcat2. Your S/FDIL will appreciate whatever you say, and the effort you put into saying it. IF you are worried about how it will sound, you will also perhaps worry how they will feel if you didn’t make a toast. So if you are likely to Worry either way, do the toast, and make them feel honored! 
Ditto for the M/S dance. Its just a brief moment in time, but the feelings last for a lifetime. Some of my favorite photos form each S’s wedding is from the M/S dance, even though I have 2 left feet as they say and don’t like having attention called to me. We did the dance after the bride/groom dance… other family members got on the dancefloor and we just sort of changed partners. It all worked really well.
D and H did a father/daughter dance (Tom Petty’s Wildflowers); SIL and his mom did a mother/son dance (can’t remember song). Then D and SIL danced - and that was it for the featured dances. It seemed to be just enough/not to too much.
H did a father of the bride speech that was amazing. He is not a speaker, and he agonized over it for a long time. It was perfect … honest, funny, sweet, and not too long. I love to speak, but I didn’t speak at their wedding (although I was the one who spoke at in laws’ 50th instead of H or SIL!).
I am now on the east coast after having flied red-eyed overnight. The manager at the hotel is so nice to let us check in at 11 am.
The weather here is cooler than that on the west coast, likely 10 degrees cooler! (The weather is nice though.)
We will meet FDIL’s parents for the first time tonight at a (supposedly high-end) restaurant. Nervous!
They are probably tired and nervous as well. I know it will go well
The plan tonight is like this:
FDIL will pick up her parents and her brother at the hotel they stay now, and DS will pick up us at another hotel we stay. These two groups will arrive at the same restaurant at the same time. It is an Italian restaurant in South End. Not sure which restaurant — we do not need to know because the young couple will arrange everything.
Hmm…are there many Italian dependents (as US citizens) in Boston, due to historical reason?
FDIL brought us flowers when she and DS came to visit us at our hotel (before we got a nap). DS brought us bottled water (1-gallon one.)
When DS was young and our family went on vacation and stayed at a hotel, the first thing we would do is to get bottled water. Now he did the same to us 
DS is fully aware that at this moment, when we are tired and thirsty, what we need the most.
There are some fabulous restaurants in the south end of Boston. Enjoy!
Thanks!
Have fun!
Speeches/toasts are the MoH, Best Man, and the couple wants to give a brief thank you. No parents, as FDIL wants to keep mom from the microphone. We have been at toooo many weddings where the toasting is tedious, so they wanted to avoid that.
bridal dance, bridesmaids choreographed piece (they were all dancers in college) and to my surprise, M/S dance. We’ve narrowed it down to an upbeat piece and a sentimental favorite.I love Baby Mine from Dumbo but it’s too sad; FDIL offered to give my son tap lessons (I 'm a very average tap dancer myself) but we decided against that. No dance lessons for us, so we will rely on luck. My son’s cousins plan to join us towards the end, which will be lovely as they are all very close and he does not know about it. I’ve begged to not have photographs of us dancing, but lost that one!
DH and I started ballroom dance lessons about two months before the wedding…mostly so DH could do a decent rumba with DD. She had one lesson with DH, and they did fine for the Father/daughter dance.
No dance for the moms…but I did sing at DDs wedding…does that count? It was later during the reception.
@mcat2 - thought you said you moved to Texas?
Now relax and enjoy the weekend! It will fly by quickly.
Yes, at times, Boston can seem all Italian and Irish ancestry. And as a city of neighborhoods, you can transition from one sub-culture to another.
Best wishes.
S2 got married in August (and his wife is due to have a baby at the end of May). D1 got engaged on Easter. Probably they won’t get married until 2020, and may elope, we will see. They are looking to buy a house in Southern California, so may take the money and run…