And then the band began playing our song we'd practiced our specially choreographed dance routine to for the past year: "Stepping Out With My Baby" as sung by Doris Day.
AND THE SONG THEY PLAYED SOUNDED LIKE NOTHING WE HAD HEARD BEFORE!!!!
Lesson Learned: If you are going to practice a first dance to a particular song (and learn your dance cues to that) then use the recorded version for your first dance even if you have a live band. (Or else, tell the band and singer they need to sound EXACTLY like the recorded song. No exceptions!)
If you look closely in the above photo, you can see my Bride of Frankenstein look of horror as I try to pull off our dance with Eddie. As far as I was concerned, we might as well have been dancing to a completely random song pulled out of thin air.
We manage to do a good job faking that we had planned everything as it went along...
Our guests were none the wiser to this musical song and first dance snafu. They probably were just glad they weren't the ones in the spotlight on the dance floor!
Eddie dips me before our big finale ending.
And then forgets to heed our dance instructors instructions of holding onto me as he spins me at the end.
This did make for a great photo, though!
