Chic...Personal...Fun: A Harborside Wedding - The 8th Grade Sway with a Twist

After our wonderfully productive and fun cocktail hour, our guests proceeded upstairs so that we could finally start the reception.

I have a confession to make: I did not want to get announced as we entered the room. Whatcha talkin' about, Mrs. Swan? I was kinda uncomfortable with the hoopla-esque feling of it. In my ideal world, Mr. Swan and I would come upstairs, take a seat just like our guests did, and let things proceed from there .

But we got announced anyway...yeah, I punked out on this one too. It was one of those times where people were saying, "You're not going to do THAT? You've got to do THAT!" Okay. We did it. Another small thing I hadn't expected to do, but it was actually fun.

We decided to do the first dance immediately. By the way, I've never understood why first dances tend to occur as soon as the bride and groom enter the reception. Do any of you know why? Is it to "open the dancing?" Hmmm.....

I was happy that we decided to have our first dance sung by one of my friends, Big Mitts (not her real name). Remember her? She has a lovely voice, has sung in a variety of settings, and I knew that one of the songs we were thinking of would really suit her voice. She sang "Inseparable" by Natalie Cole.

We always talk when we dance.

I think Mr. Swan and I tried to make sure we didn't totally just do the 8th grade sway. We did try to get something going by adding a turn or two.

Our song ended, and I thought, "Well, that was fun!" Little did I know that our dance time was actually not over. I'll have you remember that Mr. Swan was out of work for most of our engagement. That left him with quite a bit of time on his hands and the ability to take some dance lessons. Our DJ, Rob, piped in and said that in honor of my love of "Dancing with the Stars" Mr. Swan had taken salsa lessons and was going to put on a show....with me! WHOA! I definitely didn't see that coming!