Cocktail hour flew by! Before I knew it, people were being swept downstairs and I realized I had hardly eaten any of our delicious goodies! Ah well, we were glad to have gotten to say hello to everyone during the cocktail hour so we’d have the rest of the evening to have fun.
We opted not to do bridal party introductions and I didn’t even really want the two of us to be introduced (um, hello…it’s our wedding, people should know who we are by now) but we wanted to do our first dance right away, so to get everyone’s attention, our DJ announced us as he started the music for our first dance.
We danced to a song that isn’t very well known, but it has such a special meaning to Mr. Socks and me. When we first started dating, I introduced Mr. Socks to the artist, Declan O’Rourke, and burned him copies of his albums. For the first few months of our relationship, his was just about the only music we listened to.
“Galileo” is one of our favorite songs, and we had the pleasure of attending this performance of Declan’s while he was playing in New York. We didn’t record this video, but the girl right in front of us did, and we were lucky to find it on YouTube! We even got to meet Declan after the show and told him that we were going to dance to “Galileo” at our wedding. He congratulated us and wished us well. It was truly an awesome experience to meet the man who sang our first dance song!
Mr. Socks and I didn’t take any dancing classes, though we thought about it for awhile. We taught ourselves to waltz via YouTube instructional videos, and Dad Socks helped us a bit since he’s a fantastic ballroom dancer. We weren’t the most graceful swans in the pool, but we had fun and hearing “Galileo” made us ridiculously happy.
Mr. Socks: The acoustics are awesome in here!
Mrs. Socks: I love you too, honey.
Mrs. Socks: I think I should have been the one leading us.
Mr. Socks: I’ll let you lead for the rest of our lives…how bout give me this one dance to lead, hmm?
Mrs. Socks: Um, you just stepped on my foot again, but okay.
After the song ended, Dad Socks gave an amazing speech that was very heartfelt and touching.
I loved his last line of the toast: “May you always be as happy as Wrigley and Zoe are when you walk in the door.” Considering how ridiculously happy our dogs are when we come home, he wished us a LOT of happiness.
All photos by Georgi Anastasov.
It was FINALLY time to eat!!
