Your daughter announces she’s getting married. (No, mine isn’t this is hypothetical)
Or, alternately, if you have married off a daughter. You have that first dance with her at the wedding, right after the ungrateful, barely worthy slob she married.
What song is that dance happening to? If it’s entirely up to you, I mean?
Weird thing is, I’ve known the answer to this since my daughter was a crawler. It’s Sunrise-Sunset, from Fiddler on the Roof. This just came to mind the other day when I heard the Jill Sobule version of it on XM, and stood there just getting a little, um…ok, weepy thinking about it.
So, share. What did, or would you dance to at that moment?
My wife has eight female cousins and her Aunt has sung Sunrise/Sunset at every one of the cousins’ weddings so far (including ours). We generally try and schedule this somewhat towards the beginning because there isn’t a dry eye in the house when she’s done.
Since my dad doesn’t post to the Dope or even know that it exists…
I danced with my dad to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” He told me later that is what he would have picked… I never knew dad was such a sentimental fool
My dad’s song with me will be “In My Life” by The Beatles. He’s always said it was his favorite song and I think it fits perfectly as a father-daughter dance.
Having grown up with a Dylan Freak dad, and having listened to Dylan all her life, I hope when my little girl (early 20s) decides to get married we dance to His Bobness singing “Forever Young”…
In the far future day, I would probably want Guinnevere by CSN. That was the inspiration for her name. I love the song, but it will be a little odd to dance to.
I really like Sunrise-Sunset, I like Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” even better. I will probably stick to Guinnevere though.
Well, I’m not a Daddy Doper (yet) and it’s a boy, not a girl, but Mrs. Small picked some country song to dance to at our wedding for the dance with her father. I don’t know the name of it off hand, but I remember it. Wasn’t one I particularly cared for, but she enjoyed it.
I think it was that “I loved her first” song. I also think they picked it because they weren’t sure what song would be good and her dad really likes that one.
I have a precious 2 year old daughter,. I don’t want to think about her being grown up, getting married, how old I’ll be then, or any of that. Asking me what song we should dance to at her wedding is like asking me in what color coffin I wish to be buried.
OK, I exaggerate a little, but since that day’s probably 20+ years away, I have no clue. It’ll be her choice, anyway.
We might be living in a world where we wish such things were our only concern. My greatest hope is that it will still be a happy time for us and the world hasn’t turned into some post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-type nightmare.
Damn right, and any thug bastard that dares lay a hand on my daughter will be pulling back a stub!
Reminds me, I need to have a talk with my daughter…I know, she’s only 2, but it’s never too early to teach vigilance. She needs to know that anything a boy says or does in her presence is patently designed for one thing, and one thing only, and it’s evil, evil, I tell you. Don’t ask me how I know this.
