Wedding Recaps - The Dollar Dance

Hello friends!!! Long time no see! 

It's been busy life here lately for us, as I'm sure it has for you, so I'm sorry for not getting around to another recap until now... I do blog Monday-Friday every week over at Truly Lovely, so I do hope you'll follow me over there during my lags in sharing here. :)

Ok! The Dollar Dance! ;)
One of the things I most enjoyed at one of my bestie's weddings (shout out to Meg Jo!) was the dollar dance. 

I had never seen that before and thought it was the funnest idea!

So of course, we decided to have one at ours. 

Dancing with groomsman, Victor

It was SO fun!! 

It really encourages everyone to get up and dance with the bride and groom, and of course, you get to keep the cash afterwards! ;) 

Mr. M and our niece, Taylor

You can see my mom and Kayli collecting the 'dollars' in some of these shots. :)
We kind of made it a contest between myself and Mr. M... 

The winner? The bride, obviously! ;) Everyone wants to dance with the bride at weddings! haha!

Everyone else just kind of danced around us while this was going on... 
Unless they were standing in line. ;)

Those little sweethearts were so fun! They all came as a group to dance with me. :)

Stay tuned... There are a few more Wedding Recap posts to come! 

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Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!!! 

We spent Sunday cleaning and then decorating our house for our first MARRIED Christmas!

What about you? Getting ready for the holidays?

AND did you/will you have the Dollar Dance at your wedding?

Baby, why don't we just dance...

We've booked our DJ!!! Another check on the checklist!

 Book your reception band or DJ, sign the reception music contract, and send a deposit.

Checklist from theknot.com

Yet again, we were lucky that our photographer, Karen of Treehouse Photography, just so happens to be married to a DJ. :) Who we've heard does an excellent job!

So friends, say hello to Frank of Amplified Attitude Mobile DJ/PA!!!



We'll have primarily country music played during our reception, as well as a few requests that we plan to list for Frank before hand... (add another item unchecked to the checklist....)

Now to decide on a few special song selections. I really think I'd like to do the traditional dances, like first dance, father/daughter dance etc... But I don't know exactly the dances we'll do, or the songs will choose.

We will definitely be playing, "Why Don't We Just Dance" by Josh Turner! Super fun song!!!

Oh yeah.... we have to include the Dollar Dance!!

At my friend's wedding, they did the dollar dance, where guests "pay" to dance with the bride or groom. It was way fun!

Any suggestions on dances to incorporate?

Or special songs to have played??