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Kirby Ball
Guest
We had an older couple (Bride around 60, Groom was probably late 60's)contact us around April 15th, we met with them on the 16th and gave them the sales pitch and contracts to sign. We got the contracts back and did our run through of events on April 22nd and did their reception on April 28th.
They just happened to hit us on one of our few Saturdays this season that was open due to a prior booking being cancelled (wedding was called off). Short notice was not a problem as they didn't do a lot of the normal events.
Crowd was on average much older, due to the number of family members and friends that were invited. All ages were represented, but not that many youngsters.
It was the first time we had ever done an anniversary dance and it worked out real well and the B&G loved it and so did their guests. Although I was getting a bit worried as I was trying to eliminate couples I was up to "35 years or less" and I still had a full dance floor and the song (Through The Years - Kenny Rogers) didn't have much time left...so I had to do some fast eliminations without going tooo fast...
Got down to the last couple on the dance floor, and they had been married for 49 years and were about to celebrate their 50th in a couple of weeks. So that was really cool. There was one other couple (Bride's parents who had been married 60 years) but were unable to dance, so we made sure everyone there gave them a big round of applause...
The other thing that we have never done at a reception was a "salute to Veterans". One of the attending guests was a 90 year old WWII vet, and our B&G wanted us to make sure he was recognized along with other members of the armed forces.
I made a nice little speech, introducing him and then played Glenn Miller's "American Patrol" and then thanked and named all the other Veterans (B&G provided me with a list of names) and then played Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA". There wasn't a dry eye in the whole place.
Rest of the reception went really well. We even had a couple of the 80 year old ladies out there dancing with the youngsters to "My Humps"!:sqerr:
And for the first time, I had to get out and lead a dance....those kids didn't know how to do the "Bunny Hop".
All in all, it was a fun reception and Sharon and Oscar (B&G) were probably the nicest people we have ever had the pleasure of working for.
They just happened to hit us on one of our few Saturdays this season that was open due to a prior booking being cancelled (wedding was called off). Short notice was not a problem as they didn't do a lot of the normal events.
Crowd was on average much older, due to the number of family members and friends that were invited. All ages were represented, but not that many youngsters.
It was the first time we had ever done an anniversary dance and it worked out real well and the B&G loved it and so did their guests. Although I was getting a bit worried as I was trying to eliminate couples I was up to "35 years or less" and I still had a full dance floor and the song (Through The Years - Kenny Rogers) didn't have much time left...so I had to do some fast eliminations without going tooo fast...
Got down to the last couple on the dance floor, and they had been married for 49 years and were about to celebrate their 50th in a couple of weeks. So that was really cool. There was one other couple (Bride's parents who had been married 60 years) but were unable to dance, so we made sure everyone there gave them a big round of applause...
The other thing that we have never done at a reception was a "salute to Veterans". One of the attending guests was a 90 year old WWII vet, and our B&G wanted us to make sure he was recognized along with other members of the armed forces.
I made a nice little speech, introducing him and then played Glenn Miller's "American Patrol" and then thanked and named all the other Veterans (B&G provided me with a list of names) and then played Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA". There wasn't a dry eye in the whole place.
Rest of the reception went really well. We even had a couple of the 80 year old ladies out there dancing with the youngsters to "My Humps"!:sqerr:
And for the first time, I had to get out and lead a dance....those kids didn't know how to do the "Bunny Hop". All in all, it was a fun reception and Sharon and Oscar (B&G) were probably the nicest people we have ever had the pleasure of working for.
:sqerr:
