I’ve been putting this story off for a long time and I think it’s about time I tell it. 

So I went to this wedding and the DJ was awful.  He played the Hokey Pokey - that’s about as bad as it gets.  Anyway, the bridesmaids knew I worked in the wedding industry and kept asking me to “do something.”

At first I said, maybe this isn’t a dancing type party - but they assured me that it was dancing crowd.  So I went over to the DJ and made some song recommendations:  We Are Family, Celebrate - songs that would get a mostly older crowd (parents’ age, not grandparents’) on the dance floor.  Well first he puts on the Electric Slide - okay, a little Bar Mitzvah-y, but it got about 20 women on the dance floor.  After the Electric Slide he puts on the Hokey Pokey.  Well, we thought we would just die, so my sister turns to me and says get him to put on a normal song. 

So I go over to the DJ and he says after this we’ll have the Chicken Dance because he’s only one person and can’t DJ and MC at the same time.  So I say, “do you need me to help?”  And he says yes and hands me the mic.  So now I’m the MC.

Well after getting the crowd to bear with us during this musical glitch, he finally puts on Celebrate and We Are Family and some other 70s songs and I still have the mic.  So I’m walking/dancing around the room, singing in the mic and trying to get the crowd - including the bride and groom - on the dance floor.  So this went on for about 15 minutes and then we had the cake cutting, which I also announced.

Well I had the time of my life and my family is split on whether I did a good or bad thing.  Half of them say that it got the party started - the dance floor was packed with people for those 15 minutes.  The other half says that I shouldn’t have interfered even though the DJ was a disaster it wasn’t my place.  And incase you were wondering, no, I was not drunk.