Video: The Dirty Dancing wedding reception
posted at 9:35 pm on February 22, 2007 by Allahpundit
Has it come to this, my friends? Were weddings not corny enough without dance-floor injections of 1980s popcult nostalgia? I could handle the “Thriller” routine because, after all, there’s a certain endearing goofiness to middle-aged white people trying to pull off vintage Jacko choreography. But “Dirty Dancing”? My mother’s seen it upwards of a hundred times. Your mother has, too. It’s hideous yet insidious, which means we’re looking at serious, serious trend potential here. As I write this, total YouTube views to date are over 135,000. And counting.
What’s next? Brides doing the Jennifer Beals chair routine from “Flashdance”?
Actually, that might not be so bad.
As another man contemplating his doom famously (almost) said: I fear they have awakened a sleeping giant.
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Gag me with a sledgehammer.
jman on February 22, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Whoops! I was thinking jackhammer. Either way I just wasted a piece of my life that I will never get back.
jman on February 22, 2007 at 9:50 PM
Hmmm…I think I’ve found the theme for AP’s wedding.
Slublog on February 22, 2007 at 9:52 PM
The Bride doesn’t have the moves Jennifer Grey did in that movie.
…actually since she got the nose job neither does Jennifer Grey. I think it musta thrown her off balance with out that huge honker….
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on February 22, 2007 at 9:54 PM
1. Leave my mother out of this.
2. Exactly how old are you?
‘Cause I’m thinking, for your mother to be such a huge fan of this 1987 movie, she can’t be much past, oh, 50. So I’m thinking, you can’t be much older than 25.
Ali-Bubba on February 22, 2007 at 9:58 PM
I loved her old nose. Well, I don’t know that I loved it, but at least it was hers.
Ali-Bubba on February 22, 2007 at 10:00 PM
I laughed, I cried, I threw up a little bit in my mouth.
How many cameras did they have going?
flip on February 22, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Is there a list for those looking for invites? I could use some humorous diversion.
Scotsman on February 22, 2007 at 10:03 PM
Ah……….but could Yamato dirty dance?
Limerick on February 22, 2007 at 10:03 PM
Yamamoto
Limerick on February 22, 2007 at 10:03 PM
Its a wedding.Song was appropriate,everyone witnessed the tradition of the bride and groom dance,and Patrick Swayze isn’t out of work.Its a corny kind of cute.
spazzmomma on February 22, 2007 at 10:07 PM
I dunno, I think it’s kind of nice. They look like they are having fun.
bloggless on February 22, 2007 at 10:08 PM
You know, I’d like to get married someday. But that means I’d probably have to endure some stupid crap like this.
alflauren on February 22, 2007 at 10:08 PM
middle-aged white people : let this be a lesson to you. Always….always…go to wedding receptions on crutches.
Limerick on February 22, 2007 at 10:10 PM
I know Patrick Swayze. Patrick Swayze was a friend of mine. Sir…you are no Patrick Swayze.
Buck Turgidson on February 22, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Personally, I always leave when they start the Hokey Pokey, so no way am I getting near Dirty Dancing.
ReubenJCogburn on February 22, 2007 at 10:14 PM
My wife and I reenacted the first level of Donkey Kong complete with barrels and the best man in a monkey suit.
Bill C on February 22, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Thats where I draw the line bill ;-)
spazzmomma on February 22, 2007 at 10:18 PM
The hottest things going in schools are “High School Musical” and jumping rope.
That and trends like this, you’d almost think it was the late 40s/early 50s or something.
bbz123 on February 22, 2007 at 10:19 PM
The best Swayze movie is Roadhouse. For those who are interested, it looks like Van Halen won’t be Dirty Dancing this summer after all.
forged rite on February 22, 2007 at 10:28 PM
As long as it’s Helen Thomas……… mmmmmmmmmmm, delicious!
PinkyBigglesworth on February 22, 2007 at 10:35 PM
You are a sick, sick individual.
Slublog on February 22, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Huh? What’s the big deal? They had a good time and so did everyone else, or so it appeared. It was a wedding party not a contest.
The only thing that bothered me was that the groom looked inappropriately like a bouncer (he didn’t have to take the Patrick Swayze role quite so literally) and I wanted to throw a tomato at the obnoxious dancing girl in the blue skirt.
Buy Danish on February 22, 2007 at 10:56 PM
They worked it. Their friends worked it, especially the chick in the blue skirt. I say, if you’re going to have dancing at your wedding, it helps if your friends can dance, so more power to ‘em. It’s only corny under public consumption, folks.
Besides, don’t let AP fool ya. He and I are approximately the same age. *I’ve* seen that movie a batch of times. I think we all know who was watching it at his, too.
:)
Anwyn on February 22, 2007 at 11:03 PM
Okay, okay … it might be a *little* corny under private consumption too … a little … but it wasn’t at all embarrassing. And what’s cornier–that, or your mother-in-law doing the Chicken Dance? Please.
Anwyn on February 22, 2007 at 11:04 PM
Above should say … “his house, too” … commenting while flu-sick.
Anwyn on February 22, 2007 at 11:05 PM
ah… memories.
My wife chose this very song at our wedding…
… maybe this is sharing too much.
Lawrence on February 22, 2007 at 11:12 PM
Al Gore Macarena. Hillary did it at some point for real…
Next innauguration ball:
1. First appearance by the Clintons – the Jackson dance, with all the nutroots & other whities…
2. Next appearance – the Clintons dirty-dancing…
3. Third appearance – Mrs. Clinton alone “I have to excuse my husband. He had to go home sick”.
Entelechy on February 22, 2007 at 11:20 PM
Balls.
The Ugly American on February 22, 2007 at 11:21 PM
HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
The Ugly American on February 22, 2007 at 11:23 PM
no, no, no, no & no.
yo on February 22, 2007 at 11:24 PM
NOBODY puts baby in the corner!
uniclone on February 22, 2007 at 11:35 PM
forged rite on February 22, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Sad.
Griz on February 22, 2007 at 11:38 PM
I couldn’t get through the video. I, for one, want to block out the fact that I ever liked that movie enough to own it.
tickleddragon on February 22, 2007 at 11:59 PM
Uniclone-excellent & Tickledragon-I cringe when I think that I once thought that was a great movie.
Catie96706 on February 23, 2007 at 12:04 AM
I enjoyed watching the couple dancing together in this wedding reception video clip. The clip reminds me of some fun times my wife and I had both dancing, and attending weddings with dancers in attendence.
My wife and I met dancing. We spent many hours Latin – Salsa, Mambo, Meringue, Bolero, Rumba, Cha Cha, Swing, Lindy, West Coast Swing, and Ballroom – Waltz, Fox Trot, etc., dancing together and with our dancing friends.
We were fortunate enough to have the most recorded and most famous Latin band leader in history, Tito Puente y su orchestra as our band at a dance gather we joined at the Granite Resort-Hotel in the Catskills back around 1993 or so. There was a large wooden dance floor to dance on at that gig and it was great!
My wife and I attended the wedding of my wife’s best friend in Crystal City at the Hilton Hotel bordering Washington, DC, my wife’s friend the bride, and the groom had met swing dancing. The groom, along with his dance partner, is a champion swing, Lindy dance competitor and teacher in the US and in the Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland area.
The bride and groom hired a top notch big band for their reception and many of the guests ranged from very good, to great East Coast Swing and Lindy dancers. Some knew the Shim-sham as well. The dancing at that wedding reception was among the best swing and Lindy dancing I have ever seen at a wedding. It was a lot like the swing and Lindy dancing in the movie “Swing Kids.”
My wife and I and our first child, who was then around 2 1/2 to 3 years of age, had a great time and we got to dance a lot and also dance different styles. Because the orchestra did play different styles, not just swing, my wife and I also had the opportunity to dance other dances along with and aside from East Coast Swing and Lindy, such as West Coast Swing, Fox Trot, Mambo, Salsa, Meringue, and others,
Nevertheless, the dancing at that wedding was so good, everyone had so much fun, the wedding was a ton of fun.
There are other weddings we attended in which our friends, the bride and groom, were dancers, and the dancing was great as well.
These little touches do help make a wedding fun and, like someone said in a post above, it is a change of pace from the same old “Chicken Dance,” and “Hokey Pokey” and other silly steps.
Allah, I am glad you posted that little clip. It might not have been blow-me-away great, but it was fun.
William
William2006 on February 23, 2007 at 12:31 AM
It’s a nice change from Shout. My husband and I eloped thus avoiding the whole thing but for the better part of a decade, at every single wedding we went to, they started with that song. If people want to get creative now, more power to ‘em.
Laura on February 23, 2007 at 12:40 AM
Laura,
That is nice!
Where did you elope to?
Upon the death from cancer of my father, and upon my mother’s extensive confinement in a care center with illness, including Multiple Sclerosis, we decided to go to Maui, Hawaii, and marry at sunset outdoors in Makena, the southwest side of Maui, looking out to Molokini Crater.
We are both glad we did so, for that was the most beautiful, sweet, romantic wedding I have ever attended.
Later, after the sun had set, we had our “wedding dinner,” just to two of us, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Wailea. There was a pianist, and I think a bassist and drummer with a small dance floor in the elegant dinning room. We danced together, she in her wedding dress and veil, me in my Spencer Tux that I owned and wore when I performed classical and guitar and vocals including at elegant affairs.
We have a beautiful video with excellent sound, music editing, and color, and beautiful photographs, and the honenymoom, spent in both Maui, and Kauai, was wonderful, filled with great memories and beautiful scenery!
Our minister, gifted with a beautiful speaking voice, performed the ceremony in both Hawaiian and English, and we exchanged leis, my wife draping me in the Ali’i lei, and I drapped her in the Plumeria lei.
My wife looked so beautiful. I was beside myself with joy at such a wonderful event as our wedding, simple, beautiful, intimate, memorable, in such a beautiful location as Maui, Hawaii.
We have a wonderful marriage and I am so grateful and happy to be married to my wife and to have fathered such beautiful children with her as our three children, ages nine, six, and three are (girl, boy, girl).
I truly think and experience that marriage and parenthood are wonderful!
William
William2006 on February 23, 2007 at 1:11 AM
Um, nothing as romantic as that, we just waited until church was over, grabbed a couple of witnesses and got married without telling our families about it. But then we’d known each other for nine years and had been through all kinds of fun such as his terminal cancer diagnosis and divorce, drugs, poverty and welfare, and my first husband’s unexpected death while I was pregnant. After all that drama, who needs a wedding? We were happy to skip ahead to the marriage part, and we’ve enjoyed 14 years of relative calm since then. :-)
Laura on February 23, 2007 at 3:01 AM
I think there’s a stupid Geico commercial on TV now. I think I’ll watch that instead.
Coronagold on February 23, 2007 at 5:52 AM
Some guy at my daughters wedding did the Pee-Wee Herman “Big Shoe” dance. It was really funny but we were all drunk by then.
Booo on February 23, 2007 at 6:42 AM
I have never seen the whole movie, however I have seen that part. I didn’t think it was a good movie. Regardless of that, I think this looked like fun, and memorable. If you aren’t willing to suffer a little corniness, you drastically limit your opportunities to have a bit of fun.
aelhues on February 23, 2007 at 8:15 AM
It was THEIR wedding. They decided to put on a show for their guests. Put a lot of time into it, it seems. And they did a pretty good job. Lighten up.
rivlax on February 23, 2007 at 8:32 AM
I think it’s hilarious. It looks like they were having a great time. And Allah, I was in high school at the time the movie came out. I am definitely not some “middle aged mom.” :)
pullingmyhairout on February 23, 2007 at 8:49 AM
If you’re going to get married, you have to make it special for you and your bride/groom and your guests.
Hubby and I had the wedding itself privately, but we had a seperate reception afterwards. We had a movie theme, so our centerpieces were paper film reels with paper clapboards we bought from a party store. The table numbers were all titles of movies that had a wedding as part of the plot (some were obvious, some weren’t, such as “Sixteen Candles” and “Nutty Professor II” — me and hubby’s parents sat at the table labeled “The In-Laws”). Our last dance song was “Come What May” from “Moulin Rouge”. And our first dance song: “Sugarpie Honeybunch (I Can’t Help Myself)”, which is our song (I even had it as a ringtone for when he calls me on my cell).
These kinds of things may seem corny, but you know what? You can do whatever you want at your wedding. If hubby and I were professional dancers, we might have done something similar to this. But everyone loved the reception, and said that the film theme was “so you” (I’m a huge film buff, and graduated with a BA in Film Studies).
ScoopPC11 on February 23, 2007 at 8:58 AM
This just proves my observation that no matter what you do at your wedding, someone will complain about it. I almost did the traditional wedding thing once, but just couldn’t handle everyone from my boss to the freakin’ UPS man telling me what ceremonies I just HAD to have and things I just HAD to do. No wonder women become bridezillas. Wasn’t the right guy anyway. When I met the REAL guy, we invited a few (less than 10) very close friends to a little ceremony at his home and then took everyone to a nice dinner. Someone probably complained about that too, but it didn’t cost me $10,000 to give them the priviledge.
Quisp on February 23, 2007 at 9:03 AM
At first I was repulsed, but then I watched more of it, and thought it was sweet. It’s their wedding, and it’s probably the only time they’d be able to get away with doing something like that in front of their friends where the friends would be happy for them and cheering them on, rather than wanting to throw food at them.
The funniest part for me was as I was watching it, I was saying to myself, “it won’t really be authentic, because they’re going to need some of the guests dancing with Patrick Swayze during the routine.” And then they did that too! They thought of everything!
asc85 on February 23, 2007 at 9:09 AM
Actually my wife has seen a hundred times. Does that put us in the old fart category? Great.
vcferlita on February 23, 2007 at 9:15 AM
Yes. Another new member to the old fart club. Welcome aboard.
Lawrence on February 23, 2007 at 9:59 AM
That was just bad. Somebody really should put Baby in a corner in this case.
Readymade on February 23, 2007 at 10:44 AM
oh get a life! there is nothing wrong with what they did at their wedding and, despite the name, that wasnt very dirty dancing!
idiotic posts like this is why we political conservatives are seen as stick-in-the-muds.
johnnyquest on February 23, 2007 at 10:52 AM
Awwe that was cute!! And she even did the lift!! If the rest of their life is like their wedding looks like they will have lots of fun and laughter. Good for them!!
ChrisIansNana on February 23, 2007 at 11:04 AM
That was my favorite part of the movie. I found a 3-6 month t-shirt that says “no one puts Baby in a corner” Had to get it for my Granddaughter coming in May.
ChrisIansNana on February 23, 2007 at 11:07 AM
The “dirty dancing” thing comes because it’s based on the movie, not the type of dancing.
Slublog on February 23, 2007 at 12:42 PM
i know what its from. my point is it wasnt dirty or unseemly or anything warranting our attention. again, get a life. last time i checked america-haters were trying to kill my country. can we get our eye back on the ball?
johnnyquest on February 23, 2007 at 2:36 PM
It was thrilling and delightful. Best wishes to the bride and groom!
RushBaby on February 23, 2007 at 3:52 PM
Looks like a good time was had by all. No harm no foul.
Wade on February 23, 2007 at 7:19 PM
I think they had fun. Good for them. And I was in high school when the movie came out. My friends all worked at a movie theater and we watched it over and over again. At the time, of course, we thought it was great. Again, we were in high school..teenage girls..so what did we know?
serpentineshel on February 24, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Reading comments about the movie “Dirty Dancing” has brought back memories of how fun the movie was to watch.
I enjoyed the Mambo dance choreography they did together, and I enjoyed how authentic the camp was they attended, the small, rustic hall they held the end-of-season festivities, the level of talent that the amateur talent contest included and how authentic those scenes in which people just having fun even if they could not hold a note or were not professional dancers, the works.
Patrick Swazey’s character, Johnny, turned out to have some redeemable qualities to him, he did not get the girl pregnant, he had some level of honor. However, he DID help his dance partner friend get an abortion, which I had a problem with. In the movie it showed that she had after effects which were painful and damaging, but I never saw anyone make anything out of that, even though abortions do damage women’s bodies as well as kill the baby, violently ripping and slicing her tiny body apart while she is inside mother’s womb, and/or sucking baby out of her peaceful place, her mother’s womb. That is truly a sick practice!
Frances “Baby” learned a few things about life while at camp and she helped Johnny make a few changes in his own life as well.
“Cuz I iiiiivvve had —- the time of my liiiiiifffe
and I’ve never felt like this before
this time its the truth
and I owe it all to yooooouuuuuuuu ….”
William
William2006 on February 24, 2007 at 2:37 PM
I think it was a good idea and well executed, especially inviting the guests to take part. Good fun and a stretch out of the wall flower comfort zone. Nice garter too!
sonnyspats1 on February 24, 2007 at 4:27 PM
That was about as entertaining as the HANH.
This goes on the ‘shoot me in the head if you ever see me doing this’ list.
mesablue on February 25, 2007 at 5:42 PM