This goes on the ‘shoot me in the head if you ever see me doing this’ list.

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

oh get a life! there is nothing wrong with what they did at their wedding and, despite the name, that wasnt very dirty dancing!

The “dirty dancing” thing comes because it’s based on the movie, not the type of dancing.

idiotic posts like this is why we political conservatives are seen as stick-in-the-muds.

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.

My mother’s seen it upwards of a hundred times. Your mother has, too.

Actually my wife has seen a hundred times. Does that put us in the old fart category? Great.

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!

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).

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