Should I tell him where I got the song?

[mysid]

My brother is getting married in a couple of weeks, and he and his fiancee need a song for their first dance. When I heard that he was still looking for one, I grabbed my iPod, selected the song "Save the Last Dance for Me," and said, "Listen to this one." He immediately decided that that was the song he wanted to use. (I didn't play for him The Drifters' version of the song, but rather the cover by Michael Buble. Give it a listen on iTunes; it's good!)

I didn't tell him that I consider the song "ridiculously romantic" or why I consider it so. Given my brother's fragile "uber-macho" self image, I don't think he'd appreciate knowing that I borrowed the song from Queer as Folk. It'll just be my little secret. Shhh!


In other--but closely related--news, one of the flowergirls just dropped out of the wedding. There were supposed to three flowergirls. (Yes, overkill, but what are you going to do?) One is my daughter, the groom's niece, and the other two are the daughters of the bride's two cousins. Here it is just two weeks before the wedding, and the mom of one of the flowergirls suddenly announces that she cannot allow her daughter to be "apart of the wedding." Why? Because the wedding isn't taking place in a church. She's afraid a secular wedding will warp her little seven-year-old's mind.

My sister-in-law-to-be told her cousin, "I'm disappointed, but I understand your position." I say, "Bitch."

And to make matters worse, the bitch-cousin was in charge of having the flowergirl dresses made. (She has a friend who is a seamstress.) For some reason, she never took care of that little detail, and now we're scrambling to find dresses for the girls to wear.
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Comments

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

There's something about weddings that make people act insane and/or stupid.

But yay for Save the Last Dance for Me! ♥

[mysid.livejournal.com]

I've already seen plenty of stupid, and I'm sure there will be a lot more insane before this is all over.

[eakinney.livejournal.com]

I just YouTubed the Michael Buble version you suggested, and it really is good!
As for the origin of the song, that's hilarious. Gotta love the Queer as Folk classic songs!
Hope he has a nice wedding.
:)

[mysid.livejournal.com]

My brother likes the slightly Latin beat of Michael Buble's version; he thinks it will be good to dance to. The bride's family is from Portugal, so much of the music at the wedding will have a Latin flavor.