Miss Gingerbread, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 32, Psychologist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Software Engineer
Engagement Date: Sometime in the fall of 2004
Wedding Date: July, 2008
Blogging Since: March 24, 2008
Venue: Rainforest wedding, beachfront restaurant reception
About Me: I recently moved to Canada from Southern California. Trying to plan a wedding in a new city, not to mention a new country, is tough, but the fact that we can get legally married here more than makes up for it! The wedding will be an opportunity for most of our family and friends to see our new city for the first time so it will be both a wedding and a reunion. Besides my future wife, I am also madly in love with a good bargain, Swedish pastries, Tivo, and my two dogs and calico cat (in no particular order).
Our Song
May 19th, 2008 @ 11:30 am by Miss Gingerbread
Our first dance will not be the Piña Colada Song, but I think we may still need to play it at the reception even though it’s about as cheesy as you can get.
The Gingerbreads’ first vacation together was to Maui. We spent half of the time camping all over the island and it was awesome! Like so many Maui tourists, we wanted to see the sunrise at Haleakala. We set the alarms on our cell phones so that we’d get up in time to drive up to the summit for the sunrise. We awoke to the cold and grumbled as we dressed and stumbled out of the tent. The campground was quiet. No one else was up yet. We hit the restrooms and then jumped in the Jeep, proud of ourselves for having beat everyone out of the campground.
“Look at your clock and tell me what time it is” I said to Miss GB 2.0 as we were halfway up the mountain. Miss GB 2.0 had bought a little watch bracelet from Sports Authority that she set to Hawaii time. Answer: “It’s 11pm.” Our cell phones were still set to Pacific Standard Time! We morons counted the wrong way. We set the cell phone alarms back three hours instead of ahead three hours. We should have set them for 8am PST (which would have been 5am in Hawaii) but instead we set them to 2am (11pm in Hawaii).
Too proud to admit defeat we continued the half hour drive up to the summit. We froze our asses for about 10 minutes until we decided that it was a really stupid idea to try to sleep in the open Jeep for 6 hours. We drove back down to the camp singing along to whatever the radio was playing (”If you like pina coladas and getting lost in the rain…) Now that is one of our favourite memories of the trip.
Here it is that song in all of its cheesiness.
Here’s a bonus tip for anyone planning a honeymoon in Maui. Go at sunset. It’s just as beautiful, less crowded, and then you can sleep in instead of braving the cold at dawn.
So, am I alone here or do any of you have an embarrassingly cheesy “our song”?
8 Responses to “Our Song”
“The Greatest Love of All” - by Whitney Houston….
We were laying in bed and chatting and one of us said something that began with “I believe…” followed by a thinking-pause - and at the same time, in unison, we bursted out: “the children are out future. Teach them well and let them lead the way…” And we were both surprised to learn that we both know every single word of that song. It still cracks us up 5 years later. We will not be dancing to that song!
“The Girl From Ipanema” - written by Antonio Carlos Jobim, but sung by many 
I can’t even tell you how it became our song, but when ever it comes on we dance.
OMG that is the CUUTEST story EVAR !!!!! LOVE IT
“Dancing Queen” by Abba. Silly, but we first danced to this song, all alone by moonlight on a Seattle radio station dance cruise. We are going to first dance to this one.
Great story!
Sheesh, ours is “Can you feel the love tonight” from the Lion King. Could it be any worse, cheese-wise? We had our very first dance to that song, just because it happened to be on some random CD, in my DH’s dorm room. We did in fact have that as our first dance song. Embrace the cheese.
i love the Pina colada song-escape. My hubby and I love that song.
That is such a cute story!!!! Mr. Jasmine will kill me for admitting this, but for some reason we both love Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long”. We will definitely *not* be dancing to it, but we both crack up and have to dance when it comes on.
Our cheesy song is “the origin of love” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Great movie, wonderfully cheesy and totally rocking song based on Plato’s story that we were all torn from our other half, and have a deep desire to “put ourselves back together” with our beloved. When my partner and I first started dating we were both on vacations with family, and away from each other for a few weeks. I was sitting on the beach in Bermuda missing her and reading a philosophy book with the famous origin of love story from Plato’s Symposium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Love). That’s when I realized to myself that I was in love for the first time. Months later, I said we didn’t have a song, this was playing, and she said of course, this was our song. Its not going to cut it for a first dance song, but I will take it!
