Wedding Blog

After we wiped the chocolate cake goodness from our faces, it was time to take the dance floor for our first dance…

As silly as it sounds, Mr. Cookie and I are together today because he asked me to dance. Yep, our relationship started out old-school movie style. A confident and debonair Cookie spots a cute, single Cookie from across the room at a wedding, asks her to dance, they fall in love and get married. But wait, life doesn’t happen like the movies, and it especially did not for us Cookies.

Prior to the wedding, Mr. Cookie confessed a concern to me — he was a ball of nerves over our first dance. Knowing all eyes would be on us, my confident and debonair man got a bout of cold feet. We talked about taking dance lessons to ease the nerves, but with busy schedules we never found the time. So, a week before the wedding, we whipped out our iPod and went to the task of choreographing our first dance: a few turns, swaying back-and-forth, and a dip at the end. Our routine was sweet and simple and helped calm Mr. Cookie’s nerves.

When the first few notes of Eva Cassidy’s “Songbird” played, Mr. Cookie took my hand and twirled me onto the dance floor.

With all the pressured deflated by our preparation, Mr. Cookie and I just stared into each others eyes. There was a lot of love in Mr. Cookie’s eyes.

I thought back to our first dance, on a September evening similar to that evening. Who could have predicted that two years later, after that very first dance, we would be taking our first dance as husband and wife? Who’d have thought? Definitely not us!

While we were choreographing our dance, Mr. Cookie got the brilliant idea to have our bridal party join us on the dance floor. Halfway through the song, Mr. Cookie cued the BM and MOH to take the floor. Not only did the rest of the party follow, but our parents and guests. We felt surrounded by a lot of love!

Right before the song ended, Mr. Cookie and I couldn’t keep our eyes off of one another. I remember distinctly hearing the lyrics:

Cause I feel that when I’m with you / It’s alright, I know it’s right.

And it was. Everything about this moment was right. Serendipity had aligned the stars the evening we first met, on this our wedding night, and I knew that it would for the rest of our lives.

And the songbirds keep singing/ Like they know the score/ And I love you, I love you, I love you/ Like never before…

And with a dip our first dance was over. It went by with lightning speed and before I knew it my father grabbed my hand from Mr. Cookie’s and was ready to boogie — the father daughter dance was next. Stay tuned.