In Sickness And In Health, Through Grinding And Slow Dances

I was at a wedding this weekend. I won't talk much about it because I make an effort to protect the identities of my friends and family in this blog.  It's pretty much the only way bloggers are like Spiderman.

But I will mention the dance.  I heard some critiques of the DJ's work, but personally I have some sympathy for wedding DJs.  After all, they have to satisfy several concepts, like:

• get the oldies out of the way early in the night while the parents and grandparents are still there.

• fit the trendy dance songs in there

• get old, formerly trendy dance songs in, since those are the ones post-adolescent guests will recognize

• for similar reasons, any song with dance instructions in the song are encouraged

• along those lines, "Time Warp" is still acceptable, but "YMCA" is too clinched (at least until late in the night when everyone is plastered)

• get a lot of the slow songs out of the way early in the evening.  Everyone is still full of love, and there are enough people around that the singles sitting out won't feel too conspicuous.

• adults are picky, having gotten beyond the dance-to-anything attitudes of high school and college, so try to put songs of the same type together to keep everyone on the dance floor
• for similar reasons, resist the urge to satisfy all these rules through covers, mash-ups and medleys, that will just confuse people (again, until later when everyone is smashed)

• try to give a nod to the couple's tastes in music, even if it's death-metal