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Is it normal for a groom to have a special dance with his mother?

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AKissIsNotAContract · 27/04/2013 21:36

I'm just wondering if this is something my MIL to be has come up with or if it's normal for a son and his mum to have a special dance that's just for the two of them at a wedding.

It sounds like a shit idea to me but perhaps I'm biased!

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Theironfistofarkus · 30/04/2013 20:47

I agree nfk. I skipped it at my wedding. Might not have if I wasn't a crap dancer tho!

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nkf · 30/04/2013 18:36

The bride and groom dance is weird too. They sort of sway there while people stand around watching. Bizarre.

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Theironfistofarkus · 29/04/2013 22:30

I'm sorry but while it is lovely for a son to dance with his Mum, it is plain weird for the music to change especially and for everyone to stop and watch the dance. I can see why she may want a few private words with her son. But a full on dance of her own with everyone watching is narcissism. This is her son and his wife's day, not hers.

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AKissIsNotAContract · 29/04/2013 21:38

I fully expect them to dance with each other, just not to have a special dance just for them with very different music from what we are having played for the rest of the night.

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TobyLerone · 29/04/2013 21:32

None of that happened at my wedding either. DH still danced with his mum.

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AKissIsNotAContract · 29/04/2013 21:24

The thing is corny none of that will be happening at my wedding as my dad isn't going.

everybodysstressy you could be onto something there. I'm sure she's disappointed by me as her daughter-in-law. I don't do her son's washing, I won't be taking his surname, I expect him to pull his weight with housework. And my latest crime is that I'm planning to breast feed. Bearing in mind I'm not even pregnant I had to sit through a lecture the other day about how breast feeding is selfish and unfair on her son. DP pulled this face Hmm when I told him.

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EverybodysStressyEyed · 29/04/2013 20:01

Good point corny - when I have been to weddings where a mother does a speech I have heard comments about her being attention seeking or a show off (except for the one where the father had died)

Tbh, every one I know who thinks their mil is difficult is also extremely difficult themselves!!

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cornyderpy · 29/04/2013 19:40

I went to a wedding once where the bride's father actually walked down the aisle with his daughter whilst the organist played them their own special song.

I couldn't believe it when he actually stood up during the speeches and made a speech - how attention seeking. He'd clearly rehearsed it - he kept looking at cue cards.

The icing on the cake was when he danced with his daughter.
So creepy and attention seeking.

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Hullygully · 29/04/2013 19:34

HOW DID YOU KNOW Katie?

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K8Middleton · 29/04/2013 18:24
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Hullygully · 29/04/2013 16:41

While obviously there is nothing wrong with mothers loving sons and hopefully reciprocity too, what IS odd the demand for a "special" dance when there wouldn't normally be one. Taken with the car thing, it is odd.

Wouldn't she just assume that at some point in the evening son would wander over and say, "come on you old bag (whatever), let's have a dance" and they'd just have one without any fuss?

My ds (16) learns ballroom dancing and tried to arrange lessons for me and him together for mother's day as he knows I want to do it too. At his wedding we will basically be giving a whole spangled show.

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Floralnomad · 29/04/2013 16:31

Having not spoken to me for 15 years I think even my husband would admit that his mother ,who he loves very much ,is a pretty crap MIL ! My mum on the other hand is a great MIL .

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seeker · 29/04/2013 16:21

It's also interesting that one woman's lovely mother is somebody else's MIL from hell.........

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drjohnsonscat · 29/04/2013 14:24

No I don't, No MIL and my mum is great Smile.

But I will be a MIL one day, I hope. And I will be just as I am now. There's no father in our family to do the first dance with DD should she want it but I would be honoured if I could walk her down the aisle, make a speech about her, even dance with her if she wants to recreate that tradition in our own odd way, generally show my love for her at her wedding. Ditto my son.

I think mumsnet of all places should be able to celebrate and honour mothers and sons. OK this particular woman might be weird and only the OP knows that but I don't get why the whole idea is weird. Or any more weird than the whole wedding ceremony construct of "virgin" brides being given by the old owner to a new owner and identified as his with a new name and a ring demonstrating ownership.

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Floralnomad · 29/04/2013 12:57

drjohnson ,there speaks a person who doesn't have a crazy mother or MIL.

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jellybeans · 29/04/2013 10:15

We didn't do any sort of family dancing. It's just not for us.

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drjohnsonscat · 29/04/2013 10:06

seeker, loving your work on this thread.

Funny how women are wonderful and never wrong and mothers are wonderful and never wrong until they are mothers of grown up sons and then they are dreadful and creepy.

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AnneElliott · 28/04/2013 19:20

I agree it's a bit weird. Sounds like something my DM would do as she hates someone else being the centre of attention.

At my wedding my DM wanted to walk down the aisle with me and my dad and when he vetoed that she wanted to walk down the aisle in front of me with my DB. I vetoed that.

I would suggest your DP telling her that he'll dance with her to that sing but not on their own.

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SantanaLopez · 28/04/2013 14:35

Only someone seriously warped could come up with that particular prophecy, Miggsie Hmm

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Miggsie · 28/04/2013 14:27

Taken along with her other behaviours this request for a dance is certainly to do with trying to still be the centre of attention or detract attention from you.
Your DH doesn't want to do it so he can just say no.

I also suspect that you will be in for a lifetime of her trying to ease you out of every social occasion. I would also suspect when you have children she will refer to them as hers.

Trying to upstage a bride on a wedding day is a sign of a deeply insecure and possibly spiteful nature. She does think she is in competition with you - who buys a new car so they will look good compared to a wedding hired car? Someone seriously warped, that's who.

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Roseformeplease · 28/04/2013 14:10

My husband danced with his Mum at our wedding (Ceilidh) but he also danced with loads of other people and it was not a "solo." She was just someone he made a point of dancing with once. She taught him to dance, properly, (he is amazing!) so I thought nothing of it.

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SantanaLopez · 28/04/2013 14:06

Maybe- I love my son. I'm really glad he's getting married. I'd like to dance with him at his wedding. I like this song. Maybe we could dance to it together.

It's mind-blowing, I know.

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nkf · 28/04/2013 14:00

I meant the minds of the mothers.

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seeker · 28/04/2013 13:59

"What can be going through these women's minds?"


I don't know. I wonder if it's insecurity? Maybe they think that if their husbands give any love or consideration to their mothers,that's love and consideration not being given to them, and they want all of it?

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