I already posted this but am still stumped...

kerber981 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 02:06 PM

I already posted this but am still stumped...

need a dance for my step-father and I. All the songs talk about the father raising the daughter and holding her when she was born. It won't be appropriate for us - he came into my life when I was already grown. Ideas please!! (You Raise Me Up, My Little Girl & My Wish are already being used for other dances) TIA

MR1223 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 02:09 PM

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i'm dancing to 'Days Like This' by Van Morrison with my dad. i definitely didn't want a mushy type of song.

kris_gets_hitched Posted: Apr 20, 2010 02:11 PM

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Wildflowers by Tom Petty?

kerber981 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 02:14 PM

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Thanks - I'm going to go listen to both!

rdubs Posted: Apr 20, 2010 02:15 PM

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Somewhere over the Rainbow? I am dancing with my dad to the ukulele version!

Kristan35 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 02:27 PM

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I have a similar dilemma. My father just wasn't there when I was growing up. Yeah, I saw him on some weekends and things like that, but he didn't raise me, my mother did. I felt it would be a lie if I danced to a song about a father and daughter growing up together so we're going to dance to The Way You Look Tonight.

kerber981 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 02:37 PM

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Posted by Kristan35

I have a similar dilemma. My father just wasn't there when I was growing up. Yeah, I saw him on some weekends and things like that, but he didn't raise me, my mother did. I felt it would be a lie if I danced to a song about a father and daughter growing up together so we're going to dance to The Way You Look Tonight.

That's a good song given your situation.

My sister danced to that with my bio father at her wedding last year so I don't want to use the same one.

I've been searching endlessly, just having found something that has clicked yet.

SummerBride10 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 03:00 PM

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He Didn't Have to Be - Brad Paisley

NYYankeeGirl72 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 03:02 PM

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Posted by rdubs

Somewhere over the Rainbow? I am dancing with my dad to the ukulele version!

That is what I am using for my father and daughther dance.

Actually going to use the Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a wonderful world song, which was used at the end of Meet Joe Black..

kerber981 Posted: Apr 20, 2010 03:52 PM

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Posted by NYYankeeGirl72

Posted by rdubs

Somewhere over the Rainbow? I am dancing with my dad to the ukulele version!

That is what I am using for my father and daughther dance.

Actually going to use the Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a wonderful world song, which was used at the end of Meet Joe Black..

This is a great one! I was thinking about What a Wonderful World bc my stepfather was actually my chorus teacher as a kid and we sang this song in his chorus. I thought it would be meaningful because of that. But since he and I are the only ones that would 'get it' I didn't want it to seem to everyone like an I chose an impersonal song for him. Oh boy - I think this is causing me the most confusion out of everything so far. I'm probably reading too much into it!