32: To Fall Down At Your Door

32. "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by the Proclaimers {#3; 6/93 (Originally released in 1988.)} [Video: nope, but you might enjoy this performance of the song on David Letterman's show: I'm Gonna Be (on Letterman) (500 Miles). (Dave's interview with the Reid brothers is pretty funny.)]

I liked this song a lot long before I got married. But, when I think of it now, I think back to the day I got married. Specifically, I think back to my wedding reception.

My wife is an incredible woman. She had picked out a reception hall for our wedding reception. I hadn't actually seen the place on the inside, but I'm sure it would have been delightful. But then, less than a week before the wedding, she got the call that the reception hall had been double booked. There were two wedding receptions scheduled for the same night! 

Now, most bride-to-be's would have gone bat-sh*# crazy at hearing this news. Not my wife. Of course, it helped that the doofuses at the reception hall had a contingency plan in place. One of the two receptions could be held at the old county court house building instead. And, since our reception had been the first of the two actually scheduled, we had the choice of the reception hall or the court house. The court house was the bigger and nicer venue of the two, so we chose the court house, and then frantically tried to inform everyone about the change. (I only heard of one person from our wedding party who went to the original place first.)

(Oh, and as further penance for their mistake, the wedding reception people also provided a free crepe bar for our reception. You can never have too many crepes!)

I bring this all up, because the court house had a very slick wooden floor. And I had some very slick tux-rental shoes. And, soon enough, I found that I am a much better dancer than usual when I have slick shoes on a slick floor. 

The music for dancing at our reception was pumped from my brand new iPad through a small speaker system. The songs played were from the various mix-tape playlists I had made for Amber up to that point. And, one of the songs I most remember everyone dancing to was "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)." 

To this day, it's the most fun I've ever had at a party.

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