TV Recommendation - Rock the Reception

I'll start off by saying I absolutely adore choreographed wedding dances? You know what makes me cry? The youtube video of that couple doing their wacky dance to Baby Got Back. I love stuff like that because you have to be game to do something so hilarious on your wedding day. They are the opposite of "that straight couple." You know the ones. They are the basis of every bad sitcom on CBS where the wife is some uptight harpy and the husband is a dumb slob. "That straight couple" would never do a goofy wedding dance because the harpy wife would be bitching for the rest of their marriage how their "elegant" wedding was ruined by something so embarrassing. The flip side is the husband would be all "dude I don't dance" to get out there are do a choreographed dance. What i adore about these dances is that both people are game. They are there to have a good time WITH EACH OTHER and know that the other person is there to back them up no matter how silly they get. You look at them dancing to Sir Mix a lot or "Thriller" and they are having a blast. A couple that really has fun together is a couple that will last.

Anyway, tt was a Sunday night and J and I were bored. We flipped some channels and ended up on TLC watching The Singing Office with Joey Fatone and Mel C. That was all fine and good. Well, actually it wasn't because the singing and dancing was atrocious. But the show afterwards was a masterpiece of wedding tv - Rock the Reception. The whole concept of the show is that a couple agreed to have Napoleon and Tabitha, the Hip hop choreographers from So You Think You Can Dance choreograph and teach them a two-minute routine they will perform as a surprise first dance. I am so loving this show for all the reasons I love these dances. The couples totally adore each other and are pretty game for anything. The show is head and shoulders above a lot of the wedding reality TV shows because they are not invested in documenting bad behavior on anyone's part. This ranks right up there with the first three seasons of Whose Wedding is it Anyway? where you got to see the ins and outs of how a wedding planner puts together a wedding. I could go on and on about that show but that is another post.