K is for:
Karaoke
As you may be aware (from several posts hinting at it) I am getting married in September and one of the things I have wanted to my wedding for years and years is a karaoke disco. I really love singing and, hence, karaoke. I am a member of a local amateur theatre group and as our post-show celebration we usually have a fish supper and karaoke evening and I have many a joyful evening singing the hits of Dolly Parton with gay abandon and having a wonderful time!
I started looking for a karaoke disco as soon as we booked the venue and emailed several people local to me, but people seemed happy to do the disco part, but it seemed no-one was doing the karaoke any more. I did start to despair that I would not get what I wanted, but a random message on Twitter solved my problem. I had tweeted about hiring my wedding cars and I got a direct message from Simon Clarke, a DJ on my local radio station, Wave105 – for some reason we follow each other! Basically he asked if I had hired a DJ and I said I hadn’t and that I wanted a karaoke disco and he was good enough to recommend a DJ he knew that did it. Cut a long story short, a few emails and tweets later, I had my karaoke disco, courtesy of Darren Daley. And I’m really excited about it!!
When I was first looking at it I was a bit concerned that people might not like it, or think it’s tacky, but I have very recently taken a new attitude towards the whole wedding experience: it’s our wedding – if people don’t like it then it’s tough tits!
I’m hoping that people will be game enough to join in and have a go – I certainly will be, but I won’t force anyone! What do you think of the karaoke? What would you have a go at? For people I know – what will you be doing at the wedding???
You know me, get me drunk enough and I’ll be up there singing my little heart out. May have to sing ‘do wah diddy’ just for old times sake 😀
PS I am *loving* the new attitude!!
Thank you! I just got the hump the other day with wondering if people will like things – it was after people turned their noses up at my buttons!
I will give it a go I’m sure. Will have to start practicing though, both sober and drunk just to get the full effect. And I love the buttons.
Thank you – so do I! I have been practicing too. I think I shall also have to ban ballads from karaoke cos the are invariably awful!
Oh my god, Stace, we have to sing at your wedding??? Haha. Will have to see how drunk I get!
No no no! I’m not forcing anyone I promise – but I do remember you were quite willing – nay even enthused – about singing Total Eclipse of the Heart after a few drinks! May have t supply earplugs wit the flip-flops though!!
Yes, I think I may need some drinks & maybe a group number, my only karaoke experience was in a Cornish holiday park….(“stop right now, thank you very much…”), what appropriate lyrics!
Ah yes, The Spice Girls we were not!!
Loving the new attitude! Make sure it sticks. It is *your* day, noone else’s and it can and should be anything you want it to be, and if others dislike or disapprove, frankly, tough titties! That’s what *their* wedding day is for! The last thing you want is to look back and say “I wish we had…”. Just go for it 🙂
Well quite! I have been planning it since I was twelve!
Hmmm. I don’t like karaoke, but it’s your wedding and you should absolutely have the wedding you want.
Ooh and you know Kirsty. Hi Kirsty!
Thanks, it’s part of my new attitude! I know Kirsty very well – she’s my oldest friend (of nearly 30 years!!).
Hi Juliet.
Oldest friend of nearly 30 years – I shall now pretend we were friends from birth and that I have not quite made it as far as 30 yet!