After our honeymoon, Dustin and I were beyond excited to see our pictures and video from our wedding. It was so exciting to look it all and relive our favorite day a little. One of the best parts of getting the footage, was getting to watch the dance that we taught ourselves.
Rewind months and months back. We came across Work Song by Hozier on Pandora. And of course I had to hear it again immediately after. So I looked up the music video and we watched intently. The lyrics and Hozier’s soulful voice are more than enough to melt my heart, but the dancers!…they make the song. Go watch the music video…you’ll see. They’re really quite amazing.
So then I said, “We are learning that dance.” And I sort of got a “yeah right” face looking back at me. Well, my boo-thing underestimated my many years of dance and choreography. Also, what you might not know about Dustin and I is that we tend to break out in lyrical dance. A lot. So…the challenge was definitley accepted! We worked on that dance and taught ourselves the steps little by little. We’d play the song in slow-motion to get the intricate hand movements down. Our pup, Carter, would run around us anxiously as we practiced the lift in my living room. We’d be on a hike and randomly bust out into our choreographed routine. Man, was it a lot of work, but man was it fun to dance with my man every single day.
We practiced the routine in the barn the night before the wedding. Right before we had our last kiss as fiancés at almost midnight.
The next day, the DJ asked us if we were ready to do the dance right after our Taylor Swift “I knew you were trouble” dance off (hence why Dustin’s tie is pulled out). But the adrenaline was going so that was a smart move.
I simply love being able to watch this moment again…And AHHH! Here it is!!
photos by Nate + Lori // nateandlori.com
Although we amateaur-edited this video ourselves, the footage was amazingly captured by White in Revery // whiteinrevery.com