Stinkerpants

Stinkerpants Wedding: the Hora

November 12, 2008 in Our Wedding • Recap Photos

After I changed into my cheongsam (chinese dress) and we ate our cupcakes, our band leader approached me and asked if we’d like to start the Hora.  For those of you not familiar with Jewish weddings (or Bar/Bat Mitzvahs) the Hora is a circular dance we do at our parties.  It ends with the person/people of honor sitting in chairs lifted by the strongest people at the party.

I was really excited to see that the non-Jewish guests (including my FIL on the right!) joined the dancing even though most of them had never even heard of the Hora.  My FIL keeps talking about how much fun he had during the Hora.  “Such a nice tradition!” he keeps saying.

Here we are, sitting in the chairs.  Y is already starting to go up, and I’m next.  He looks terrified mostly because only two of the people responsible for holding him up have any idea what they’re doing.  Also, one of his cousins is notorious for dropping things, so Y was understandably a bit concerned!!

Totally terrifying.  Seriously.  I thought this part would be way more fun that it actually was (haha).

Y actually looks relatively content, doesn’t he?!

Thrilled that we survived.

The Hora was the last event of the night.  Sadly, things were winding down…

We’re almost done with the wedding recaps, sadly.  The only thing we’ve got left are the details!