"Mama say mama sa mama ku sa"
Recently at IC we filled out an anonymous survey and employees had to guess who the survey belonged to based on their answers. One of the questions was: “What song makes you get up and dance every time you hear it?” At IC some of our songs were funky, some were funny, some were old school, and some we had never heard of before. This got me to thinking about how cool it would be to have a party playing everyone’s favorite songs. A night filled with the songs that just make your closest friends get up and dance!
Choose a music themed invitation and encourage your guests to:
• Send their RSVP with the song name and artist of their favorite song
• Bring their iPod, a CD, tape, record or even 8track for everybody’s listening pleasure
• Put on their boogy shoes
• Get ready, if nothing else, to cut the biggest rug they have ever seen!
The Dance Floor
The awesome thing about summer is that you don’t really need a roof over your head, so the dance floor can be outdoors under the summer sky.
The Beverages
I have been to enough weddings in my day to know that nothing gets people dancing like a nice cold adult beverage (please drink responsibly!). A nice summer favorite like a margarita or homemade sangria would be fantastic.
For a fun non-alcoholic beverage try the Shirley Temple! This is a mixture of a Lemon-Lime soda and grenadine. This is a fun drink to spice up with a paper umbrella!
It has been said that every great soundtrack has a rise and fall. The cool thing about creating a party with your guests choosing the music is that you never know what the soundtrack of the evening will turn into. You could go from dancing to a hot 80s track, to a old school rap song to an upbeat dance hit. But once you spot the person who is dancing like no one is looking…you will know whose song that belongs to!
Superstition by Stevie Wonder. I just made a CD of some of my favorites and that is number one. Puts a smile on my face every when I hear the drum intro and then the clavinet jumps in. Like most things, this song goes well with a bourbon on the rocks.
Posted by: Derek | Monday, June 02, 2008 at 10:12 AM