Day Twenty-​​Three – A Song I Played At My Wedding:

One of the movie dates Hubby & I went on when we were still dat­ing was Aladdin. We had loved the humor of the movie so much (not to men­tion what cute­ness occurred dur­ing our show­ing of the movie) that it quickly became a favorite of ours.

A few months later, in one of my rare dis­plays of cre­ativ­ity … I sur­prised Future-​​Hubby with a nice roman­tic pic­nic on the floor of my dorm room. And since the movie was no longer in the the­aters, I hap­pened to find all the mak­ings of an Aladdin-​​themed pic­nic for a very mod­estly cheap, “I’m a broke col­lege student”-type price. To this day, Hubby & I look back on that “date” with such fond memories.

When it came time to plan our wed­ding, Hubby & I had no inten­tion of hav­ing any­thing but your stan­dard, middle-​​class Filipino-​​American recep­tion. We never thought that we’d asso­ciate a theme with our wed­ding. But in another one of my rare dis­plays of cre­ativ­ity (Hubby’s the one with the Fine Arts Degree … not me!), the thought of doing some­thing around an Aladdin theme came to mind. And luck­ily, Hubby thought the idea was also brilliant.

So … here’s what we did to make our wed­ding unique. First off, Hubby wanted to design our wed­ding invi­ta­tions; which, in 1996 was not a very com­mon thing to pull off. Sec­ond, we decided that our wed­ding favors would be in the shape of Aladdin’s magic lamp and con­tain pieces of candy inside of it. Thirdly … we wanted to use a musi­cal porce­lain fig­urine of Aladdin & Jas­min on the Magic Car­pet as our cake top­per. And finally, the fact that the fig­urine could wind up and play “A Whole New World,” which we decided would be our “First Dance” song … well that was the icing on the cake (both lit­er­ally and figuratively).

And that’s the song (one of many songs played that night) that we had at our wedding.

Here’s a video (seen on the Aladdin DVD) of how the song came to be …

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What is with this 30-​​day song chal­lenge?

What was yes­ter­day’s song?