The Waltz
After the waltz, the court split off to stand along side the floor, as a chair was brought out. Emma was led by Chace to the chair and she sat down and smiled as Chace leaned forward to kiss her cheek and step back to stand with the rest of the court. Then Emma's grandfathers came out together, both holding small pillows, glass slippers on one and a platinum and diamon encrusted tiara on the other. Both men took a moment to speak quietly to her before kissing each cheek, causing Emma to tear up and so began the first emotional segment. Then her parents walked up together, her mother handing her a tissue causing everyone to laugh lightly. Her father then bent forward to kiss her forehead before kneeling on one knee and calling the grandfather slipper over. Emma lifted her leg up to her father's hands and watched as he had to remove her ever present sneakers and replace them with the glass slippers. Once that was done, her mother came over and kissed her on the cheeks again before taking the tiara and placing it on Emma's head, making sure it remained fixed. Emma teared up through the entire thing and was happy she had decided to go with the waterproof makeup. Then all of them stood and took a few pictures before the dinner began.
Dinner MenuPost dinner, a slideshow began as the palette cleansers and drinks came out flowing.
Emma and the ladies of the court exited scene as they went to change into their party dresses. Emma was especially excited about this becasue she didn't want to sit through the embarrasing pictures. About 10 minutes later everyone came back out to the party, and the
court took seats at the round tables as
Emma took center stage behind the table with a
huge cake and 17 candles. She took the mic and spoke into it softly, blushing brilliantly through the whole thing. She was used to talking in front of people, but definitely not in front of so many people she knew on a personal level. She thanked everyone for coming and hoped they were enjoying themselves. She then began her candlelighting ceremony. (Will post ceremony seperately in thread for personal rping pleasure, and to save space! lol).
After the ceremony, tears and hugs, cake was served to all. During the cake eating, Emma and her father danced a sweet father/daughter waltz. They spent most of the time talking quietly, laughing often(ly), and tearing up occasionally. Once that was done, the rest of the court came out and hit the dance floor one last time to Samba/Salsa as a surprise dance. Her mother stood amused that Emma somehow managed to pull this off, but her jaw (and a few others, especially the O'Hare parents) practically dropped as Rupert appeared and led Emma to the center. Chace looked none too happy having to dance with Minka but Emma didn't care as the music began. She and Rupert worked really really hard on their part, having added extra practices for a month to get Rupert to be comfortable with it. THe group had fun and their hard work paid off.
After the fun salsa, the dj told everyone that it was time to party and opened up the dance floor to everyone.
(FINALLY DONE! So sorry about the length but there was a lot to fit in! I'll be commenting with the candle light part but everyone can comment and start a new thread for the party/ private scenes. Dance, have fun! Oh, and there's an open bar in a seperate room for the adults, so no need to worry about them. Feel free to do what you need to do! Oh yeah, I've asked a few of the players if they wouldn't mind playing certain NPC's for tonight, so if you see a random icon it's probably an NPC making a comment!)