Butterfly Kisses

A Song You Had Played At Your Wedding

I was looking back at old posts and realized I had never finished a list of post ideas that I had started over a year ago. I still have the list of post ideas saved to my computer, so I will continue them tonight because I am home without a husband, and one of  my kids is on vacation. I had a nap today and am not ready for bed.

One song I always wanted to have played at my wedding was Bob Carlisle's Butterfly Kisses.

I remember sitting at my dad's work. I had a Bob Carlisle tape, and I had a black tape player with earphones. I repeatedly went up to my dad while he was trying to get work done and asked him to fix my tape that had come unraveled while I rewound it again and again to listen to my favorite song.

My dad wouldn't let me listen to that song around him. He said he couldn't listen to it without tearing up. I always teased him that I was going to play that song at my wedding, and then he'd have to listen to it in front of me!

Well, the time for the wedding came. I couldn't find a place in the program for this song, but an eight year old girl doesn't think of that... At 20, I didn't really think the song went along with the theme of a wedding... except that one verse...

But it had to be played.

Josh was a good sport. He didn't care what songs I chose. So we both awkwardly stood in front of a church filled with people and listened to my favorite childhood song being played in front of my dad... I never knew if he choked up or not.

I don't have any regrets about playing this semi-untraditional song at my wedding. My daddy gave me away that day, and this song was my gift to him: a childhood promise fulfilled.