Rewind: Carnival Quinceañera, Part 2, The Guests

In the next little while, I will be "rewinding" a bit to post about events which occurred in the past year or so.

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Rewind: Carnival Quinceañera, Part 2

July 2, 2011 

 

I'm back to share a few more pictures of Ruth's Quinceañera! The last post was about the decorations at the Carnival Quinceañera, which you can see here. Besides food, decorations, and a pretty dress, a traditional Quinceañera also includes a dance. More like a waltz, actually. And since girls can't waltz by themselves, they need partners, or chambelanes! Ruth's friend Spencer was her chambelan. Her girlfriends and their  chambelanes all practiced for months before the event. Now those are some dedicated friends! Ruth selected the theme from "Howl's Moving Castle" by Joe Hisaishi as the song, and they performed the waltz beautifully, choreographed by my mom.

 

And to make it even more fun, they changed into street clothes and matching baseball tees to perform a medley of hip hop and dance songs to kick off the dancing part of the night. They should form a dancing group, really. All that work for just one night--but they didn't seem to care!

 

Another similarity a Quinceañera has with a wedding reception is the traditional father-daughter dance, and this one was especially tender. It reminded me of my own Quinceañera exactly ten years earlier. No wonder my dad got a little choked up during the dance; he probably couldn't believe his youngest girl is a young woman now! I still have trouble believing it...

 

I can't leave out our wonderful mother, Julia. She's our model, our hero! We love her to bits and I could see how proud she was of Ruth and the beautiful, talented, kind woman she's become.

Let's do a complete one-eighty and see the last few pictures of the set up. Some fun photobooth poses:

 

I looked and looked, and it seems like this is the only picture that shows even a part of the table set up. How could I forget to take a picture of that? In the background you can see the candy bar table, as small and blurry as it is.

 

One more of the guests under the "tent" and the table set up:

 

That's it! The night went without a hitch and everyone went home happy. We are so grateful to our guests, our family and everyone who helped in any way. It was a history-making Quinceañera  for sure and one we'll not forget.