Our song chose us. At Harvey Mudd College, where we met, twice each semester there is a fancy dance, known as a Mudd Occassional Ball (or MOB for short)--kind of like a high school dance, only without the teen angst, and with real ballroom dancing. Plus, as you can tell from the name, it definitely had a sense of humor about itself--the dress code was, "Formal attire admired but not required", and at a typical dance you'd find everything from shorts and tee-shirts to tuxedos and ball gowns.

The last dance was always "The Rainbow Connection", you know, with Kermit the Frog. Well, all through high school, there was this guy I knew who would always sing that song, and it (and he) really brightened my day. So when it came on, my freshman year of college, I was suddenly overcome with very strong feelings of homesickness, and it was all I could do to keep from crying. Josh (who I was just starting to become friends with), saw it and thought I was sad that no one had asked me to dance the last dance, so he asked me. After that, he discovered that he could get me to smile and turn a little teary at the same time by singing it to me randomly, and that entertained him, so he did so. By the time the next dance rolled around, we were dating, so of course the last dance was always together...

About 3 years later he asked me, "Do you think of this as 'our song' too?" Ah, but of course I do, and always have!

But we didn't dance to it at our wedding because when it comes to performance dancing, we prefer Tango to Waltz. Instead we sang it during our ceremony. For our first dance, we used Tom Lehrer's "The Masochism Tango", because we thought it was funny. "I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear..."