The Music

Inspired by Maria and Tim's performance, partiers of all ages eventually found their way to the dance floor, Tim's raucous fraternity brothers among them. The jazzy dinner music had morphed into crowd-pleasing, fun, and easy-to-dance-to tunes. Suddenly, it was the theme to Hawaii Five-0 and Tim and his frat brothers hit the floor -- literally. Seated in a back-to-back line, they began to row, as if in a long kayak, across the dance floor. It's something they'll sometimes do spontaneously at parties, says the bride. Later, the guys serenaded the bride with The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, a Greek standard. The lyrics are all about a blonde, laughs Maria, and of course I'm a brunette with blue eyes, so it was kind of funny. A final surprise came toward the end of night, when the guys hoisted Tim up and threw him into the air. Only then it was Maria's turn: Sure enough, they picked her up and threw her into the air too. That was a quite shock, says Maria, an obvious good sport. Luckily my mom didn't see!