Playing Yourself At a Peoria Wedding

Added: 07/19/2007

The Midwest is a different environment than the rest of the United States. Even big cities in the Midwest, such as Chicago, differ greatly from the big cities of the north or in California. Peoria is one such city, and finding a date take a specific sort of attitude. One place many singles know to be a hot bed of dating opportunities are weddings. How to adopt a proper attitude at a Peoria wedding is the trick of the thing.

“But does it play in Peoria?” is the question. This is an old saying that comes from the Vaudeville history of Peoria, Ill, a coveted stop on the variety tour. Dating, much like playing to an audience, requires skill, deftness, and realizing what your audience is and what they expect. Put yourself at a Peoria wedding, and you have an improvisational, ventriloquist, dancing, singing act to put together in just a couple of hours. This sounds a little silly until you consider who might be at this Peoria wedding you’ve found yourself at. No longer a stop on a Vaudville circuit, Peoria is a bustling metropolis of over 300,000, many are professionals and single to boot. At the same time, this is a town known for it’s across the line averages, and though the man at your table may be a lawyer, he may also be a janitor.

This is the all American town and at this all American Peoria wedding you have to keep your wits about you. You sit through the service, prepare for the reception and wonder if you might meet someone. Being single at a wedding in the heart of the midwest you can find love, or at least a date for the next Peoria wedding you’re invited to. The first thing to realize is that both you and most of the other unattached wedding goers now have weddings on the brain. Whether you are a man or a woman, if you are a single person in a city such as Peoria, wedding time is the time when you start to reevaluate whether you want to stay that way. Here are two people who, perhaps not that long ago, were much like you. They met, chatted up, and fell in love with another human being. They fell so in love that they decided to try to make it forever. This is what may be swimming through both your mind and the mind of the lovely bridesmaid next to you at table number four, sipping flutes of champagne and wondering if anyone has noticed the rolls squished in her purse. The difference between a New York wedding, for instance and a Peoria wedding is that the accessibility is completely different. In New York there is a culture and an exclusivity that must be acknowledged. In Peoria, people come from a variety of backgrounds and have different traditional expectations. At a Peoria wedding, the mind is as it is at any wedding anywhere, but the approach must be tailored. If the bridesmaid is stuffing rolls into her purse she may be a student at one of Peorias many universities, and your power of observation by softly asking her major may win you points. However, she may also be a senior editor for Peoria Journal Star and has no real interest in men who make silly comments for no apparent reason. Playing the Peoria wedding has it’s draw backs, and asking for a dance is the easiest way to sidestep the tomato throwers. Part of the draw of a wedding is that there is always the fall back dance to get you one step ahead. The closeness of your body to theirs, the music, the wine, and the feeling that this may be it, and wouldn’t that be a story to tell the children twenty years from now, may get you a number, a kiss, and the feeling that you, too, can make it play in Peoria.

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