Obligatory that this happened last Saturday. Possible trigger warning for those who are injury queasy. Apologies for any formatting errors or a giant paragraph because mobile.

Okay, so I got married last Saturday. Ceremony went great, my bride was gorgeous, and the weather held. Awesome. Cue the reception.

First dance, father daughter dance, and mother daughter dance went well. Then came the hora. For those that don’t know, the hora is essentially dancing around in a circle and usually involves the newlyweds being lifted in chairs. My wife was dumped out of a chair at her brother’s wedding and was very against chairs. That’s fine, but I love to hora and was going HARD. As the dance floor was kind of tame and not circling to my satisfaction, I grab my groomsmen and take off around the reception hall. I was essentially sprinting around tables covering at least 4 feet a step while dragging my two best friends around who had no idea what was going on as it was their first Jewish wedding. Again, I seriously love the hora.

That was my downfall. I took one bad step, my knee dislocated, and I hit the ground. As I lay there looking at my kneecap off to the side under my dapper tuxedo, guests brought me ice, found my new wife, and got me a doctor. My wife tells me to bite down on the ice pack, and my knee was popped back in to place. This happened over the span of about two minutes. I was helped to a back room to get ice on my knee and anti inflammatories into my system.

About 15-30 minutes later, I limped back in to the reception with ice wrapped around my knee to the Chicago Bulls theme song. You know the one. It was fitting as my wedding party was all wearing fly kicks. The good news is everyone had a great time and apparently the food/music/vibe was solid.

The bad news is we were supposed to go on our honeymoon yesterday which needed to be cancelled for now due to my softball sized knee. We instead got to go to our orthopedist to get my knee drained. Four and a half syringes of fluids later, it hurts less, but I’m still out of commission for at least four weeks. My bad honey.

TL;DR I danced too hard at my wedding, dislocated my knee, and we had to cancel our honeymoon. Whooooops.