✿Music & Rituals✿

I'm pretty sure everyone has been to or has heard about a quinceanera. And no, not a quesadilla (which is an entree meal). If you've ever watched Austin & Ally, you know that there was an episode that one person of their friend group, Trish, had her own quince. If I'm not mistaken, her dress was a zebra print ball gown dress with pink detailing.

Typically, every Latina girl's dream is to have a quince as soon as they have their head around the party's concept. A quinceanera is a coming of age party when a girl turns 15. Its also another excuse to throw a big party and get glammed up. I know I was excited for my quinceanera. I was designing how I wanted my dress when I was 11 years old. Once it was closer to my quince, I knew that my family and I were stressing out. It's alot to plan for. You have to find venues (which luckily I didn't need to because we had it at my house since we have 14 acres of land), go dress shopping, finding your court of honor, setting up madrinas and padrinos for different key items at a quince, and so much more. I loved my quinceanera, but it did rain a little and we were all outside so that kind of sucked.

As you may know, music plays a big part in quinceaneras. There are different aspects of a quince that is accompanied by music like the entrance, father and daughter dance, and the suprise dance. I would show my quince dance videos, but I honestly don't know where any of the clips are :))). So, I'll just find some on Youtube.

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My 2nd favorite dance/music for all of these is the entrance music. This is where people tend to put regular music and have the DJ (who, if you didn't know, will alwasy be extra and add echo effects to everything) announce the quinceanera's name, the parent's name, and all the names of the people in the court of honor.

 No offense to that quinceanera, but I think that is SO boring. I like the ones where they have whole mariachis or bands playing. It just gives it a little more flavor. I also think that it just gets both the quinceanera and the guests hyped up for the party. It basically setsup the mood for everything. (I used mariachis for my entrance music)

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The father and daughter is the one that always makes me cry and I dont know why. The songs are always sappy and about the little girl growing up. I feel like fathers don't show as much affection as they should, although I know they love their children. For my father and daughter dance, I used this song:

I won't translate the whole song, but in a nutshell, it talks about how the father was blessed to have the daughter and doesn't want her to grow up anymore. I'm glad that I got to dance with my dad to this song. (If you saw me crying while writing this post, no you didn't). But what breaks me even more is when daughters are put to dance with a picture of their late father.

(Song in the Tiktok: Para ti Papa- Ulices Chaidez)

Me after writing this section of the blog:

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Í don't want to dwell on that sad video, especially when I have to talk about the suprise dance. This is typically the most crazy/fun part of a quince (besides the caballo dorado dance, which if you don't know how to do, I HIGHLY recommend you learn):

But, surprise dances are just like it states, it's a surprise. There isn't a set song to play, but rather the quinceanera chooses it herself and makes it fun. Some people would use the harlem shake song (back when it was popular). Others use huapangos, bachata, or even hip hop. I didn't have a surprise dance since I only had one chambelan and I didn't want it to be akward.

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Overall, music in quinceaneras are very improtant. It sets the mood for the party as well as make some people cry of pure joy or sadness. Going to a quinceanera is definitely something I want everyone to experience.

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Sort of off topic, but my cousin's wife and her twin sister were on a show called Quiero Mis Quince (I want my 15). Sorry for the quality.

They now own their own lash company :)