This mother/daughter wedding dance is a gut-punch of emotion

Everyone’s heard of and expects a father/daughter dance at a traditional wedding, but this Louisville bride went rogue and did something unconventional. 

Olivia Robinson instead had a mother/daughter dance at her wedding. 

Robinson posted on her TikTok a video of a dance she shared with her mama to Taylor Swift’s Never Grow Up, and it has everyone right in their feels. 

It seems like at traditional weddings, Dad gets all the glory. He gets to walk the bride down the aisle, and then he gets to do the father/daughter dance. The bride’s mom always seems to get the short end of the stick.

But not for Robinson. 

Robinson and her mother embrace sweetly in a hug-dance while the audience looks on admiringly as the lyrics, Oh, darling, don’t you ever grow up, don’t you ever grow up, just stay this little… plays in the background. 

@oliviarobinson16 I’ll probably be posting wedding content forever, surprise mother daughter dance definitely reccomend. #wedding #2023bride #bridetobe #bridetok #weddingtiktok #firstdance #motherdaughterdance #weddingdance #nevergrowup #taylorswift #bride #uniqueweddingideas #weddingday ♬ original sound – Olivia Robinson

There are more than 1,550 comments on her video. While many commenters said they were “crying in mommy issues,” most people said they never thought of this idea and they’re definitely going to do this with their moms. There were even some former brides who said they regretted eloping because it would’ve been nice to share this special moment with their mom.

One commenter was a mom whose daughter did this with her at her daughter’s wedding and said how it was so special to her. 

Another girl-mom commented, “I would melt into 100,000 pieces if my daughter did this. I love her beyond measure.” 

Swift’s Never Grow Up makes people cry on its own, but add this sweet mother/daughter dance, and there will be no dry eyes in the house. 

Let’s hear it for the mamas, and hope that this video makes a dance with mom a norm for future weddings. We definitely deserve it after all we do for our children.