Kairotic Moment

(Video on my Facebook page: facebook.com/hannabledsoe)

For my video of someone succeeding in seizing kairos, I am using the video of my brother and mom dancing at my brother’s wedding this past weekend. The video serves a rhetorical purpose that pleased the audience at the wedding, especially his now wife. His wedding was full of surprises (the best kind); however, the surprise at the end of the video was the best surprise of the night.

In the beginning of the video, my brother and mom are seen slow dancing to a song about the love and relationship between mother and son. They slow dance to this for about a minute and a quarter, then suddenly the music switches and turns into Treasure by Bruno Mars. My mom and brother break out into a perfectly choreographed dance, shocking the audience (at this point you hear the audience stop distractedly talking and begin cheering on the dance moves). They do some slick moves and at one point my brother flips my mom over his back. The song comes to a close and changes into Bye, Bye, Bye by *NSYNC and even more swift moves are pulled out. People REALLY began clapping here because everyone knows my brother has always loved *NSYNC! They end the dancing by dabbing and the music draws to a close. However, when you think the video is over, you see a chair being put on the dance floor and the bride being escorted to the chair. Music suddenly starts again, So Good by BoB, and my brother has on sunglasses and begins giving his bride a lap dance. Once BoB sings “pack your bags real good” my mom is seen reentering the floor with a suitcase and my brother hands his wife two plane tickets. The tickets are for a surprise honeymoon trip to Mexico. She is then seen crying and hugging him, clearly not expecting this surprise.

The kairotic moment occurs when my brother pulls out the two plane tickets. The song sings “I can see us down in Mexico”, as my brother pulls out the tickets to surprise his wife. He seized this moment perfectly because at any other time it would not have been quite as exciting as it was when he surprised her in front of all their friends and family perfectly in tune to the song. The benefits are endless! My brother and his wife are now in Mexico, and all his friends and family got to celebrate the moment his wife found out she was going as well. This created a bigger party, a memory none of us will ever forget, and they are in Mexico!!! The wedding was full of surprises, love, happiness, and everything went perfect. This truly was the icing on the cake for my new sister-in-law, and sharing this moment was extremely special.