Jim Mickunas’ daughter has, he says, ‘always found her own path’. She played football at school, wore a tux to her first communion, and achieved her lifelong ambition of becoming an engineer.
So, he couldn’t imagine having the traditional father/daughter slow waltz at her wedding. ‘That is not what we were or are,’ he explains.
What he came up with was so much better.
This clip of their adorable dad and daughter moment has now been viewed over a million times on YouTube (and is guaranteed to leave all daddy’s girls with a lump in the throat).
It starts traditionally enough – Jim leads his daughter onto the floor and they start dancing to ‘It’s a Wonderful World’. But, what happens next is just perfect.
Make sure you watch until the one minute point when dad hands over to his new son-in-law.
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