The protagonist (who also appears in several of the author’s other books) is excited about being the flower girl for her favorite uncle’s wedding to his boyfriend. The only problem is, Uncle Ash refuses to dance—and what’s a wedding without dancing? Turns out that he was shamed by his father and classmates about dancing when he was a child. Willow convinces him to watch her dance class, where he regains his enthusiasm. At the wedding, he surprises everyone, and all join in to dance as they please.
While this book tries to make no big deal about the wedding being for a same-sex couple, the shaming of a boy who likes to dance is a thinly-veiled piece of anti-queer bias. Not that the author is endorsing such bias—quite the opposite—but the book is not as blissfully uncaring about sexuality (and its assumed markers) as it might seem. Still, the message is sweet. The narrative plods a bit, though; I prefer Sarah Brannen’s Uncle Bobby’s Wedding (in its updated 2020 edition with human characters) when it comes to tales about girls celebrating uncles marrying their boyfriends.
