In some cases, Brazilian girls have their own party, like the Sweet Sixteen, but at age of 15. In Brazil, these events are called "Baile de Debutantes" ( Debutante). Many Spanish and Latin American cultures celebrate a girl's fifteenth birthday with a Quinceañera. The guests can either sit down and watch this montage, or it could be playing in the background while the guests dance.
This is either made by the DJ with photos provided from the family of the birthday girl, by the parents, by a sibling, or by the birthday girl herself. The birthday girl and her father dance to a slow song while everyone watches.Īt high end Sweet Sixteens, a DJ often brings along several televisions or a projector to show a video montage set to music of the birthday girl containing pictures starting from when she was a baby and getting older, usually ending with pictures of her in her Sweet Sixteen dress. The Daddy-Daughter Dance is a tradition that is also frequently performed at weddings. Sometimes this is combined with the shoe ceremony, so that two people approach the birthday girl, one with a pillow with high heels, and the other with a pillow with a tiara. He places it on the birthday girl's head to symbolize her becoming a woman. This ceremony is similar to the shoe ceremony, except the father/grandfather approaches with a tiara instead of shoes. This is symbolic of the girl transitioning into womanhood. The girl would traditionally be wearing flat shoes, such as slippers, and the father ceremoniously helps her into her new high heels. In this ceremony, the birthday girl sits down in a chair while her grandfather or father approaches her with high heels on a decorative pillow. The shoe ceremony is common at Sweet Sixteen parties, although they are more often seen in Quinceañeras. The birthday girl can also have a "candle buddy," usually her best friend or sister, who may light the candles with her throughout the whole ceremony while she reads her poem/anecdote/short speech. The people for whom the candle is for then come up to help her light the candle while a song plays in the background.
When the birthday girl announces each candle, she can add a poem, anecdote, or short speech telling the guests of why that person or group of people is important to her. Sometimes there is a memory candle, which could be the seventeenth candle or one of the original sixteen, that is lit in memory of a passed away loved one. Each candle represents a person or group of people who has impacted the birthday girl's life in a positive way, such as parents, best friends, siblings, grandparents, etc. These candles can be standing independently in candle holders on a table, or placed on a birthday cake. This consists of the Sweet Sixteen birthday girl lighting up sixteen candles representative of sixteen people or groups of people, sometimes with a seventeenth candle for good luck.
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Large and formal Sweet Sixteens are featured prominently on MTV's TV show, " My Super Sweet Sixteen."Īt a Sweet Sixteen party, there is usually a candle lighting ceremony. Sweet Sixteens can range from a simple house party or dinner party at a restaurant to large affairs with a hired DJ, makeup and hair stylists, and renting out yachts and hotel ballrooms. Fact|date=August 2008Ī Sweet Sixteen, like a wedding, can be extremely formal, casual, or semi-formal. Sweet Sixteen parties were once given as a celebration of the girl's virginity, or a celebration of being old enough to drive, but are now more general coming of age celebrations. A sweet sixteen party is a type of birthday party in the United States, usually celebrated for a girl on her sixteenth birthday.
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