Texas Two Step & Texas BBQ Dinner
Sunday, June 6
Texas Two Step & Texas BBQ Dinner
Texas's best cowboys and cowgirls
Photo: Andreas Rasmussen / Unsplash
A taste of home for our Texans and a first for everyone else: Texas barbecue, cold beer, country music and a two-step lesson, all in Rio.
What to expect
- Texas barbecue: brisket, sausage and all the sides
- Two-step lesson for beginners
- Live country singers and a dance floor all night
- Best-dressed cowboy and cowgirl prizes
- When
- Sunday, June 6
- Where
- Venue to be announced
- Cost
- Estimated price per person: $155
- Dress code
- Boots, denim, cowboy hats and bandanas. Think chambray shirts, big buckles, denim dresses and butter-yellow florals.
Our first dance
On our fifth date, we shared our very first dance, to Cody Johnson's “Dance Her Home.”
After a date night, Bethany decided it was time Fabian learned the two-step, so she taught him right there in her kitchen. He caught on in just a few songs, and that's when she knew he was the one. This is the video we took that night, right after he nailed it.
Bringing Texas to Rio
Bethany is a proud Texan, and half of this wedding is her world. So on the second night we flip the script: our Brazilian family gets a taste of the Lone Star State, from slow-smoked brisket to a crowded dance floor.
Texas and Brazil have more in common than you might think. Both are cattle country, both take their barbecue personally, and both have a cowboy at heart: the Texan cowboy and the Brazilian gaúcho. Tonight they meet.
Did you know?
- The Texas two-step grew out of the dance halls of the early 1900s. Gruene Hall, near New Braunfels, has hosted dances since 1878.
- Central Texas barbecue owes its style to German and Czech immigrants, whose meat markets smoked brisket and sausage over post oak.
- Two of the best-known Brazilian steakhouses in the US got their American start in the Dallas area: Fogo de Chão in 1997 and Texas de Brazil in 1998.