Putting it on is a form of torture. In fact, the last guy who wore it wrote that inside the cummerbund. You are more excited to take it off than to wear it to the wedding.

This is exactly what it feels like to attend a wedding reception with no ballroom dance lessons – A rented tux. Now imagine custom tailored tuxedo you’ve purchased. You, and an expert, have selected all the details. It fits perfectly, it’s pressed, and ready for anything.

That’s what a wedding reception, or any social function, feel like when you’ve had ballroom dance lessons. You can’t wait to find somewhere to use it.

Survive Any Wedding Reception With These 5 Ballroom Dances:

Swing

This is your wedding reception dance floor Swiss Army Knife. Whether the music is Big Band, Rock, or R&B – Swing will keep you secure on the dance floor in any social dance environment.

Rumba

Weddings are filled with romance… imagine that. So plan on a hefty dose of slow music. While others are gently swaying side to side doing their best Junior prom impersonation, you’ll be dancing the Rumba. The elevated, grown up way to slow dance.

Merengue

Need to fake your way through some uptempo music? How about an Electric Slide alternative? Whether it is EDM, Disco, or a conga line – Merengue how a well trained dancer keeps their cool points when the music gets fast.

Foxtrot

It’s the money dance and the DJ is in an eclectic kind of mood. His lineup is “L-O-V-E”, by Nat King Cole, “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” by Ella Fitzgerald, and “I Get A Kick Out Of You” by Frank Sinatra.

So your dance options are: Foxtrot, Foxtrot, and then – Foxtrot. With this dance you travel around the dance floor, look cooler than one of the Ocean’s 11, and can hold a pleasant conversation the entire time.

Salsa

If you haven’t heard, Salsa is a pretty popular dance. This may not be the featured type of music for the DJ, the newlyweds, and her Dad picking up the tab. When it is played, however, you need to be there. It shows that you’ve got Latin Dance moves, you’re equipped with solid technique, and you’re hip enough to be one of the first dancers on the floor.

Final Thought

Learning to dance the right way is all about preparation. You can’t control when your friends are getting married, but you can control if you RSVP to be there. Can’t control the music they are

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This day I will marry my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love. – The one that I become when we dance together…..

A couple’s wedding day is a time of celebration, a day that becomes a memory to take out—along with all those photographs–and cherish for the rest of their lives.

Hopefully, the couple’s first dance is reflective of those good memories instead of an awkward reminder of the fact that they really should have taken a few lessons first.

Let’s face it: all eyes are on the two of you during that short time on the dance floor. And over the past few years, witnesses to this event have come to expect a bit more, haven’t they?

Ballroom Dance studios can make this time magic for both the couple and the observers. Provide your special song to the instructor, give him or her some time to choreograph some moves for the two of you, and let the magic begin!

We’re all busy people, though, so the couple can tailor the complexity of the dance to not only the amount of money they have to spend on this piece of their wedding day puzzle, but also to how much time they can devote to the instruction it takes to get them up to speed on their dance.

Industry standards to accomplish your goals are:

• Basic dance, very simple: 3-6 weeks
• Choreography to song 3-6 months
• Very elaborate, 4 months to a year

And most couples schedule their instruction twice a week, but that’s flexible based on work schedules and other wedding plans, too.

So, call your local dance studio and talk about it; meet the instructors, and go from there.

You want all those eyes watching you as you waltz or tango or boogie to see two who have just become one, both off AND on the dance floor!

Best wishes to the happy couple……..

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