Don't have someone to dance with for father/daughter

lilcassers

My father and I don't have a relationship. Both of my grandpas have passed. This is kinda a sore subject for me. I was thinking of boycoting the "parent dances" but my FI is close to his mom and of course he deserves to dance with her. Has anyone been to a wedding where they see a father/daughter dance or a mom/son dance and then not the other? Wondering if it would seem weird or if I should dance with my future brother in-law who I am close to.

gottahavashorti

Both of those options sound fine.  Or you could each dance with your mothers.

Leah&Christian09

It's totally fine to do a groom/mother dance with no bride/father.  Just move quickly into a peppy song.

mbcdefg

Yes, I've been to weddings where there was only one parent-child dance. FI's mother is deceased and he doesn't particularly want to dance with anyone else, so I'll dance with my dad and that'll be it. Don't worry about what other people think (and nobody in their right mind would say, "No F/D dance or FBIL dance?!?!? WHAT?!?!!?!?" anyway). Worry about what YOU want to do. As long as you feed, seat and entertain your guests, anything else you want is entirely up to you.

Leah&Christian09

As long as you feed, seat and entertain your guests, anything else you want is entirely up to you. I think I want to adopt this as my mantra.

Lasairiona

To be honest, I have never seen a father/daughter dance at any wedding that had dancing and no one thought it was weird either. If you don't have a relationship with your father, you're best off skipping the dance entirely.

britab

I'm not really close with my dad nor does he dance. We skipped parent dances all together but my husband's my mom didn't mind.

Precious_Kitty

what you could do is have a special dance with your FIL and your FI dance with your mom. We were thinking of doing this, because we both have a good relationship with them (and since both our parents are divorced, they wouldn't dance together). But I'm not 100% sure that we will do that after all. I really want an Anniversary Dance to emphasis long term marriages, and I don't want to have too many special dances to bore our guests. Just do what you want, don't worry about what other people think!    

sarah54902

I don't have a relationship with my father, nor much of one with my stepfather (that I would want to dance with him, EWW!), so I'm not going to do the F/D dance, but FI is going to do the M/S dance with his mom and his godmother, works for me, probably give me a break anyways. I have decided against that dance for myself. I think it'd be awckward to dance with my mom and I think she'd agree too. She was reluctant to walk me down the aisle without my stepdad.