Practicing the First Dance

BmoreBride311

For those doing a first dance, how much are you practicing it with your FI? And silly question, but where are you practicing it? We have a tiny little apartment so really isn't real space to practice it. I know some of you are taking lessons, but I'm more thinking about for those who are not. TIA!

mekiakoo

Well, we both are deaf so we are very nervous about the first dance.

One of my students' parents are dance instructors and they are providing 2 free lessons  so we can learn how to not trip over each other. We'll be doing it at their dance studio.

hmacsine

We practice in our living room. maybe you can practice outside?

Amanda1443994

We went to two private dance lessons a month ago to get a general idea of what we wanted to do, but now we have to practice it..a lot! We usually do one or two run throughs once a week. We just practice it in our living room. Could you go to your parents or friends house if they have more room? Or just practice it outside somewhere?

BmoreBride311

Well we live in an apartment in a big city, so no backyard or anything. If we practiced outside, it would be in a park, and I'd probably be really self-conscious, haha, but I guess we might need to suck it up and go for it.

@Mekiakoo - wow, I didn't realize you were doing a first dance. That is really neat! I'm sure your guests will be in such awe of you two that no one would even notice if you messed up a little.

ceglare4

We're taking 12 dance lessons total, so there's practice there! We also practice in our small apartment. But FI is a teacher so we really want to take advantage of the gym at his school!

arunkumar

FI and I will probably just practice in our living room. I didn't even think about dance lessons because FI is very natural at slow dancing so it's easy to follow his lead. Maybe practice at a friend's or parent's house that has more room?

bridetobe71412

We are just going to awkwardly sway like we usually do during slow dances. I'm totally cool with it. We will probably "practice" the slow sway in our living room. We, too, live in a city, so there's really no backyard, so we'll just move our furniture out of the way.

We are currently deciding on the shortest song ever so that we can get it over with very quickly. I will probably be bright red in embarrassment.

BeachLover2885

We have been practicing in our living room but we are terrible LOL.  FI brought up the idea of taking a dance lesson on Sunday, so I may look into it. 

toomanychoices17

I'm in the same position as Bridetobe- we'll practice the sway in our living room. Haven't decided on the song yet either, but hoping to find one that is short or can easily be cut down. FI is good at dancing but not me, I'm so uncoordinated!

colleenm18

We are awful dancers as well and picked a short Frank Sinatra song for the exact same reason as Bride.  As far was practice we have never formally said let's practice our first dance- but we have always randomly slow danced in our living room or kitchen. 

Amanda1443994

We picked a very short song as well (just about 2 minutes long) and our friend is going to be playing it on the guitar and singing so I'm hoping some focus will be on him too (:  I will hate everyone's eyes on me while we dance.

k8888

We're wingin it.  The first dance isn't really a big deal for us so we'll probably just sway around the floor and make inappropriate jokes about people or have a staring contest.

I suppose my cousin's wedding in June is a good place to practice....

LADY324

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[QUOTE]<strong>We're wingin it.  The first dance isn't really a big deal for us so we'll probably just sway around the floor</strong> and make inappropriate jokes about people or have a staring contest. I suppose my cousin's wedding in June is a good place to practice....
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This is what we are doing as well :) 

sherrycox

I really want to take dance lessons.  We will probably practice in our living room.

brandeeteer

Oh crap! I didn't even think about the fact that I would have to dance. I picked the song out and everything but never considered that everyone would be watching me and FI while we danced (yes blonde moment). Ugh - my brother and FI are getting married in June so I guess we will practice there lol.

littlemoments324

FI won't do dance lessons...so we're just going to wing it haha I might be able to get him to practice with me in the living room

BmoreBride311

Our song is actually pretty upbeat, so the sway thing doesn't work. I'm not a bad dancer, but I don't like attention on me, so it's got me feeling nervous already. And my FI is kind of an unpredictable dancer. Like... he gets really into it, but not always in a good way haha. I'll probably be laughing through our first dance at some of his moves... but at least that will keep some attention off of me lol.