bridal party dance

acired2010

Hello again,I am trying to decide how I want to do my "traditional" bridal party dance.  Do I have the bridemaids dance with the groomsman or do I have the bridesmaids and groomsmen dance with their signifcant other?   Each person in our bridal party is either married or has someone they are dating. Has anyone done it with significant others?I just wanted to get your opinions.TIA

R&M 2008

I didn't do a bridal party dance at all because, in my personal opinion (no offense to anyone else) no one cares and what's the point?  However, if you do choose to do one PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let your party members dance w/ their significant others!  How incredibly awkward to have to slow dance with someone you probably don't know very well. I'm guessing anyone who has ever been forced to do this would agree with me! 

story.shannon

We aren't doing a BP dance either.  Most of our BP have a significant other and we didn't want them to feel awkward about it.  I have already gotten thank yous from my girls for not having to do it, LOL

kristina03a

We aren't doing a BP dance either, but I was recently in a wedding were we danced w/ our significant others (we the bridal party joined the bride and groom half way through the dance).  I guess it's your prefernce, if you are doing the dance, the bridal party would probably be more confortable w/ the SO.  hope this helps!

proudestma2008

I am doing the BP dance but having my BM dance with his GM even though most of them have a significant other or married. I am only asking them to dance once with that GM. Our BP dance song is "I Hope You Dance" by Leanne Womack! Love this song!

StephyJeffy

We didn't do that dance, either. Partially due to my single "Man of Honor" who came without a date, but also..meh. I did make it clear to them, however, that they were do boogie down to encourage others to do the same (In our insanely detailed schedule, there was 1-2 minutes labeled "BP boogies down"

kerr

We didn't do the dance either... we figured they could dance on their own with whomever they wanted when the slow songs played.

toastie624

Every wedding I've been in as a bridesmaid I've done the bridal party dance with the groomsmen instead of my date and it was absolutely fine. The thing is, we only did half a dance for all of them. We were announced, danced for a little bit, then the song faded out, and we left the floor. Then the bride and groom were announced and had their moment...it worked out beautifully! And I'm not mad that as a bridesmaid I was expected to do it.Do what you want...it's your wedding!

bridecbus

We're having our BMs dance with the GMs only because my MOH's husband isn't coming to the wedding.  I hadn't even thought about not doing a bridal party dance, though, or else we may not have planned it.  I've been in numerous weddings and always danced with our partners and it's not been a big deal.  We're opening up the dance floor with the bridal party dance so it really won't be too long for them and hopefully not too awkward.  When my FI's cousin (the groom) got married a couple of years ago, the bride's father threw a major fit at the reception when he found at that the MOH (bride's sister) was to dance with the BM (groom's brother) and not her husband.  I guess he threatended to not pay the bill if it happened.  Needless to say, she danced with her husband and not the BM.  Perhaps it's best to ask if any of the bridal party (or their parents) would have a problem dancing with their partner.

Alko726

I think that it'd actually be really nice to have everyone dance with their significant others IF every member of the bridal party has one at the wedding... otherwise it might make some feel a little left out or lonely I guess. My younger sisters are my BMs and they really don't want anything to do with dancing with strangers, so I'm not going to put them through that. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen it happen at any the handful of weddings I've been to (really, only a handful, lol). I know my good friend getting married is considering one, and she says her thought is: It's one song -- they can get over dancing with a stranger for 3 minutes at my wedding. I think the one pp was right -- it can be expected of you as a BM for one song if that's what the you want at your wedding.