wedding dances

nellieandryan

I am looking for ideas for finding alternative entertainment to a dance following the reception. I don't mind dances and my fiance isn't crazy about them, but mainly our families are not big dancers or drinkers. I'd like to have entertainment everyone can enjoy, or at least the majority! Help!

Kati0105

Honestly if I were you and I knew my guests didn't much care for drinking or dancing I'd save money and have a cake and punch or appetizer-only afternoon reception.  How big is your wedding going to be?  If it is on the small side a nice, long dinner is also an option.

jamm2019

Do you mean actually doing wedding dances.  Like first dance, father, daughter dance, mother, son dances?  Or do you mean actually have a DJ?

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

You can have a dance floor, but cut out the "official" dances, like mother/son, first dance, etc. That's what I'm leaning towards for my wedding. It gives people the option and they can still listen to a DJ, but it doesn't put a lot of emphasis on the dance floor.

ac_in_dc

Another option is to have a more casual wedding, a barbecue or something with outdoor activities/games. But that's pretty unusual. I had a brunch reception for my first wedding with a jazz trio playing. No dancing. It was fine, although I personally think that a wedding should have dancing

ExpatPumpkin

I like it's dangerous to think too far out of the box with entertainment because people go to weddings with certain expectations of how the night will be... If you think that your friends will dance, have dancing. Many of your relatives will probably also dance just because it's a wedding... Or don't have dancing at all - just provide ambient music for mingling, etc. Either choice is valid and can make for a wonderful party. If you want to have a longish reception (more than a couple of hours) you should have dancing, however, or else people are likely to assume it's time to leave... Maybe some of the other posters will think of good entertainment alternatives, but I can't... Anything other than music with dancing or not dancing makes me think of a kid's birthday party

nellieandryan

I'm talking like no dj no dance.. I wouldn't mind background music, but I certainly don't want to spend the money on a dj just for that! Thanks for the ideas! Any other thoughts.. bring them on!

missy68

We did an iPod hooked up to a speaker system.Of course, we were in a hotel suite with 20 people mingling and our reception was only about an hour and a a half before we headed down to dinner.

jamm2019

Do you have an IPod, or Laptop?  You could always put together music that way and just have it piped in to the back ground.  Do you like Classical type music?  You could have a Violin, harp, flute, or a combination of something like that just to have back ground music.

squirrly

We're having a DJ and dancing.  But, a lot of my family likes to play card games, so I'm going to have a basket with that stuff in it & if they'd prefer to sit, talk, drink & play cards they can do that too.  That's as far off the wall as I can come up with.

jenn.daniel

Have a reception at your house, or parents house, whereever. I don't expect dancing in someone's house.