What was your first dance like?

tcnoble · December 2014

Our first dance will be the live version of Garth Brook's Shameless. Because.. GARTH. We can two-step to it but two-stepping can be tiring and I don't want to two-step for almost 4 minutes, especially since I obviously haven't two-stepped in a wedding dress. There's a part in the song maybe 2 1/2-3 minutes through where its more instrumental so we are thinking we will end it there.. because even that seems like more than long enough. I just have to hear him yell SHAMELESS a few times.

In the end we will probably go middle school style. Glad to see that's a common thing haha

We could turn this thread to middle school dances... I have an especially fond memory of slow dancing to Enrique Iglesias' "Hero" hahahahaha

jenna8984 · December 2014

We had a super informal, restaurant wedding so we just walked in with no anouncement or anything and we didn't have a DJ. We had planned on bringing the bluetooth speaker and playing our song on DH's phone. So we realized we had forgotten the speaker. No prob, we can turn the phone volume up since there are only 20 people in a small room it will be loud enough. Well, we also didn't realize the restaurant was in the middle of nowhere and didn't get good data reception so we stood there awkwardly for 2 minutes trying to load and buffer the song and it was just not happening so we laughed like fools and sat down at our dinner table. Poor planning on that one! But on our drive home, once we got back into good service area, we pulled it up on the phone and held hands and sang it to each other with my head on his shoulder for the ride. I really loved that

He also said "This is why I married you- because a lot of girls would have freaked out about not having their dance but you just laughed with me".

phira · December 2014

Here was me during our first dance.

I'm laughing because my husband kept forgetting steps. I like the second photo so much, it's my Facebook profile photo.

FutureMrsN3312 · December 2014

I wanted to take dance lessons. But there was no way H would have looked comfortable and relaxed. We decided to dance alone. It was the only 3 mins we were left alone the entire day. When the music first started H looked nervous so I started singing to him and that got him laughing. We probably looked like overgrown middle school kids but whatever.

wandajune6 · December 2014

We're terrible dancers and we didn't practice or take lessons. It was awesome because we couldn't stop laughing.

I forgot to give the schedule to anyone but the DJ- who lost it- and couldn't remember the order of things. On top of that, he played the wrong recessional song (I still have no idea what it was). When we got ready to dance, we kept joking about what he's play and when we could finally get drinks. All of the pictures of us during our first dance are of laughing our asses off. And one of my shoe getting stuck in the tulle of my dress.

It was kind of perfect.

ohannabelle · December 2014

My daughter and her H's first dance was honestly almost my favorite part of the wedding, because it was hilarious.

They were just doing a nice little waltz armed slow dance, and there were two adorable little girls there (8 and 10) and the little girls started dancing this strange little impromptu dramatic ballet like dance in circles around them. And the best man thought it was such a great look that he joined in with them. Remember the dance at the end of Romy and Michelle? That was what was happening. It was spontaneous and funny and great. Not boring at all.

afox007 · December 2014

ohannabelle said:
My daughter and her H's first dance was honestly almost my favorite part of the wedding, because it was hilarious.
They were just doing a nice little waltz armed slow dance, and there were two adorable little girls there (8 and 10) and the little girls started dancing this strange little impromptu dramatic ballet like dance in circles around them. And the best man thought it was such a great look that he joined in with them. Remember the dance at the end of Romy and Michelle? That was what was happening. It was spontaneous and funny and great. Not boring at all.

Omg that was basically FI's Christmas party last year. We had net at work when I was with the company so when the DJ took requests he asked for our song. It wound up being the only slow song all night and NO ONE but us ended up dancing and we were doing a drunk middle school thing. A few of his male coworkers started doing ballerina leaps and twirls around us for the duration of the song!

Inkdancer · December 2014

Total middle-school sway. I am actually a good dancer but H is awkward and terrified of dancing in public so I humored him. It didn't really matter in the end... we just wanted to snuggle and enjoy the song.

kmbay84 · December 2014

The pictures of your first dances look so sweet and beautiful! We are most likely going to dance (sway) to Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling In Love With You," which is very true. Like you said, @Inkdancer, we just want to snuggle and enjoy the song as well. I am all good with just slowly dancing and swaying. I am excited for that.

WinstonsGirl · December 2014

We didn't have a dance at our reception (I can't believe I didn't have a dance cos I love dancing!!!), but we did a Polynesian show with performers. At one point, they pulled up up on stage and taught us a quick little hula (they did it with some other guests first too), so I ended up being our first dance. Hula hip shaking. I'll see if I can dig up a photo of the end pose. We were pretty awesome.

wrigleyville · December 2014

@phira - I absolutely LOVE your blue dress!

phira · December 2014

@wrigleyville Thank you!!!

kerbohl · December 2014

@phira I'm pretty sure I may have said it before, but I second the loving of your blue dress.

As to middle school dancing, I went to a private school where parents had the majority of the say over school functions. There was one parent very high up on the school board that believed dancing was evil and lead to all kinds of sexual behaviour. So we were not allowed to dance - very Footloose. Of course, the parent's last child graduated the same year as me, so the next year, the school started having dances! Bad luck.

princessleia22 · December 2014

We took about 2 weeks of lessons (I think 7 sessions). They kind of choreographed a dance for our song with really basic steps, timed in a couple of turns, and a dip about 60 seconds in (at which time DJ would invite all guests onto the dance floor). When we got to the big day, DH's shoes were sticking to the dance floor, so he lifted his feet more and ended up stepping on my dress a couple times. So that screwed us up a bit, but we kept moving and just started laughing about it all. All of our guests just saw us out there laughing and having a great time... and the pictures turned out awesome. Nobody had any clue that we messed up our steps and it didn't look so stiff since we were having too much fun with screwing up.

Of course, after that first dance, it was all middle school rocking type dancing.

I agree that you should definitely cut the first dance short to about 60-90 seconds. It's much more tolerable for you and the guests.

theartistformerlyknownas · December 2014

Since we're sharing pics... here's one of ours.

kmbay84 · December 2014

So beautiful @lolo883! I love your hair, the dress, the way you are both smiling/laughing. Just so sweet and beautiful!

theartistformerlyknownas · December 2014

kmbay84 said:

So beautiful @lolo883! I love your hair, the dress, the way you are both smiling/laughing. Just so sweet and beautiful!

Aw thanks @kmbay84!

hellosweetie1015 · December 2014

@phira you better hang on to that dress, chick, I might walk off with it. SOOOOO pretty.

I don't think we'll have a dance. We might be persuaded, but our current plans (which are soft and squishy and venueless (and therefore STILL DATELESS) because the damn venue we want to talk to is not fucking returning my calls as fladfh;lkjaf; lkjas;ldfh ;awerfh o;ahafh;sdfuh;HULKSMASH) do not really allow for such, and frankly my feet don't either - I have four left ones. (Which is, as you should know, double the number of left feet most bad dancers have. Which makes me doubly bad.)

Also we don't really have a song. We have a couple of places, and a lot of tv shows, but no song. So we'd have to just pick one at semi-random.

labro · December 2014

Total middle school dance here. I debated doing dance lessons but figured I'd rather just do whatever came natural to us. I have some experience in dance so I don't think it would've gone horribly...but the day of the wedding came and we just did what we did instead. It was perfect. We chose a short song too (only 2 1/2 minutes) so it worked out well.

Wegl13 · December 2014

We both have some out-of-practice, social dance (ballroom/swing/blues) experience, so we just winged it. The song wasn't really swingy but whatever.... I will say even with the train bustled, a wedding dress is difficult to dance in!
We also did a "parents dance"- I danced with dad and he danced with his mom at the same time. Worked out super well so that we weren't doing a gazillion spotlight dances but his mom really wanted a mother-son dance and my dad wanted a father-daughter dance. Both were basically us winging it and chatting with our parents which was super fun.
I think you SHOULD take dance classes if you haven't before, but only because dancing together is so fun, and I think every guy should know a little about leading a lady around a dance floor. You will probably look super awkward on the dance floor anyways but, you know, as the women before me have said, OWN IT.

SBmini · December 2014

We spent SO MUCH money on dance lessons. Went many times, learned how to foxtrot. Practiced so many times. Then the wedding came along, and my husband kept stepping on my dress. We didn't look awful, and it still looked like we spent some time thinking about what we were going to do instead of just shuffling back and forth, but it was pretty disappointing. One nice thing was I showed my dad a few easy moves the day before the wedding, so it really improved our dance too. And he learned from my husband and slid his feet instead of picking them off the floor.

theartistformerlyknownas · December 2014

I just keep thinking of this.

phira · December 2014

Ladies, ladies ... Jovani 3677 and it comes in red, green, and gray as well ;D

(Thank you all for the compliments!)

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