Wedding Invitations

Before the wedding, take dancing lessons together so you’ll look good during your all-important first dance. The classes are fun and will get you motivated for the big day.

If you don’t want to sprint for more expensive dance lessons, check with your local college or community center’s dance program. See if the instructor will moonlight and give you a few private lessons to help you choreograph your fist dance, or at least teach you a few moves that you two can practice and feel comfortable doing together. You will probably find these private lessons to be cheaper than formal group dance classes.

One American groom and his Argentinean bride learned to tango together for their first dance. The bride even changed into a red dress with fishnet stockings and the groom actually held a rose between his teeth. It was great entertainment, and the bride and groom had a ball as they displayed the wonderful blending of their cultural heritages.

Warning: If you choose a song for your first dance that is currently on the pop music charts, you may not be able to ask a band to play “you song” on future anniversaries because they won’t know it. At a minimum, have a timeless tune as your secondary wedding song so that you’ll be able to dance to it on anniversaries well into the future without digging up your old CD or tape.

If you want to have the wedding party join you on the dance floor during the first dance, make sure you and your fiancé have some time along on the dance floor first, before the band or DJ calls up the rest of the party, so that guests can enjoy watching the two of you dance as husband and wife.

Choose a special song for the father-daughter dance and invite your groom to do a mother-son dance if he so desires.

If you want to have the wedding party join you on the dance floor during the first dance, make sure you and your fiancé have some time along on the dance floor first, before the band or DJ calls up the rest of the party, so that guests can enjoy watching the two of you dance as husband and wife.

Choose a special song for the father-daughter dance and invite your groom to do a mother-son dance if he so desires.