Your First dance in NYC: make some magic, the secret? Learning how to dance together for your wedding is a perfect metaphor for getting married! Work together as a team, make each other look good, move as one; communicate perfectly and you’ll wow your guests!
Dance together…. into your future!
Be sure to bring your wedding shoes (or comparable pair, to avoid scuffs)
to some of your lessons. It’s most important for the ladies, as dancing
in heels is very different than in flats, so plan to bring and practice in your
shoes. Men can also benefit from rehearsing in dress shoes, because they
are often slippery. (It’s a good idea to give them a test drive.)
Brides, your dress could interfere with your dance, true. There won’t
be many “dress” rehearsals, so let your instructor know about the length and size, or whether
anything restricts your movement. We can easily factor that in
planning your dance.
On the Big Day, there is generally some time, whether a walk through, a specific time you have set aside as a breather, or even better during the First Look or pictures(!) to do a mini dress rehearsal to,
a) brush up before showtime!
b) and see how the dance feels in the dress (and tux jacket.)
Video some of the lesson to practice with at home. It’s useful, and an amazing practice tool.
Plan on practicing some between lessons to get the most from them. All you need to do is 10-15 minutes a couple of times a week. It makes a huge difference. Your
instructor can then answer any questions you have. But it maximizes your time in
the lesson. Like anything else, the more you do of something the
better you will be at it.
But please remember dancing is all about having FUN with your partner! Try not to correct each other or put too much
pressure on getting every move right. If you learn to move together as one
unit, to work as a team, it will work out, even if maybe, it isn’t exactly per
the blueprint! Work together and be as supportive as you can be. No one
watching you knows the routine, so you can’t be wrong if you work things out
together. But sticking to the ground plan always makes things easier, but it’s
a fact of life that things never turn out exactly the way they were designed.)
#Weddingdancelesson, #FirstDanceLesson, #weddingDance
FIRST DANCE TIPS
It’s a good idea to schedule your dance lessons at least 3 months before
the wedding. That gives you more scheduling flexibility but is still
close enough to the wedding that you won’t forget! Plan the final lesson to be
about a week or ten days before the wedding regardless, as a brush up. Planning ahead makes your life a lot easier, as the Big Day approaches. And Dancing is going to be a Life skill!
If you have your First song picked out before your first lesson, great.
But if you’re not sure about it, no problem. If you can bring in your top 2 or 3, or a short list of some sort, we can talk with you about them and help
you pick the best dance song.
A good wedding dance is around 2 ½-3 ½ minutes. You want to be able
to keep your guests engaged, and 3 to 3 and a half minutes is about as long as you can reasonably put a dance together in a relatively short period of time, (while you’re doing a
thousand other things!) You want it just right, not too long, not too short.
If you are doing a mashup or medley, be
sure to let me know the idea early on and have it edited by the halfway point
of the lessons. It’s important to have the final vision done with enough
time to nail it.
Peter Jones
#weddingdance #firstdancelessons
Picking your First Dance song for your #weddingdance is sometimes not obvious or easy, if you don't have a "This is our song!" situation. Here are some of the top songs, and you can go to https://www.ballroomweddingdance.com/first-dance-songs for links to these, and some of my all time favorites!
TOP TEN WEDDING DANCE SONGS 2021
