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Anything done at another event which you will not do??

Original post by BKtoLI

I bring this subject up because FH and I went to his cousin's bat mitzvah (sp?) and the DJ was so annoying that I wanted to scream. I kept telling my FH 'ok I now have a list of things I DON'T want the DJ to do!!'

Having been in 3 weddings, and been to a few more as a guest, I have now come up with the following list of things that will not be happening at my wedding, since I've seen it at other events and just thought, no way!!

1. Too loud DJ. I know if it's too loud, you're too old, but when you can't have a conversation with the person across from you without raising your voice, there's a problem.

2. No group dancing. This means no chicken dance, electric slide, etc.

3. No yelling at the people to get up and dance, why are they still sitting. Trust me, if you're a good DJ and playing the right music, you don't need to ask people to dance, they'll already be on the floor.

4. No 'The bride cuts the cake' song during the cake cutting. This just irks the hell out of me for some reason.

5. No telling the people to get up and dance when the food is just being served. I've seen 3 DJs do this. I just got my food, I want to eat, not have you yell at me to dance!

6. No 'singles' table. I saw this tonight and it looked like a matchmaking attempt or a place to put people that they didn't know where to put them.

7. No dais.

8. No dyed shoes to match the bridesmaid dress. Unless you get the shoes dyed black, chances are you'll never wear the shoes again. Especially if the dress is of the variety of the 'never wear again' kind. I'm telling my bridesmaids to just get silver strappy shoes, since they pretty much go with everything.

My list just keeps growing....

Anyone else have a list???
mtdr1106 Posted:

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Posted by smm2675

no garter or b-ok toss, i'll probably give my bo-k to my sister as the day will be her 1 year anniversary (well 1 day after is her anniversary, but thats besides the point)

am i the only one who WANTS group dances?? anything that gets people up making fools of themseleves works for me. if you've ever seen my 52 year old mother do the electric slide, you'd know what i was talking about

ok, back to no: house music!! neither me nor fh can stand it - who wants to hear 'girl, i'll house you.' at a wedding - come on!!

i'm telling the dj - no house music, no j-lo, no britany, but lots and lots of danceable 80's music!!

no dais - 1985 called, they want their table back




yeah - i think my family would over throw the dj if there were no electric slide or congo line- though i have not seen the chicken dance played @ a wedding in a while - i can not stand that one where 'slide to the left, hop to the right, cha cha real slow' - i have no idea the name of it - but i hate that dance!!
iffer042373 Posted:

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well I will be having a few group dances I grew up in the 80's and love all that house and freestyle music and so does most of my guest my mom is 53 and she listens to KTU and loves it. There will be other type of music as well.

BIGGEST NO is not having the video g uy go around to everyone to say something on camera to the bride and groom. I ahte this and it puts people on the spot.


the no's will have to be no dias table
no chicken dance I can't stand this dance but other's are ok.
not alot of give aways but we are having some.

not sure about the garter and bo-k toss yet.

I think thats it
jilmadison Posted:

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no chicken dance

no garter

no receiving line

kissy27 Posted:

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no garter/bok toss
(we don't have any single friends left)

Other then that, I am open to anything!!!
M&S Sept12006 Posted:

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Part of quote posted by Marymoon

'I wasn't TOO keen on the idea and then I actually saw my first hora ever in person and they dropped the bride twice, and LAUNCHED her mother out of the chair so she landed on her back from quite a height. NO THANK YOU!'

You're too funny!
06NovBride Posted:

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Posted by smm2675


i'm telling the dj - no house music, no j-lo, no britany, but lots and lots of danceable 80's music!!





This is what we are doing...we are doing lots and lot of 80s music.

We are not doing a dias and we actually aren't even sitting at the front of the room...we don't want to be separated from everyone, so we're having the hall move our table to be with the other tables.

We are not doing the garter toss...i caught a bo-k once when i was 13 (i didn't know what happened when you caught it) and was completely embarassed when a 30 something year old man had to put the garter on me.

We didn't really want to do too many group dances but my 8 year old neice convinced us to do the cha-cha slide.
Jen2999 Posted:

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I find it funny that everyone says no groups dances but I have yet to attend a wedding were there wasnt at least one LOL


A couples Djs have suggested picking one or two in case the crowd is dead because it always brings people to the dance floor.


Im also not into the disco music they always play IE stayin alive, do a little dance, etc
OctBride05 Posted:

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No electric slide, marcarena, chicken dance, etc...

No bo-k and garter toss

No dais table

No moh speech, just the best man

No singles table

Jennie0898 Posted:

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Posted by smm2675

am i the only one who WANTS group dances?? anything that gets people up making fools of themseleves works for me. if you've ever seen my 52 year old mother do the electric slide, you'd know what i was talking about

ok, back to no: house music!! neither me nor fh can stand it - who wants to hear 'girl, i'll house you.' at a wedding - come on!!

i'm telling the dj - no house music, no j-lo, no britany, but lots and lots of danceable 80's music!!

no dais - 1985 called, they want their table back





1985 called.... That is hysterical!!!!
Ok, now that I just picked myself up off the floor...

I pretty much agree with you...

We'll do the group dancestoo. Everyone in my family LOVES them for some reason...

Not doing the bouquet/garter toss - we don't have enough single people.



sarahbelle Posted:

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There will be group dancing at my wedding - and I can't wait! I totally want to see my grandmother on the dance floor doing the electric slide. Also, I'm Middle Eastern on my father's side, so I know at some point, all of the men get up and dance in this huge circle. I'm looking forward to that

I can't think of anything I won't do other than disappear for long periods of time. I was at one wedding where the bride and groom basically disappeared for over 2 hours. It was awkward....the party never really got started. Basically no one danced all night.
MrsP2Be Posted:

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Posted by psf80

Absolutely no group dances

No bouquet/garter toss




Yes and Yes

Those are the first 2 things that came to mind.

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