Just curious to see what you are all doing with the first dance. Are you & FH just going to dance alone on the floor for the whole song or are you having the dj invite everyone to join you? I kind of want to have it just me & FH but would that be wrong?
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tink79
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Not sure yet, FH and I are taking lessons to do a simple dance. I'd like to invite everyone to dance too but not sure yet
soon2bmrsdunn
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DH wanted to dance our 1st dance and our spotlight dance alone. I got him to agree to have everyone join in for the first dance with about 30 secdons left in the song. I feel like it's good luck when everyone joins in for the 1st dance. But that just me.
HamptonsBride
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we did just us..we had a choreographed 'fun' first dance...so we wanted to make sure no one got in the way!! Most weddings i've been to it's just the bride & groom anyway.
SusiBtoM
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Just us. We will have everyone join us for the second dance.
Mooshyboo
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we originally were going to do the first dance with just ourselves... but we decided since we now shared our wedding day/anniversary with one of our best men and bridesmaid = they are married we actually surprised them with a happy anniversary and asked them to join us...
acsm
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we did it with everyone.. we danced our entrance song by ourselves for a bit before the first dance song came on...everyone was around the dance floor literally (no one was in their seat!) so the MC just invited everyone to dance with us for the first dance..
pupidda122505
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Everyone joined in midway through our first dance song
stonepondbabe
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We'll start alone, but then midway through bridal party will join in. The DJ said he'll get into song #2 with us and the bridal party dancing, and ask everyone to join us then.
diva7531
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I am dancing just with FH for our first dance and then am playing the Irish wedding song and asking everyone to join us for that song
nycerika318
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We are having everyone join in... hopefully, FAST, because both of us have two left feet. We tried taking a dance class, but we were so bad, the instruction practically told us to give it up. We didn't even bother to go to the last session of the 4.
punkinedibride07
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All along I wanted just me and my husband to have our first dance ALONE. I had it written down on the contract , blah blah blah. The last minute the DJ we booked didnt show up and sent a replacement (not nice, but I ended up loving the replacement).... anyway because of the change in DJ's he had everyone join in on our first dance. I have to say that I definately liked it... but just make sure that you give a time span on when you want everyone to join in.... because when I watch my video everyone literally joins in 25 seconds after the song starts. That was toooooo soon. I think the last minute of the song is ample, and I hear its good luck.
lunabride
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We danced to two songs. The first song we danced was just for the two of us and then we invited everyone to join us for the second.
magbride
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Posted by lunabride
We danced to two songs. The first song we danced was just for the two of us and then we invited everyone to join us for the second.
That's what we're doing. First dance is choreographed so just us, then 2nd song, is like our 'other wedding song' and everyone will join in.
MJDoc12
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i gotta say----DH and i danced to our first dance alone...no one else on the floor....just the entire room watching us.
it was one of the greatest moments of my life---dancing for the first time with my husband, i swear to you i felt like there was NO ONE else in the room and i'm so happy it was just us up there.....we both put that first dance as probbaly the 2nd best part of the day (next to being pronounced husband and wife!)
ammy1403
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Dancing alone
eperlman
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The song we picked was sooo long 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave. I think it's like 6 mins.
We took dance lessons and learned a routine (Thanks to John from Ballroom Dance). We do our routine for about 3:30 then the band invited my parents, a few secs later his parents then all the guests. It was nice b/c right after they go into the Hora and everyone was already up on the dance floor
Kara and Todd
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We had everyone join in halfway through the song. I suppose the first dance is all romantic for many other people, but the two of us found the entire ordeal really uncomfortable. It's not often you have 130 people staring at you while you dance. In fact, we talked and laughed the whole song about how awkward it was. I was actually glad when, a little more than halfway through the song, the band leader asked our parents and then the BP to join in.
This was our experience. It was a lovely, romantic day, but the first dance was not the romantic moment others have painted it to be -- not for us anyway.
I'm glad we got part of the song to ourselves, but man, even a short song can feel like forever when everyone is staring at you.
Just think about how comfortable you'll be with ALL eyes on you during the song -- while you are dancing. If you'll love it, then savor it and keep the whole song to yourself. If you'll wind up thinking 'gosh, this was fun for a minute, but how long is this going to go on??' then you might want to ask the BP to join in!
drpepper318
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We have people join in halfway through.
HelenZ
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when I was finalizing everything w/ my DOC- she asked me if we had our first dance choreographed, which we didn't.....so she said it would feel like a long 3 minutes dancing solo if we didn't have everyone join in....so we had them invite the bridal party out midway through....it worked out great!
