{"id":658,"date":"2012-04-30T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanorrestaurant.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:41:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:41:45","slug":"wedding-dance-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wedding-dance-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding First Dance: Taking Dance Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Dance<\/p><\/div>\n

Your first dance will be one of the most romantic and memorable moments of your wedding reception<\/a><\/strong>. To ensure that you both look natural, comfortable and impressive during your spin on the dance floor, it\u2019s a smart idea to take dance lessons.<\/p>\n

A great many of our New Jersey<\/strong> brides and grooms<\/strong> are so inspired by television shows like Dancing With The Stars<\/em><\/strong> and fun first dance wedding videos<\/strong> on YouTube<\/strong> that they\u2019re hiring first dance choreographers<\/strong> to help them create their first dance. Why hire a dance pro? An expert dance instructor<\/strong> \u2013 we have many near our Northern New Jersey<\/strong> location<\/strong> — can assess your and your groom\u2019s natural dancing ability and comfort level, and choose steps, spins and dips that suit your skills. And you<\/em> get to say if you\u2019re not confident in a move, which will lead your choreographer to make an adjustment. You can\u2019t get that type of customization from a DVD or online dance video. You\u2019ll often attend three to four dance lessons at a dance studio<\/strong>, either privately or in a group wedding dance class<\/strong>, in order to perfect your wedding<\/strong>\u2019s first dance with grace and style.<\/p>\n

A rising wedding first dance trend<\/strong> is foregoing the swaying slow dance in favor of a more exciting dance such as the rumba or the tango, the cha cha cha or a faster dance with club choreography. Wedding<\/a><\/strong> guests cheer when your music begins and you wow the crowd with your moves, and your beaming smile as you perform them. It\u2019s far better than just swaying back and forth to a slow song, \u2018like at the 7th<\/sup> grade dance,\u2019 say many of our happy wedding <\/strong>couples.<\/p>\n

Other First Dances<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>One wedding trend<\/strong> we like very much is when brides and their fathers, and grooms and their mothers, take a dance lesson or two to choreograph the Father-Daughter dance<\/strong> and the Mother-Son dance<\/strong>. This way, when \u201cFly Me to the Moon\u201d begins, you and your father can \u2018show everyone how it\u2019s done,\u2019 says one of our recent wedding<\/strong> couples.<\/p>\n

Avoid that \u2018we didn\u2019t prepare for this\u2019 awkwardness that occurs when a groom and his mom chose a song to dance to, but never gave any thought to how they would dance to it. With a choreographed first dance<\/strong>, everyone feels more confident and comfortable, which makes the dance more fun to perform, and to watch\u2026.especially again and again, as captured on the wedding video<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Michael Mahle, Director of Communications, Pleasantdale Chateau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your first dance will be one of the most romantic and memorable moments of your wedding reception. To ensure that you both look natural, comfortable and impressive during your spin on the dance floor, it\u2019s a smart idea to take dance lessons. A great many of our New Jersey brides and grooms are so inspired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,81,37,38,36,72],"tags":[52,493,165,96],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-ideas-for-your-wedding","category-reception-planning","category-wedding-ideas","category-wedding-music","category-wedding-planning","category-wedding-receptions","tag-first-dance","tag-reception-planning","tag-wedding-dance-lessons","tag-wedding-dancing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}