Wedding First Dance

[TheCatOfAthenry]

Getting married to DP next July.

I feel doing a choreographed YMCA, Macarena or ShaddapaYaFace would be spectacular. He disagrees.

We have discussed the possibility of omitting it entirely, but are still looking for common ground.

AIBU or is he BU? Any alternative suggestions?

Ah so the prepared dance could just go ahead without an audience? That sounds like something even I (the exceptionally introverted buzz kill) could handle!

For what it's worth I already know the Macarena dance. It would require very little preparation!

You can't waltz to Gangnam Style... it's not in 3/4 time. HTH.

Did Ed Balls dance to Gangnam Style on Strictly? Or was that just a dream?

Well I guess if you subdivided every beat into three, making it one in a bar, it would be possible. But it would be a VERY fast waltz.

I wanted to do the 500 Miles dance from Sunshine on Leith.
DH vetoed it. Instead we had dance lessons for a solo dance.

It just goes ahead at first dance time. Audience, no audience, whatever. I enjoyed ours so much I haven't a clue who did or didn't watch.

It was me and my DH having loads of fun.

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OP, I like your style and I like your cats. I think you and your DH should do whatever you fancy. If the bride and groom are happy and enjoying themselves then I'm sure your guests will be happy too.

How about
Heaven knows I'm miserable now......The Smiths
Love will tear us apart....Joy Division
Suspicious Minds...........Elvis

You wont go far wrong with any of those

Yes, all choreographed first dances are cringy. And everybody thinks they are the first to do the Macarena, Time of my Life or YMCA.

I am middle aged and have been to most of the weddings for this generation in my circle of friends and family. I have cringed my way through several renditions of the above.

Personally I think Gangnan Style would be a. It more classy! 😬

Adding to Seren's list;

• Every day I love you less and less by the Kaisers Chiefs
• Growing on me by The Darkness (it's about an STI)?

I hate that idea.
We didn't want to dance, but as we had a very traditional wedding, we knew we had to. We spent the whole song turning round in a circle, willing it to end.
I wouldn't do it personally

I once went to a wedding where the first dance was the Hokey Cokey. It was ace, we all joined in!

I don't think I am, nor do I particularly desire to be "the first" to do any song.

Maybe after the first dance I can do my own routine to awe and amuse the masses?

It will be very classy and understated, while also being hilarious and graceful. Ballads will be written about it. It will make the wounded walk again.

Maybe after the first dance I can do my own routine to awe and amuse the masses?

It will be very classy and understated, while also being hilarious and graceful. Ballads will be written about it. It will make the wounded walk again ....and it will be set to the underused romantic classic, Growing on Me by The Darkness . Go on, you know you want to !

Just do an embarrassed shuffle waltz with DH.

Do a can-can with the bridesmaids on the table later in the night?

I had a fancying for Dead Ringer For Love, with all the male guests on one side of the dancefloor with DH doing the Meatloaf bits, and the female guests with me on the other doing the Cher parts. DH didn't share my artistic vision. We awkwardly shuffled to a bit of grunge instead.

Further to Serin's list, we had Everything About You by Ugly Kid Joe on the shortlist

@Decaffstilltastesweird That song is a masterpiece.

@paxillin it'd be me and my one bridesmaid, and I'm not really a table or cancan dancer!

I could always do a single handed rock-the-boat and refuse to allow anyone to join in.

(These ideas are unlikely to actually come to pass, but a woman can dream.)

A "Facebook friend" posted a video of her and a choir of women doing a tacky choreographed dance to " you give love a bad name" by bon Jovi it was quite spectacular?

DH and I had full guest participation for ours. We picked a song we love and got the DJ to drag everyone up

I'd be hiding in the toilets - this is my idea of sheer hell and makes me not want to go to weddings.

I agree Silver, DJs who drag guests onto the dance floor are top of my list of wedding hates.

Op I just got to you first kitten posts. You are fab. I love you tubing wedding dances. When I got married we didn't organise a dance but had musicians in to play for guests. So a dance wasn't on my mind but at some point while I was visiting with one of the guests my newly married husband came up to me and asked me to dance and everyone treated it as a first dance. It was v sweet. We are divorced but that's a nice memory. It was a fabulous wedding!

Tragedy??