We only have six weeks to go until the wedding – is this enough time to learn a routine?
Ideally you’d want around three to six months. But the simple answer is yes, provided you can both find time to practise at home as well as take the actual lessons. Of course, you don’t necessarily need to learn a fancy routine - learning to dance for the wedding needn't be a stressful ordeal. You could attend a couple of lessons just to pick up a few tips, basic steps and techniques, which would improve your confidence.My fiancé and I don’t have a song that we think of as ‘ours’ so we need some first dance ideas...
Your song can still be meaningful, even if you don’t have an actual song. For example, if you got engaged in New York, what about Alicia Keys’ ‘Empire State Of Mind Part II’? For childhood sweethearts you could have Paolo Nutini’s ‘Growing Up Beside You’? Beware of over-thinking it. For instance, if a smile pops on your face every time ‘Rule The World’ by Take That comes on the radio, go for that – rather than agonising that people will interpret the lyrics as a bid for world domination. Or go for humour rather than sentiment of course – we heard of one B2B who chose Phil Collins’ ‘She’s An Easy Lover’! Take a look through your CD and mp3 collection and you'll be faced with plenty of first dance ideas!We both have two left feet. Going to a professional to learn to dance for the wedding would just be embarrassing...
You are exactly the sort of people who should have dance lessons! A few hours of tuition and you’ll start to see dancing as fun rather than a chore to be dreaded on the wedding day. A good teacher will also offer some tips to help you deal with nerves. So go for it. Why not opt for a group session rather than private lessons, where the attention won’t be quite as focused on you and your H2B?We’re not keen on ‘Loch Lomond’ for the last dance. What could we have instead?
It’s worth planning the last dance, because friends and family invariably shove the newlyweds into the middle of the dancefloor at this point and demand that you express your marital love with a dance. There are loads of alternatives to ‘Loch Lomond’ but The Proclaimers’ ‘500 miles’ has become something of a modern classic, and has the added advantage of being played at plenty of weddings.In need of some wedding dance help? Chat to other brides on the Scottish Wedding Directory Forum
