Dancing On Your Wedding Day
Most wedding receptions include dancing. It is the custom for the father of the bride to dance with the bride, followed by the wedded couple’s first dance. Since you can let your hair down during this occasion, it doesn’t matter whether you are a guest, or a member of the wedding party.
Chicken Dance
Would you like to add some excitement to the dance floor? Some activities are going to extremely popular. If you like to have fun, why not try a game of the “chicken dance”. So, if you don’t mind chuckles, and want people to get on the dance floor, you may try this.
Paste numbers under the chairs. When the number is announced, ask your guests to find out what number they have under their chairs. Depending on your seating arrangement, you can choose to repeat the numbers at the same table, or at different tables. Write down numbers starting from one to ten.
Before the number is announced, the guests would check under their seats to find out the numbers they had been assigned to. Post-it notes and masking tape will be suitable. If your guests are holding the number ‘5′, then they have to go to the dance floor to do the chicken dance. This is helpful if you want your guests to mingle with more people apart from the group they have been sticking to. If you have many guests who do not know other people at the party, this will be great.
Multiplication
A great way to start dancing is to get your wedding group to invite other guests onto the dance floor. After one round of dancing, each guest at the dance floor will invite another guest in to dance, untill everyone is dancing together.
Hire A Dance Teacher
Many wedding couples take up dancing lessons so that they can vow the crowd with their slick dance moves. Why not invite the dance teacher to teach simple steps to the crowd? Or if you have a close friend who is a professional dancer and willing to help you at your wedding, then ask him or her to do this.
Bringing a dance teacher for the wedding is one activity that has been increasingly popular over the years. As a kind of pre-dance activity, the teacher will teach the guests some basic steps on the dance floor, perhaps teaching a bit of the waltz or, for something modern, some hiphop, before the music officially begins and dancing starts.
With a dance teacher around, you get to liven up the ambience and other shy people would actually be tempted to join in and have great fun. Having that will make your guests feel that they are confident enough before they dance officially.
These ideas are quite affordable, so if you are on a tight wedding budget, then you can simply think of these ideas to get your guests onto the dance floor instead of hiring expensive bands or performers to liven up the mood.