A New Twist

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For years, brides and grooms have been taking formal dancing lessons to help them be more graceful on the dance floor. As such, it’s common to see a waltz, a tango, and maybe even a swing dance for the bride and groom’s first time dancing together as husband and wife. In the past few years, a new trend is emerging - choreographed dances. I’m not talking about the chicken dance, hokey pokey, or the electric slide…this is an entirely different spin.

Take the Thriller and Baby Got Back videos, for example. It’s clear that this was a choreographed effort by the bride and groom that took a lot of time and effort to execute. I can only imagine everyone rehearsing for this in their living rooms. Here’s a more interesting question: how did the bride and groom approach this with wedding party? “Sue, you mean so much to me as a friend and I really want you to be one of my bridesmaids…and oh yeah, you’re going need to perform a choreographed dance.” And when did they find time to rehearse? I have visions of them in practicing in living rooms, dance halls, and city parks.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great idea. I’ve always been a fan of musicals. I’m all in favor of people bursting out into song for no other reason that they’re in a yellow wheeled surry, and I think that people should break out into dance in rain storms or every time they overhaul a car and install a Palomino dashboard. What I didn’t realize is that other people share my secret fantasy of living in a musical!

While some may say these choreographed dances are a too contrived, I think they add a fun new twist (pun intended) to the wedding reception. The only thing that I would suggest is to include the all of the guests so no one feels left out. You can still have an “opening act” with the wedding party doing the well rehearsed choreographed dance first, but after that, I would play the song again and invite all guests to participate. I guarantee your guests will have fun and it will make your wedding video all the more entertaining to watch in years to come.

What do you think?