Courtesy of Lyrical Lens Photography
One wedding I had the pleasure of being the DJ at, the bride & groom were really not looking forward to dancing their first dance. First they wanted the song to be cut about halfway through, then they didn’t want the song at all but they new they had to have something. It’s the first dance after all and the guests will be expecting it.
So the bride & groom came up with a great idea. They asked if we would play only about 30 seconds of their first dance and then cut it out to a faster song they chose. The other DJ I was working with and myself immediately came up with an idea to incorporate theirs. I took their first dance and cut it up into just over 30 seconds which included the first verse and part of the chorus. I added in the sound of a record scratching at the end of the first song and dropped in the actual song they wanted. I then saved this as a new file (ah the wonderful world of computers and editing software).
What we ended up with was Enrique Iglesias’ Hero that after the line “I will be your hero”, scratched out to House of Pains’ Jump around. Afterward we invited everyone in the room to join the bride & groom on the dance floor and it was absolutely packed with people doing just that.
The first dance is the prelude to the rest of the reception. It is a wedding tradition since the dawn of weddings, and guests know the dance floor is not open until the bride & groom have had that first dance. So we can’t just take out the first dance, but many brides and/or grooms, don’t want to be out in front of all their guests while they are the only ones dancing. Traditionally a bride & groom will just have the wedding party join them halfway through the first dance. Well times have changed and so has this.
There are a few new trends that you can incorporate into your first dance if you are looking for something different. One way is very simple. Instead of having your wedding party join you, how about other married couples or even all your guests.
Now this works great if you don’t want to dance all by yourself , but what if you don’t want to dance to a slow song, or even dance at all? We’ve had several bride & grooms ask us to try to cut or fade the song early so they don’t have to dance the entire time. So an alternative is to do what our couple above did by changing the entire style of your first dance all together.
The end result was helping the bride & groom create a unique first dance that was representative of who they are and their guests loved it. There are many ways to have a first dance, so find one that works best for you.
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