How to Select a First Dance Wedding Song
Select a romantic song with a good easy to hear dance beat.
Pick a song that keeps a consistent beat throughout the song.
Select a song that is less than 3 minutes long. Two or two and a half minutes for your first dance is just right.
Use a CD to practice your First Dance, put it on "repeat" and save a lot of shoe leather.
Remember memorable first dance impressions start with choosing good first dance songs ! Take a look some first dance suggestions below.
Top 10 - Waltz & Fox Trot First Dance Songs
Here is a list of the 10 most popular wedding songs for your first dance. The top ten list includes Waltz songs and Fox Trot/Slow Dance songs that have good easy to dance tempos.
1. The Way You Look Tonight - Fox Trot
2. Fly Me To The Moon-Fox Trot / Swing
3. It Had To Be You - Fox Trot/ Swing
4. From This Moment -Fox Trot
5. Nice & Easy Does It - Fox Trot
6. Tonight I Celebrate My Love -Fox Trot
7. Come Away With Me - Waltz
8. At Last - Slow Fox Trot
9. Fascination - Waltz
10. Could I Have This Dance - Waltz
Wedding First Dance Tips
1 - Start your dance lessonsat least 3-4 months before your wedding. This gives you enough time to plan, practice, and perfect you dance.
2 - Make your First Dance photographically interesting so that you will end your wedding day with a Video and Photo's you will be proud to show off to friends, family, and your children in years to come.
3 - Incorporate some sexy moves dips, turns, and spins to get memorable and fantastic photo's!
4 - Have a good idea of the size and shape your wedding reception dance floor will be so that you can practice and get used to dancing in that amount of space.
5 - Plan how and where you are going to start (enter), and end your dance.
6 - Advise you Band leader or DJ how and when you plan to start and end your First Dance. Also let your Photographers know.
7 - Plan what will happen when you end your dance. ie Will you invite everyone onto the dance floor or just your parents and/or grandparents .
8 - If you are taking dance lessons (or using a Video) you should plan to practice at least twice a week, a half hour or more each time. Practice is very important (especially for the groom) between dance lessons in order to really feel comfortable and be able to look and feel relaxed on your wedding night.
9 - Practice sometimes without the music, especially at the beginning stages, it will help you concentrate on perfecting your steps, and leading or following.
10 - Keeping time to the beat of the music is very important. Try and fee the beat !
11 - Remember HE leads...SHE follows. (at least when your on the dance floor).
12 - He keeps time and dances to the music...she keeps in time with him.
Tips On How to Perfect Your Waltz Posture
Remember the following when learning your waltz routine
1. Posture (upright), Grace and Poise
2. body positions (very close)
3. head position (girl head tilted back and looking over men’s right shoulder)
4. gliding rise and fall of your body (rising on beat 1 & 2 and lower on beat 3).
5. guys always lead with your left foot forward
6. girls always lead with your right foot back
Wedding Dance Lessons
There is nothing more special than your wedding dance and just the thought of the first dance between husband and wife can take your breath away. However sometimes watching the new couple dance is a lot more romantic to witness than to experience it first-hand. While everyone watching is thinking 'What a beautiful couple,' something much different could be going on in the minds of the bride and groom. The bride is worrying her shoes doesn't get tangled in her dress or her new husband doesn't add a 'new move' that will result in flinging her across the dance floor. The groom is wondering how fancy he has to get with the dance and hoping he doesn't squish her dress too much ! And both are hoping 'Please don't trip. Please don't trip. Please don't trip'
Rather than let everyone at your wedding enjoy the dance more than you, why not learn your wedding dance in advance ? Some of the most elegant wedding dances are easy to learn. Go to -> Wedding First Dance Lessons
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