Dance Floor Pursuits

Dancing is a necessary ingredient at a lot of wedding receptions. We look forward to the couple's “first dance” and the bride's special dance with her father. It's also a location to get loose and funky, if you're a guest or a member of the marriage ceremony party.

But what if the wedding ceremony planners chose to include some fun and surprise to the dance floor by including fun activities there? This does not mean a rousing version of the “Bunny Hop”, which, while possibly essential, is hardly different.

There are, yet, many fun games and activities you can include to your dance floor activities that are certain to be a hit.

Try a fun game of the “chicken dance”. Ok, so that does not sound too original. But if most of your invited guests are just sitting at their tables, watching a few brave couples dancing, or just ending their meals, you may wish to get everybody up and having fun. Try this game.

The DJ declares a number. Everyone looks under their chair, where there is a number. Depending on the number of guests at the marriage ceremony, there may be only numbers “1″ and “2″ or more, up to 5.

So, say the DJ announces number “4″. Each person looks on their chair to look at what their number is. These numbers may be written simply on a piece of masking tape and attached to the bottom of the chairs when the reception dinner is being set up. Each “4″ in this scenario will go to the dance floor to do the chicken dance with the other “4s”. Not just does this get everyone out of their chairs and on to the dance floor, they get to know other wedding venue guests they might not otherwise know.

One dance floor activity that's gathering popularity is to bring in a dance teacher for the wedding ceremony reception. As a kind of pre-dance activity, the instructor will quickly walk everyone through their paces on the dance floor, maybe teaching a bit of the waltz or, for something completely different, a little bit of the tango, before the music officially begins and dancing begins.

Having a dance teacher do a bit of teaching not only invigorates the reception right from the beginning, but it gets people out on the dance floor who may preferably be too self-conscious normally to get around and let it all hang out. And effectively speaking, it will likely make the wedding ceremony guests feel more certain in their skills before the “official” dancing begins.

Another enjoyable activity to gets everyone on the dance floor, including even the most restrained, is something you can consult as the “snowball” dance. This is a good way to jumpstart the dancing at the beginning of the night-time.

Here is how the “snowball” dance works. The wedding, bride and groom included, will go to the dance floor for an enjoyable dance. The music for this dance ought to be fast, something with a disco beat or a fast song that most people have at the bare minimum a passing familiarity with. After a bit of wedding party dancing, the music stops. The female members of the marriage ceremony party move into the crowd and bring back one male each. The male members of the marriage ceremony party do the same, but they bring in female guests. The dancing then starts once again. This is done again until everyone invited are dancing. It's truly a snowball effect!