Dance Floor Activities

Dancing is an imperative component at most wedding receptions. We expect the couple's “first dance” and the bride's special dance with her dad. It's also a place to loosen up and funky, if you're a guest or a member of the marriage ceremony party.

But what if the marriage ceremony planners chose to include some fun and surprise to the dance floor by including fun activities there? This doesn't mean a rousing version of the “Bunny Hop”, which, while maybe essential, is definitely not unique.

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

Try a fun game of the “chicken dance”. Ok, so that doesn't sound too original. But if most of your invited guests are just sitting at their tables, watching a couple of brave couples dancing, or just finishing their meals, you may wish to gets everyone up and enjoy themselves. Try this game.

The DJ announces a number. Everybody looks under their chair, where there's a number. Dependent on the number of guests at the wedding, there may be only numbers “1″ and “2″ or more, up to 5.

So, say the DJ announces number “4″. Each individual checks under their chair to see what their number is. These numbers may be written simply on a piece of masking tape and affixed to the underside of the chairs when the reception 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 people out of their chairs and on to the dance floor, they get to know other wedding location guests they might not otherwise know.

One dance floor activity that's gathering popularity is to hire a dance tutor for the wedding ceremony reception. As a sort of pre-dance activity, the tutor will rapidly walk people through their paces on the dance floor, possibly teaching a bit of the waltz or, for something completely different, a little bit of the tango, prior to the music officially begins and dancing starts.

Having a dance instructor do a bit of teaching not just invigorates the reception right from the start, but it gets everyone out on the dance floor who may otherwise be too self-conscious normally to get about and let it all hang out. And effectively speaking, it will likely make the wedding ceremony guests feel more convinced in their skills before the “official” dancing begins.

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

Here's how the “snowball” dance works. The wedding, the happy couple included, will head to the dance floor for a fun dance. The music for this dance should be fast, something with a disco beat or a quick some that the majority of people have at least a passing familiarity with. After a bit of wedding dancing, the music stops. The lady members of the marriage ceremony party move into the crowd and bring back one male each. The male members of the wedding party does something identical, but they bring in female guests. The dancing then begins again. This is done again until everyone invited are dancing. It's truly a snowball effect!