It’s quite common to find dancing at wedding receptions. Often, the father of the bride will dance with her and then we have the couple’s first dance. Anyone at the wedding can enjoy themselves fully.
Chicken Dance
Would you want to add some fun elements to the dance floor? Exciting activities are lined up and they will be well-received. Get your guests to let their hair down, and you can try a game of the”chicken dance”. So, if you don’t mind chuckles, and want people to get on the dance floor, you may try this.
Put numbers under the chairs. Tell your guests to check under their chairs when the number is shouted out. Depending on your seating arrangement, you can choose to repeat the numbers at the same table, or at different tables. Write down numbers starting from one to ten.
Assuming the host announces the number ‘5’, all the guests would look under their chairs. Post-it notes and masking tape will be suitable. Everyone with the number called out would be invited to hit the dance floor and do the chicken dance. This is helpful if you want your guests to mingle with more people apart from the group they have been sticking to. This is a great activity if many of your guests are not acquainted with others.
Multiplication
Get your friends and relatives in your wedding group to ask other guests onto the dance floor to get the party started. After one round of dancing, each guest at the dance floor will invite another guest in to dance, untill everyone is dancing together.
Hire A Dance Teacher
Many brides and grooms learn how to dance so that they can show off their groovy moves. Hire a dance teacher to demonstrate some simple steps to the audience, and get them on their feet? Or if you have a great friend who is a professional dancer and willing to help you at your wedding, then ask him or her to do this.
Bringing a dance teacher for the wedding is one activity that has been increasingly popular over the years. As a kind of pre-dance activity, the teacher will quickly walk people through their paces on the dance floor, perhaps teaching a bit of the waltz or, for something completely different, a little bit of the tango, before the music officially begins and dancing commences.
With a dance teacher around, you get to liven up the ambience and other shy people would actually be tempted to join in and have great fun. Your guests get to practise first and make all the mistakes before the official dance begins.
These ideas are extremely affordable, so if you are on a tight wedding budget, then you can simply use these ideas to get your guests onto the dance floor instead of hiring expensive bands or performers to liven up the mood.