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How to Get The Wedding Dance of Your Dreams

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wedding dance lessons near Chandler ArizonaWe are just days away from the end of 2015, and that means we get to ring in the new year ahead with friends and family! YAY! It also means that many couples will be getting engaged. New Year’s Eve is a common, but very romantic, day of the year to say “I do”. With that being said, enjoy the holiday because the year ahead will be filled with lots of wedding day planning.

If you’re wanting the wedding of your dreams, and why wouldn’t you, then kick off 2016 with a very important part of your big day with Wedding Dance Lessons. Yes, now is the time to begin thinking about exactly what you would like your first dance to look like. Were you thinking of a romantic Waltz, a seductive and surprising Argentine tango, or a playful Swing dance? All great ideas! Maybe you hadn’t gotten past, “We just don’t want to look ridiculous in front of our loved ones”. That’s OK. We don’t want you to look or feel silly either, so let’s get you started on the right foot with a Wedding Dance Consultation.

At Dance FX Studios in the Phoenix East Valley, we invite all of our brides and grooms to schedule a private, one-hour Wedding Dance Consultation so that we can get to know you and find out about the wedding dance you have always wanted. We will assist you in finding the perfect song (or songs) that suits your personalities, as well as begin to develop a vision for your wedding dance.

As I mentioned, some couples truly have no idea of what they want. Many have never even danced before. This is why it’s so important to begin taking dance lessons for your wedding now, rather than wait for everything else to be completed. Ordering flowers does not require you to learn an entirely new skill together as a couple, so it is definitely a priority to start learning to dance while you’re figuring everything else out. By the end of your Wedding Dance Consultation with us, you will get all of your questions answered and we will even personalize a dance program for you so that you can look amazing on your wedding day.

To make the most of your consultation, here are a few of my favorite tips…

  1. Bring in up to 10 of your favorite songs. Forget about whether they sound too slow or seem to fast to dance to; we will help determine that for you. The key is to find music that you love, that speaks to you. If you have a story behind the song, great! If you just like rocking out to it in the car, no problem! If your music doesn’t work for dancing, we’ll let you know. Our goal is to make you look great and, as professionals with 20+ years of wedding dance experience, that will happen!
  2. Come with a few ideas of your perfect wedding dance. Slow and romantic, sultry and smooth, unexpected and original, or a combination of all three…we have literally done it all! Again, if it won’t work, we’re not shy to let you know. What’s most important is that you are prepared and relaxed so that you can look your best. That’s where our expertise comes into play. 🙂
  3. Print out a layout of your reception space, with dimensions of your dance floor. We want to know everything from the material that you will be dancing on (wood, cement, tile, carpet, etc..) to where your guests will be seated. We can’t have you doing a beautiful dip facing a wall, right? Every little piece matters, so bring in what you can and we’ll get you ready from there.

A Wedding Dance Consultation with us at Dance FX Studios includes so much more than even what I’ve included above. There’s really no better time that January to make time to learn to dance for your wedding. Even if you’re not tying the knot until the end of 2016, you’ll be glad that you had the year to learn to couple’s dance. Plus, with Wedding Dance Lessons, you will have a great way to stay connected and sane through your wedding planning process. Trust me, it can be daunting, but with a great way to relieve stress as well as learn a new, romantic hobby, your wedding planning can be a breeze. We look forward to helping you to shine on the dance floor in 2o16!

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Dance With Your Bridesmaids

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rsz_1rsz_1dsc05357Your wedding day should be exactly how you imagined it. A lot of people like to have traditional weddings, but what is becoming more popular lately, are weddings with a little extra flare, especially when it comes to the first dance. Instead of just having a first dance with the bride and groom, more and more couples are choosing to do a dance with their bridesmaids or groomsmen as well, and we couldn’t be more excited. Our favorite wedding dance routines are ones exactly like this…

Whether you want to do a bridesmaid’s dance or a groomsmen dance (or both!), our dance studio can definitely help you. We love putting together fun, carefree wedding dance routines that will make your wedding the most memorable one of the year. Your friends may feel nervous about getting up in front of everyone they know and dancing silly to whatever music you choose, but that’s okay. Dance lessons for your wedding with all of your closest friends is another way to create long-lasting laughs and special time together. Plus, once your wedding party gets the hang of the dance choreography and feel comfortable in our studio, which won’t take long, they will be having the best time ever learning cool moves that they can use at other events too! Most importantly, we hope they will love creating your dream routine with you.

The groomsmen may be a little more skeptical of being a part of any kind of dancing. Reassure them that we won’t make any of the steps too difficult for them to learn. Our amazing instructors at Dance FX Studios top priority is to make our students feel comfortable.

If you want to incorporate both sides of the wedding party to do a single routine, a fun idea is to choose a popular partner dance, like Salsa, Country Two Step or Swing dancing, and they won’t feel as uncomfortable if someone is doing it with them. We will make every dance lesson you take to learn the routine fun and exciting so that each week they will look forward to coming in and letting loose with their friends.

There are tons of videos of wedding parties doing these types of routines, and they are going viral. It is for good reason, since they are so fun to do, and we’re sure you want to include a cool first dance in your wedding as well. Who knows, you may end up YouTube famous. 😉

If you’re stuck on ideas about which music or dances to include in your wedding dance routine, come to us and we can guide you the right way so that choosing what will best fit you and your friends will be easier. You can do a Country Dance like Line Dancing, or you could do something that starts of slow and sweet, then bust out into some NSYNC dance choreography later! How fun is that!? We encourage you to let your imagination run wild because anything you can think up is possible. Have fun with your ideas!

Bring your bridesmaids/groomsmen down to see us for a Wedding Dance Consultation to figure out how we can make your wedding dance dreams come true. We will have a great time on each and every lesson you attend. It will be a party in itself!

 

Take Your Wedding Dance Lessons Now

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Brides and grooms…it’s not too late to learn to dance for your spring wedding, but you’ve got to get started now. With so much planning involved for the biggest day of your lives, wedding dance lessons sometimes get put on the back burner. It may seem that learning to dance may not be as much of a priority as have the perfect bouquet, but can you think of a better gift to give to each other and your guests? A romantic, elegant or playful first dance is the perfect touch to kick off your reception and set the tone for your party. Here are a few steps to getting started with dance lessons for your wedding if you live here in Arizona.

1. Contact us at Dance FX Studios today!: Dance FX Studios is located in Mesa, AZ, just off the 101 highway in the Phoenix East Valley. We have proudly choreographed wedding first dances for brides and grooms for over a decade. It would be our pleasure to help you to learn to dance as well! To show you what we can do for you, schedule a wedding dance consultation as soon as possible. We will help you to pick out the perfect music that says what you want to say on your wedding day. From the classic Frank Sinatra tunes to Swing, Salsa, Argentine Tango or an elegant Waltz, we do it all with your personality and vision in mind.

2. Research other wedding dance routines for ideas: Our website or Youtube are both great resources for seeing what you like and what you don’t like in a first dance. Over the years, we have choreographed everything from Bollywood to Hip Hop and Two Step to Tango. Remember that with a customized first dance at Dance FX Studios, the sky is the limit!

3. Make time to learn to dance!: Be realistic with how long it may take you to learn a new skill that you may not have tried before. Give yourself at least a month for us to prepare you to shine on your wedding day-even longer for a more elaborate dance routine. Dance lessons for couples are a wonderful way to re-connect after a long day of work and during stressful times like planning for a wedding. Give yourselves the gift of dance to see how you can glide into your wedding day with ease.

Set up your wedding dance consultation today at Dance FX Studios to discover how dancing can be the perfect touch to your big day. We will give you a dance to remember and a hobby to enjoy for years to come.