No dancing or music at the reception?

[lizaanne]

We are having a luncheon, so no dancing or dj. We will have background music playing, but no dancing stuff.

I'm still considering having a song for us to dance to, just us. We went round and round over this, and can only come up with one song we agree on, but it's not a slow dancing song - When Love Calls Your Name, by Cher. So not sure if we will do that or not.

Anyone else not having dancing? Will you still at least do a bride and groom dance?

~Liza

[purple_octopus]

We aren't dancing, and aren't having a DJ. Our wedding starts at 2PM, and our reception will start at 3:30 (so it's more an early dinner than a luncheon). The whole reception will be over by 7:30 pm. Our venue has a sound system that I can plug my laptop or a stereo or ipod into, so we will have ambient music that I will arrange in a playlist ahead of time. (I have gobs of music downloaded.) We will probably have his brother/best man MC, since he is a Marine officer and is good at telling people what to do. :p

We haven't decided about our first dance, but it's not something I really care about. We thought it might be wierd to do a mother/son dance since we can't do a father/daughter dance as well. (My father died when I was very young, and my mother has not remarried.) I don't want his mom to feel slighted or left out, so we might skip our first dance. I think it won't be wierd for her not to have a dance with FH if I don't have one either.

[lizaanne]

FH's family will not be at the wedding, not that they don't want to be there....long story you probably already know. ;) Anyway, we would not be having a groom/mom dance so would not do all the other requisite dances either. Just the two of us, and I think it would be the very last thing we do before we all leave, so it's not awkward that there is no more dancing.

~Liza

[purple_octopus]

I think that sounds like it would work very well, Liza. Now, does your FH like to dance? :p

[rowanmayfairs]

No DJ or Dancing here..

Our wedding starts at 2pm and the reception is in the next room at the church.

would be awkard..my parents have NEVER danced, James mom is single, James grandma is single (husband died)..and most of our other guests are just there to mingle and eat cake and visit :)

NO MONEY for it..

Not enough room..

We will probably use the church music system and play music in the background still though and provide our own cds :)

I can see it now..it would only be me and james dancing and maybe one of his friends.

Plus only the girls that have ALOT of money have DJs/Bands at their weddings in my part of Oklahoma.

[Raychel]

I'm reupping an old thread to answer but it might be helpful to have another opinion out there if any other girls come around who are planning a reception w/o dancing.

We had no dancing, we had a dinner reception which was basically eat, drink, be merry, have some cake. I don't even think I really missed the whole "first dance" together thing. We don't dance really anyways :lol: so it is not like it really symbolized anything to us.