Doing the father/daughter and mother/son dances at the same time?

[nikkiana]

Is anyone else doing the father/daughter and mother/son dances at the same time? I think that we're going to do this, and I was sorta wondering if I was weird or not. :D

[Kari]

Some people do it. We considered it, but I didn't want to take that moment from my daddy.

[Maria 05]

Its perfectly acceptable I would not think it was weird at all

[finallymarried06]

We did it!! And it turned out wonderfully! We did it to the song "Then They Do" by Trace Adkins. It was so nice!

[Rebecca]

I am dancing with my stepfather and my FH is dancing with his Mom for the first family dance. I am not close to my father at all and he will not be attending the wedding and I am also not close to my stepfather but I feel I have to honor him to not upset my Mom...so I did not want all the attention to be on the two of us, this way it is more like a family dance instead of a daddy dance...then of course we will swap and I will dance with his Dad and he will dance with my Mom.

[*meghan*]

We are doing this also. We have a very energetic group of guests, and I don't want them to feel they have to sit through 50 family dances before the fun begins! Brent and I both agreed that we'd rather do it this way anyways :)

[QueenElizabeth22]

Well, I too don't want guests to feel like that have to sit forever before they have some fun...but, while we are going to try to keep things moving...I want to have that spotlight with just me and my dad (he was even saying this weekend that he wants to take dance lessons...HE IS SO ADORABLE!!!:))

[Katnye]

We did this and it worked out great! We danced to "Let Them Be Little" by Lonestar, chosen by my MIL. We also didn't want everyone to have to sit through a ton of dances and neither my dad or my MIL like to be in the spotlight.

I've also heard of starting with the father/daughter dance and then, part way through the song, the DJ asks for the mother and groom to join them. I also think thats cute, assuming the MIL doesn't get jealous!

[sarahm08]

We are doing this but with a different twist.. I am going to dance with my father for the first half of the song and its going to fade out into another song and FH and his mom are going to come up and join us!

Then I am going to dance with FH's Dad while he dances with my mom!

[Krissy]

We are doing this also. We have a very energetic group of guests, and I don't want them to feel they have to sit through 50 family dances before the fun begins! Brent and I both agreed that we'd rather do it this way anyways :)
Huge ditto!

I didn't want to have a million dances so I danced with my gfather first (he basically raised me) and then I danced with my Dad while DH danced with his mom. Worked out well for us.

[wendy9879]

Our photographer asked us if we were doing it that way. We're not but it seems to be more popular these days. I don't think the song I chose will work for both dances (In my daughter's eyes by Martina McBride). :laugh3:

[Aramelle]

We've gone back and forth about this, but we've finally made a definite decision that we are going to do our dancing this way. We've selected "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts for the dance.

[lalalola]

We are going to do this cuz my dad is sooo not a dancer and I don't think that he would want to be the center of attention like that!

[Aramelle]

I don't think the song I chose will work for both dances (In my daughter's eyes by Martina McBride). :laugh3:

I'm glad to see some people still think about these types of things. My sister was married last month, and they did a joint child/parent dance to "I Loved Her First."

[Mandy]

We did this at our wedding. It worked out great since both our parents were crying wrecks. It also help hurry things along since our guests were chomping at the bit to get up and dance :). We danced to "Do I Make You Proud" by Taylor Hicks

[Crystal]

We had seperate dances, but I've heard of people using "Through the Years" by Kenny Rogers while doing it together. I love that song.

[Nik]

We had separate dances, but I've heard of people using "Through the Years" by Kenny Rogers while doing it together. I love that song.


I'm 95% sure we're going to do 2 dances, but "Through the Years" will be the anniversary dance song. We're not doing a garter/bo-K toss, so our "scheduled" songs are limited.

[LVCRose]

We did this as well. My dad passed away and my mom doesn't like to be in the center of attention, but I didn't want to take away the mother/son dance from my MIL. Many of our BP also don't like to dance in the spotlight. So we started out dancing my mom and I and DH and MIL and then half way through the song, the BP joined in. It took the spotlight off of individual people and also helped to move the night along.

[Winter_Bride]

We did it, but neither us or our parents wanted the spotlight on us for too long!! We danced to "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban - it's a good "parent" song.

[Christa]

We did it, but neither us or our parents wanted the spotlight on us for too long!! We danced to "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban - it's a good "parent" song.

That's a great song! I think I might use that :)

[Winter_Bride]

That's a great song! I think I might use that :)

Not even counting those of us on the dance floor, more than one person cried during it! :aok: