Combined Mother/Son & Father/Daughter Dance...

This is what DH and I did at our wedding and it worked out great! If it works for you, go for it.

Thanks, what song did you guys use...trying to find songs is like the hardest part so far lol

It's your wedding, do as you wish

I am planning on doing this as well.

I would have loved to do this, because I feel like these dances take up too much time. Plus I was crying through almost the whole father-daughter dance so it would have been nice to be sharing the spotlight. However I have known my dad was looking forward to dancing w me to butterfly kisses since about 2 minutes after the song came out a couple decades ago, so one song wouldn't have worked for us because it would have broken my dad's heart to not dance to that song. H and his mom danced to Unforgettable by Nat King Cole and that definitely could have worked for both!

This is what we are planning to do as well. I agree that I feel like these dances take too long.

I would have loved to. But our parents really wanted the spotlight at our wedding and fighting over the dances, two minutes each, wasn't worth it.

Mine was long. Not gonna lie. Three of my parents insisted on a dance and DHs mom wanted a dance. 8 minutes of parent dances.

Its called the Family Dance and it's not unusual anymore. My parents don't like being in the spotlight, and I didn't feel like doing the First Dance for a whole song (no time to choreograph). So we had all the immediate families come join us during the middle (instrumental break) of the song and my FH and I danced with each other's parents then. You can do that or just pick another song for the Family Dance.

I see it a lot. Honestly, as the person behind the potted palm? I see that groups GENERALLY don't want to watch a lot of dances (including yours; keep it relatively short)

We did this and it worked out perfectly.

@Celia, so agreed. Mine was nothing less than excessive.

Went to a wedding recently where the groom's younger brother was the totally unprepared amateur DJ (can't put that on him, he didn't know he'd been "picked" for that role until 2 hrs before the wedding started...). Couple didn't realize that for highlight dances a PROFESSIONAL Dj normally uses short (60-90 second) edited versions of the songs. They had preloaded full-length versions for their DJ, resulting in the guests standing awkwardly (dancing was in a room adjacent to the dining room without any chairs) for 15+ minutes watching four incredibly painful to watch single-couple dances (B&G, B & dad, G & mom, B & mom). It was AWFUL. Work with your professional DJ to manage this so however many dances you have, it's a couple minutes total at best.... I'd be a big fan of combined dances. Guests do NOT care about this the way you do! (Same with speeches....

Our friends did this a couple weeks ago, it was really great. Then the bride surprised her husband by bringing up his new stepkids and they did a family dance. It was very sweet. "Sweet child of mine" was the song used.

We are doing this because FH didn't want to be front and center with his mom. I don't mind because watching too many dances can become boring.

This is a great idea, I wish we would have done this.

I think this is great, particularly if parents have passed on and others will take their place.