Dance Conundrum - Please Help!

You don't have to dance for the whole song. We honestly danced for like a minute to each spotlight song and then cut it and moved to the next. Our DJ told us that, when we want him to fade the song out, we should just start swaying with my hands on husband's shoulders and his on my waist, and that was his cue to fade out. This way you don't have to dance for the whole song and you cut out what sounds like a logistical nightmare of bringing people on and off the dance floor.

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That's a good idea! I should have mentioned that we are doing the music ourselves, so I will have to see if I can figure out how to fade songs on my spotify.

If you are doing music yourselves, I would suggesting picking a song and doing half with your FH and the other half with your parents. the on and off the dance floor for guests will be confusing and super weird. If you don't want the same song for first dance/parent dances, then you could always pay someone (search for music editing on Fiverr, it can be as low as $10) to make an MP3 file of the songs you want faded together (like 1 minute of the first dance song, 1 min of each parent dance song) and then you can just play that and not have to worry about fading in and out

Ask the dj to fade the song half way out so you can do parent dances.

We did our first dance right away at the reception and then invited people to join in. Then we were all seated for dinner, and we didn’t do the parent dances until after dinner

No, definitely don’t dance the whole song for your first dance. That’s a sure fire way to bore your guests for 4 minutes. If you’re fine doing your first dance and your parent dances back to back, you could do your first dance for about a minute, then each of you walk over to your respective parents, kindly lead them to the dance floor and go right into your parent dance for another minute. Or you can enter, do your first dance for a minute, take your seats, eat and do parent dances at the end of dinner. But, either way. since you don’t have a DJ, I would have someone who could control the music for those 2 dances. Who’s introducing you into the reception? Maybe they can control the music too.

I would do the father daughter dance first, and just have you DJ cut it after a minute or two. Then do the mother son, and same thing, have the DJ cut it after a minute or 2. Then, do your first dance. Whenever you are ready for others to join, have you DJ announce that the couple would like everyone to join them.

I’m going to do all the dancing on half the song’s. Bride/Groom, Daddy/Daughter,Groom/Mom and Bride/My Boy’s