Mother Son & Father Daughter Dance

It's okay to just skip them.

We actually did a father-daughter dance but my DH and his mom chose not to do a mother-son dance because neither one of them wanted to get up and dance in front of everyone. No big deal.

Ya im not super close to my father so that would just be awkward but at the same time I dont wanna make him feel bad.

We did the exact same thing as BlueHenBride! I did a father daughter dance, but DH skipped it because he didn't want to do another spotlight dance.

You can skip them both and don't need to replace them with anything, or you can still do the father-daughter dance. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about "his friends" vs "your friends" too much, as long as he can invite those that are important to him, and you both have people there who love and want to celebrate with you, then you're all set

You can definitely skip the dances. I'm having no dancing at all. As far as him not feeling awkward, just remember it your day to marry him. So stick by his side and have fun together because you will be married! If you do that, nothing should be awkward

I guess I just over think things lol

It's your wedding and party, so you can do what you want! PP's are spot on, skip it if you'd like or if you want to just to a Father Daughter dance, then do that!

True ill have to talk to my father. I have lots of time to figure everything thing out!

Is he close with your mom? He can do a mother son dance with the mother he will be gaining

You could just do the dance with your dad, I've seen that done and it wasn't awkward. Could he dance with your mom?

I'm skipping the father daugher but he is still doing mother and son. My dad is a traditional guy culture wise so he does not care for dancing so I'm totally fine with skipping it since I think it would be weird to dance with my dad anyway. We do have a close relationship though.

We're not doing either dance. Now that I think about it the last wedding I went to didn't have them either. I'm sure you'll be okay to skip one or both.

Ya I guess I could have him dance with my mom they get along well so that would work

I mean if there is someone that he would like to do a meaningful dance with (a sibling, a friend, your mom etc) that is great and could be lovely- otherwise just skip it- no one will miss it.

If you want to skip them all together you two can just have your first dance then have your dj invite your guests up to dance with you during the last half of the song to get the party started that way there are no awkward pauses.

That's what we are doing because both my dad and his mom are deceased so we will do our dance then have our dj go right into the "anniversary dance" where they invite any couples who have been married 50+ years to come dance then 40+ years then 30, 20, 1 year etc so by the end most of your guest are up and dancing and then the party just starts from there !

We did father-daughter, but not mother-son. I was also pretty worried that people would notice and think it was weird, but I was given some great advice on WW. Which was that people wouldn't notice. And to be honest, I wouldn't notice if they were skipped at a wedding I went to.

At the ceremony, encourage guests to sit on either side.

Ya that's a good idea. I'll probably just skip them and do the first dance then the anniversary dances or even maybe just other special dances or idk I'll figure it out. Thank you everyone for your advice