No Parental Dances

You could just skip them and not replace them with anything, or you could have your parents each dance to their first dance song from their own weddings.

Depending on your family situation, you could do a few things. Like Lisa said, maybe have a dance for your parents if they are still together. There's also the anniversary song, which is when you ask all of the married couples to come up and dance with you and the DJ announces years that people are married and people get eliminated by that until the couple who has been married the longest is left standing. You could do a group dance where you invite everyone to dance with you and your FH. You could add a game in there, like the shoe game or something similar. Or just fill it in with extra dancing.

Just skip them, guests won't really notice and they only take like 5-10 mins anyway. Or, you could do the Anniversary dance where everyone starts on the dance floor, and then the DJ asks couples to sit down based on how long they've been married, i.e. everyone married less than five years sit down now, then everyone married less than 10 years sits down, etc. to see who the last couple standing is that has been married the longest.

We just skipped them, we didn't do anything to replace them.

I agree with everyone else that it's fine to just skip these and not replace them with anything else.

View Quoted Comment These are great ideas! Thank you everyone!

I've never seen these done in Australia. We usually have first dance, and at a set point (either a particular lyric, or a signal from the bride/groom) usually the bridal party and parents join, after which everyone else is welcome to join. Generally then the dance floor is considered open.

Many couples skip them entirely. Not everyone has a relationship with parents. The extra spotlight dances are not missed and allow guests more time to dance.

You don't have to do an alternative if you and fiancé don't feel strongly about doing something to replace them.
However you can play the shoe game or doa quizz based on you and your fiancé as a couple (not the 2 of you separately) , the one who know you better AS A COUPLE can win a prize, for instance a champagne bottle, an extra favor or something.

We are skipping the dances with parents, bouquet & garter tosses and cake cutting, we and are not planning to anything, so our guests can start dancing or chatting/mingling and using the photo booth sooner.