Square Dancing at reception?

That sounds like fun!

All I can think in my head is gym class when I was in 7th grade UGH

Honesty hour: I would leave the wedding. Maybe a dance would be fine but more than like 10 minutes and I'm out the door. I can't stand that kind of music and it would just bore me.

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Square dances, line dances, group dances aren't for everyone, but I don't see the harm in having a couple songs during the reception. I don't think they should be the first to be played as it may discourage some from getting onto the dance floor if they do not know how to do the dance. But you know your crowd and if there are guests that would enjoy a good square dance then a couple songs during the middle of dancing should be fun.

I'd be all for it...especially if there was a little training dance or two. But my FH would hate it...other than our 1st dance...IDK if he'll be dancing at our own wedding :o

Okay, I'm going to try and remain open minded. First of all, you're having a DW; this reception, the one potentially featuring square dancing, is a secondary reception -- something for the Indiana folks at home, right? Just tell me that most of them love square dancing...

I'll just be honest -- I'd partake of your generous bar while the rest of the group were kicking up the dust. I am so not interested, as in no way, but if you left the bar open and didn't hire an obnoxious caller who tried to pry the uninterested (i.e., me) onto the dance floor, I'd be okay with an hour of dancing.. Do you think the majority of your guests would enjoy it? If so, go ahead..do-si-do (that's the way Wiki spells it) for an hour or so. It sounds kind of quaint...on the village green type of deal.

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I think it would be really cool

Lol rachel that is for singing i believe. Dosey doe is the dance.

I recently went to a wedding that had a traditional Irish band and a caller that led/taught us. It was fun for the first 30ish minutes but not the whole 2 hours. Towards the end it was only family and everybody else was really bored.

Future Mrs. N...Lord knows I don't have to be right about a subject with which I'm totally unacquainted (except for some embarrassing seventh grade memories, but I really did google that do-si-do thing, lol. Wiki uses "DO-SI-DO", "DOSADO" and "DOS A DOS", and defines it as a basic square dance step that translates "face to face"). Actually, the dos a dos means "back to back" and is defined as a corruption of the original French phrase....vis a vis -- which means face to face. Whatever..lol. I'm wondering how this will play out at a wedding reception.

A stab in the dark here, but isn't the singing thing, "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do?" As in, Julie Andrews and "The Sound of Music"?

I would love this and so would my husband. During college swing dancing was the only thing we could do. This seems like a know your crowd type of thing.

Is this normal for your guest circle to have square dancing at weddings/go square dancing? In my church friends circle, we never have "real" dancing at weddings, it's all square and line dancing, and it goes on late into the night (2-3 hours) So that's what people go to weddings expecting.

If you're inviting people that won't know how to square dance or will be shocked by the premise, then maybe it's not such a great idea, because it is hard to learn, especially in a big group.

Thanks for all the insightful responses guys!

The crowd will be a mix of people that know how to do it really well and get super excited by it, and a handful of people that I'm not sure about (as in, I have never been in a dancing situation with them). But I would say all of them are pretty open minded about dancing in general.

I talked with some of my friends and VIPs and they all were pretty stoked about it, so I've started making inquiries into bands and callers, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody (like at all, I'm not searching the right way I guess). So if anybody has any ideas for how to find and contact a band, I would love your suggestions. I'm currently putting out feelers by word of mouth, but haven't gotten anything substantial back.

@Rachel D. Haha, it is literally in the middle of the town, on the town green. You hit the nail on the head there

@Mrs. Fall Bride You're a professional musician right? I would especially appreciate your opinion on how the timeline might play out. So you think interspersed is better than all at once? As a musician in a band, how would you feel/ how would it work out to share the time with a DJ? And possibly the sound equipment as well?

My cousin had line dancing at his wedding since it was something him and his wife did and some of their friends. They had videos teaching a couple dances on their wedding website so people could learn before if they wanted. And the DJ taught one dance and then we did it to a song. They played a mix of songs with line dancing and regular. For guests that didn't know the line dances it made it hard to dance when they played a bunch in a row we didn't know.