# Wedding Dance

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dance/360450>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 12, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dance/360450 "2006-06-12T17:56:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dance/360450/1 "2006-06-12T17:56:30Z")

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Ok, so I have been putting it off for too long. My daughter is getting married on July 1, and I need enough instruction to look less than retarded during my required dance with her. All the dance places want you to sign up for mucho lessons, something I have neither the time nor desire for. I was looking up DVD’s on Amazon, figured that could get me through. Does anyone have any recommendations, either of DVD’s or something else I haven’t thought of?

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dance/360450/2 "2006-06-12T20:17:23Z")

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Where do you live? A good dance studio should never push you to sign up for a lot of lessons, but be aware that if you want to be confident on the dance floor with your daughter you’ll need more than the ten minute run-through. My boyfriend and I have been taking ballroom lessons and really enjoying it, at a small local studio. I really think there’s no substitute for a real teacher - I’ve looked at a few DVDs and books, and while the books are useful to me _after having the real live lesson_ I can’t imagine that you could learn to be really comfortable for a dance without a teacher. Do you have any friends who dance?

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**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-dance/360450/3 "2006-06-12T21:02:53Z")

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You have some really severe time constraints here.

Do you want to learn some particular dance or just the usual hold-hands-and-go-across-the-floor generic stuff? Thie last may be possible, but again, given the time you have, I would definitely suggest as many lessons with a live instructor as you can get.