What To Expect On Your First Wedding Dance Lesson

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Here is a step by step guide, along with bits of advice, for all the brides and grooms taking the most important first step (pun intended) toward a great wedding dance and reception.

What To Expect On Your First Wedding Dance Lesson

Step One: Scheduling Your Wedding Consultation

Let’s just get this out of the way. No one ever says, “I’m glad I waited until the last minute to do this!” So, arrange your wedding consultation early in the process (it's free). All it costs you is 45 minutes and it could actually relieve wedding planning stress! Don't take a chance on your first dance.

Step Two: What to bring to your consultation

Your fiancee
A pair of heels (don’t bring your actual wedding heels until a week or two before)
An open mind
Your wallet (signing up for your dance lessons right away increases your success rate by 1000%)

Step Three: Who You’ll Meet

You will meet three really important people:

The Administrator who scheduled your lessons. They will be at the desk to greet you, get you situated, make you a coffee, and give you a wedding consultation page to fill out.
The New Student Director. Think of this person as your guidance counselor. They will act as a guide for both you and your teacher. They are the expert coaches for all things in our new student department.
Your Wedding Specialist is also a “new student specialist”. That means, they teach people everyday who have rarely, or never, stepped foot on a dance floor. They will be the primary person working with you on your dance lessons.

Step Four: Let’s Get Moving

It's time to get up and start dancing. In addition, your wedding specialist will want to find out your vision for dancing at your wedding. They will:

Introduce you to the Arthur Murray, fun, quick, and easy method. (Eliminates any extra left feet)
Create some simple patterns that you can do right away
Have you dancing together within the first 5 minutes of your appointment
By the end of the wedding consultation, your specialist will recommend the wedding program that best fits your vision for your wedding dance and reception.

Step Five: Make it Official

Your Wedding Specialist shares his recommendation with you and the New Student Director. From there, the New Student Director (or Counselor) will help you arrange your tuition and schedule. While you’re walking out with your paperwork and a copy of your upcoming dance schedule, your Wedding Specialist and Counselor are still hard at work customizing your journey to wedding dance success.

Step Six: Share it!

After taking a few lessons, it is always a nice idea to invite your folks, or some of the wedding party in for a few lessons. Especially if you’re setting the tone right away with a knockout performance. Ask your Wedding Specialist about the Guest Referral Program, and it may even make for a great wedding party gift basket item. With all of your loved ones learning from the same Arthur Murray program, you’ll be able to dance with each other, and recognize the moves, at the reception.

Final Thought

So there you have it. From engaged to dance partners in 6 easy steps. Like most great things: vacations, weddings, wedding dance lessons… there is never a perfect time for it. There will always be some leveraging and adjustments, but learning to dance together creates an identity for your new partnership that can last forever. Best of luck on your journey, and as always…