No dance reception?

We're not having a dance. We want to enjoy our time with our guests over dinner and conversations..
Similar to pp all our guests are from out of town so it will be nice to catch up and enjoy time together.

We had a dance since every family wedding has occured. There are about 3 or 4 events where dancing is always taking place.

We are having a dance, but before the DJ arrives, we have booked a solo violinist to play at the ceremony and the first dance so that it's something different. Perhaps you could have a live musician play for a pre-determined period instead of dancing!

View quoted message We are doing the exact same! Nice to see that other couples have the same idea.

We're not planning a dance portion, but are doing a father/daughter and first dance but, that's it.

We have a lot of out of town and older guests and we'd rather spend quality time with them over a nice meal.

I went to a wedding recently that didn't have dancing. they did a noon ceremony. and then had a 2-230pm lunch. in between while they were getting photos, they had hors d'ouevers, drinks. then some lawn games, a caricature artist. it was nice.

I'm thinking of an earlier wedding (like starting at noon) for a lunch type thing. I'm not avoiding dancing altogether, but I don't think there will be much at my wedding. We're going to go with live music and maybe even have some dancers come in for a choreographed dance as entertainment.

We aren't having dancing mostly because of cost. We're having the ceremony later and a really nice sit down meal with everything happening in the evening.

We opted for a luncheon and no dancing as our families aren't the dancing types either

Although I love the dancing portion of a wedding - I wouldn't mind at all if I went to one where that wasn't a thing. I would think that you could even call it a night early too

Perhaps you could have a few games? obviously the shoe game? And then maybe open the floor to a roast of the bride and groom if you're into that sort of thing?

There won’t be dancing at my wedding reception bc it’s a brunch reception.

Ideas instead could be having entertainment or a slideshow.

My cousin didn’t have a dance and they didn’t plan anything in its place. Adults are pretty good about entertaining themselves. Even with dances, not everyone participates and most people don’t have anything else planned.