Are you ditching parent dances?

Yes! FH wants the mother-son dance and I want father-daughter dance but it does worry me a bit on how to do so because my dad's health is not the greatest and he can't stand for long periods of time.

Sadly no. Our parents have passed away. I'd thought of having my brother dance with me, but at the moment we're not speaking. My fiancee would probably dance with one of his two sisters. I may ask my nephew, but he has anxiety issues and I don't want him to stress

I’d love to ditch this one. My fh has his mom, dad and step mom. Not too complicated.
my dad passed away and we weren’t close, my grandpa was my dad and he passed away, my older brother and I are on tense terms or I’d ask him...
I have “parents” I adopted from a previous boyfriend years ago, but it’s a whole thing with my mom...my situation is so awkward I’d love to skip it. FH doesn’t understand why it’s bothering me lol.

Half and half. FH is dancing with his mom, but my dad passed away almost two years ago and I’m skipping it. People keep trying to push ideas on me of who I should dance with instead (brother, different uncles, etc). Takes everything I have not to say “Thanks for trying to tell me how to plan my own wedding, but I’m not replacing my irreplaceable dad with any of the other wonderful guys in my world who aren’t my dad.” I swear I’m not a snarky mean jerk all the time, I’m really not!!!

Were not having any dancing at our wedding actually. We both hate dancing so were switching that for games! Board, yard, and card games! Well still have music and I'm sure if people get drunk enough there might be someone who wants to dance, but I think the dancing is the worst part of weddings.

Yes I am ditching this.

I'm dancing with my papa and my future step-dad who has been in my life for over a decade now and I'm really excited about it. The mother/son dance will be really special as his mom is battling cancer so I'm sure I'll be bawling during.

We did. My husbands parents have both passed and it was a second marriage for both of us. We just didn't think it was important to do that.

We are doing this very traditionally!

Father only as his mom and dad have passed but he will dance with hi daughters while I with my dad

Ditched it. Those are SO awkward to me.

I'm dancing with my Dad, which we're both very excited for. Fiance refuses to dance with his Mom as he 'doesn't want any attention' even though his Mom would love it. We are having our wedding at their house, which is saving us a ton and they're helping tremendously so I'm trying to convince him it's not about him, but about how much his Mom would love it. As a fun surprise later in the night, my Mom and I are doing a choreographed dance. She runs a dance company and I've danced since she put me in baby ballet at 2, so it's basically an opportunity to show off a little bit, although almost everyone there knows we're dancers.

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Totally get that! Have you decided on a song for your first dance yet?

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It's really all up to you! The most common thing I've seen with this is that you split a song with the both of them! Depending on how much you all like dancing, you could definitely shorten the song and dance with them for like a minute each!

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I think that is the option that I like the best because they'll both be included!

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I totally get that, I'm so sorry to hear about your losses and that your brother and you are on tense terms. If FH wants to do it I think he should, but doesn't mean you have to!

Yes, we are doing this one. We are both very close to our parents, so we're both looking forward to those moments.

We are ditching this tradition along with the first dance lol

Yes! ❤️ I knew the song I wanted to dance with my dad to before I was even engaged. I told my mom I knew it and she goes “The Steve Curtis Chapman one?!” (not the butterfly one - a different one that my dad used to play when I was little and no matter where I was or what I was doing, I would run in the room and spin around & dance with him to it) And I said yes and she immediately started crying. Then when I got engaged I told my dad I knew what song and he goes “I have some thoughts about what I’d like, hopefully they’re the same” and I told him and he goes “yep - that’s the one I was hoping for.” It was emotional. Lol. And my FH will dance with his mom. Not sure on that song yet.

Ditching both of my parents are deceased...