divorced parents

Why would your parents need to dance together at your wedding?

Yeah I don't understand a rotational dance, I've never heard of that. This is super awkward to ask divorced parents to dance with each other and I think you should forgo that for sure.

Just do the couples first dance and you can add father-daughter, mother-son dances as well. You can do a bridal party dance too if they want to but I've never heard of this one either!

View Quoted Comment Sorry. I should have added it’s not my wedding. I am in the bridal party and am the sister of the groom. Who’s parents are divorced. It’s how the bride wanted to do it.

Yikes in my case that would be a bad idea. I may include my mom and her boyfriend to dance while I dance with my father since I don’t want her to feel left out (she raised me much more than my father). But even that feels awkward to me so I’m just not sure yet what I’ll do.
Could the bride keep to the traditional father daughter dance and switch to dance with her mother or vice versa? (songs are wayyy longer than you need to dance with one person in front of a crowd, lol).

View Quoted Comment I was thinking they could have their first dance, then go into the bride dancing with her dad and the groom dancing with his mum, then the bridal party joins in at the start of the new song, and then any extra family who chooses to dance and finally everyone else. Does that sound like it would work?

View Quoted Comment I think that would work and is probably a better option if the bride is amenable, but my personal experience is that divorce has caused my mother to be super sensitive to what my dad gets to do versus what she does. Idk if that’s the case in your family, but that’s why I’m trying to think about options. My sister was less traditional when she got married, for example my mom and dad both walked her down the aisle. But I’m more traditional so I’m also trying to consider ways to involve my mom in the processional while still having my dad walk me (at least part way).
Divorce can be so hard on everyone!

View Quoted Comment My dad really doesn’t care for dancing, he would be happy if he got to sit it out. The bride definitely wants to dance with him though so it will just have to be a matter of her going over to get him or him approaching her I guess.

Sounds like a bad idea to me. I wouldn’t dance with my ex either. Over never heard of this before.