It has become a popular trend over the past few years to add a surprise wedding dance to receptions, usually through a flash mob with hired dancers who pose as wedding guests or wait staff, or by the bride or groom wanting to surprise each other through a choreographed dance alongside professional dancers or other wedding party participants. Either way, hiring a choreographer and wedding dancers is a great way to add a fun, surprise element to your wedding reception that will have people talking for years!
Add a Surprise Element to Your Wedding Reception
Everyone loves a surprise, especially during an already joyous occasion. A wedding flash mob with hired professionals adds not only a surprise element to your reception, but also professional-level entertainment which elevates any wedding with great choreography, high-energy music, and amazing dancers to get everyone excited about getting on the dance floor. People typically only see professional dancers during a sporting event or concert, but hiring dancers for your wedding is a great way to bring a world-class performance directly to your wedding guests.
For couples looking for something unique and memorable, hiring dancers for wedding reception entertainment can be a great way to surprise guests and create a moment that feels exciting, personal and unexpected.
Ways to Incorporate Wedding Dancers Into Your Reception
There are several ways to incorporate wedding dancers into your reception, and lots of different people who can be the target of the surprise as well.
Some popular options include:
- Parents or other family members of the bride and/or groom using a flash mob of hired wedding dancers to surprise their sons or daughters during the reception.
- Brides and grooms using a professional flash mob as a surprise for their guests during their receptions.
- Brides surprising their grooms with a special routine choreographed by a professional and incorporating hired back up dancers.
- Members of the wedding party, such as bridesmaids or groomsmen, joining in the routine.
No matter who is surprising who, the end result is always the same – a super fun, entertaining routine that everyone at the wedding will remember.
Get Wedding Guests Involved in the Performance
When a family member is hiring a choreographer to surprise the bride and groom, an additional surprise to add to the flash mob is to have other wedding guests join in the routine as well! This is always so much fun for the bride and groom to see all the people they love in one room who have taken the time and energy to learn part of the dance to surprise them.
The hired dancers will start the routine, and after they have been dancing for a couple of minutes, everyone who has learned the last part will join in with the professional dancers to finish out the routine. This can be accomplished through learning about 30 seconds of choreography via video link so that everyone can learn on their own time at home, no in-person rehearsals necessary. Dance moves are very simple to accommodate anyone joining in with no prior dance experience.
Transition Into the Dance Party
Finally, a hired flash mob or other surprise wedding performance can act as a great segue from the formal reception events like cake cutting, toasts and first dances, into the dancing portion of the evening when the DJ or band takes over and everyone heads to the dance floor.
When hiring professional dancers for a surprise flash mob, dancers can encourage guests to get on the dance floor immediately after their performance and stay on the dance floor for the first song the DJ or band plays to ensure a smooth transition and get as many people dancing as possible. Hiring dancers for wedding reception entertainment not only adds excitement to the event, but can also help energize the room and kick off the party in a memorable way.
After all, what is a wedding reception without dancing?