Things that irk me, or at least have been irking me for a while.
We are well into sorting out wedding plans but, apart from having music on spotify or something in the sound system with one small area to dance our first dance, we are not doing the whole dancefloor DJ thing at our wedding. Why? Cause most people there will either be nearing or over their 70's/ 80's who probably wont want to and self conscious nerdy folk like ourselves who would not hardly use it.
I can basically hear 1-3 people from my parents generation and perhaps one of our sisters say we HAVE to have dancing. I can just see us splashing our hiring a DJ/ dancing set up for our rather small, intimate venue above a pub, DJ busting dem tunes like there's NO ONE dancing and those that are feel like they have to or when they do they feel like a tit an stop unless utterly pissed, with non of those wanting it bothering to do so. So that is that.
So the thing that has been irking me has been asking/ looking up advice what to do instead. I google ideas and find forums and comments with some ideas similar to what we thought, some unsuitable (big outdoor stuff) and some that could work. The annoying thing is EVERY SINGLE THREAD or forum I find, a good 1/4- 1/3 say you HAVE to have dancing, ignoring the OP completely, saying something of 'well I had dancing and it was ok' or saying something of having a band or musician in which TBH is slightly better but its kind of the same problem, you would expect people to dance, not just gorp at them unless they are weird. Just super unhelpful comments.
We are having music and people can mingle drink and chat like a dinner party would have after the food and I am currently looking into some table top games (I'm thinking the family version of Scrawl would go down well as our family loves the rude one), cards and Jenga as well as the idea of hiring an arcade cabinet if the price is right and the venue allows it (we have the upstairs of a country pub for the ceremony and venue). My mother will verbally hate the idea but I bet she and most of her generation would be drawn like a moth to the flame and have a go if it is free to play. My mum was skeptic about VR but at her last visit she LOVED it and is desparate to play more at Christmas.
We are well into sorting out wedding plans but, apart from having music on spotify or something in the sound system with one small area to dance our first dance, we are not doing the whole dancefloor DJ thing at our wedding. Why? Cause most people there will either be nearing or over their 70's/ 80's who probably wont want to and self conscious nerdy folk like ourselves who would not hardly use it.
I can basically hear 1-3 people from my parents generation and perhaps one of our sisters say we HAVE to have dancing. I can just see us splashing our hiring a DJ/ dancing set up for our rather small, intimate venue above a pub, DJ busting dem tunes like there's NO ONE dancing and those that are feel like they have to or when they do they feel like a tit an stop unless utterly pissed, with non of those wanting it bothering to do so. So that is that.
So the thing that has been irking me has been asking/ looking up advice what to do instead. I google ideas and find forums and comments with some ideas similar to what we thought, some unsuitable (big outdoor stuff) and some that could work. The annoying thing is EVERY SINGLE THREAD or forum I find, a good 1/4- 1/3 say you HAVE to have dancing, ignoring the OP completely, saying something of 'well I had dancing and it was ok' or saying something of having a band or musician in which TBH is slightly better but its kind of the same problem, you would expect people to dance, not just gorp at them unless they are weird. Just super unhelpful comments.
We are having music and people can mingle drink and chat like a dinner party would have after the food and I am currently looking into some table top games (I'm thinking the family version of Scrawl would go down well as our family loves the rude one), cards and Jenga as well as the idea of hiring an arcade cabinet if the price is right and the venue allows it (we have the upstairs of a country pub for the ceremony and venue). My mother will verbally hate the idea but I bet she and most of her generation would be drawn like a moth to the flame and have a go if it is free to play. My mum was skeptic about VR but at her last visit she LOVED it and is desparate to play more at Christmas.
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