No Dancing at a Wedding Reception?

[kadevha]

First, I originally posted in a panic about the awol caterer. Thank you guys for all of the helpful suggestions! We actually found a caterer! I sent out about 10 inquiries to various local vendors. Of the e-mails I sent, I got a few bites. We almost went with one caterer but were uncomfortable with the fact that the kitchen is not public

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[herladyship]

We didn't have dancing at our wedding, but it was a lunchtime reception.

There's no way your reception is going to last only 1.5 hours. Ours was 4 hours, nobody left early, and several people apparently went on to an afterparty where my dad bought everyone drinks.

[aihoshi]

A friend of ours had a lunchtime buffet. There was no dance. The couple had a slideshow video thing of pictures and them talking that was pretty cute. Otherwise they had the buffet line, wandered around talking, and had toasts. We left after about an hour. xD; I have no idea how long it actually lasted.

[blueirisheyez]

Why is your FH so fixated on 1.5 hours? I spend that amount of time just getting ready FOR a wedding reception! Ha ha. If you are seriously only having a 1.5 hour wedding reception, there isn't any time for dancing.

I for one, have been to two weddings that didn't have dancing. One was an evening wedding and we ate and mingled for maybe thirty minutes and we left. I am in the minority because I LOVE to dance and so does my family and friends. It seemed odd and most of the guests did leave but again, we are all the kind of people who love to dance and mingle and such.

The other wedding was a mid-day affair with a church reception. It was a simple ceremony and reception so we ate some cake, mingled for a bit and went out to dinner. It was a lovely time (also on the shorter side - only three hours). The bride did have games on the tables but no one used them (again, you have to know your crowd as most people are fine just chatting).

[etoilepb]

I threw a non-dancing reception. You know what it was? A big awesome party where no-one felt pressured to do a thing they hate. We had great music and people mingled and talked and made friends and ate and basically it was perfect.

(I did just catch the 1.5 hours part. Um... huh? Depending how many guests you have, it can take 90 minutes just to get them all fed. Our reception lasted just under four hours.)

[ladyringo]

I am going to play music you CAN dance to, but we're having the "ipod DJ". Though, we will have a first dance and I want to dance with my dad and we want to do the money dance (hey! free money!) but otherwise folks will dance if they want to or not.

Also, your fiance is really undershooting your reception if they expect it to be 1.5 hours. I think the shortest one I've ever been to was about 3 hours.