How to Dance the First Wedding Dance

Female Speaker: I teach couples their first dance so that they feel so they are not going round and round in circles on their big moment on their wedding day. Alright Aarti, if I could have you here please and Stephen if you can face Aarti. That's it. Now what you are going to do is if you are going to hold hands with his hands Aarti if you can put your hand on top let's say like that and then if you are going to put that hand on Stephen's shoulder and then just around her waist Stephen that's it, and come little bit closer. Then I am going to be teaching Stephen and Aarti just a little secrets of steps to help them get through their first start and obviously to make them feel relaxed and feel a little bit more confident as well. So that they are going to hopefully enjoy themselves. Stephen Daltry: We guys are getting married and we have got this Indian buffet and sitar players and tabla players and got some jazz musicians who are friends of mine -- Aarti Mirwani: You were to the music I walk into. Stephen Daltry: I was in the music for the bridal entrance. We had wanted to have a dance for the wedding to dance together and we had been along to a sort of a tea dance in Spital Fields about a month ago I mean the average age seem to be about 94. But we did want to have some dance lessons. Female Speaker: Now just to get started on the foot nearest to me, we are just going to rock side to side. So we are going to sway side to side like that. Side and side and just little steps. Stephen Daltry: As supposed to Aarti' my experience for dance is minimal, shall we say; underline minimal. Aarti Mirwani: Secretly as a little girl as well you want something that you are going to go and beautiful and this is -- it is just a mark of who I am, me moving around and dancing. Female Speaker: So stepping on the leg nearest me for the rhythm we are going to slow, slow, quick, quick, slow. Slow and slow and quick, quick, slow. I would imagine that they are going to be a little bit nervous actually dancing together and how they are going to relate to each other when they are dancing. I think Aarti has had a little bit of dance experience before and Stephen hasn't. So just to make them feel more confident dancing together, so I would imagine just a little bit apprehensive of how they are going to pick up the steps and work together in doing that. Right five, six, seven and slow, slow movement, quick, quick, slow. Slow, slow and quick, quick, slow. I will tell you what is happening -- Aarti Mirwani: I think a partnership dance is really quite similar to a marriage because in the marriage you know the husband is sort of I feel leads the dance and the wife follows is the way I see it and in the partnership dancing usually that's what it is like and that I think it is very beautiful and symbolic of what we will be like as a couple as well. Female Speaker: Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow. Slow -- that was a fault okay what you are doing is an extra step which we don't need in there. Female Speaker: The best part of advice I can give is really just to try and enjoy the lesson. You got to have a bit of fun with it and to relax. So we have come to then end of the lesson now. So how did you feel it went? Aarti Mirwani: I just feel like -- I hope I am following Stephen when he is doing the steps and I am swaying well with -- and how I look. Stephen Daltry: Certainly I am not sure about how I am leading in that -- I feel happy the last time. I feel -- I was going to -- Female Speaker: They really have to spend time in between the lessons practicing. I know it is really difficult you get home from work and the last thing you want to do is get up and practice your dance routine. But if they just spend a little bit of time in between the classes they will feel so much better on the day and then they can relax a little bit more and just go out there and enjoy.