Setting the Stage: How to Choose the Best Song to Open Your Wedding Dance Floor

The speeches are over, the cake has been cut, and the final chords of the couple’s first dance are fading into the room. This is the pivotal micro-moment of any wedding reception: the opening of the dance floor.

Get it right, and a tidal wave of guests will flood the room, keeping the momentum high for the rest of the night. Get it wrong, and you run the risk of an awkward, half-empty room where everyone stands around waiting for someone else to make the first move.