I bet that you’d look good on the dance floor!
Wedding dance floor photography
Wedding evening parties are just the best nights, all of your favourite people letting loose and celebrating with you. Often you’ll have extra guests for this part of the day that were not at the reception earlier, friends you may not have seen for years that have travelled miles to party with you. When you look back at your wedding photographs you want to see these people’s faces and you want to relive the excitement and joy while been able to feel the atmosphere of the night.
Dance floors are exciting, colourful, full of energy and movement. This is exactly what your photographs should be too, you want the photographs to make you feel how you did on the night.
There are lots of ways for photographers to approach this part of the day but the first step is to actually be there, included coverage varies from one photographer to the next but it is common for coverage to end as soon as you have done your first dance. Rachel and I love to hang around longer so that we are there for the party and have coverage of all of your guests letting their hair down!
By this point of the day most of your guests will be familiar with us, we’ll have spent much of the day with you all and you’ll be happy to welcome us onto the dance floor with you. By been in the action with you all, we are able to get photographs that are full of life and in the moment. The moves, the laughs, the spilt drinks, all of it!
Our lighting freezes the action but we control it in a way that keeps the atmosphere of your room, the last thing you want is to look like you were dancing with the lights on!
It is possible to photograph the dance floor from the edge of the room with a long lens but for us this results in photographs that lack the raw emotion and feeling of this part of the day. By been in the action we capture moments that simply would not be possible if we were stood further away.
We can’t really go on record saying we have a favourite part of a wedding day, genuinely we love every part of the day, but we do love a good party! We love seeing people that have been on their best behaviour all day let loose and make some shapes.
Best dance floor wedding songs
We’ve been to some incredible evening parties this year and had the time of our lives on the dance floor. It has got us debating recently what our ultimate wedding floor fillers would be, neither of us are DJs but if we ever had to step into that role for the night we have listed our top 5 songs to get people moving. We couldn’t agree so have made a list each…
Christopher’s top 5 wedding dance floor fillers…
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Probably my most guilty pleasure, such a feel good song that tells people exactly what to do. Get this one on early in the night, one for all ages to dance along to!
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Rachel and I were lucky enough to see Kings of Leon recently, one of our favourite bands of all time. It never gets old to see people on the dance floor with arms around each other singing along to this iconic chorus!
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A slow starter that everyone recognises, once the chorus kicks in this one always has people bouncing. “go out and smash it”
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We’ve seen empty dance floors become packed thanks to this gem! One that gets all generations up dancing together, the change in tempo throughout the song is brilliant fun too, slowing right down and then ramping up again for the big finish.
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I had to include this, I don’t think there is an official dance to this but it seems to always have people throwing the same moves with arms in the air jumping up and down. There are a few big moments in this one that always deliver awesome pictures too, always love the big woo!
Rachel’s top 5 wedding dance floor fillers…
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One of Queen’s greatest hits! Everybody loves the tempo of this song, it’s great for strutting lots of cool moves and fun to sing along to at the same time. Unleash your inner Freddie Mercury!
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This song is great for letting your hair down, it reminds me of Cameron Diaz in one of my favourite movies, “The Holiday.” I love the energy in this one and it’s always great later in the evening.
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I have to say this is my absolute favourite, when I hear this song it just makes me want to move… I literally can’t stand still. We have witnessed a couple of serious dance offs to this song at weddings!
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Grab somebody and get yourselves on the dance floor, this is such a feel good song.
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This song begins “nice and easy” but those that know, know that this one ends BIG!
We are a husband and wife team of wedding photographers in Hull with a love of storytelling through images. If you are planning your own wedding day and like our style it would be great to have an informal chat to hear your story so far, your plans, and see if we’re a good fit for you.
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