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Christina Miller suggests calling in the professionals ahead of your first dance to ensure composure on the day
ask the experts “First dance lessons are now recognised as an essential part of our ‘Big Day’ preparations.With as little as three lessons you can be feeling confident and looking fabulous together on the dance floor. Knowing that you prepared, will leave you to enjoy this very special and much deserved moment together.” FELICITY DRIVER, LEARN 2 WEDDING DANCE “Many couples fear their first dance will look like a pair of penguins waddling around the dance floor! To eliminate this problem, Deesdancing (est. 1966), offer affordable personal tuition for dancing confidently and comfortably to a style which suits the couple’s chosen first dance chosen music, plus advice on various aspects of the first dance.” ALAN AND DEREK AT DEES DANCING
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don’t know about you, but I’ve always wanted that “No one puts Baby in a corner.” moment. The thing is, I expect my other half to simply lift me, light as a feather, above his head (no staggering, no straining, just elegance, ease and poise) but who am I kidding? Even Baby had dance lessons! Dirty Dancing isn’t the only reason why learning to dance is a tempting thought: Strictly Come Dancing has made dancing cool again, showing us a celebrity’s progress as they learn to dance with a professional, from a simple Waltz to a sizzling Samba. Regardless of who is dancing, if it gets our toes tapping then we want to join in and what better opportunity is there to dance like a pro than at your own wedding? Your first dance is the perfect excuse to practice
with a professional teacher and it’s also a brilliant way of keeping fit on the run up to the day. More importantly, it means you’ll feel more confident when you step on to the dance floor. Knowing that all eyes will be on them the minute they take to the floor for the first dance, lots of couples invest in dance lessons before their wedding in a bid to impress their guests or as an insurance measure to take the pressure off - those four minutes as twirling newlyweds could seem like four hours if you were unprepared! Whether you have two left feet or a pair of tango shoes to rival Flavia Cacace’s, a few dance lessons will boost your confidence, letting you focus on enjoying your day without worrying about the risk of tripping over your new spouse’s feet!
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Cakes
GET CRAFTY It’s not just what’s on the inside that counts. Many couples want their cakes to wow their guests in appearance too. But you’d be surprised at how long the little touches that make a wedding cake special, like sugar craft decorations, can take to put together. A delicate sugar craft rose can take over an hour to make so sugar craft models are usually created over several days or sometimes even weeks!” Truly Scrumptious Designer Cakes in Linlithgow made Fiona and Niall Michie’s amazing wedding cake
A delicate sugarcraft rose can take over an hour to make to match the bottom of Fiona’s reception dress. “The cake looked like feathers, just like my wedding gown. I saw it at a wedding show and knew I had to have it,” recalls Fiona, who got married on 13th July at Dunfermline Abbey then Balbirnie House Hotel in Fife. Emily McGregor says that cakes decorated in a way that mean something to the couple are increasingly popular. “Cakes in the shape of children or beloved pets are fun to make!”
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The days of just traditional fruit cake seem to be long gone and couples are experimenting with new and exciting flavours for their sponge and fillings. Lisa Dornan and David Sheerin went all out on their five tier creation from Liggy’s Cakes in Edinburgh. “We’re foodies so we decided to have slightly more unusual flavours in our cake,” says Lisa, who married her groom David on 13th July this year at Glenbervie House Hotel in Falkirk. “We had four flavours in total: traditional fruit, chocolate with morello cherry jam, lemon with rose water jelly and vanilla with coconut cream. Many of our guests were keen to try more than one flavour!” And it would appear that couples are being much more adventurous with flavours and, even if they
thought they were going to play it safe, after a tasting they usually opt for something a little more interesting. “We’ve even made a chocolate chilli cake with the remit not to go lightly with the chilli! It did taste amazing though – anything is possible,” says Mandi of Rainbow Sugarcraft. If you’d like to go for out-of-the-ordinary flavours then you could even make sure you have a plainer cake block for cutting, like Lorraine and Steven Muldoon did at their July wedding at The Chartroom, Kip Marina. They had a topsy turvy three tier creation with flavours like chocolate mint and chocolate peanut butter. “Our cake maker advised us to get a
cutting block of vanilla sponge, just incase people didn’t want to try new flavours. At the end of the night there was hardly any cake left at all – our guests loved it!”
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