Current Events > I never knew there was a difference in east coast/Midwest wedding receptions.

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I never realized the difference until me and my fiancee started working on our wedding reception timeline.

Notably, I've lived in New York my whole life. Here, wedding receptions alternate between short dance sets followed by breaks for dinner, other food, events, etc... It goes back and forth the entire reception.

This is compared to the Midwest where they do a full three course meal, toasts, bouquet toss, etc, all banged out in like an hour and a half, followed by like 3 hours of "open dance floor".

I might be biased but I prefer the NY style since 3 hours of dancing without a break is a lot lol.
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Well people don't literally dance for 3 hours straight. You go out and dance to a few songs, then have a drink, talk with some friends or family you haven't seen in a while before going back to dance some more.

I think it's more open and sort of "do what you want" that way, rather than the more structured setup you're talking about. I wouldn't enjoy it as much if I felt like I HAD to dance right now because that's what's going on and it's not going to last long.
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I was just at a wedding in GA that was more like the Midwest style. The bride is from GA, and the groom is from IL. We need more data points.
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Aristoph posted...

Well people don't literally dance for 3 hours straight. You go out and dance to a few songs, then have a drink, talk with some friends or family you haven't seen in a while before going back to dance some more.

I think it's more open and sort of "do what you want" that way, rather than the more structured setup you're talking about. I wouldn't enjoy it as much if I felt like I HAD to dance right now because that's what's going on and it's not going to last long.

Fair enough, but the same argument could be made for the east coast ones as well. When there's a dance set going on, you don't HAVE to dance. Generally there's different genres of themes per set, so if it happens to be music you don't really care about, you can go sit down, mingle, talk, etc while other people do dance.
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