Top 10 Best Wedding Dance Videos
A first wedding dance is a special, once in a lifetime moment. But a growing number of wedding couples are fed up with the awkward, dull traditional first dance. They are jumping on the latest cool and hip trend and hire dance instructors for choreographed first dances. To surprise their guests, brides and grooms are encouraged to start with a traditional slow dance, and then cutting loose into something wilder.
We’ve taken a look at a number of first wedding dances posted at YouTube and compiled the ultimate and latest top ten wedding dance video list. Check out the Top 10 chart after the jump.
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10. First Wedding Dance Austin Powers Style
Yeah Baby Yeah! Groovy! Ow be have !! This wedding couple is obviously a great fan of the “Austin Powers Trilogy” created by Mike Myers. They’re dancing on the famous Austin Powers intro tune “Soul Bossanova”.
09. Father & Daughter Wedding Dance
After her first wedding dance, this just married girl asks her dad to dance with her on a lovely song. But the two have studied a little routine on Apache by the Incredible Bongo Band. What song? Remember the Fresh Prince & Carlton dance? That would refresh your memory 
08. First Wedding Dance: California Love
These newlyweds seem to be dancing on a traditional Asian song. But the just pronounced man and wife have a little surprise for their guests: Tupac with California Love!
07. First Wedding Dance: Lose Control
As seen on ABC’s Nightline. This first wedding dance is a mix of old and new “Unforgettable” by Nat & Natalie Cole and Missy Elliott’s 2005 single “Lose Control” featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop.
06. Norm and Renee’s First Wedding Dance
Norm and Renee choreographed a little routine themselves. The two lovebirds kicked off the reception with Jack Johnson’s “Better Together”, but no one really knew what they were about to do after a couple of minutes into the Jack Johnson song …
05. Redhead at Wedding Dances to Beat It
While shooting a wedding a cute redhead performs an awesome reproduction of Michael Jackson’s Beat It in front of the camera …
04. Wedding Breakdance
This wedding couple, married on July 3 2005 in Oakland (California), was no longer satisfied with an old-school waltz. They came up with the choreography themselves and just wanted to make it a fun joke for their guests. Featured in ABC’s Good Morning America.
03. First Wedding Dance: Baby Got Back
Last week several influential sites posted or linked this video as “Best First Dance Ever”. Among them Break, Jokeroo, Digg, AOL Videoblog, Glumbert, YouTube. Combining total views of Break, YouTube and Glumbert the video is viewed at least 3.3 million times. The first dance of this bride and groom seems to be on Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. But a bit later another explicit song takes over …
02. Wedding Thriller Dance
With over 4 million YouTube views “Wedding Thriller Dance” is one of the most popular wedding dances ever! The video, where an entire wedding party does the famous Thriller dance was featured in Good Morning America earlier this year.
01. Julia and James First Dance: Dirty Dancing
Recently a London based film director and his American wife got the surprise of their lives, when talkshow queen Oprah invited them at The Oprah Winfrey Show, YouTube edition. James and Julia Derbyshire, whose Dirty Dancing wedding video became a huge YouTube hit, had the honor to meet Patrick Swayze.
“The Hollywood star has refused to give interviews about Dirty Dancing for nearly two decades, but he was so touched by the couple’s video that he agreed to Oprah’s request. The wedding video has been watched by more than 3 million people online and various TV stations around the world have invited the dance couple since.” writes This is Local London.
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The newleyweds dancing Baby Got Back were on The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week. NBC San Diego has the story (video). The couple Michelle and John Brubaker reprises their hit wedding dance on NBC’s ‘Today’ show.
July 1, 2010, 22:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUZrnE1LFW4
May 20, 2011, 21:04
This definately deserves to be on the top of the list, it’s like a little prodigy dance kid at a wedding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0jNxos9YEE
December 7, 2011, 22:02
http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=x7F_tClUdwI
That is sooo sweet! I got chills just watching! We have captured (videotaped) amazing footage of our couples during their first dance!! It’s wonderful to watch.
http://www.capturedmomentvideo.com
Wonderful dances and thanks for sharing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxNy6h2xdA
das so funny & awesome,some pics brought me back to my big day,countless moments stay 4ever!Thanks for sharing! you help alot here!
Great post – these wedding dances make me so happy! There are more at http://www.bestweddingdancevideos.com including versions of the jk wedding entrance dance.
Those are great wedding dance videos. The first wedding dance has become a major trend. you can see the Best Wedding Dance Videos on the following website: http://www.bestweddingdances.com/
Hey great videos man!!!They might have really added the spice to the wedding..
And here is one from switzerland, enjoy it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Zbmih1yEw
June 14, 2010, 01:43
This dance is very good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN8PseTeU-U
Great videos! I bet it must be fun to watch them over time.
June 29, 2010, 04:03
G’day guys,
Check out our wedding dance! We had so much fun and in the end very little time to put it together! You can see it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZVw1g0Jsms
I hope you enjoy it as much as we had doing it on the night! Let us know what you think!
Peace
Pat
July 1, 2010, 21:11
this one is very cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUZrnE1LFW4
July 1, 2010, 22:13
a nod to all the cultures dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUZrnE1LFW4
July 30, 2010, 22:47
Changing of plans….. This one was THE BEST for me!!! This guy can dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6252HKBlxo&feature=related
November 30, 2010, 03:51
Seriously?? Black folks have been doing ignorant s*** like this for at elast a DECADE! As soon as white folk start doing it it because a popular fad. That’s not typical of American cultural theft at all….
These dances are great fun and thank for posting -some of these shots of course could have been done more professionally! As a a href=http://lifevideoproductions.co.uk.html>Professional Wedding Vidographer of course I would say that! For Adviceabout vidographers for weddings, check out my submissions!
Some good dances, seen most of them before. Thanks for sharing!
August 9, 2011, 16:16
Grooms wedding dance surprise Enjoy
Always great fun to mix a special wedding dance for bride and groom. I still get goosebumps when I watch the british couple doing the dirty dancing final moviescene!
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pretty cool video
December 21, 2011, 09:31
asian wedding?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gTSbP9pboM&feature=youtu.be
Wedding dance is the upmost number one thing you will do for the rest of your lives.
Always great fun to mix a special wedding dance for bride and groom. I still get goosebumps when I watch the british couple doing the dirty dancing final moviescene!
Haha, interesting ideas for the wedding dance!
Looks like a lot of fun! Haha!
a new wedding video taken in Japan 2012
i love this awesome swing wedding dance, with surprise flash mob! Very cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TwqBr8uC4U