Set your tongue deep in your cheek before settling on tuneage. Music that is at once nostalgic and ironic is at once sentimental and fun. The classics will make mom weep, but those other classics will have dad head-bobbing.

Choreographed first dances are the new first dances, as confirmed by YouTube. No one should be embarrassed to bumble across a disco-lit floor, but this is a great surrogate for the ungainly. Your obviously awesome sense of humor will surely overshadow any coordination follies.

Pick something unexpected (like a not-actually impromptu hip-hop number) but ultimately recognizable.

Or, you can always first group dance. Whether synchronized or not, demand that your wedding party join in on the sock hop. If you’re not sweating it out in the spotlight alone, all dance floor shame shall fade.

As the magnum opus of photo-ops, it is the first whathaveyou’s duty to reflect your primo coupledom.

Therefore, if you’ve never been the boogying types, don’t psyche yourselves into a personality shift now. Though, you will have to forgo the naughty pleasure that is playing hooky on the ballroom lessons your mom paid for, but so be it.

Skipping ‘firsts’ altogether is another way to go, just so long as you promise to keep restless hearts in mind. Either organize non-dance activities to blow dancing out of the water, like a midnight movie screening of Some Like It Hot, or perform hosting duties at an un-danceable venue.