First Dance Songs of 2014 - John Legend

John Legend Wedding First Dance Song

“Cause all of me / Loves all of you / Love your curves and all your edges / All your perfect imperfections”

— John Legend

With the summer wedding season in full swing, we thought we share some of our favorite first dance songs we have hearing for 2014. We've created a playlist on our Youtube channel where we will be updating as we hear more favorites.

The first video we are going to share from the playlist is John Legend's 'All of Me', this a billboard top 100 song and has really taken off with brides in 2014. It has some of the most romantic lyrics in a song today, and you can see why so many couples are falling in love with this song. It's also been reported that John Legend performed his hit live at the Kim & Kanye wedding.

I don't think we have ever shared how big of fans we have been of John Legend for years. This started in about 2006 when we were working at the award winning Marriott Shoals Hotel & Spa, and the 360 Grille Restaurant in Florence, Al. 360 Grille Restaurant sits high atop a tower in Florence and rotates to give you a panoramic view of the skyline and sunset, there is nightly entertainment with a piano player / jazz combo and we would request that they play John Legend's 'Save Room' each night:)

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3 Steps to Dance Floor Rental. What size dance floor do I need?

What size dance floor do I need?

When you do wedding rentals in Mobile and Pensacola areas, you get a lot of questions regarding wedding planning. This is to be expected as most people don't normally plan elaborate events every day.

One of the first questions that we ask our clients is if they have a local wedding planner or event planner that they are already working with. While this is not a necessity it certainly helps to have a partner in this process to help you navigate the wedding and event process. Your wedding planner has established relationships with local vendors, florists, venues etc and with their expertise can usually save you money in the end. One of the areas they can help with is dance floor calculations.

If you are still with us and need a pick me up here is a little Justin Timberlake singing a wedding reception song, push play and enjoy:

Music video by Justin Timberlake Featuring Timbaland performing SexyBack (Director's Cut). (C) 2006 Zomba Recording, LLC

Would any discussion about dance floor rentals be complete without a little Justin Timberlake?

Ok on to the math, yes MATH, How much dance floor do I need for a wedding? Well to begin with, there are a few questions that you must answer:

1. How many guests are going to attend your event?
2. Where is the Dance Floor going to be located? (Indoors or Outdoors)
3. Are there any space constraints at your venue for a Dance Floor?

Once you determine how many guests are going to attend and any space constraints, calculating your dance floor size gets a lot easier. Now if your event is going to be outdoors and you want to setup the dance floor on the grass you will need to get a sub floor to help keep the dance floor level, and stable so that it doesn't sink into the grass.

Dance floor rental sections usually come in 3 x 3' sections and we lock these together  to build your dance floor. Generally speaking about 1/3 of your attendees will be on the dance floor at any given time, then multiply this number by 4.5 to get an approximate amount of dance floor rental you will need in square feet. (You could then divide this number by 9, to figure out how many dance floor rental sections you would need)

Here's the math:

1. If you expect to have 200 guests and there are no space constraints
2. To get the number of dancers it would be 200 * 33% = 66 dancers
3. 66 dancers * 4.5 sq ft = 297 sq ft needed for your rental dance floor

We have also loaded the quick dance floor calculator on our tools page here.

Please contact us if there are any further questions that we can help you solve with your dance floor or any other setup or rental questions. Please provide any feedback in our comments section below and we are social, click the links below to join the party.

Wedding Songs - First Dance - Louis Armstrong

Wedding Songs

We love all the great music that is played at weddings and really enjoy getting to see the couples personality come through in their first dance. We are creating a collection of our favorite songs on our Wedding Songs page.

We decided that we would start with one of the most popular first dance musicians of all time Mr. Louis Armstrong and 'Bout Time. Enjoy!

How can you not love these lyrics:

Lyrics

'Bout time, 'bout time we had the taste of wasted time 
Like love à deux, I wasted time alone with you 
'Bout time we two were livin' out a lovely dream come true 
'Bout you, 'bout me, 'bout love, ye-e-s-s-s 
'Bout time, 'bout time we spent good time with no one near 
To watch me while I say a little somethin' in your ear 
'Bout how I care, 'bout how I wanna make my feelin's clear 
About you, 'bout me, 'bout love 
We're in deep water, Darlin', clear over my head 
'Bout time to either sink or swim, let's swim, 'nuff said 
'Bout time, 'bout time we didn't have to always steal a kiss 
'Bout time, 'bout time I had my arms around your waste like this 
My whole life through I wanna make you feel the way I do 
'Bout you, 'bout me, 'bout love

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