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Wedding Dance Lessons in Southlake

The whole room is watching. Let them.

Custom first dance choreography at Dance With Me Southlake in Southlake Town Square. Most couples need a handful of private lessons. Tell us where the reception is — a hotel ballroom off 114, a country club in Westlake, a resort ballroom in Grapevine — and we build the routine for that room, that floor and that dress.

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No experience needed Any song, any tempo Weeknight lessons until 9:30
First Dance· Father-Daughter· Country Two-Step· Wedding Party· Crash Course
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01 The Southlake Wedding Hotel ballrooms, country clubs and Grapevine resorts. Southlake receptions are formal, full, and watched from every side of the floor.

A Big Room, and Every Seat Faces You

The reception is in a hotel ballroom off 114, on a country-club terrace in Westlake or Colleyville, or in a resort ballroom a few minutes away in Grapevine. The tables run all the way round the floor, the uplighting is on, and there's a videographer in one corner and a photographer in the other. It is going to look spectacular.

It also means the first dance is performed in the round, in front of the biggest crowd most couples will ever dance for. Ninety seconds, everyone watching, phones up — and a lot of those guests have been to enough North Texas weddings to know what a rehearsed first dance looks like. Here is what actually goes wrong.

a

The high-school sway

Arms locked, weight shifting foot to foot, quarter-turn every eight counts. On a ballroom floor sized for two hundred guests it looks even smaller than it is — and it looks worst in the video, which is the version that lasts.

b

The room has no front

Most couples rehearse facing a mirror, which quietly teaches them to dance for one wall. A ballroom reception is surrounded. Half your guests get your backs for the whole song unless the routine is built to open up to every side — and to the two cameras.

c

The dress changes the dance

A ballgown skirt hides your feet and eats the space between you. A train wraps round your ankles on the first turn. A bustle that held up at the fitting comes loose on the dip. None of that shows up until you rehearse in the real thing — so we do.

d

Half the family lands at DFW two days before

The father-daughter dance belongs to someone who lives in another state and flies in on the Thursday. The mother-son dance hasn't been discussed at all. Both happen in front of the same room as your first dance, with a fraction of the rehearsal.

e

Then the night turns country

This is still North Texas. Somewhere after the toasts the floor fills with guests two-stepping who have clearly done it before, and a line dance nobody announced. If the first dance is the only thing you learned, that's where you sit down.

A bride and groom facing each other at the start of their first dance while guests watch from the tables around the floor Ninety seconds
02 How We Teach Around 90% of the couples who book a wedding program with us have never taken a dance lesson.

How wedding dance lessons work at Dance With Me Southlake.

Nothing about our first dance lessons in Southlake assumes you can dance. We build the routine to fit what your body already does well and quietly work on the rest, so the finished thing looks like you two, on a good day — not like two people executing someone else's choreography.

There's a side effect most couples don't expect. An evening a week where the two of you put the phones down, learn something together and laugh at each other turns out to be the calmest hour of the whole planning process — and with dinner on the Square afterwards, a lot of couples tell us it became their date night and stayed one after the wedding.

Works with Any Song

Country, soul, R&B, a standard or a remix — even a flash-mob surprise.

Zero Experience Needed

We specialize in couples who have never danced together.

Rehearsed in Your Dress

Bring the gown and the shoes — we choreograph around the train and the bustle.

Built for Your Actual Room

Tell us the venue and the layout. We choreograph for a floor with guests on every side.

Get a Custom Program Plan
An instructor guiding a couple through a first dance routine in a private wedding dance lesson Private lessons
03 Programs Every program starts with the same $49 intro lesson. You decide what happens next in that lesson, not before it.

Five Ways Onto the Floor

01 A couple finishing their choreographed first dance with a dip at a wedding reception

First Dance Choreography for Couples

The core program. Built to your recording, count by count — from simple, elegant movement that keeps you off the sway, up to a full routine with spins and a picture-perfect close. We teach lead-and-follow first, so the two of you are actually connected rather than both counting in your heads — and we stage it for a floor with guests on every side, so nobody spends the song looking at your backs.

Custom RoutineAny SongStaged in the Round Start here 02 A father and daughter dancing together at a wedding reception after private lessons

Father-Daughter and Mother-Son Dances

Usually the moment that makes the room cry, and usually the person with the least dance experience in the building. We keep these warm and simple: an easy pattern, a comfortable hold, a graceful way to finish. Parents flying into DFW a couple of days before is normal — a single weekday lesson the afternoon they land is enough to take the fear out of it.

Parent DancesOne Lesson WorksAll Ages Start here 03 A couple dancing the Texas country two-step together during a dance lesson

Reception Dances: Country Two-Step, Line Dancing and Latin

The answer to what happens after the first dance. Even at a black-tie reception in Southlake, the floor tends to turn country somewhere after the toasts, and the guests already out there have been two-stepping since high school. A few sessions on the two-step, country swing, a line dance and some salsa or bachata means you're dancing through the part of the night your guests will actually remember — instead of watching it.

Two-StepCountry SwingLine DancingSalsa & Bachata Start here 04 A group of students learning a choreographed routine together in a Dance With Me class

Wedding Party and Group Routines

Groomsmen, bridesmaids, both families, or the whole room. We build crowd-pleasing routines that work when half the group has never rehearsed anything — including the surprise reveal that starts as a normal first dance and turns into something else entirely. Weekday evening rehearsals mean the bridal party can come straight from work.

Bridal PartyFlash MobSurprise Reveal Start here 05 A couple rehearsing an express wedding dance routine weeks before their wedding

Last-Minute Wedding Dance Crash Course

Getting married in three weeks. Or nine days. It happens, and it is not a problem. We strip out everything complicated and drill four things until they're automatic: a clean entrance, a hold that holds, one turn that looks better than it is, and a finish. We teach weekdays from noon to 9:30, so we'll stack the lessons across the days before you fly in or the evenings after work.

3 Weeks or LessBack-to-Back LessonsOut-of-Town Friendly Start here
04 The Short Answer

What Is the Best Dance to Learn for a Wedding?

There isn't one — the best dance is whichever style matches your song. Couples usually arrive expecting to pick a dance and then find a song to fit it. It works the other way round. The track you have already chosen has a time signature, a tempo and a feel, and those three things narrow the answer to one or two styles before anyone sets foot on the floor.

Matching a song to a first dance style
If your song is…The dance is
A current pop or R&B ballad that fits none of the others Nightclub Two-Step
Country with a shuffle to it — George Strait, Cody Johnson, Parker McCollum Country Two-Step
A slow 4/4 ballad, especially on a small rented floor Rumba
A slow, swinging standard — Sinatra, Bublé, Nat King Cole Foxtrot
Anything that counts in threes rather than fours Waltz
Latin, or modern R&B with a Latin lean Bachata

Country two-step is on that list, which it would not be in most cities. This close to Fort Worth, a country first dance is a genuine request rather than a novelty, and the two-step is a real first-dance answer here — not only a reception dance.

Three things shift the answer after the music. Your room — foxtrot, waltz and the country two-step all travel, and a hotel or country-club ballroom gives them the space to look their best; on a small rented floor under a tent or in a backyard, rumba or nightclub two-step will look better because they stay in one place. Your dress — a full ballgown skirt favours the smooth, travelling styles and fights anything with fast footwork close together. And your timeline — with three weeks rather than three months, the styles that look good soonest are bachata and nightclub two-step.

You don't have to work this out yourself. Bring the song to your $49 intro lesson, your instructor listens to it once, and you'll leave knowing which style it is and roughly how the routine will be shaped. Section 05 below has the detail on all six.

05 Choosing a Style Not sure which is yours? The song table in section 04 answers it in one line.

Your Song Picks the Style. Here Are the Six.

Almost every first dance we choreograph in Southlake is one of these six — and which one is yours is decided by your song, not by your taste. Here's how they differ, and what kind of room each one wants.

01

Nightclub Two-Step

Best for · the modern pop or R&B ballad your song probably is

The least famous style here and the one most couples end up dancing. It was invented for exactly this problem: contemporary ballads that are too slow to swing, not in three for a waltz, and without enough Latin feel for a rumba. It stays largely on one spot, so it works on any floor — and because it rotates gently, it naturally shows you to every side of a room that's watching from all four. If your song is a current radio ballad, this is very likely the answer.

02

Country Two-Step

Best for · a country track with a shuffle — and for the rest of the night

Quick-quick-slow-slow, travelling counterclockwise around the floor, and the one dance on this list a lot of your guests already know. It earns its place twice in North Texas: a country first dance is a genuine request here, and learning it means you're still using it two hours later when the DJ goes country. It travels, which is exactly what a big ballroom floor is for — the line of dance carries you past every table in the room.

03

Rumba

Best for · slow 4/4 ballads, R&B slow jams, and small floors

Latin, unhurried, and danced close together largely on one spot. That makes it the answer when the reception is at home, under a tent, or anywhere the dance floor is a few rented squares between the tables: rumba looks intimate rather than cramped in a small space. It's also the fastest way to make a slow song feel like choreography instead of swaying.

04

Foxtrot

Best for · slow big-band and crooner standards, and black-tie rooms

Smooth, travelling and unmistakably classic — the style behind most black-tie first dances, and the natural fit for a hotel or country-club ballroom. It moves around the floor rather than staying put, which photographs beautifully and flatters a full ballgown skirt. Expect a little more work on frame and timing than the styles above.

05

Waltz

Best for · songs that count in threes

If your song sways in sets of three rather than four — think Moon River, or Ed Sheeran's Perfect — it's almost certainly a waltz. The rise and fall gives it the sweeping, storybook quality couples picture when they imagine a first dance. Rotational, so like foxtrot it wants floor: at its best in a ballroom, tight on a small rented floor.

06

Bachata

Best for · Latin and modern R&B-flavoured tracks, and short timelines

Dominican in origin, built on a simple side-to-side pattern with a hip lift on the fourth beat, danced in a close hold. It's the quickest of these six to get looking good, which is why it turns up so often when a couple has three weeks rather than three months. It stays put, so any floor size works — and it carries into the reception the moment the playlist turns Latin.

Line dancing and country swing aren't on this list because they're almost never a first dance — but at a North Texas reception they are very often the second and third. Those are covered by our reception dance program rather than here.

06 When to Start

When to Start — One Weeknight at a Time

Southlake receptions are booked a long way out, so most couples here have plenty of runway — the trick is using it. Two to three months out, one evening a week, is the sweet spot. Here's what each window actually buys you.

01

4–6 months out · The foundation

The unhurried version. We design the choreography, lock the song and build movement habits so early that the steps stop being steps. Nothing about the wedding week involves remembering anything. If you're planning a mashup, a routine with lifts or a surprise with the wedding party, this is the window you want.

02

2–3 months out · The sweet spot

Where most couples land, and where the program works best. One weeknight lesson a week is enough to learn a full routine, refine posture and transitions, and build the stamina to look effortless from the first note to the last — without the lessons competing with everything else on your list. Also enough time to add the two-step for the reception.

03

1 month out · Polish and presence

Entrance, exit, and the final dip. This is where we rehearse in the shoes and the gown, work out what the train and the bustle do on a turn, and stage the routine for a room with guests on every side. Your last lesson is the Thursday or Friday before the wedding — we're closed at weekends, which is fine: nobody should be learning anything on the day.

04

Three weeks or less · The crash course

Compressed, and it works. We cut anything intricate and drill a small number of clean, high-impact movements until they're automatic. We teach from noon to 9:30 on weekdays, so two or three lessons can go into a single week. Flying in? Send the song ahead and we'll have it mapped before you land at DFW.

How Many Lessons Will We Need?

Most Southlake couples land between four and eight private lessons. Your instructor will give you a real number at the intro lesson, once they've seen you move and heard the song.

1–3 Express prep

Posture, timing, a comfortable hold, a simple pattern and a clean final dip. Enough to look composed and intentional. The right choice if time is the constraint.

4–8 A tailored routine

A full routine choreographed to your specific recording, with polished transitions, spins, personal styling, and practice in the dress and the shoes. Where most couples end up.

10+ Showstopper

Multi-song mashups, custom music edits, lifts and advanced spins. For couples who want the first dance to be the thing people talk about on the drive home.

07 Your Instructors Certifications across the network include the National Dance Council of America, the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and DVIDA.

Meet Your Southlake Instructors

A wedding program lives or dies on whether the person teaching it can explain a movement to someone who has never done it. Technical credentials matter, but the reason couples ask for these instructors by name is that they’re unusually good at making nervous people comfortable in the first ten minutes.

Brandon Wisner, studio owner and coach at Dance With Me Southlake in Southlake Town Square

Brandon Wisner

Studio Owner & Coach · Wedding Programs

  • Top Teacher ×6
  • So You Think You Can Dance
  • Ballroom
  • Choreography
2007Teaching ballroom
professionally
6Years ranked
Top Teacher
19Age he started
formal training

Runs the Southlake studio and teaches its wedding couples. One bride, a dancer for fifteen years, brought a husband who had never danced a day in his life — her review says Brandon walked him through it so well “you would have never known.”

Read Brandon’s full profile

Where he comes from

Brandon grew up in rural Mississippi, where dancing was not exactly a popular career field. He became known for mimicking Michael Jackson, James Brown and Usher — often to the disruption of his classes — and taught himself hip hop in high school.

Ballroom

He didn’t begin formal training until nineteen, when he joined a Baton Rouge ballroom studio looking for ways to bring other styles into his hip hop. He fell for the technique instead, and the studio soon recruited him as a full-time instructor.

Teaching and competition

Brandon has taught ballroom professionally since 2007 and has choreographed and performed countless routines. He was nationally ranked as a Top Teacher six years running and competed on a season of So You Think You Can Dance. He now manages the Southlake studio and coaches its competitive dancers.

On wedding couples

His bio credits him with a “life of the party” attitude — which is most of what a nervous couple needs in the first ten minutes of an intro lesson.

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Arianna N. Jordan, community manager and dance instructor at Dance With Me Southlake in Southlake Town Square

Arianna N. Jordan

Community Manager & Dance Instructor

  • Community Manager
  • Dance Instructor

Arianna is the Southlake studio’s Community Manager and one of its dance instructors. Ask for her by name when you book your $49 intro lesson.

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Marcelis Alexander, dance instructor at Dance With Me Southlake in Southlake Town Square

Marcelis Alexander

Dance Instructor

  • Dance Instructor

Marcelis teaches at our Southlake Town Square studio. Ask for him by name when you book your $49 intro lesson, or let us match you with the instructor whose style suits the two of you.

Book with Marcelis
Nicole Duque, dance instructor at Dance With Me Southlake in Southlake Town Square

Nicole Duque

Dance Instructor

  • Dance Instructor

Nicole teaches at our Southlake Town Square studio. One student’s Google review puts it simply: “Nicole is my dance teacher - she is awesome!” Ask for her by name when you book your intro lesson.

Book with Nicole

Full bios and the group class schedule are on the Dance With Me Southlake studio page.

08Why Us

Why Southlake Couples Choose Dance With Me.

Founded on a World-Class Ballroom Standard

Dance With Me was founded by Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy. Your instructor is coached to that standard — and then points it at one thing: feeling confident for three minutes on your wedding day, not competition drills.

A Studio Run by a Top Teacher

The Southlake studio is run by Brandon Wisner, teaching ballroom professionally since 2007 and nationally ranked as a Top Teacher six years running. The team is selected for teaching ability, not only performance credits — around 90% of our wedding couples have never taken a formal lesson.

Right on Southlake Town Square

Train on a full ballroom floor at our Grand Avenue studio, with free parking across the Square and lessons until 9:30 on weeknights. Come straight from work, dance for an hour, and walk to dinner — then tell us about the ballroom you're actually rehearsing for.

09 Watch

What It Looks Like When It Works

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Dance With Me · First Dance Choreographed to the couple's own song
10 Reviews 4.9★ on Google. Every review below is public on the Dance With Me Southlake profile.

Why Couples Love Us

★★★★★
“Me and my fiancée enjoyed our classes and Olena choreographed a wonderful dance for our wedding. The service was well worth it. We will always remember our first dance fondly.”
Russell ClingenpeelWedding choreography · Google review
★★★★★
“My fiancé and I took dance lessons for our upcoming wedding and we couldn’t be happier with our experience! Olena is so wonderful to work with. She is patient and kind…”
Casey DillWedding dance lessons · Google review
★★★★★
“…my husband has never danced a day in his life and Brandon walked him through it and you would have never known… Our guests were so impressed and entertained by our dance.”
Breelan ChorubyFirst dance with Brandon · Google review

Read all of them on the Dance With Me Southlake Google profile.

11 Pricing Nothing is quoted before you have met your instructor and danced to your own song.

How Much Do Wedding Dance Lessons Cost in Southlake?

What the $49 buys you

A full private lesson for the two of you at our Southlake Town Square studio — plus a group class or an invitation to our next social dance party. Not a fifteen-minute tour, not a sales meeting with music playing underneath it. You dance, to your own track, with the instructor who would be teaching you.

Driving in from Keller, Trophy Club or Flower Mound? Book it for an evening — we teach from noon until 9:30 on weekdays, which is late enough to come after work without rushing.

Both of you, one instructor

Floor time from the first minute. The group class or social party comes on top — it doesn't replace the private lesson.

Bring the actual recording

Style, tempo and the shape of the routine all come out of your track. Bring two or three if you're still deciding.

A real number, after the lesson

Your instructor prices a program once they've seen you move and heard the song — never before.

$49 is the whole commitment

Some couples take the intro and stop there. That's a normal outcome and nobody chases you about it.

An instructor teaching a couple during a private wedding dance lesson Your first lesson
Start with the $49 intro Talk it through — (817) 251-1444
12 Questions Something not covered? Call (817) 251-1444 — the studio answers until 9:30 on weekdays.

Southlake Wedding Dance Questions

Two to three months before the wedding is the sweet spot. That is enough time to build muscle memory with one weeknight lesson a week, without the lessons competing with the rest of your planning. Our studio teaches Monday through Friday, so plan your final lesson for the Thursday or Friday before the wedding — and if you are already inside three weeks, we run an express crash course instead.

It changes it more than most couples expect. A routine rehearsed facing one mirror quietly plays to one wall, and in a hotel or country-club ballroom half your guests would spend the song looking at your backs. We stage the routine in the round, so it opens up to each side of the room in turn, and we build it around where the photographer and videographer will be standing. Tell us the venue at the intro lesson and bring a floor plan if you have one.

Yes, and it happens all the time here. A father-daughter or mother-son dance needs far less than a first dance: an easy pattern, a comfortable hold and a graceful finish. One weekday lesson the day they arrive is usually enough, and the studio is a short drive from DFW Airport. Send us the song beforehand so the instructor has the dance mapped before they walk in, and film the final run-through so they can practise at the hotel.

Around five private lessons is where most Southlake couples land. Three covers posture, timing, a comfortable hold and a clean finish, which is the usual choice inside three weeks. Five lets your instructor choreograph a full routine to your song, with a real entrance, polished transitions and practice in the shoes. Eight or more suits a multi-song mashup, a custom music edit, or lifts and a second routine on top of your own.

You start with a $49 intro at our Southlake Town Square studio, which includes a private lesson plus a group class or an invitation to our next social dance party. After that your instructor prices a package around your song, your timeline and how much choreography you want, so a three-lesson program and a ten-lesson performance routine are not quoted the same way. There is no obligation beyond the intro.

That is exactly who this is built for. Around 90% of the couples who book a wedding program with us have never taken a formal dance lesson. We break every movement into simple, repeatable pieces, and we build the routine to your ability rather than making you rise to a routine.

Yes. A George Strait two-step, a Texas country waltz, a Sinatra standard, a current pop ballad, a bachata or a mashup that starts slow and drops into something upbeat — we choreograph to the structure and emotion of your specific recording. Bring it to your intro lesson and we will map it out. If you are still choosing, our instructors will help you judge tempo and danceability before you commit.

We do, and in North Texas it is one of the most useful things you can learn. Even a black-tie reception tends to turn country somewhere after the toasts, and a lot of your guests will already know the two-step. We teach the country two-step, country swing, a simple country waltz, line dancing, and salsa and bachata for when the playlist goes Latin — so you and your wedding party can stay on the floor all night instead of sitting it out.

Comfortable clothes and shoes with smooth or leather soles so you can turn. Cowboy boots are ideal for two-step work and plenty of North Texas grooms dance in them, so bring the pair you actually plan to wear. Brides should bring their wedding shoes to the final lesson, and a practice skirt if the gown has a train or a full ballgown skirt. Avoid rubber-soled sneakers and flip-flops, which grip the floor too much.

Dance With Me Southlake is at 290 Grand Avenue, Southlake, TX 76092, in Southlake Town Square. We are open Monday through Friday from 12pm to 9:30pm, and closed on Saturday and Sunday. Parking is free throughout the Square; the East Garage at 1451 Federal Way is the closest covered option. We are about 10 to 15 minutes from Colleyville, Keller, Trophy Club, Westlake, Grapevine and Roanoke, and 20 minutes from Flower Mound and North Richland Hills. Call (817) 251-1444.

13 Visit Free parking throughout Southlake Town Square — and we teach until 9:30 on weeknights, so you can come after work.

Visit Our Southlake Town Square Studio

Dance With Me Southlake is on Grand Avenue in Southlake Town Square, the open-air town center off Southlake Boulevard — a full ballroom floor a short walk from the restaurants, which is why a lot of couples turn the lesson into dinner afterwards.

For Colleyville, Keller, Trophy Club, Westlake, Grapevine and Roanoke it's the close studio, ten to fifteen minutes away. Flower Mound and North Richland Hills are about twenty. And if your reception is at a hotel or resort near DFW Airport, this is where you rehearse for it.

Address

290 Grand Avenue
Southlake, TX 76092

Phone

(817) 251-1444

Hours

Monday – Friday · 12 PM – 9:30 PM
Saturday · Closed
Sunday · Closed

Parking

Free throughout the Square. The East Garage at 1451 Federal Way is the closest covered option; street parking on Grand Avenue opens up in the evenings.

Getting here

Just off State Highway 114 and Southlake Boulevard. Running late? Call — we'd rather hold your place than have you rush across 114.

Nearby

About 10 to 15 minutes from Colleyville, Keller, Trophy Club, Westlake, Grapevine and Roanoke, and 20 minutes from Flower Mound and North Richland Hills.

The ballroom floor at Dance With Me Southlake in Southlake Town Square
Interior of the Dance With Me ballroom dance studio in Southlake, Texas
A private dance lesson in progress at Dance With Me Southlake
14 Book It

Claim Your $49 Intro Lesson

One private lesson with a Dance With Me Southlake instructor, plus a group class or an invitation to our next social party. You'll try a couple of styles, talk through your song, your venue and your timeline, and leave with a straight answer about how many lessons your first dance actually needs.

Prefer to talk to a person? Call (817) 251-1444 — Monday to Friday, noon until 9:30 PM.

A real lesson, not a sales pitch

You dance. That's the whole appointment.

No obligation past the $49

You'll get a specific package price before you decide anything.

Tell us the venue on the form

A hotel ballroom, a country club or a backyard tent — we build the routine for the room you're actually getting.

Evenings work

We're on the floor until 9:30 on weekdays, so this doesn't have to eat a lunch break.

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