Lisa is correct. If your main goal is to recruit new dancers to your local group, you will be sadly disappointed. That doesn't mean that you won't ever get someone who enjoys it at the wedding and then follows up by going to the local dance, but that is going to be very rare. As it happens I started contra dancing after experiencing it at a wedding. However, I have called dances at many weddings and I can't think of anyone who attended one of those, who wasn't already a dancer, and then started going to our local dance. An exception might be if the people getting married are hardcore dancers and they invite a lot of the local dancers to their wedding. This might help to recruit non-dancers to give it a try in the future. The couple might even have in mind trying to recruit their non-dancing friends. Other than that you should probably assume that none of those in attendance have ever danced before, and that they probably won't do so ever again. The best I hope for is that they have fun and then the next time they see a dance mentioned on the news or in the paper or something they may be inclined to give it a try. Jonathan On 7/3/2023 3:04 PM, Lisa Sieverts via Contra Callers wrote: