Beginning Ballroom

fident dancers! We are also having Beginning Ballroom teach a dance lesson at our reception.

ged last January, we again returned to Beginning Ballroom to conquer our first dance! They have reasonably priced Wedding Dance packages and have been VERY accommodating and flexible with our hectic schedules. Lee is always a pleasure to work with and we look forward to continuing our lessons long after we're married!

id he teach us how to dance to our first dance song, but also how to overcome obstacles because sometimes things don’t go smoothly…. Unfortunately, our DJ played the wrong first dance song but thankfully we were able to dance and none of our guests seem to notice that we were dancing to the wrong song. Lee not only prepared us for the right song but also for the wrong song. I highly recommend dance lessons especially before your wedding, and honestly, they aren’t awkward at all. Dance lessons took so much unnecessary weight off of our shoulders and the first dance went from our first concern, to our last. Thank you Lee!!

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ouple both have infectious personalities with huge warming hearts...and get this, they are amazing dance instructors as well! I'm sure there are other studios that can teach you how to dance at your wedding, but these are the ones that you invite to your wedding and party with all night long! With Beginning Ballroom, we didn't just leave with a dance, we left with friends. Well, actually we never left as we have continued to learn new genres long after the Wedding. If you are on here reading reviews and looking for someone to help prepare you for that special day, look no further! Honestly, on top of being great people, the dance instruction is phenomenal. Lee and Christine are fluent in virtually every style, and that personal knowledge helps them to provide the perfect instruction to make sure that you develop the right techniques as well. You will receive an honest approach with hands-on help if needed...and trust me, there were plenty of times when Lee had to grab my 250 lb frame and lead me around the room. All in all, they are 10 out of 10 in every category and I'm so fortunate to have gained such great friends!

and chose the perfect dance for us that we felt confident doing by the end. He was friendly, warm, and positive throughout it all. It was such a great bonding experience for me and my now husband and it will be one of the highlights that we will remember from our wedding for years to come. Highly recommend!

e sessions were fun and informative! Best of all our first dance looked great and people really loved it! I would recommend the experience to any couple as a way of scheduling some mini dates with each other as you approach your wedding with the added bonus of looking awesome during your wedding instead of rocking and swaying back and forth with each other in front of all of your family and friends! Lee and Christine were beyond supportive and knowledgeable and best of all they were down to earth and fun!

ged to do Zoom lessons and make them worthwhile. While we ended up postponing our wedding, I am really looking forward to resuming our lessons when the world opens up again.

accommodating with covid and rescheduling our wedding date as well.

the playlist. I am really impressed by Lee's expertise in so many dances and his patient and encouraging teaching style. I feel confident that I can get out on the dancefloor and look like I belong there.

on performing the exact steps at the exact set time. We both wanted our first dance to look natural... or as natural as possible for two non-dancers to perform start Latin style dancing at their wedding :) We are currently about 1/3 of the way through our dance lessons before our wedding, and we are both thrilled with how we are progressing under Lee's wonderful instruction! We have learned many different moves that are versatile with several different dance styles (which is important since we have yet to finalize our dance and/or song!). I am so thankful for Lee's patience with teaching us the very basics and progressing at a pace that we are able to follow without feeling rushed or stuck. I truly look forward to our weekly Friday classes, and my fiancé and I plan to continue with our dance lessons as a wonderful date activity after our wedding!

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first dance and then pick an appropriate song. Lee and Christine taught us a bunch of dance moves so we were comfortable on the dance floor. The dance lessons were fun and the evening hours were convenience with our schedules. Our first dance went great and we got tons of compliments from our guests. We would highly recommend Beginning Ballroom to anyone looking to learn how to dance.

d easy to work with. We look forward to continuing to take classes from them in the future!

k confident, enjoying yourself, and skilled JUST enough to impress your guests without going technically overboard. He is a great instructor with a logical approach who tailors that experience for you. We loved our first dance! I had some trouble initially getting in touch and scheduled - don't let that deter you if you do too! once you are there, it's great.

he two things we most appreciated were 1.) his ability to explain concepts of motion for particular steps by using very apt, relatable, and often amusing analogies (rather than just saying "imitate what I do.") and 2.) the way the Gedanskys make people of any experience level feel comfortable with dance sessions that are genuinely enjoyable.

rted, which is exactly what we needed as ballroom dancing newbies. His knowledge and expertise prepared us for our first dance - that all of our guests ended up loving and were very impressed with! We have no regrets choosing to take dance lessons at Beginning Ballroom and would do it all over again if we had the chance. In fact, we plan to start attending the Sunday group lessons once we return from our honeymoon. We found that dance lessons were a great “date night” and bonding experience for us! If you’re getting married and are having any anxiety or nervousness about your first dance, we highly recommend taking dance lessons at Beginning Ballroom to prepare for your wedding!

me nervous (and in front of all those people!?). Hubby-to-be and I decided on a slow song we thought we could pull off, even though it wasn't "our song." At our first lesson with Lee, he asked us what song we'd been thinking of...we shared our pick and the secret that our actual special song was one we thought we couldn't dance to. Without missing a beat, Lee filled us with confidence that "our song" would be the one we worked on, because you only get one first dance! Over the next 6 weeks, Lee taught us the basics of Jitterbug Swing, and the lessons turned out to be the most fun part of planning for our big day, and even more importantly, an awesome way to bring us together once a week to learn something new. It was a blast, to say the very least. We ended up adding on a month of (super affordable) group classes, just because we were having so much fun, and definitely plan to dance again! Our first dance ended up being one of the most special (and fun) parts of our wedding day. Lee and Christine are wonderful instructors. They meet you where you are with unparalleled humor, and build new moves/steps into your repertoire each week so you gradually build up to being able to not just pull off choreography to one song, but actually being able to dance the style you've learned. Dancing and learning with Lee and Christine feels like spending time with old friends.

nfident dancing couple. He was extremely flexible with times and wanted to make sure that we felt as comfortable as possible for our big day.

the whole wedding! In addition some of our friends have decided to take lessons thanks to how great our first dance was! Every lesson has fun and exciting and we found we really looked forward to the weekly lessons. They are wonderful people and helped two people with two left feet dance! I can’t explains how great the experience with them was! We will continue to take lessons into our future!

oor! We put on a good performance for our guests. They even helped with planning how long my wedding dress should be for dancing and they were totally right!! Our guests couldn't stop talking about our dancing skills! It was one of the best memories of the night. We had so much fun learning to dance from Lee we will even continue lessons after our wedding! We highly recommend anyone getting married to go for dance lessons at Beginning Ballroom.

me to ease the strain on my back and knee and to turn a touch slower and no one noticed that we were doing the dance slightly modified. We could not dance at all but with practice sessions (you should get the full package) we were able to Rumba our first dance to a live band (harder than you could imagine as his microphone did not work-but we had planned for all contingencies and it we just smiled through it). Everyone noticed that we were really dancing not just swaying. They are very supportive. We did not know that you can hire them to come to your wedding--we were broke but we would have done this as they apparently (by the stories) said that they pinned up dresses and modified the dance to match the dress at the last minute outside the ballroom. We cannot say enough about how patient and even humorous they could be. The studio is up a set of stairs in the back of their home, but they are the real deal!

tion of our song knowing it would be different than our 6 practice lessons. I was twirled and dipped and cheered for as I shared an intimate moment with my new husband in front of a crowd. Thank you Lee and Christine for teaching us how to dance like no one is watching!

our big day we felt confident, relaxed and our guests were impressed. Throughout our lessons, Lee and Christine gave us the confidence to learn the basic dances moves we needed, with a few more complex and special tricks worked in to help our first dance feel natural and fluid verses over choreographed. I cannot recommend them enough, and we will be continuing dance lessons with them post-wedding. They tailor lessons to each student's skill level, are extremely flexible with scheduling lessons, are crazy affordable and most importantly they are great at teaching the technical aspects of dance without pulling the fun out of a lesson. Lee and Christine truly helped to make our wedding planning / preparations process so much easier. Just a bit of advice to future brides in closing - give yourself more time for dance lessons then we did (aka more than just a month or so). Our lessons at Beginning Ballroom ended up being a ton of fun and provided us with a great mental break that helped us connect and relax throughout the hectic planning process. Also, tell your seamstress to properly hem your dress so you won't trip during your first dance! This is great advance from Lee that should definitely be followed!

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nce. They helped us feel so confident and comfortable, were super flexible with scheduling, and we had so much fun at every class! Many guests at our wedding told us how fantastic we looked during our first dance. If you’re looking for the best dance instructors, we highly recommend Beginning Ballroom!

us have made over time is amazing. I wouldn’t recommend any other place. Fantastic pricing, personal direction, and Lee and Christine work to make sure you are confident in how you move. I look forward to continuing after our wedding.

look!) comfortable and successful. Working with them was the best investment we made towards our wedding and we enjoyed it so much we have continued dancing!

one preparing for a wedding or to those couple who would like to add a new hobby that can last a lifetime!

o anyone! If you want a 'dancing with the stars' result, try out for the show... But if you want to learn to dance with confidence and competence, take AT LEAST 8-10 lessons with these guys and have the skills for real!

y memorable, meaningful, and fun moment in our wedding -- and we come away with a skill we will always have! Lee was incredibly flexible in working with our schedules so we had time for lessons- even offering to have emergency FaceTime sessions. We will always be grateful for his instruction and already miss the weekly sessions at his house!

wedding guest on our dance. Lastly, we looked forward to our dance lessons because it felt more like a fun date night than going to "class."

ure the best chance of success at formulating a dance with our minimal skill level! We started dance lessons with little to no experience on my end, and a year or two of experience on my husband's end, about 1 month before the wedding date! Our schedule was always very hectic and Lee did a lot of bending over backwards to accomodate us to make it work! Our first dance went great, and managed to surprise and impress our guests! We hope to be able to go back for more lessons just for fun!

oth work in hospitality with very irregular schedules. Also, having them both available was super helpful since we had perspective and advice from both roles of a dance partnership. Our first dance went GREAT and we could not be happier.

we have made in such a short time, all thanks to Lee and Christine! And by progress I mean we went from not knowing a single step in any organized dance to being able to swing dance! Every lesson we have with them is like a mini date night and always lots of fun. Lee and Christine have been so wonderful and I cannot thank them enough for their time and their genuine interest in teaching us how to dance. They really do care about each and every one of their students and it shows. We already plan on taking more lessons from them after our wedding!

nd other brides/grooms to take lessons with Lee & Christine for their wedding!

accommodating in regards to scheduling and rescheduling appointments. It's clear that they both love dancing and love teaching others and inspiring them to also enjoy ballroom dance. They are very patient and break down steps in ways that are easy to understand. I loved their style of teaching; teaching the basics rather than a scripted dance. Our wedding was back in March and we've used our ballroom dance skills at every wedding we've attended since our own...and even a handful of times in our own kitchen. I would highly recommend their services to anyone getting ready for their first dance or anyone interested in learning ballroom dance.

the steps, and their flexibility. Lee was very willing to work with us and we fully recommend Beginning Ballroom!

ontinue dancing lessons even after the wedding! I would highly recommend everyone to try it out!

d even accommodated our week of separation! We plan on returning for more lessons now that the wedding is over and always recommend Beginning Ballroom to everyone we know who is getting married! This was one of our best decisions we made while planning the wedding. Go see Lee and Christine at Beginning Ballroom!

raging throughout the entire process. He invests a lot of time and energy into his students success and makes it a fun experience for all. I would highly recommend Beginning Ballroom to any couple or individual!

into our weekly date night. We would follow up a class by going to dinner and trying to find somewhere else to go out dancing. This gave us something interesting to talk about throughout the whole week, and I would find we often would stop even for just a few minutes during the day to “play around” and practice some of our moves even at home. Lee incorporates classic moves and basic steps not only with the traditional types of music that you would hear at a wedding, but also modern music you could hear at any music festival, bar or cruise. I have found my husband and I always enjoy weddings and events more now as we both have the confidence to get out on the dance floor and practice our moves again. In addition to the weekly classes, Lee and his wife helped my husband and I have an unforgettable first dance. We picked the song, and then we practiced using our basic steps from class, with only a few “special” moves that Lee taught us to spice up the dance. This left our first dance as being very personal, and not pre-choreographed but still something to be proud of. I could enjoy the moment, as opposed to being nervous about people watching me do something I had never practiced before.

best. They are so welcoming and work with you through everything. Lee was upfront about what we could achieve with the lessons we had which I really appreciated. We wanted to avoid the "prom sway". They did a great job of making us feel comfortable and we enjoyed our lessons each week! I highly recommend them. We loved it so much, we want to keep up with the lessons.

r their Wedding Wednesday package and took 4-5 group lessons leading up to our big day. I found the lessons incredibly helpful and my husband and I both really enjoyed learning and dancing together (which he was surprised by). I know guests at our wedding were impressed with our seamless looking dancing and "moves" and it is one of the most memorable parts of our wedding. I'd highly recommend Beginning Ballroom for dance lessons, especially if they're offering a Wedding Wednesday package

vable given the time and number of lessons we had, and we were very pleased with the result. During lessons, Lee made sure we both really understood our roles in each step that we learned, and we were able to call him for help when we got confused practicing at home. Lee is pretty chatty, so he would be talking throughout the lesson, which really helped us learn to dance with distractions going on around us.

d the rest you go with the flow. Honestly take the time and take many dance lessons you will feel so much better come that special day and you will NOT regret it. My husband and I are so glad we chose to take dance lessons from people who truly took the time to teach us the steps work through our frustrations and help make our first dance one that we will never forget. We certainly won't forget our friends and families reactions to our dance. Truly an incredible experience with incredible people! You will not be disappointed with the results they give you.

check in on you in between your classes via phone! He exceeded our expectations with our dancing level for our big day! Your first dance is a big deal, you have a lot of eyes on you. Lee made us look like professional dancers!

. The lessons are always fun and productive, but not intimidating- they are great instructors!

care what type of dance, just wanted her on the dance floor for one whole song. That was as high as I could hope for before we started lessons. On our wedding night, she not only enjoyed the full length of our west coast swing dance, but got excited and would ask me to dance again later when she heard songs that would work with it! I couldn’t be happier with the outcome and I would definitely recommend the 10 week session, it’s worth every penny. During the sessions Lee liked to hold lengthy conversations with us while we were practicing, which drove me nuts at first. I learned he did it because my fiancé would absentmindedly relax and do really well when she felt like no one was really paying attention to the dancing. Best.Trick.Ever. It also helped me deal with the distraction of guests talking all around us. Whatever he says just go with it, he is dance yoda and there is always a reason. They run the lessons out of their house, which comes with a few small quirks like the occasional interruption by a small child. When this happened Lee always made sure to let the lesson run over so we got the full hour we paid for. In my opinion, the relaxed atmosphere, super flexible schedule, on-call second teacher, and one on one attention is well worth overlooking anything out of the ordinary. Also, they are super same-sex friendly so if you are worried about that I promise it's a non issue. I would definitely recommend doing the 10 week wedding package with Christine and Lee. My wife and I are hoping to continue our lessons some time later this year, hope you see you there!

waltz, rhumba, and even salsa. Beginning ballroom's private lessons were a great break from wedding planning where we could just focus on spending time together and having fun. In fact, we enjoyed the lessons so much that we continued even after our wedding! We had a wonderful time dancing throughout our wedding and had many guests come up to complement us on how great our first dance was. In addition, now that we know how to dance, we have much more fun at weddings and other events where there is dancing. Beginning Ballroom has a great atmosphere for learning to dance. They are really willing to tailor your lessons to what you want, be that to learn a number of different steps, or learn and polish a dance for your wedding.

a patient, enthusiastic and encouraging Lee, we had an amazing fist dance. Lee was able to break down the steps in various ways until it clicked. He was also very flexible with lesson times, as we are both physicians and have crazy schedules. Lessons were also a great way to connect and spend time with my husband without directly talking about the wedding. We did take a short four week group class, which was great as well. We are thinking about continuing the group lessons just for fun

ly enjoyed himself. He felt confident enough to start going on "field trips" with them to nightclubs so he could get out in public, but still have the teacher nearby. Actually, we met one night when Lee and Christine were teaching! Since our first dance ever happened with them, it was only fitting that our first dance as a married couple would be choreographed by them! :) For our first dance lessons, they work around our crazy schedule, work with the song we choose or make suggestions, and work within our budget to put together a dance that will make us look and feel natural. They have years of expertise and offer valuable consulting tips on our outfits, DJ or band, and staging to avoid problems. They are knowledgeable and patient teachers because they started as a wedding couple and told us they made all the same mistakes. They really understand how to make us feel comfortable dancing and working with each other. They even gave us a great piece of marriage advice we would like to share. Marriage, like learning to dance, is about forgetting where each of us ends and the other begins. We are no longer "him" and "me" but "us", and the best way to thrive as a couple is to create that kind of cohesiveness, rather than fighting to maintain our individuality. Since they have been married for 23 years and working together in the same company for 12, they might be on to something. We did debate taking lessons for the wedding, since we weren’t sure we wanted to invest the time or money. They reminded us that we have spent a lot of time dressing up ourselves and our event to create the memories we want to last forever and much of it will be on film and video (not to mention facebook, and You Tube). It makes sense to dress up our dancing a bit too, so it all goes smoothly. We have only good things to say about them. They have become great friends in the time since we first met them, and we plan to be back whenever we can.