Wedding Dance San Diego

We went to Liz for wedding dance lessons and we were SO happy with her. We went to a chain studio first and had a terrible experience. Liz listened to what we wanted, crafted her lesson towards our level and requests and crammed everything in in two lessons (we came to her late). I highly recommend Liz for your wedding or any other dance you want to learn. Thanks!

We took the 2 hour crash course with Liz and it was fantastic! She makes is enjoyable and easy to learn to basic but important moves to look good on the dance floor. I specifically enjoy how she ensures your song is played so you can get a feel for the pace of your song and ask any questions if needed. Thank you Liz! :)

My husband and I are so glad we got dance lessons from Liz for our wedding! She worked with us to come up with an excellent dance for our song, and it was a lot of fun to learn and practice. People have told us that, other than the actual ceremony of course, our first dance was their favorite part of the wedding.
Even if you’re not going for an involved first dance, I recommend every couple take at least one or two lessons to learn how to lead and follow.

Liz is truly wonderful – a master of her craft. My fiancé and I are a little anxious about our first dance, but she’s done a great job of putting our minds at ease. Her instruction is easy to follow and above all she has patience and tact. I was worried our first lesson would be disastrous and we’d feel clumsy and embarrassed. I wouldn’t say we nailed it by any stretch, but we left feeling so much more confident that we’ll be able to pull it off. She’s never once made us feel stupid – even when we’re messing up basic moves. Our song is not the easiest either as it’s a bit more uptempo, but she jumped right in with absolute confidence that it would be fine.
We have our second lesson today and I’m excited to tie it all together! I have nothing but great things to say about Liz. If you’re looking for a wedding dance instructor, hire her now. The lessons aren’t cheap, but they’re a worthy investment. She’s a miracle worker.

Liz is an amazing instructor. Her lessons for our wedding dance have been the most fun part of our wedding planning. I can’t imagine doing our first dance without her patience and instruction. Thanks Liz.

We love Elizabeth! She records our dances so we can see where we need help. She makes the lesson fun and the time flies by!

I’m not sure that anyone will ever be able to make me a good dancer; I’ve got no musical ability whatsoever. (I’m glad that I’m the girl so I only have to follow, not figure out the beat and lead like the guy does.) However, Liz is patient, and she tailors her classes to your ability and to what you want to learn. More importantly, my fiancé and I always have fun together here, which has helped to ease the feeling that our wedding and first dance are one giant performance. Liz being laid-​back and pleasant helps a lot towards that end. My fiancé and I are both very shy and self-​conscious, and we certainly don’t dance in public, so it would have been very easy for us to feel miserable, anxious, or awkward with the wrong teacher.
We asked Liz to choreograph our first dance because my fiancé found it to be a lot of work trying to think of what to do next. Liz had some cute ideas for moves that went with our song lyrics, but it just wasn’t us (too performance-​y). We asked her to change things around or to omit them a couple times, and she was always happy to do it.
If she choreographs your dance, she’ll type up the steps, along with the corresponding song lyrics so that you can practice on your own at home. It’s a godsend for people who take a long time to work out the muscle memory thing. The OCD and visually-​oriented parts of me also really appreciate how organized and easy to follow the instructions are… You’d be surprised how often people don’t bother to go the extra step to organize information into easily-​digestible chunks. It annoys me so much, or outright doesn’t work for me, that I often re-​write things myself. This wasn’t the case here, which is awesome. /​end rant
If you want, Liz will take a video of either you and your partner, or of one of you and her, doing the various dance steps or your entire dance routine — with narration! It’s good for a laugh and feeling embarrassed while watching yourself bumble around at home, and great for being able to practice your dance skills in between lessons.
A couple times, we’ve had to wait on Liz for a response, whether regarding scheduling our next class or uploading our video so that we could watch it and practice. It’s not a super-​long wait, but I know some people get antsy doing it, especially brides. :)
–1 star because the Encinitas studio is a shared space. If you don’t get a separate room, just a partition, it can be rather distracting when another class is going on, especially when you still don’t know what you’re doing and have to exert that much more effort to figure it out. I’m easily distracted when I’m doing something about which I am self-​conscious, and my fiancé sometimes needs TOTAL SILENCE! NO DISTRACTIONS WHATSOEVER! in order to learn something foreign, so it was a bit tough when we did have to share (thankfully, not often). It also threw me off when people occasionally passed through our space to get in/​out of the building, even when we were in a separate room.
Lastly, although Liz invited me to sit in on another couple’s class while my fiancé and I were still deciding whether or not we wanted lessons, the couple was already very experienced, and therefore not at all applicable to us. I pretty much went with Liz, then, for no other reason than that she was able to accommodate our schedule. My fiancé is on the East Coast doing his surgical residency, so he rarely has free time, and even more rarely is able to fly out here. We wouldn’t have been able to do the more traditional every-​week-​for-​6-​weeks kind of class. Instead, we purchased the 5-​class package and were able to spread them out over 7 months (!!!). The package is pricier, but the flexibility was worth it, and the lessons are private so that you’re always focusing on your own skill set, not being held up or sped through sessions by other people’s progress in a group setting.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I’m looking forward to our first dance, but I do like dancing with my fiancé in the privacy of our own home now, which used to happen, like, never. I think that’s the biggest compliment I can give a teacher of anything: Not necessarily that the student became awesome or even good at it, but rather, that the teacher helped them cultivate and enjoy a new skill, in whatever capacity they choose to use it… Being good can always come later, so long as one enjoys it enough to continue with it.

Liz is amazing! My Groom and I took the Wedding Dance 2 hr Crash Course in the Encinitas location. We had such a wonderful time and were able to get comfortable dancing with each other to our own wedding song. I recommend this Dance company to all. We are going back for private lessons to add to our skills we learned before our wedding in May.

Liz was exceptional in teaching my fiancé and me the foxtrot for our wedding dance. She was very patient and provided great advice in choreographing our dance.
Liz was also very helpful in thinking of all the little details necessary to make us feel more at ease for the actual day. Because our dance floor was on the smaller side, Liz carefully measured out the actual size of our dance floor and gave very helpful advice on how to move, navigate and dance easily within the boundaries. In addition, Liz provided a petticoat that mimicked my wedding dress to help me get used to dancing around in it and for my fiancé to get a feel of dancing with me in a wedding gown.
We are both very, very happy to have taken our dance lessons with Liz!

We were so lucky to have found Liz to help us get ready for our wedding.
We were looking to learn the basics of dance skills that we could use at our wedding and beyond. We wanted to just be able to dance to most any song and look and feel like we know what we’re doing.
Liz gave us exactly that and more. It felt so good to walk out to the dance floor for our first dance at our wedding, with everyone staring at us, knowing that we knew just what to do and we’d be doing it in-​sync with each other, looking good and having fun.
Dance lessons were not something that I thought I was going to enjoy… When my then-​fiancé (now wife) signed us up, I was dreading it but after five minutes with Liz, that all changed. She made it fun, easy going, and relevant. I started looking forward to each lesson and before I knew it, it was already over. Time flys when you’re having fun.
We highly highly recommend LIz!

My husband and I had the absolute best experience working with Liz at the Hillcrest location to learn and practice our first dance for our wedding this past October. We took 4 one-​hour lessons, practiced at home a couple times a week, and totally wowed our guests.
Even better, my parents ended up booking a set of lessons for themselves and coordinated their sessions to overlap with mine, so I used a portion of the time to practice the father/​daughter dance as well. While chatting with Liz, my dad and I happened to mention that we were thinking about starting out with the standard father/​daughter waltz or whatever and then breaking into a goofy «Gangnam Style» routine. Without asking, by our next appointment Liz had prepared a complete «Gangnam Style» dance which she spent extra time each week teaching and practicing with me and my dad. She even cut the music perfectly and sent me the digital file to provide to my DJ. It was such a hit at the wedding!
She really went above and beyond our expectations, not to mention that it was so much fun to learn some sweet moves with my fiancé and dad!

Great experience!
After going to a different dance studio that was a bit focused on just selling us a package, we were looking for someone who would help us get ready for our first dance in 3 sessions. Liz was professional, and so easy to work with!
She was able to teach us some basic dance moves for our wedding, and as we got comfortable, she added in some additional twists and spins for us to add in.
Liz is very easy to work with, and did a great job of working with me and my fiancé! I would highly recommend her to anyone looking to brush up their dance skills before their wedding.

We had the pleasure of working with Liz to prepare our «first dance» for our wedding. She was super pleasant to work with, from start to finish.
After booking our 5 lessons, we met her at a dance studio and had our own little area partitioned off. We brought our music, which happened to be 2 songs — one for the father-​daughter and one for the husband-​wife dance. My mom and dad were with us, and she was extra patient with my two-​left-​footed dad. None of us knew anything about ballroom, but I was surprised how quickly we picked it up with her help. She was very patient with our mistakes, and had great analogies to help us with the moves.
In the end, we ended up having a great first dance at our wedding, complete with a spin and dip at the end. We could not have pulled it off without Liz.
If you’re a beginner, I really recommend trying her out. She is not intimidating at all, super patient, friendly and even funny. We had a great time!