Metronome Dance Center

We attended their wedding workshop, which was very helpful in teaching the basics of the foxtrot and the swing--the two most popular first dances for weddings. It was great for my fiance, who has no dance training, to learn the basic steps in a group setting. We then had three private lessons with Rose and one with Heather (while Rose was on vacation), and we LOVED them both as teachers.

The private lessons were invaluable and they helped us come up with the perfect dance for the song we chose and the space we decided to use for our first dance (a fairly narrow section of paved path next to the cocktail/dinner orchard at our venue--odd but it worked perfectly!). At the last minute, about three weeks before the wedding, we switched songs to another foxtrot song that was meaningful to us (though a big longer than our original choice) and Heather quickly came up with a perfect new ending for the dance.

My new husband was never very excited about dance before we went to Metronome, but now I could see us going to swing classes in the future--that's how good and encouraging the teachers are! I would highly recommend Metronome to anyone in SF who is thinking about taking dance lessons before their wedding.

I would also highly recommend taking dance lessons as wedding preparation in general, as it gave me and my fiance a chance to connect and do some "fun" wedding prep during the busy run-up to our wedding, in addition to giving us both the confidence that we'd have a great first dance.

In the end, the dance was a smash hit at the wedding and we both had a blast with the lessons and practicing beforehand.

Melissa is really sweet. We'd taken classes with her before so we knew her personality would match up to what we needed. We had a difficult song, that was a little old-school, but she helped us choreograph a great dance to it.