A: It depends on how bad you start out. In my case, when all is said and done, my fiancé and I will have had 5.5 hours of dance lessons. That's 330 minutes over six appointments, in which we have learned to...do the box step. Yes, that's it: one simple waltz! All that time, so that during the approximately two minutes we are alone on the dance floor, with all eyes on us, we'll be able to do something other than the old hug-and-sway.

Obviously, we started out in a rather remedial state, since you'd think that with all that time (over six lessons) we'd have progressed to Dancing With the Stars-like moves. Not quite.

So, was it worth it? Definitely—because during those 330 minutes we've had many laughs, a few sweet moments, and learned a small skill that (hopefully) we won't forget and can use at weddings for years to come. Oh, and the Brazilian dance instructor, Diego, is adorable, so that was really fun—at least for me!

One of the funniest moments came in lesson #2, when Diego asked us, "So, what kind of an entrance do you want to choreograph?" Let me remind you: it has taken nearly six hours for us to master a box step. And not only are we incapable of doing any sort of fancy-pants entrance, the idea of that sort of pomp-and-circumstance and look-at-us-taking-it-sooo-seriously had me in hysterics.

So to show Diego what I had in mind for the moment we step on the dance floor as a married couple, I just grabbed my fiancé's hand, put one foot in front of the other, and gave a big grin. Simple, authentic, and very much our style.—Liz

Did you take dance lessons? Were they worth it?

Photo (of some other coordinated couple!) from Flickr