Renaissance Ballroom

My husband and I signed up for lessons with Christine Blanton in the few months before our wedding and we were so pleased with the choreography and the instruction.
Christine is great and gets right in there with you to help you understand the choreography. She knows how to lead and follow so she can accommodate whoever needs hands on instruction at the moment. She also writes down the choreography so you have a cheat sheet to practice at home.
We went in wanting to learn swing and came away swing, foxtrot and even some waltz. She taught us a dance we’ll never forget and every time we hear our song we jump up and practice even a year after the wedding. I know we’ll be doing this dance for a long time.

My husband and I signed up with Christine Blanton last summer for a series of dance lessons in preparation for our daughter’s wedding. What a blast! We had tried to learn several times before, and we had great motivation this time. Christine was the ideal teacher. She knew just what we needed and delivered it. We had our daughter and her fiancé come to the last few lessons as well and Christine choreographed both the father/​daughter dance and the bride and groom’s first dance. Both of these moments were highlights of the wedding.
Christine was fun to work with and very accomodating to our schedules. Her years of experience gave us great confidence. I highly recommend taking lessons with her.

Christine is very patient, friendly, and fun to work with. Our wedding was going to be in March and we really needed to squeeze in lessons to our busy work schedules in January. Christine was very accommodating with the schedule. We picked «La Vie En Rose» which is such a beautiful classic, yet a bit challenging to choreograph, and we wanted to look impressive on the dance floor. Christine was able to come up with moves that made us look good. We took 5 private lessons. At the end, our first dance was such a huge success. Our guests thought it was the most impressive first dance in a wedding that they had ever seen. Thanks so much Christine!

This review is long overdue. My husband and I took lessons to prepare for our wedding in 2009 at Silverado in Napa, so we’d be a little more prepared and comfortable with so many eyes on us for the first dance. Christine was organized, prompt, friendly and made the lessons really, really fun and very manageable. She helped us with song selection and taught us a really great, easy to remember but impressive looking routine. Our first dance is not only one of our favorite memories from our wedding, but now we look forward to dancing to show off some of our moves!
Working with Christine for our Napa Valley wedding was certainly one of the more fun things on our «to-​do» list. We took private lessons (I believe 4). The time went by so fast! We spoke so highly of the experience that my parents decided to take a few lessons with Christine, as did my in-​laws, and then I also took a few lessons with my Dad for our father-​daughter dance. Everyone was really relaxed by the wedding and looked forward to hitting the dance floor. I think only Christine could have made that happen!
Highly, highly recommend you check it out if you are planning a wedding in SF or Napa area. Christine is really reasonable for what you get out of it. She knows what she is doing and will make the most out of your time.

We took 3 lessons with Christine to learn a fox trot for our wedding. My husband was not exactly enthusiastic to take the lessons but Christine really made us feel comfortablea and he found that he actually really enjoyed the lessons. I didn’t think 3 lessons were going to be enough when we first signed up, but she worked with our abilities to teach us an elegant and romantic dance that fit our music. We were able to feel very comfortable with the choreography by lesson 3 and everyone really seemed impressed when we performed our first dance at our wedding. Thanks to Christine for teaching us a great dance and for making it so enjoyable!

My (now) husband and I signed up for dance lessons because we wanted to be comfortable on the dance floor. Were we ever surprised to discover that not only were we comfortable, but actually loved it! We did 4 group lessons with Cathy and 4 private lessons with Christine– and they are miracle workers! We plan to dance at least once a month from now on. Thanks ladies!

We signed up for 4 lessons to prepare for the ‘first dance’ at our wedding. Neither of us had ever taken a dance lesson before. Christine was very patient, friendly, and helpful. Even though we switched songs on the second lesson, she quickly adapted what we’d learned in the first lesson and we were ready to go with our new song.
The lessons are fun, a great value for the $, and Christine devotes the full hour to teaching us. Overall a great experience.

we took 4 lessons (mainly because we never practiced and we got panicked after the 3^rd lesson!) to learn a choreographed dance for our wedding. we did «can’t take my eyes off you» and Kathy taught us a darling dance that the crowd loved and we felt like stars. not Dancing with the Star or anything quite to dramatic — but we wanted to put on a show.
one problem we had is that we were pretty late for one lesson (my hubby missed the muni and it took forever to arrive)…and though it was only 15 min long (instead of an hour), we had to pay for the whole thing. i know it’s a business based on their time being booked and that it was our fault — but it would have been nice to get a little something for goodwill.
in any event — we are very happy with our instructor Kathy and the dance. we even used our moves for the last song — «Last Dance» (i know — cheesy — but it always works!) –and when we sped them up — they were so fun and disco! VOILA!