The first dance can be tricky to photograph especially when you want to keep the atmosphere of the disco lights and not allow the flash to overpower the scene.
I will often taken my flash off camera using a sync cord and use fill in flash bounced from the ceiling to capture the movement so the image is sharp and the ambience of the scene is recorded.
I converted the above images to black and white to convey the emotion but here is the coloured image as an example of the lighting set up.
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