While up to 20 pre-approved bridal party members can now dance at weddings held in NSW, venues and dance teachers believe the new changes won't have an immediate effect.
Kokoloco Dance Studio founder and dance teacher Becky Fleming specialises in teaching dance skills to couples and bridal parties.
"Having people allowed on the dance floor definitely impacts whether they even have the wedding or not," Ms Fleming said.
"A lot of people didn't even want to have it if people couldn't get up and dance and if it couldn't feel like a party. [Without dancing weddings] kind of become a very expensive dinner."
Ms Fleming said couples and bridal parties usually began to learn choreography two months ahead of their wedding.
"There's been a bit more hesitation at the moment because everything is on pause. There's just not a lot of weddings happening," she said.
"We're getting a lot more inquiries again and more couples are booking but it's not anything like normal yet."
Popular wedding venues in the capital region said with so few weddings before the New Year, the changes would have a minimal impact on their businesses.
Poachers Pantry founder Susan Bruce said most weddings booked this year were postponed. There won't be another wedding at Poachers until November but she added bookings from February 2021 were "chock-a-block".
"The biggest hurdle for us is the bans on travelling interstate. The majority of our weddings we had planned for November have stopped because of the closure of the Queensland, South Australian and Victorian borders," she said.
"I'd say that's a much harder hurdle than the dancing aspect."
Ms Bruce believed this change was still progress.
"Each one of these changes is an incremental improvement and that's how we expect it to happen," she said.
"I'm certainly delighted to see it easing but I can't see it changing the situation in a hurry."
Sutton-based Goolabri function and event manager Ben Luton said wedding bookings drastically reduced in 2020, but most couples had postponed them to 2021.
Mr Luton said the new rules required good communication.
"What is considered dancing? What's the social distance requirement when it comes to dancing? It really comes down to common sense and trying to manage it in the best way possible," he said.
Mr Luton said the new rules required having agreements with the client before the wedding and communicating plans with staff.
"There's a difference between dancing in your own space and one person rubbing up against as many people as he can," he said.
"We still need to have a discussion with the client about what's going to be acceptable behaviour and how we are going to make sure it works and keep everyone happy."
