WATCH: It's the bride and groove as Staffordshire wedding video goes viral
They were three minutes into their first dance as man and wife when the groom laid on a boogie surprise for his new bride - and the result has become an internet sensation.
Former dancer James Moorcroft, aged 27, and three friends took over the floor halfway through his slow dance with Francesca, also 27, and performed an hilarious five-minute routine for her and guests at their wedding in Endon, Staffordshire.
The footage included Latin, disco, Gangnam-style and even a slow-motion clip. A Facebook video of the four - all past or present UK dance champions - has so far had more than 200,000 views.
Francesca said she had no idea what was going on when 30-year-old Ryan McShane interrupted their dance to James Bay's If I Ain't Got You and led her to a seat before being joined by Greg McDonagh, 23, and Joe Hopwood, 24.
Francesca and James, of Jubilee Drive, Cannock, met through dance competitions and went on to win several national titles in Latin before retiring three years ago to concentrate on their Bridgtown-based dancewear business.
She said: "People were expecting something spectacular from us because we were dancers but we'd said we just wanted to shuffle round. My dress was so fitted I couldn't do much more anyway.
"But I felt it was boring for people and I whispered to James 'Let's do something' but he said 'Don't worry, it will all come good' and the next second Ryan came on the floor.
"What they did was brilliant. I was creased up laughing."
The routine's success is all the more surprising given it was thrown together at the last minute after being dreamt up on James' stag weekend in Leeds and put together the following weekend when Francesca was on her hen do.
The friends hired the Alan Young Dance Centre in Brownhills for three hours to work on their moves but abandoned the rehearsal after an hour to play golf and go to the pub.
Their only other practice session was a quick run-through at the wedding reception shortly before taking to the floor at The Ashes Country House Barn in Endon.
James said: "It was good fun, I like to make a prat of myself.
"It was the photographer who suggested videoing it and I thought it was a good idea because people like my nan would be too little to see, and they could always watch it afterwards.
"It's all gone a bit crazy but there have been lots of positive comments. I'm glad we did it."
