{"id":7761,"date":"2014-05-03T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T08:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2021-09-13T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:50:56","slug":"guide-first-dates-dos-donts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/guide-first-dates-dos-donts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to First Dates: The Dos &#038; Don&#8217;ts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might seem like forever ago in your story together now, but everyone has firsts. First dates are definitely one of our favourite types. The excitement, electricity and chemistry of a first official encounter is always fun. Think back to your first time. You finally got your dream date set-up, so now all that was left to worry about was what to wear&#8230;. and what to say&#8230; and when to arrive, and how to act, and what to do if it gets awkward, and what to say if you spill your drink and a thousand and one other things that could give you a panic attack before you had even left your front door.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that first dates can be a daunting challenge for the inexperienced. There&#8217;s a long list of decisions that need to be made throughout your date and these can take the fun out of what should be a enjoyable event. But here&#8217;s the good news, there are tried and tested techniques for most of the awkward moments that will appear anyway. This infographic will share a few funny do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts for the ideal first date&#8230; How many did you follow?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7763\" title=\"A Guide to First Dates: The Dos &amp; Don'ts\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-uk.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2014\/05\/dosanddontsv3.png\" alt=\"A Guide to First Dates: The Dos &amp; Don'ts\" width=\"720\" height=\"6061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dosanddontsv3.png 720w, https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dosanddontsv3-95x800.png 95w, https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dosanddontsv3-89x750.png 89w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: http:\/\/www.bookatable.com\/uk\/blog\/post\/dinner-date-dos-and-donts<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It might seem like forever ago in your story together now, but everyone has firsts. First dates are definitely one of our favourite types. The excitement, electricity and chemistry of a first official encounter is always fun. Think back to your first time. You finally got your dream date set-up, so now all that was left to worry about was what to wear&#8230;. and what to say&#8230; and when to arrive, and how to act, and what to do if [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[347],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51316,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions\/51316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}