I really appreciate all your help to make this event happen and really went the extra mile for us and our guests!
Thank you for hosting our meeting and assisting with the catering of the food. Your facility and service well matched to our expectations. It was wonderful! We will be back.
Mr. Kirn - Osage Beach, MO
12/13/2020
Dear Amy and Peter,
Amy,
Community Foundation of the Lake
La Roca Club hosted our company dinner event last week! From the facility to the food, we could not have asked for more. Both Peter and Amy were very attentive and went above and beyond to make our evening great. They are able to accommodate and customize to fit your needs. We will definitely utilize their services in the future!!
-- April Tate, Vice President - Corporate Services
We recently hosted an engagement party for our daughter and future son-in-law at La Roca for 120+ guests of all ages from around the USA and the world! Moscow Mules were the drink of choice from the bar. Both the indoor and outdoor space was utilized for games, eating, dancing and visiting to make for an extremely fun celebration. Our daughter said “It exceeded all her expectations!” And guests agreed it was an amazing “Party in the USA”! Thank you to Peter and Amy for making it happen at their beautiful venue!Cheers!
Dennis and I love Amy and Peter, and the club. We are actually learning to dance! Never thought I would say those words. They are patient, kind, and professional. We now call them friends.
The BEST event yet! Way to go CFL.
Compton-Slaughter Wedding 2016
We used Amy and Peter Hernandez for our wedding and could not be happier! Peter did a wonderful job putting together our first dance with our chosen song. He came up with the idea to use various versions of the song and he put so much effort into making the edit just perfect! The dance was a huge hit and people are still talking about it. I ended up loving ballroom dancing so much, I started taking private classes. Amy was our day of wedding coordinator. She was very professional and knew the wedding industry at the lake very well. I had planned almost everything, but she was able to give me guidance and suggestions on things I didn’t think of. She had a great balance of ideas from her experience, yet still executing things in the way we envisioned. She made it about what we wanted. When the wedding day arrived, it was a relief of stress knowing Amy was there to take care of everything. If someone had a questions, we would send them to Amy so we didn’t have to deal with the stress. She moved things around from the church to the reception, and kept track of things at the reception. She kept track of all the details so we could just enjoy the day. She even did something I forgot to ask her I wanted to do! I was so happy when I saw the silk rose petals on the reception tables, and I completely forgot that is what I had intended to do. Amy just knew that is probably what we wanted and did it! She had such a long day, but you couldn’t tell, she was always happy and willing to take on any little or big thing that came her way that day. I would absolutely recommend Amy to anyone planning a wedding to be your coordinator!
Hi Amy! We wanted to share this photo with you that our wedding photographer, Jo Johnson, captured. Thank you so much for making time to help us with our first dance. We practiced a lot and had the attention of the room captured. Thank you for helping us look so good!! We appreciate you and hope you have an awesome year ahead.
Sincerely,
Sydney Liesmann
Relieves Stress and Anxiety:
A 21-year study by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine proved that ballroom dancing, specifically, is the best way to prevent neurological degeneration such as Alzheimer's disease. "Making rapid-fire decisions and movements in social dancing increases neural network connectivity and overall intelligence."
La Roca: Best of two worlds! Challenging AND fun. Peter & Amy are true to the impeccable technique professional dance demands....& so deserves. To settle for less would be tragic/unthinkable. My first dance to even a basic waltz touched my soul a bit. Excited for what's to come.
Working with Amy and Peter at LaRoca was indeed a fun and beneficial learning experience. Thank you!
Peter & Amy, we appreciate for your time and patience in helping us prepare for the Dancing at the Lake Chamber event. Tango was definitely not our first choice as the seriousness of the dance seems opposite of our personalities; however we loved the dance, our characters, and will remember the night forever. All of the couples did a great job. What a fun event! We look forward to continuing our weekly date night lessons and learning new dances. It is a great escape from our hectic lives of business and family. Our lessons go by so quickly and are our favorite hour of the week! GO TEAM TANGO!!!
Just wanted to let you know that the 5th Engineers were very pleased with the dance instruction sessions and how you incorporated its similarities to their married life. They are planning on having more retreats so I will surely keep you posted if they decide to incorporate dance instructions in the retreat’s agenda. My thanks to you!
One of the best decisions we made for our wedding was to get dance lessons at La Roca. Peter & Amy were so patient with us and very encouraging. They worked hard to get us all the time we needed as we scheduled it less than 6 weeks from the date. One of us had two left feet, but Peter & Amy never made us feel like it. They choreographed a dance and we really “wowed” our guests. We wanted to entertain our friends and family and Peter & Amy made that possible. Our guests told us “It was the best first dance they had ever seen”. Of all the money spent on flowers, linens, décor…the dance was the most memorable for everyone. Having a choreographed dance made us feel like the King and Queen of the ball. It really was the most magical part of the evening.
Peter & Amy are great instructors and are diligently working to teach this old dog some new tricks; memorizing patterns remains a challenge for me, unless I sync a specific piece of a choreographed routine with a location on the dance floor---liked your suggestion to do whatever works and adjust my start position for dance floor size/layout to maintain LOD. I definitely benefited from your help; examples---tripod foot placement for weight distribution on cross-overs to stabilize my balance, plus wind-up to pop my free arm for flare, TANGO dance position/drag-in technique and definitely the trick for setting the proper torso frame/erect head and my hand/arm position/contact with my partner in closed dance position.
We have taken dance lessons at La Roca with Peter and Amy Hernandez for 4 years, taking both private and group lessons over the years. They have helped us develop a confidence in dancing that we never thought possible. Dancing has helped us get in shape physically, challenged us mentally, and introduced us to a social network of other dancers. We hope to continue dancing for many years to come. We feel fortunate to have the La Roca Dance Studio with talented professional instructors available to us at the Lake of the Ozarks.
We enjoy taking dance lessons from La Roca dance studio for several different reasons. Amy is very patient & reviews the steps to keep us from being lost before she teaches something new. She breaks down the steps & counts it for you. Peter challenges us & pushes us to do things we never thought we could do; there is never a "dumb question" with either of them; they're always willing to go over it again until you get it. We like the combination of their teaching styles to make us dance our best!
It's fair to say that Amy and Peter performed miraculously for our wedding! We not only chose to do it over the busy Memorial Day weekend, but also elected to do it at our home, which complicated matters exponentially. What's even more amazing, is they did it in six weeks! Through it all, they provided a steady hand of guidance that reassured us that all would be fine -- weather permitting. From the original site planning to Peter's music selection, it exceeded our demanding expectations. In the end, we had a storybook wedding celebration that could not have been improved upon. Our deep thanks and appreciation to the whole team Amy assembled for their hard work and legendary accomplishment.
We want to tell you how much we have enjoyed taking dance lessons from you. We are amazed at how much we have learned in the little time we have been taking lessons from you. We look forward to going to different dances now that we can dance. We have been told by many of our friends that we are better dancers than we were when they first met us. We look forward to learning much more and maybe even entering some dance contests if you think you can get us to that level. We intend to continue taking lessons so that we will continue to look better on the dance floor. We really liked being a part of the Forget Me Not Ball and the Cha Cha number we did.
Thank you both for everything! We loved taking the dance lessons and can’t wait to continue. Everything at the wedding was perfect (there are always little issues) but we had nothing major that the guests realized!! You both made the day and evening into everything we wanted. Thank you for being there to deal with everything – it made it so much easier on us. We had such a great time. We can’t thank you enough. Everyone keeps saying how they loved the Dance!! We did it!!! Thanks again -You guys were great.
Over the course of the past two years I have had the opportunity to utilize Peter and Amy Hernandez to plan and coordinate two special events for me. The first event was a staff reward luncheon to include a dance lesson. Peter and Amy prepared a delicious meal to be enjoyed at tables for two decorated for the occasion. Staff were pleasantly surprised at the special attention and raved about the meal and the setting. The dance lesson topped off the event as a truly great time.
The second event was a wedding shower. I can only describe the table settings as elegant demonstrating to the guest of honor how special she was. Once again the meal was prepared by Peter and Amy and was delicious. They also arranged for a professionally prepared and decorated cake to top off the meal and presented it at a special dessert table. They then allowed us time to open gifts and take pictures making this a truly memorable event for the bride-to-be.
To summarize, I would like to point out the special touches Peter and Amy add to the event are what keep me coming back for more. Everything is done in a professional fashion making a statement that this is a classy affair. I would recommend Peter and Amy to anyone with a special event in their future.
Peter and Amy, Thank you for once again hosting a beautiful evening of entertainment and fundraising for the Alzheimer's Association! We appreciate the long hours and the tremendous effort that goes into planning this event each year. Your dedication is obvious and your efforts are so, so appreciated!
Amy and Peter, Saturday night was my first experience attending the Forget Me Not Ball. Wow, what an experience. As a Board Member of the Mid-Missouri Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, not only am I grateful for all that you and your colleagues have done for the cause, but also, I can see why attendance at the 2nd annual was higher than the first, and after watching the two of you, and the others perform, I am confident that the 3rd annual will raise the bar further. Due to your tireless work and commitment, this is an outstanding world-class event. Thank you so much. I will also be recommending your Dance Studio to every person who ever says, “I wish I could dance like that,” or some such remark. You guys are great.
Amy and Peter, Pat and I want to say thanks for a wonderful weekend of events. Both of you should be proud of the efforts you and your students put into making it the success it was. And speaking of your students they were very kind and gracious and made us feel at home. My only "complaint" is with Peter dancing salsa with Pat. She very much enjoyed it and now has expectations for me. Certainly not to match the skill level, but to at least attempt it. I maintain that men on the north side of 55 should be exempt from dancing salsa. We look forward to next year's event. And good luck to your students getting ready for Heart of America in August.
