Wedding Song List (Need help)

[marksiwel]

What should I play at my wedding!?!

New or old. Pop or not. Country or Not Rap. Anything!

Discuss...

[ozchick]

Having recently been to a wedding I would just advise that you make sure you choose songs you can dance to. A good song in general does not necessarily make it a good song for dancing.

[FanGirl]

The mandated wedding songs include: chicken dance, hokey pokey, We are Family, YMCA, the Twist, Love Shack and Celebration. These are time honored traditions that get everone dancing.

Personal favorites:

Still In Love With You - Big Bad Voodoo Daddies (slow)
Let's Go Crazy - Prince
You Belong to Me - many people have covered this (slow)

For a CD to play during dinner service, I can highly recommend "Wild, Cool and Swinging" that has Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, etc. on it. Great background music.

[Zens7s]

As I recall FanGirl, Karma, and your's truly played my wedding compilation CD on the way to Denyse and Efexeye's wedding.

There were a couple of songs in particular that were sung along with at a louder than normal voice...

Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Let's Go Crazy - Prince
My Girl - The Temptations
Can't Help Falling In Love With You - Elvis Presley

[Darksyde]

Sappy Love Songs:
Amazed - Lonestar
The Luckiest - Ben Folds
Side of the Road - Blue Rodeo
More than Words - Extreme
To Be With You - Mr. Big
November Rain - Guns'n'Roses

"70's-80's Crowd Pleasers"
YMCA - Village People
Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees
Freeze Frame - J. Geils Band
Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cindy Lauper
99 Red Balloons - Nena
High School Confidential - Rough Trade
Purple Rain - Prince
Notorious - Duran Duran
Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
Call Me - Blondie
Bettie Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Physical - Olivia Newton John
Celebration - Kool and the Gang
Gloria - Laura Brannigan
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Jump - Pointer Sisters
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats

More to come!

[PftLBritt]

Another classic that gets your whole family (including Granny) is "The Electric Slide". Boogie Woogie Woogie Woogie.

As far as non-traditional first dances, my best man, in lieu of making a long winded speech, went acoustic and played Green Day's "Time of Your Life". To this day, that song still reminds me of that occasion; not the song that we used for our first dance, which I can't place at this precise moment.

[JK]

Jen and I are planning on using Johnny Cash's version "Ring of Fire" as the recessional... get everyone up and moving so as to hit the reception (and booze) faster. And when we leave the reception we'll use Social Distortion's version...

It'll be cool.



Speaking of electric... Electric Avenue by Eddie Grant rocks.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

The mandated wedding songs include: chicken dance, hokey pokey, We are Family, YMCA, the Twist, Love Shack and Celebration. These are time honored traditions that get everone dancing.

You forgot "Shout" and the lamest white person song of all, "Electric Boogie," better known to you lamiods as the Electric Slide. My friend Scott actually wrote into a contract with the band that played at his wedding that if "Electric Boogie" was played at any time they would forfeit payment.

In fact, the worst thing you can do for a wedding reception is have a DJ. Have you ever seen any good come out of it? Out of all the home movies ever taken at weddings with a DJ, has anyone ever not looked rediculous? Don't perpetuate the lame white people stereotype, and lose the DJ.

I don't care who you are, or what the song is, or if it's your song, or if it's the most bad-assed rocking out song. It is still going to be lame.

Do it classy like. I recommend a jazz band, and then taking dance lessons with your fiancee without anyone else knowing. Then for your first dance should be a Tango, and you'll wow the hell out of everyone. And she'll look like a princess or a flower, or a butterfly, or a unicorn, or whatever girls like to look like on their wedding day. Chances are, it's tatooed above her ass already.

I'm just asking, do you want to look back at the home movies with embarassment? You and your wife dancing to some flash in the pan idiot-drool song, with all your lame white friends doing the Electric Slide, followed by the Achy Breaky. Or do you still want to have dignity when you look back at your wedding?

[ozchick]

Then for your first dance should be a Tango, and you'll wow the hell out of everyone.

Dammit! That's my idea for my wedding! How dare you steal it!!

My friends who got married last month did a rumba for their wedding dance. I can't remember what the song was, but the wedding party did enter the reception to the star wars theme. Bloody geeks.

[FanGirl]

Denyse and Efexeye entered the reception with the Kill Bill theme. My friends walked out of the ceremony to the Imperial March. The DJ talked to them before the wedding and said "I think you gave me the wrong track number. This one is a little... dark." It was awesome.

[bwdial]

Moondance...Van Morrison

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Just think about this, Mark. Any time there are lame white people dancing at a wedding, that increases your chances of being on America's Funniest Home Videos. If you see a video camera trained on you while you think your busting your best move, upon review it's going to be the lamest thing anyone has ever seen.

It's like that old addage about sex:

You know it's good sex when you wish you had taped it.

You know it's bad sex when you actually did.

[Mighty Wingman]

I need to send you my "Best Of " tapes.

[jjcourtright]

I can't stress this strongly enough. Do not do the limbo at your wedding. I have no idea how it happened, but it did at our wedding. Damn thing lasted for an hour.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

'After All' by Cher and Peter Citera was going to be the first song at my wedding, but then my old boss and her husband got married to it, so I have to find another song. I welcome you to use it because it is an awesome song. Seriously, it is. :)

[TLS]

What should I play at my wedding!?!

New or old. Pop or not. Country or Not Rap. Anything!

Discuss...
Oooh, Congratulations. And thanks for making this thread. I love the ideas. I'm getting married soon and can also use the advice.

I was going to hire a band to play, though lack of cash has me thinking otherwise. I might just burn a bunch of mixed cd's and hook up a cd changer to the PA on the stage and let it play. Since there are many good musicians in my fiance's family I'm going to have instruments set-up on stage too. Perhaps after dinner we can have open-mic.

My mom wanted to know why I didn't want a DJ. My exact answer was "I hate the Chicken Dance." Besides I don't think I've ever heard a DJ play anything I think is cool. They never play Primus. And what about Pink Floyd or Billie Holiday. I never hear DJ play them or NIN (which by the way, their concert last Sunday kicked ass.)

I had almost as much fun listening to the music as I did watching the crowd. It's an outdoor concert in 95 degree humid heat and there are people out there wearing all back, long sleeves, black trench coats, doc martins, fishnet stockings, and one guy was even dressed as death. Yeah, I had a good laugh, though I don't really understand why they were dressed like that. Maybe I'm not as big a fan of NIN as I thought, cause I don't get it. Though I might add that it was quite pleasing to see Trent come out on stage with no shirt. He's got a hot bod.

[By-tor]

I'm getting married soon and can also use the advice.Congrats, my little bass player!!! May you and your beau have as many happy years as my wife and I have shared. :)

I just looked up at what I had typed. Insteads of years I had typed tears. Sub-conscious is a weird thing.

[jjcourtright]

We borrowed our DJ's song list a couple of weeks before the wedding and picked out enough songs to get us through the whole night. We didn't want to give him the opportunity to pick any songs. Half of the songs that he played weren't on our list. Fucker.

[Graceful17]

What the hell??!?!?! You need to have "Cotton Eyed Joe" at your wedding. Nobody else said it so i thought that i should. It is a necessary line dance that must be included. I hope its not just a small town country thing, and if it is... IT SHOULDN'T BE!!
'Where did ya come from?, where did ya go?... where did ya come from cotton eyed Joe?'

[By-tor]

Arrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

[phit_demon]

Oh dear Zod! The Canadian has lost her mind...

[jjcourtright]

Indeed. Luckily, our DJ did stick with our "No Line Dancing" rule.

[SilentJo]

My fiance and I are getting married in 12 days (July 7th) and we're currently working on a song list for our reception, which includes:

Celine Dion- A New Day Has Come
LeAnn Rimes- I Need You
Lee Ann Womack- I Hope You Dance
Tal Bachman- She's So High
3 Doors Down- Here Without You
Avril Lavigne- I'm With You
Garth Brooks- The Red Strokes
Nickelback- Far Away
Gloria Estefan- Live For Loving You
Yuki Kajiura- Key of the Twilight
UB40- Can't Help Falling in Love
Vanessa Carlton- A Thousand Miles
Goo Goo Dolls- Iris
Nightwish- Forever Yours
Savage Garden- I Knew I Loved You
Rhett Akins- She Said Yes

The vibe we're trying to go for with the music is the feeling of being apart from the person you love for a long time, then seeing them again for good. This is how my fiance and I got together. We met online, became friends which got more serious, and we would fly back and forth to see each other for a week at a time (he was in California, I'm in North Carolina). Finally we couldn't keep saying goodbye so he decided to move in with me :) The songs we have reflect that kind of situation, for the most part, or they're just really romantic and we feel connected with it.

The Nickelback song will be the song we have our first dance to. I can't think of a better song to represent our relationship.

Good luck with everyone elses' wedding plans, I know I've talked a little too much for my first post, lol

jo

[Jason_Brown]

I know I've talked a little too much for my first post
Don't sweat it. Welcome.

[Graceful17]

Oh dear Zod! The Canadian has lost her mind...

I lost my mind a long time ago, and i will always love Cotton Eyed Joe!!!

[By-tor]

My fiance and I are getting married in 12 days (July 7th) Congrats!! And welcome to the Stop.

[jjcourtright]

The Nickelback song will be the song we have our first dance to. I can't think of a better song to represent our relationship. Man, had my wife picked a Nickelback song to be played at our wedding...there wouldn't have been a wedding.

[Mighty Wingman]

Right, with that playlist I was going to tell her to cancel my RSVP.

[SilentJo]

Are you referring to my playlist Wingman? That's just a few of the songs we've thought of playing. I think the Nickelback song feels right for us and our relationship. It's pretty hard to try to plan out what to play at a wedding. You don't want to offend the older guests and you don't want to bore the younger ones... We have about 5 days to decide too.

Thanks for the welcome :)

jo

[Mighty Wingman]

Just a friendly jibing is all , though, we do have a history here, of funning at Nicklebacks expense.

Incidentally , a friend , or aquaintance I should say, recently picked up an album..."Pickin' on Nickelback" (http://www.emusic.com/album/10931/10931054.html) which to my ears , is an improvement on their sound.

Congrats and best wishes on your impending martyrdom, er, I mean matrimony.
I always get those two mixed up for some reason.

[SilentJo]

No problem Wingman :) I can understand how you can pick on them. They played a local radio concert here back in 2001 that I was at and when Nickelback took the stage Chad Kroeger was a bit whinny about not having a longer set. But as much as it's fun to pick on them, their latest album really isn't that bad.

Jib me again on that comment if you must, I'm a newbie, I don't know any better :D

Thanks, a friend of mine at work said something along the same lines as the martyr thing. When I told him I was marrying my fiance, he quickly adds "you're murdering him eh?" Well, what a way to go I guess.

I'm really enjoying it here, it's nice to come to a message board and not get flammed or shit on for being a newcomer (though my join date says different, I joined then lost the bookmark) I'll just be wandering about aimlessly, later

jo

[By-tor]

I'm really enjoying it here, it's nice to come to a message board and not get flammed
http://www.cet.middlebury.edu/~bryan/vietnam/flamethrower.jpg
Welcome home. ;)

[SilentJo]

I feel at home already, thanks :)

Little to the left, I'm not charred to a crisp there...

jo

[phit_demon]

I feel at home already, thanks :)

Little to the left, I'm not charred to a crisp there...

jo
You, I like.
Cead Mile Fáilte!

[SilentJo]

Why thank you, phit :) Thank you for the Irish Welcome as well (admittedly I had to Google it, lol). I'm half Irish on my father's side, but I didn't grow up knowing him or my father's relatives, just my mom's side (full-blooded Italian, I'm a Guinea Mick :D ) But thank you just the same.

I added another song to the list, "Through Glass" from Stone Sour. I love it's sound and I think it'll do well with our mix of people. It's only four days away, the nervousness is just starting to set in. Plus I have to do some major house cleaning before my Grandma flies out here. Eek. I think I'd rather take the flaming than clean this place...

Later all :)

jo

[phit_demon]

Thank you for the Irish Welcome as well (admittedly I had to Google it, lol).
Glad to teach someone some Irish, cos I care about your education.
Just like this guy:

http://membres.lycos.fr/sironimo/belding02.jpg


While still (kinda) on the Saved By The Bell subject, may your wedding be every bit as magical as this one:

http://www.tiffanithiessen.org/projects/posters/poster-wedding.jpg

[SilentJo]

Saved by the Bell wasn't exactly my ideal basis for my wedding, but I appreciate it nonetheless. SbtB is something I'd like to keep in the late 80s-early 90s, besides, it was all about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for me back then :)

jo

[ChristopherStipp]

Dude, for reals, that SBTB picture with Zack and Kelly looks like Zach is getting married to Emo Phillips. Las Vegas, indeed...

[phit_demon]

http://www.autofish.net/clysm/images/films/joe_earley.png

Just call me Mr. Butterfingers.