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What was the first song you and yours danced to at your wedding?
Posted by Tom on 18 February 2010 - 1:51pm.
Looking into the future, I'd quite like it to be either 'Strangers In The Night' or 'This Guy's In Love With You'. I just need to find somebody to agree with me now.
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Leo Sayer
I can't stop loving you (1979)
Steven Lindsay
Valentine. 5 years ago next April. Ah, that reminds me.....
The Way You Look Tonight
Frank Sinatra's finest moment. Followed by Diana Ross's guaranteed floor-filler 'Upside Down'.
In the church we had a string quartet playing Barber's Adagio for Strings and left to Nina Simone's Feeling Good. Happy memories
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
A favourite song, a wee bit of humour because we had been living together and 'ahem' getting it on for quite some time, and a little wind up for the very religious in-laws.
And what a song...
'Til There Was You
from The Music Man.
Nick cave - Into my arms
Went on a bit too long though. That dance floor is a very lonely place...
True Love Travels On A Gravel Road by Elvis
Looking back, it couldn't have been more inappropriate.
Gravel Road
Ever heard Percy Sledge's version?
http://redkelly.blogspot.com/2006/12/percy-sledge-true-love-travels-on.h...
I hadn't until now.
Great version. Thanks for that.
Actually...
Nick Lowe's ain't half bad either.
'Twas 1999. George Michael and Mary J Blige...
...As.
We made up a special dance and everything.
Still love that song. Totally trounces Stevie Wonder's version in my opinion.
BTW it was nearly Ronan Keatings "When You Say Nothing At All".
Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be nice
Appropriate lyrics and a fun song - it got everyone smiling at our wedding. We also had an Elvis impersonator.
Did you get married
on Blackpool Pier?
Van The Man
"Have I Told You Lately That I Love You"
It wouldn't be that one now.
Would "Why Must I Always Explain"..
..have been more appropriate?
Sorry.
Or "Listen To The Lion"
if the lion in question had been telling me to leg it out the door.
Ditto.
The song, I mean.
also ditto (and The
also ditto (and The Daintees' 'Slow Loving' as well - it was OUR day we wanted two first songs, we got two first songs)
Moondance
because it's one of the only songs I'll get up on the floor for, and of the others Superstition felt inappropriate, Get Up Offa That Thing is a bit too free form and Sexy MF would have killed my grandmother.
I wasn't allowed to do my 'literal' interpretation of Moondance.
The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love
.
That was my first choice
Mrs D wasn't impressed.
Final choice was "When You Say Nothing At All", which considering I rarely shut-up seemed quite appropriate
Funnily enough
this was more Mrs Milky's choice than mine, but it's a song we're both extremely fond of (we bonded over it when we first met). I thought we should go for something more gentle, but we tried dancing to a few things a couple of nights before the wedding, and it worked so well, we decided to use it.
20 years ago (nearly) and I
20 years ago (nearly) and I cant remember.....Dont tell her indoors!
Vorgongoddess
...was far too heavily pregnant for dancing on our wedding day (mmm, classy!), but we entered Marylebone registry office (yes yes, chosen for HJH associations)to a classical guitar version of Here Comes the Sun. The sun shone mightily on only two days in the Summer of 2007. The 31st July (our wedding day) and the fourth of August (when Junior arrived)I'll never forget either day...
4 days
That was heavily pregnant. Well done for not leaving it until the very last minute though. :o)
Mrs Ross
returned her wedding day dress to Mothercare (7 months pregnant) the day after the event to get her money back, times was hard and romance costs! No first tune I just remember "Loveshack" playing on the car radio on the way from the registry office to the restaurant where we had lunch with the two other people who were present on our big day. After lunch we went to tell my parents what we'd been up to that morning!
daveross,
you are me and I claim my five pounds.
[Except for the pregnant wife]. [and Love Shack]
The Pretenders
"My Baby." We'd bonded over the whole Get Close album. My mother in law hated it, and came stomping over afterward to say, "Why'd you pick that song?" ... Charming, eh?
My sister in law and her husband danced to The The's This is the Day. She had me distract her mother during the beginning of the song where he's singing, "Well you didn't wake up this morning cause you didn't go to bed, you were watching the whites of your eyes turn red ..." Hee.
I blame the drugs
Moving on up - Primal Scream for us - 1993 and still together
The Kinks
'Waterloo Sunset' followed by 'The Boy With The Arab Strap' by Belle & Sebastian. We also had 'Serious' by Richard Hawley as the last song of the night, and that's the one which has now become 'our tune'.
I was annoyingly 'hands on' when it came to the music - my mate DJed and had free range for most of the night, but my wife and I (well, mainly me) picked the first 45 minutes.
Forever - The Beach Boys
I suppose I should add that this was also played after the wedding and has become 'Our Song', just in case the FPO reads this later and gives me grief for not mentioning it.
I still prefer dancing to Primal Scream though.
Snap!
Forever was played as the 'signing' music at my registry office service just over a year ago.
First dance? GLW isn't a fan of shuffling round in a circle while people stare and take photos and I'm not dead keen. So we did Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' and everyone got up and danced like mad things from about 30 seconds in.
R.E.M. At my most beautiful
"At my most beautiful" was our first dance and my GLW walked down the aisle to Enya "Watermark". Other than chosing those two songs and my choice of lapel flower everything else was her decision. Bloody great day though- seven years this October, don't time fly.
Snap!
We (or should I say I) chose the same song, and ours was in '03 too. What a coincidence - it came out in, what, '99/'00? It was hardly riding high in the charts by then.
Our second song - the one where all the guests joined us on the dancefloor - was Everybody Here Wants You by Jeff Buckley.
With hindsight though, I would've chosen You Send Me by Sam Cooke for the first dance, and something slightly more recognisable for the second. Lots of uncertain swaying by relatives to Jeff.
The Luckiest
Ben Folds
Discharge "Ain't No Feeble Bastard"
I recorded some classical music on a old cassette tape to play as we walked down the aisle. My mate controlling the machine pressed play at the correct time and down we walked, the music stopped and just as the Registrar was about to speak a huge blast of Stoke-On-Trent's finest hardcore punkers shook the room!
Mate had just left the tape running to return to his seat and I had forgotten to completely wipe the old casette tape that I'd recorded over.
It got a good laugh, well the in-laws laughs were rather strained as I recall...
noise control
Similar problem at our wedding. Waiting to be called in we tried to get some music on the stereo, but nothing seemed to be happening. Turn it up, turn it down. Nothing. It was only when they opened the door we realised the music was playing in the other room...
Nearly 14 years ago now. The in-laws still think it won't last.
Our closest friends had the band play "a man is in love" (The Waterboys)
Secret Smile by Semisonic.
Yes. My wife and I danced around to a song written about Dan Wilson's girlfriend's fanny.
Half-way through, it segued into Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations. A song not written about geitals. As far as I'm aware.
Ellington/Strayhorn Satin Doll
I was pushing hard for Little Red Corvette, but my father-in-law was doing the vocal honors, so we went for the tamer standard. As for the ceremony, our recessional was Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.
we didn't
'cos we couldn't be arsed with a big do and just nipped tot he Registry Office with th e close family and then for a lovely meal.
But if we had it would have almost certainly been Tom Waits' version of Somewhere off of Blue Valentine.
If I were ever to get married, which seems highly unlikely...
I would avoid the dancefloor like a dose of the clap on honeymoon night. As I have mentioned before, I dance like a drunken bear and people get hurt when I do so. Guests could do what they liked.
My Lovely Wife and I
danced around the floor to the stains of Hot Chocolate's " You Sexy Thing" Well, I was..
It was always...
A friend of ours brought his band along to play, and very kindly rehearsed a version of "You and Me Song" by The Wannadies for the first dance.
We lurched around like wounded Elk for the first minute or so to The Slow Bit, before then shooting off in seperate directions to drag various other people onto the dancefloor when it sped up.
Described by one impressed guest as "the first time I've seen a first dance turn into a mosh pit".
Bette Midler
"The Rose".
My wife's favourite song.
The Cure - Friday I'm in
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love. Nice jaunty tune with lovely Marr-like guitar lines and we married on a Friday. Not sure it's the most appropriate first dance record if you listen to the lyrics ("Thursday I don't care about you") but lots of guests complimented us on our choice. The improvised dance routine we engaged in received fewer comments.
Also Van The Man
for me....'twas TB Sheets... no idea why, it just seemed a good idea, I'm sure, at the time. When the divorce came through, I danced (solo) to "Oh Happy Day".
Tb Sheets !
Bloody Hell let me guess you followed it up with erm "Deep In The Woods"- Birthday Party
We had 'Oh Happy Day'..
As we walked down our aisle (what little of it there was), sang by gospel singers. They sounded anything but happy as there was only four of them and it was first thing in the morning.We did nearly choose Van the Man's 'The Healing has Begun' as our first dance though.
What luck
The gospel singers didn't misunderstand and belt out the tune to Happy Days.
( (c) Harry Hill 2002 )
You're the best thing
by the Style Council
It's also the tune my mobile plays when my wife calls...
HJH
It was The Beatles, All You Need Is Love. We had a huge rear-projected screen in the hotel, so we broadcast the Our World performance footage ripped from an Anthology DVD. (*Neil Aspinal spins in grave*)
Jackie Wilson
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. Perfect!
Roxy Music
'Let's Stick Together'. Start as you mean to go on..
When Madonna got married...
do you think she danced with 20 musclebound hunks in hot pants and tried to fellate the wedding cake?
It was...
Please let me wonder by The Beach Boys. Mrs Doris Corleone walked down the aisle to a piece from the Titanic soundtrack. Halfway down the aisle, a voice from the CD shouted "is anybody alive out there?" How we laughed... 10 years ago next month, and never a cross word...
The Ramones.....
.....Baby, I Love You. Nice bit of Phil Spector. Love it, went down very well.
Please Release Me...
Engelbert's finest.
And soon - I was released.
20 Million Things
Lowell George's "20 Million Things" for me many years back. Not sure what my mother and her generation made of it (or even Mrs P...) but I loved it (plus the attempts of the old uncles trying to fit a waltz into it).
Walk Through Fire
David Baerwald, a very nice waltz time.
Wedding music
The 'intro' to our registry office wedding was 'Mysteries of Love' by Julee Cruise, which has a very church-like vibe. The 'outro' was 'Now We Are Free' from the Gladiator soundtrack (I resisted shouting 'Are you not entertained' to the assembled throng!).
Our first song at the reception was 'You Make Me Feel So Young' by the peerless Mr Sinatra, and the final song of the night was 'All You Need Is Love', which felt particularly apt as the wedding was four days after 9/11.
Accapella HJH 'Because' then Hoppipolla for the brides entrance
Followed post wedding by Divine Comedy's 'Pursuit Of Happiness'. First dance was Ewan and Nicole doing 'Your Song'. Had to get a bit of Star Wars in there somehow and Mrs Fedora had poo poo'd the Imperial March for her entrance!
louis armstrong
what a wonderful world
it still is
but we aren't
in hindsight
if considering getting married
and having a ceremony that involved a bridal waltz
i'd recommend rehearsals
Great thread..
Got married in August last year.
Walked down the ailse to a string quartet instumental version of 'I'll Be Your Mirror' by The Velvet Underground
Entered the reception to 'One Day Like This' by Elbow.
First dance was this:
(Patrick Wolf: The Magic Position)
quirky, but worked brilliantly
Hmmm.....
"One Day like this a year would see me right".
Kept your ratio of weddings per annum then?
In hindsight this was regrettable,
Frank Sinatra.....
....cover of Stevie Wonder's For Once in My Life. Superb!
I also played some music before the ceremony to calm me down
Silver & Gold - Neil Young
Love Minus Zero - Bob Dylan
You Make Me So Very Happy - Blood, Sweat & Tears
No first dance
...but the Bride walked in to Sigur Ros' Hoppipolla and we both walked out to Patrick Wolf's Magic Position. I wanted 'bury me deep in love' by The Triffids, but Mrs S-to-be thought it was a bit too Neighbours-y as the main track, so we played that as congregation-mill-about-a-bit-then-leave music.
We had no input into the band's set list
so the first song was Lionel Richie's 'Hello'. I was so ecstatically happy to be married to my beautiful wife that they could have played 'Metal Machine Music' in its entirety and I still would have Cheshire Catted my way through the whole affair...
It should have been
The Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho, but the DJ forgot to bring it
We ended up with Lou Reed's Perfect Day which got the evening off to a bad start!
Nina Simone's My Baby Just Cares For Me...
...played by a kick-ass band that included Tom 'Bones' Malone on trombone.
Stand By Me -
the Lennon version. Raised a few eyebrows at the time.
A few years ago I was invited to a wedding along with my wife (we had amicably separated a couple of years before)where the guests all had to request a song as part of their rsvp.
She chose Al Green, Let's Stay Together...
Who's Sorry Now
Not really - 1st one was Berlin - The Girl That I Marry, from Annie Get Your Gun. 2nd was Van, Have I Told You.
As the MD for a wedding band, I can tell you we get some weird requests. If it's too weird we just play their MP3.