Wedding Music

[eleanorrigby]

I really liked the thread at the site which must not be named. I loved hearing about the different songs used by people and people's thoughts on what they would use at their own weddings. In fact, I discovered Sarah Harmer on that thread because of her wedding song. Now she's one of my favourite artists and I have all her albums.

I really liked that they used "Eight days a week" at Turk and Carla's wedding. Another Beatles song that might be cute for first dance would be "When I'm sixty-four". I also read that somwhere about using the Peanuts theme as a recessional, which I think is a great idea.

[foxyepicurean]

We used Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" for our recessional. We love the song, it's so peppy. Besides, we figured the title was appropriate since I'd resisted a lot of temptation for 28 years to earn my white dress and wanted to skip the reception and head straight to the honeymoon! (No one mentioned the double entendre, so maybe we were the only ones who got the joke, which is just as well.)

Before and during the ceremony we used only classical (instrumental) music because I didn't want to offend any of my musically gifted friends by playing a recorded song that they could have sung, or by asking one to sing and not another. Also, I didn't want to choose a song whose lyrics would end up seeming cheesy to me in a few years, so I erred on the side of caution. Must have worked, I got almost as many compliments on the music as I did on my (totally gorgeous if I do say so myself) dress!

[Ripley]

I can't remember what I walked up the aisle to, but I think it was something with trumpets. However, our recessional was the Theme from Star Wars. We're both fans, and we got a lot of laughs from our guests.

Our first dance was to "Fields of Gold" by Sting, my dance with my dad was to "My Girl" by The Temptations (he sang all the words to me while we danced, and I laughed and laughed), our wedding party's dance was to "Ice Cream" by Sarah McLachlan, and we opened up the All Dance to "Dancing Queen" by ABBA.

[topher]

At the reception, the wedding party introduction was done to the intro of The Cure's Just Like Heaven. We were introduced to the intro of Paul Westeberg's Waiting for Somebody. Our first dance was to Night Swimming by REM. I know these probably are not the best songs and might be inappropriate to the occasion but they mattered to us at some point in our relationship.

[dwanollah]

The Husband-Type Man came up with the idea for our recessional: the music from the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade. And we were introduced to the Throne Room music from Star Wars. I really wanted The Imperial March for the processional or for SOMETHING, but this was when all the soundtracks were being remastered and re-released, so I couldn't get ESB, and this was before mp3s.

We used some pieces by Annoymous 4 for the prelude, and then a spoken-word piece by Simon Le Bon (we met through a Durannie fan club) before the processional music (Trumpet Voluntary, fairly traditional, but thankfully not that ususal Funeral Dirge wedding march!). And, obviously, our first dance song was a Duran song, too; a bootleg of Simon and Warren doing Led Zepplin's Thank You at a radio show that was one of our first dates.

[lyrasilver]

The Husband-Type Man came up with the idea for our recessional: the music from the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade.

That is awesome. I thought I was the only person who ever listened to that outside of actually seeing the parade in Disney. I can totally see that working as recessional music, too.

My cousin and his wife used Marc Cohn's "True Companion" as their first dance, and it was sweet without being cheesy or overly sentimental.

[eleanorrigby]

And we were introduced to the Throne Room music from Star Wars.

I love that!

I just listened to "True Companion" and it is beautiful.

[foxyepicurean]

I love "True Companion", too. But it figured prominitely in my friend's wedding--and since their marriage was in the toilet before the honeymoon ended, I couldn't use it myself. Too much baggage.

Since we didn't have dancing at our wedding, I didn't have a chance to pick fun songs to dance to. (But I also saved a lot of money and kept our ultra-conservative families from having seizures, so I guess it's a wash.) It's fun hearing about y'all's selections.

[marywebgirl]

A friend played her cello before our ceremony. If there's anything prettier than an accompanied cello version of "Ave Maria" in a sunny church before a Catholic wedding ceremony, I'd be pretty surprised. I forget what the bridal party and parents walked to, but we used Trumpet Fanfare for me. I had something else picked out for the recessional, but the organist sucked and played the standard wedding recessional.

I'm very proud of our intro music at our reception -- it was a live instrumental version of a Weezer song called "Death and Destruction." We were actually at the concert when it was played, and the band posted an MP3 of it on their web site. Our first dance was unoriginal--"All I Want Is You," by U2--but I liked it because we could foxtrot to it rather than the standard swaying and it's just a good song.

ElenorRigby, "When I'm 64" is pretty standard for cutting the cake because of the "feeding" part.

The most evil thing I've ever heard is playing "Someday My Prince Will Come" for the bouquet toss.

[eleanorrigby]

The most evil thing I've ever heard is playing "Someday My Prince Will Come" for the bouquet toss.

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That is hilarious.

I never thought of "when I'm sixty-four" for the cake cutting, mostly because the receptions I've attended didn't have the cake cutting moment and I tend to forget about it. Kind of a cute idea though.