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CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
edited February 2009 in Other Music
I may be getting divorced but I still love my wedding song.
He and I were not sappy romantics, so we had a fun song with a bit of a rehearsed dance to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTP994tOMk

Post yours :)
"I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
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  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Hmmm......I have no idea what my wedding song will be, that is if I ever do get married. But I'm betting it will be something sappy!!!
  • solace23solace23 Posts: 704
    My actual wedding song was "All I want is you" U2

    My leaving song was "Yellow Ledbetter"
  • dave grolschdave grolsch Posts: 730
    ours was i,ll stand by you -the pretenders
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    We're in the middle of picking ours. Down to 2-3 choices.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • DD164485DD164485 Posts: 149
    "You've got a Strange Effect on Me" by the Kinks.
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    Not married, but my 'wedding song' is "The Weight' because at my cousin's wedding a couple of years ago myself, her uncle and our buddy, all drunken idiots, overtook the stage and demanded the band let us sing with them. We turned that mutha out....wish I had the video posted, was quite hilarious and we didn't even screw up the words....we did spill a drink on the stage though
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    DD164485 wrote:
    "You've got a Strange Effect on Me" by the Kinks.

    I thought about that one. The only version I have is from the BBC sessions compilation and it has a talking intro which I didn't want. They never recorded an offical studio version of it that I know of (it was a song Ray wrote for someone else originally).
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    we used "Beloved One" by Ben Harper for our first dance. i actually used this song in the proposal as well! 8-)
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  • mulva9mulva9 Posts: 417
    We used "If I Should Fall Behind" from Bruce's MTV Unplugged show in 1992.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J69e6dgUwHQ&NR=1
  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    mfc2006 wrote:
    we used "Beloved One" by Ben Harper for our first dance. i actually used this song in the proposal as well! 8-)

    Great song! Very unique.
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    mfc2006 wrote:
    we used "Beloved One" by Ben Harper for our first dance. i actually used this song in the proposal as well! 8-)


    Oh lovely choice.Mines would be "Gold to Me" from Fight for Your Mind.
    “There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    listening to others songs... I can kinda see how mine for told my marriage... there was passion or romanticism in it, possibly I need to find a man who makes me wanna dace to a sappy song :mrgreen:
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    stargirl69 wrote:
    mfc2006 wrote:
    we used "Beloved One" by Ben Harper for our first dance. i actually used this song in the proposal as well! 8-)


    Oh lovely choice.Mines would be "Gold to Me" from Fight for Your Mind.

    that would've been good too! also--our last dance was to "In The Colors" by Mr. Harper as well! 8-)
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  • KalEl31KalEl31 Posts: 26
    This was the only thing I was put in charge of... Music. First dance was "Can't Help Falling In Love" the Elvis version and last dance was "Lowlight."

    I told the DJ if he played in bullshit in between I wouldn't pay him.
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    KalEl31 wrote:
    . First dance was "Can't Help Falling In Love" the Elvis version
    I thought it would be cool to dance to the PJ version and be all slow and cheesy at first then jump up and down and really rock out while all dressed up :)
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    KalEl31 wrote:
    I told the DJ if he played in bullshit in between I wouldn't pay him.

    yeah---we had some issues w/ our DJ as well. we had specific songs that we wanted to be played (about 15 or so) & he only played a couple of them. he was all about playing what we wanted to hear when it was time to sign the contract, but that went out the window on our wedding day. so, if you get married in Houston, be careful who you book as your DJ.

    in any case, i sent him an email a few weeks later asking him about it & he apologized & sent me a check for a portion of the costs. i thought that was pretty cool of him.
    I LOVE MUSIC.
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  • KalEl31KalEl31 Posts: 26
    mfc2006 wrote:
    KalEl31 wrote:
    I told the DJ if he played in bullshit in between I wouldn't pay him.

    yeah---we had some issues w/ our DJ as well. we had specific songs that we wanted to be played (about 15 or so) & he only played a couple of them. he was all about playing what we wanted to hear when it was time to sign the contract, but that went out the window on our wedding day. so, if you get married in Houston, be careful who you book as your DJ.

    in any case, i sent him an email a few weeks later asking him about it & he apologized & sent me a check for a portion of the costs. i thought that was pretty cool of him.

    The DJ we has the most brilliant idea ever: create your own setlist. Once you book him, he sets up a page for you on his website and you pick 50 songs you want to hear (and you can add notes to it. Ex: I dedicated "Lola" to my dad, "House of the Rising Sun" to my mom, etc). You then pick 10 songs you kinda wanna hear, and then 10 songs that you do not want played.

    So, if you're getting married in Boise, ID, check out http://www.djdaves.net/
  • mulva9mulva9 Posts: 417
    Why even get a DJ anymore? Make a playlist and use an iPod.
  • Boston LouBoston Lou Posts: 280
    we entered the reception to

    WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    :)



    our "song" was You Sang to Me by Marc Anthony
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    Lucifer wrote:
    we entered the reception to

    WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    :)



    our "song" was You Sang to Me by Marc Anthony

    We did Welcome to the Jungle for our intro, as well.

    "Love" by John Lennon was our wedding song.


    Take It To The Limit stole the show at the reception. It got 2 plays in a row. There was a circle of singalongers towards the end of the first time through, so we requested(drunkenly yelled) that the DJ play it again.
  • Random_HeroRandom_Hero Posts: 380
    My lady and I decided on "Too drunk to Fuck"- Dead Kennedys mainly cause thats the only way we would ever go through with an actual wedding. To quote a major douch of our times "I have been happily un-married for 7 years!" it keeps getting better
  • geishagrrlgeishagrrl Posts: 130
    mfc2006 wrote:
    KalEl31 wrote:
    I told the DJ if he played in bullshit in between I wouldn't pay him.

    yeah---we had some issues w/ our DJ as well. we had specific songs that we wanted to be played (about 15 or so) & he only played a couple of them. he was all about playing what we wanted to hear when it was time to sign the contract, but that went out the window on our wedding day. so, if you get married in Houston, be careful who you book as your DJ.

    in any case, i sent him an email a few weeks later asking him about it & he apologized & sent me a check for a portion of the costs. i thought that was pretty cool of him.

    We had the same problem with our DJ, except he also would start to play something and then stop it mid song to something else. It was terrible.

    My husband picked our wedding song because he didn't like any of my choices. I really wanted Depeche Mode's "Somebody." Instead we danced to 16 Horsepower's "Burning Bush." Here's a video for it that someone made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4HvxRhTOik

    Then he danced with his mom to Moby's "Love Song for my Mother" and I danced with my dad to Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Meant To Be."
  • BeerBaronBeerBaron Toronto-ish Posts: 4,097
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    I may be getting divorced but I still love my wedding song.
    He and I were not sappy romantics, so we had a fun song with a bit of a rehearsed dance to it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTP994tOMk

    Post yours :)
    I will have to remember to come back to this thread when I am at home later today. Youtube is blocked at work ....
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  • jecicajecica Posts: 954
    I got married in Vegas so I didn't have an "official" wedding song, but that night after dinner we danced to:

    Somebody - Depeche Mode
    By My Side - Ben Harper
    Ghetto Superstar - Pras, Dirty Bastard, Mya
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  • blackmosquitoblackmosquito Posts: 59
    We're using Bruce Springsteen's Happy from Tracks.
    I never knew soap made you taller.
  • evenflowevenflow Posts: 401
    After much prodding by me I finally got my wife to agree to let Yellow Ledbetter be our first dance song. She's just as big of a PJ fan as me, but she didn't like the idea of using Ledbetter because she wanted something with romantic lyrics. I finally got her to understand that no one is going to be listening to the words, the music is the most important and memorable. In the middle of our dance she admitted that YL was the perfect choice for us, and all of our friends agreed.

    Later in the night I spot the DJ to play Alive. I told him I know it would probably clear the dance floor, but I didn't care because it was the most important song in my life. It ended up being a great call because it was me, my wife, and 6 of our closest friends standing in the middle of the dance floor, belting out alive at the top of our lungs while everybody else in the crowd watched. When the song was over everybody clapped for us. They all commented about how our wedding was the most original wedding they had ever seen. It wasn't just the PJ played at the reception, but that did make a big part of it.

    P.S. the song playing while the wedding party walked down the isle, and after the ceremony whenever the wedding party left I had them play the slow horn song from Star Wars. You know the one in A New Hope where Luke is staring off at the two suns, beautiful man.
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  • ccjackccjack Posts: 134
    our entrance song was Back in Black by ACDC and our first dance was to Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
    "Push me and I will resist"
  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Loganville, GA Posts: 1,078
    My wife decided we should dance to PJ's "Can't Help Falling in Love" cover. I wasn't going to ask, but she insisted. To be honest, I'm not sure what I would've chosen, but looking back I'm glad we did. We were anticipating the Vegas version b/c I had completely forgotten about the Memphis version. So, it was never mentioned to the DJ that two versions of the song existed, and we wanted the Vegas version. Needless to say, it caught us both off guard, but I am glad it happened that way. Being caught off guard has been the story of our relationship since day one, and it would stand to reason that the same would happen on our first dance.
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  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    this may not be my wedding song, but it's the song I most relate to the best time in my marriage (my 2 week honeymoon in hawaii) it was played everywhere we went. Whenever I hear it, it reminds me that the 10 years he and I spent together were not a mistake. You'd think it would make me sad to hear it now, but it usually puts a big smile on my face... or I cry a little for when we were in love. Either way it's a good feeling.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D68ymfjpw98
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • violetpsychevioletpsyche Posts: 122
    We had the Unplugged version of Incubus' A Certain Shade of Green, which is a loungy, jazzy version. We chose this song because, when we first met, we used to dance to it together a lot when we were out with friends. The clueless just thought it was a nice song and those in-the-know thought it was fantastic! :D

    We also had a purely metal and rock section for the last 40 minutes of the DJ set, which was great because the majority of our friends are into that kind of thing. By that time, those who wouldn't have enjoyed that music were either partied out in the next room or had gone home. My sister did the same thing at her wedding last year, so it seems to work as a good compromise.
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