What record would you like played first at your wedding reception?

Also everyone I know who has been recently (last few years) married has played God Only Knows at their wedding.

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Teddy Pendergrass - "When somebody loves you back"

Easy.

Hey, my wife really did walk down the aisle to "Welcome". We weren't married when I posted that. First dance was to something by Veloso.

My bff did Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" and man it was so perfect I might actually have to steal it for when/if mine happens.

we got married halfway up the stairs. so, coming down the stairs was superchunk, 'throwing things'.

first dance was sarah vaughan, 'polka dots and moonbeams'.

also, congrats elvis!

I don't quite know why anyone would choose "God Only Knows" as their first dance. I mean, "I may not always love you"? Not exactly 'til death do us part, is it?

That's exactly the reason my wife refused to have it played.

Our recep had a DJ thrown in as part of the package, but I'd found a band that I felt would go down a storm with everyone (think Geordie Pogues. OK, DJP, your office, etc)..

So anyroad, we didn't fuss too much about the wedding DJ, gave him a free hand although asked him not to play "Come on Eileen", not because I know any Eileens, just because of over-playing.

So, anyroad, he decides that a great choice of final dance song for the bride and groom was the latest fab "Soldier Soldier" spinoff he'd just got as a promo. "You don't have to say you love me" by Denise Welsh.

We laughed. We danced. And we cursed his stylii to forever fall out from now on.

OK, so it was all CDs.

(DJP = DK, as any fule kno (soz))

Yeah, I don't use DJP here to avoid confusion with DJM.

"I don't quite know why anyone would choose "God Only Knows" as their first dance. I mean, "I may not always love you"? Not exactly 'til death do us part, is it?"

But the next line is "long as there are stars above you" so it IS forever - the first line's a red herring. But yeah, it would sound jarring regardless. We went for Dennis Wilson's Forever as the aisle tune, Let's Stay Together for the registry-signing and Love Unlimited's Under the Influence of Love for first dance. I agree Into My Arms would be a great choice.

young hot rod/tila tequila - i like to fuck

trick daddy/trina - nann nigga

Lex you are never going to get married.

i was actually gonna say, i have a serious actual romantic choice, but thinking about it i would really not object to dirty ho-rap comprising the bulk of the reception.

actually i did dj a wedding reception earlier this year and played 'how many licks?' by lil' kim, there were still old people and children in the room :/

Let's hope some of the old people were retired dirty hos

I think anyone who wouldn't have "Don't Stop Believin'" as the first song at their wedding is a fucking Communist and should be treated as such

Roky Erickson - "Don't Slander Me"

-- Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:02 (5 years ago) Link

lol was just thinking this as I clicked on this thread and wondering why I thought it was so funny, and sure enough someone posted it five years ago.

Congratulations Elvis!

I walked up the aisle to "Beyond the Sea" by Bobby Darin.
We walked down the aisle together to "Happy Together" by The Turtles
I honestly can't remember what the first song at the reception was and neither of us saved the playlist. :-(

I walked up the aisle to "Beyond the Sea" by Bobby Darin.

Nutty, I was thinking about this very song earlier as being a good choice.

It's one of favorite songs ever and since L and I had an ocean between us for much of our relationship it seemed appropriate. I also didn't really want to walk by myself to anything really slow for some reason.

Aw, very nice. (Not that this is a wedding song by any stretch lyrically but a-ha's "The Swing of Things" plays around with the separation-by-ocean idea extremely well.)

first song at my reception was Willie Hutch's "I Choose You"

^ now thats gangsta

I've only ever been to one wedding (my cousin's) and they had Amazed by Lonestar. Which was a bit 'ugh', but fair play to them.

I honestly don't know what I would have.

"I Concentrate On You" - Sinatra/Jobim

We had "The Wonder of You" by Elvis, me having nixed his choice of "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS on grounds of "urgh, not INXS" and he having dismissed all of my choices as schmindie bollocks. And when I say "by Elvis", I mean "the Elvis song as interpreted by the band playing at the reception", who were actually pretty good.

A couple friends had the live band play "Cocaine" as their bride-and-groom-first-dance song. I've thought about the Melodians' "You Have Caught Me" as our embarrassing-dancing-in-front-of-everybody song. Hoping the Owls will play the ceremony.

'You Look Divorced' ANAL CUNT

Herbie Hancock - Stars In Your Eyes

My girl bought a CD of "The Disco-Tech Of... Julien Jabre" while we were in NYC on our first trip together after we'd been... DATING for a couple of weeks. So basically we fell in love with the song as we were falling in love.

Ironically we were @ Francois K's Deep Space night a couple of days later and he played it... but I was outside having a cigarette.

Apache's "Gangsta Bitch"

Cryptopsy's "Slit Yer Guts"

Gays can't get married, so I guess Mariah Carey's "Fantasy."

"Smell Yo Dick"

just wondering, u Australian, Popture?
-- wilter, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:23 PM (Yesterday)

Yes, yes I am.
Anyway my real answer would probably be "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frankie Valli. It expresses the right sentiment and you can dance to the 'I love you baby'.

Damn it Elvis, I always thought that would be my song! I love Spiritualized...

I also have vaguely fantasized about Takk by Sigur Ros: 'Glosoli' as the song all the bridesmaids/groomsmen walk down, then 'Hoppipolla' as the song I walk down the isle to... I don't know why.. probably some stupid estrogen thing.

Ew. Why am I even thinking about this?

Spiritualized's "Anyway That You Want Me" would work well, I think?

Any Way oops

wedding I went to in Marseille a couple of years ago, Amadou & Mariam's "Beaux Dimanches", was the best song ever

If I find a gal I can love well enough (and likewise) who is willing to put up with me (both of which are key), I wouldn't give a damn if it were Al Green or Peaches.

Though I may shrug my shoulders and recommend something by Eddie Hinton. "I Got The Feeling" or "You Got Me Singing" or something for our first dance, maybe "Yeah Man!" for fun later.

...I suppose a woman who earnestly wants to play Peaches at our reception is either a comic genius or history's greatest monster...

We had The Book of Love, by The Magnetic Fields. I had tried to make a case for Poing by Rotterdam Termination Source, but this was vetoed. Somehow, though, The Gambler was allowed!

"hamburger lady"

'Poing' would have been amazing - you should have tried harder.

I once attended a wedding where the first song was Who's Sorry Now (the Connie Francis version) even though it was very funny at the time it didn't bode well at-all, unsuprisingly the couple went their seperate ways in less than a year.

For me, maybe something slushy by Tom Waits, Come On Up To The House maybe.

'Poing' would have been amazing - you should have tried harder.
If I'd tried any harder, I wouldn't've got wed!

Damn it Elvis, I always thought that would be my song! I love Spiritualized...

That really is a great song to use - esp the full Elvis version.

I love them too. In fact, I'm going to see them tonight!

[Many threads ripe for potential revival re this issue, so I thought I'd go for the one with the most sensible title.]

I've been entrusted with choosing our "first dance" tune in February (the future Mrs No.4 has the power of veto though).

I've veered wildy from the v silly ('Ma Na Ma Na') to the v serious ('Love Songs on the Radio' - Mojave 3), to the fun to dance to ('Twist & Shout' - Deacon Blue), to the thematically inappropriate but beautiful ('Last of the Melting Snow' - Leisure Society), to outright classics ('Let's do It' - Marvin & Kim, 'My Baby Just Cares For Me'), to what could conceivably be seens as (ugh) "our song" ('Nothing Can Stop Us' - Saint Etienne), to something we can kinda act out for fun ('Cinderella Rockefella' - Esther & Abi Ofarim), to the short and jazzy ('I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants') - Kitty Gray), to "more for me than her, really" ('Cybele's Reverie' - Stereolab).

The missus claims she's more scared about the first dance than the vows, whereas I'm fairly happy just to bumble about for a few minutes and then get everyone else dancing.

But how to decide? Married folks, how horrible was your first dance experience?
Do you even remember it?
Does it fly by or drag on?
Did you arrange for some mates to start dancing at a certain point so you weren't stranded alone for too long?
Are silly songs just a bit embarrassing in retrospect?
Is it worth actually learning some steps? Are big YouTube-bait production numbers a little passe?

Argh.

Our was "Halo" by The Cure.

"underneath it all" by no doubt

trying to make a playlist that will suit toddlers, grannies, wire readers, old punks, ravers and children of the '80s alike.

this is basically exactly what i have to do for the pre-"disco" playlist. am i going to try? nope! i'm going to fill it with songs we want to hear because this isn't dancing time...

I had to do that too. the pre-disco "dinner" playlist was six hours of martin denny, les baxter, art blakey, mingus, brubeck, tinariwen and iranian classical stuff.

Southall to thread!

idk if 'world at your feet' is for everyone :/