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

(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.

blimey, lateish-period b-side! 'friday i'm in love' too... garish?

maybe i'm overthinking this, but i don't want people to think "oh god, don't they know this song is about heartbreak/death/other inappropriate thing?" or "wtf is this dreary shit?" or "i'm not dancing to this, they can rot out there...".

I don't know, the song meant a lot to both of us and despite it being cheesy the lyrics worked well. We ended up getting a lot of comments later in the evening from the older relatives about "that pretty song you danced too", so I'm guessing it went over well.

When my wife and I were talking about this, we decided... you know, forget everyone else. This is OUR song to start our married life, who cares what everyone else wants.

to me, it's better to lean toward popularism over hipness in wedding music. our first dance was "i only have eyes for you" which is an awesome song but also one that everybody knows, including parents and (probably) grandparents and random cousins who mainly listen to country music. if the wife is nervous, pick something slow and romantic and no one will care how your dancing is. they just want to be happy for you.

ha that was actually an xpost, not a response to jon's post, even though it reads like one.

I'm getting married, but not for two years yet so I have a lot of time to think about this. Thinking about maybe using Modest Mouse's Sleepwalking (I think it's an old blues song, with lyrics added?) to walk down the aisle. Fiancee isn't too impressed, no one ever is when I mention Modest Mouse but it's a beautiful little song.

Is A Case of You too cynical for a first dance? 'Twas the first song he ever played to me on the guitar and one that got me into Joni Mitchell, who I love now. Sets us up to make everyone try to dance to Raised on Robbery later in the night, too. ;)

Maybe the Shangri-La's Sophisticated Boom Boom for the aisle walk. "I was walking down the street, and it was getting mighty late.."

We just used Palace Bros.' "New Partner" for our first dance. Then the Supremes "You Keep Me Hanging On" to really start the dancing. It went over well. Oh, and we followed that up with "Push It."

Ours was "Born Slippy". My advice would be "do not choose 'Born Slippy'".

to me, it's better to lean toward popularism over hipness in wedding music.

right. and to exactly that end, i've just remembered i've also been considering the beatles' 'all you need is love'!

easy to dance/sway to, everyone knows the words and will bawl the chorus/ba-ba-bas, people will actively want to dance to it (i think), perfect sentiment obv, and, well, it's the beatles.

this is also in the ballpark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW_PBQcrKH8

xpost lol @ noodle vague! 'smack my bitch up' more appropriate?

Our was "Halo" by The Cure.

If you had gone with "Halo" by Depeche that would have been...amusing.