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

i want to marry rachel from rachel getting married

We went with Fire In My Heart by Super Furry Animals which went down quite well

i always think Baby I Love You by the Ramones would be a really good one.

I was running around the park the other day and the song "In Love With You" by Fred Falke & Alan Braxe came on---if I could cut it down by like 3 min I think it would work great.

FoF went to a wedding recently where the first dance was in fact two songs, both by The Wonderstuff: 'It's Yer Money I'm After, Baby' and 'Unbearable' (chorus: "I didn't like you very much when I met you/And now I like you even less'") - they bounced around in full-on posho wedding gear and everyone apparently thought it was hilarious...

But. I'm not sure I want people to think our first dance is *funny*, and I suspect neither of us is confident enough to make such obvious and deliberate fools of ourselves!

Ak. Also, my family are kinda used to Richard Curtis weddings and this is def going to be a whole lot more Mike Leigh...

Good to read much Saint Etienne love anyway, although thoroughly unsurprising round these parts :-)

me and my wife danced to "This Will Be Our Year" by the zombies
weird, was just talking to a friend at work today who wants this to be her wedding song. good choice!

did you dance to the recording, or was someone playing it?

i intend to hire a hip-hop choreographer prior to my wedding and get some fucking banging moves in there - there will be no awkward shuffling in my first dance!

^^^yes. but instead of hip-hop, it'd be nice to do a super-formal eighteenth century waltz to a john fahey piece or something.

the flamingos - "i only have eyes for you"

In a jokey sense, I was listening to Notorious B.I.G. feat R Kelly - "I'm F@xking You Tonight" and thought that it would be a very amusing start. With the lyrics reminiscing on the early days of the couple's lovemaking (and the involvement of her sister!) coupled with R Kelly continuously crooning the line "and I'm f@!king you tonight.." Fairly childish but amused me nonetheless.

we got married a couple of weeks ago... for the ceremony itself we used mogwai's 'helicon 1, yma sumac's 'babalu' and eyvind kang's 'marriage of days'.

didn't do the first dance thing as such. I wanted to choreograph some salsa moves to something really inappropriate, but my wife was not comfortable with everyone watching her dance. to be fair, it's awkward enough being the centre of attention anyway. ah well. maybe next time. however, the first tune we ended up on the together on the floor to was secret chiefs 3's 'horsemen of the invisible'.

we had no DJ...I programmed the playlist and it seemed to keep people going. everything from britney, shakira and dizzee through del shannon and sam'n'dave to black flag and QOTSA.

the final run of drunken crowd-pleasers was incredibly uplifting and communal, if pretty obvious: 'I want you back', 'crazy horses', 'superstition', 'hey ya', 'my sharona', '500 miles', 'wuthering heights', 'don't stop believing'.

it was beautiful, man.

*sniff*

I'm surprised at how many of these first dance/general wedding floor-filler tunes/artists I've never heard of!

Yma Sumac? Eyvind Kang? Secret Chiefs 3? The Flamingos? 'You Make Me Feel so Young'? 'New Partner@? 'Sleepwalking'? 'Sophisticated Boom Boom'?

Not a clue, bub. I feel so lame, worrying about whether to choose The Beatles or Nina bloody Simone in the face of such richness...

I've not even (knowingly) heard 'This Will Be Our Year', although I now realise it's on Odessey and Oracle, which I bought on eMusic a couple of weeks ago so I guess I now own it!

[NB Spotify is helping me out re: all the above bands/songs so no need to explain!]

SC3 was our first dance, but not The First Dance, to be fair. it was quite late in the evening by the time it came on and we hit the floor.

the ceremony music wasn't that well known, I guess, but rather than have the usual tasteful (but equally anonymous) classical stuff, we wanted some sounds that were meaningful to us. it wasn't exactly a traditional wedding anyway...

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

me and my wife danced to "This Will Be Our Year" by the zombies
weird, was just talking to a friend at work today who wants this to be her wedding song. good choice!

― tylerw, Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha my sister and her boyfriend (now husband) played this song at our wedding

it's all about whitehouse - 'my cock's on fire'

"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 :/