30 Day Song Challenge, number 23: a song that you want to play at your wedding

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Since a number of us here are either already married or don’t ever want to be, feel free to treat this one as simply “a good song to play at a wedding”.

I have to go to Bandcamp for this one because YouTube is giving me one of those annoying “this video is not available” messages. It’s The Galaxies - Love Has Found Me, a great slice of '60s-style power pop with a little touch of country. There’s even a line about “walking down that aisle” in the lyrics so it feels like it actually is a song about being married.

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The Clash - “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”

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Michael Franti’s “Have a Little Faith.” Don’t ask me why, I think it’s sadder than any wedding song should be, but for some reason I really like the idea of dancing to this song at a wedding.

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Probably been done to death but since the first time I heard Fields of Gold (Sting) I thought it would make a lovely wedding song. Even then I knew *I *most likely wouldn’t ever get married but I still find the song so lovely and it borderline makes me blub.

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I’m getting married this October and we’re walking down the aisle to a trio playing Poi Dog Pondering’s Angelika Suspended. That song always puts me at peace.

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We were going to renew our vows this year and include Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud.”

ETA: Congrats, stpauler!!

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“Love Will Tear Us Apart” - Joy Division

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Thanks and you too on your renewal!

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That’s the song my fiance’s enamored with right now.

But my choice is “The Most Beautiful Girl” from Flight of the Conchords.

Also, congrats to both **stpauler **and faithfool.

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I recently went to a same sex wedding where the groom Will sang Wedding Bell Blues, (with slightly altered lyrics) to his new husband Bill. It was so very cool.

Bill, I love you so I always will.
I look at you and see the passion eyes of May
And Bill, we’re finally get to see our wedding day.

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Local H- High-Fiving M-F was my first choice, but went with Steve Howe playing Concerto In D instead.

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Way back when, when I got married I picked the current popular wedding song which I hated then and hate even more now.
I can’t even type the name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swHjpyrV1e8
The band couldn’t find the song I did want,
The Wedding Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZbhrO4IEtI.

Being that I’ve always been into hard rock, there aren’t a lot of choices for wedding songs.
Now I’d probably go with Thank You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1z4vkPWkLQ

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It would’ve been nice to have “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” playing at my wedding.*

*One time we were having breakfast at a semi-ritzy place that had a harpist performing. I still regret not having gone up and requested that she play this song.

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Yakety Sax.

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We put a lot of thought into this prior to our wedding last year. We finally decided on The Way You Look Tonight.

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“S’Wonderful” by Ella Fitzgerald

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Actually I hope it’s not too late if I can change it from Joy division to YS.

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“Don’t Bring Me Down” by ELO. Seriously. I hate the sappy crap and we would laugh our butts off about this song. :smiley:

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Georgia Satellites: Keep Your Hands to Yourself. That would be my walkout music.:smiley:

Keep Your Hands to Yourself

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Thank you both so much. That was very kind of you guys.

But before anyone else expresses their sweet wishes, I just want to say that my husband passed away in November. We’d even moved our renewal up to our 22 1/2 anniversary hoping to make it in time, yet it wasn’t meant to be. And I seriously apologize for not wording my earlier post better. I tried to think of the best way to convey all that, but these days, it seems like every third post of mine talks about being a widow, so I weaseled in an attempt to shut the hell up about it. Sorry all.