# Bad Wedding Song Choices **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126 "2003-09-12T03:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@mala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mala)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/61 "2003-09-13T04:00:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*_Another One Bites the Dust_ \*\* I went to my boyfriend’s brother’s wedding in June. After he and his bride were pronounced man and wife, the dj pumped “Another One Bites the Dust” as the happy couple walked back down the aisle together. Funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Misha77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Misha77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misha77)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/62 "2003-09-13T10:21:45Z")
I once had a “What do you think our wedding song would be?” conversation with my boyfriend. We laughingly decided on Pat Benetar’s “Love is a Battlefield.” I figured I’d have to do the dance that she does in the video, with bridesmaids as backup dancers, for full comic effect. That image had us both hooting with laughter. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/63 "2003-09-13T11:22:03Z")
I don’t go to a lot of weddings, but I was really surprised back in the early 80s at a friend’s wedding. I was really glad to hear **“I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock and Roll”** (even though the bride still did rock at this point), but I was totally shocked to hear **“If Lovin’ You Is Wrong, I Don’t Want To Be Right”**. Hello? This is all about cheating! I was waiting for them to follow it up with **“Me & Mrs. Jones”**! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/64 "2003-09-13T11:36:59Z")
I tried to convince my wife that we should dance to Rod Stewart’s _Tonights the Night_, but for some reason she wouldn’t have it. I can’t imagine why, what with such romantic lyrics as > [@](#): > > C’mon angel my hearts on fire > Don’t deny your man’s desire > You’d be a fool to stop this tide > Spread your wings and let me come inside and > [@](#): > > Don’t say a word my virgin child > Just let your inhibitions run wild > The secret is about to unfold > Upstairs before the night’s too old Oh, well. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/65 "2003-09-13T13:19:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*_Another One Bites the Dust_ \*\* Sadly enough, through the mid-80’s, if not the whole song, even if just the intro, got played at some point at just about every wedding I went to, usually around the time the bride and groom entered the reception or it was “jokingly” requested by the groom’s friends for the couple’s first dance. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/66 "2003-09-13T15:05:29Z")
Holy cow - I was just trying to be a smart-ass - can’t believe people actually did that!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Akaadji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Akaadji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaadji)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/67 "2003-09-13T16:44:47Z")
_I Hate Everything About You_ by **Three Day’s Grace** …and as a side note, my mother _wanted_ them to play White Wedding when she got married… ---
**Author:** ![TJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@TJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJay)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/68 "2003-09-13T17:01:08Z")
A friend of mine’s now husband wanted “You’re the one for me fatty” by The Smiths when she walked down the aisle, but luckily she vetoed that one! The first song we danced to after we got married was “Time to Say Goodbye” by Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman, which in hindsight probably wasn’t the best song to celebrate our wedding to, but in our defence it was playing on a half an hour loop outside our hotel in Vegas to accompany the fountain show! ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/69 "2003-09-13T18:17:18Z")
I was once across the street from an outdoor wedding reception where the band played, with your typical wedding-band arrangements, “White Wedding” and the Smiths’ “Girlfriend in a Coma.” I thought they were hilarious, but I’m sure some people wouldn’t have appreciated them. ---
**Author:** ![kalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kalex)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/70 "2003-09-13T21:52:55Z")
I’ve always said that if I ever get a real wedding (the first one didn’t count) that song where you dance with your dad will be either Prince’s “Erotic City” or Rick James’ “Superfreak”. My SO smiles politely when I say things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/71 "2003-09-13T22:09:12Z")
See, now I lost my virginity to Erotic City. That was appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/72 "2003-09-13T23:54:40Z")
Whitney Houston’s “[Saving All My Love for You](http://whitneyhouston.freeservers.com/samlfy.html)” :barfsmiley: ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/73 "2003-09-14T00:07:42Z")
“Breakin’ up” by the Violent Femmes would probably be a poor choice. ---
**Author:** ![Winterwren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Winterwren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winterwren)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/74 "2003-09-14T00:19:22Z")
When I got married, I wanted R.E.M.'s “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” – and when that was vetoed, I tried for Frank Zappa’s “Dirty Love.” (My ex’s mother had a poodle that she liked to pick up and kiss, so I felt that _“Give me your dirty love/just like your mama makes her nasty poodle do. . .”_ would be appropriate. My ex refused to let me near the CD player (it was at his parents’ home), and warned the entire party not to let me near it. Right now, I’m leaning towards “Not Getting Married Today” from _Company_ and the song by The Beautiful South that starts off, _“The perfect love song: it has no words/it only has death threats. . .”_ I’m not sure I’m going to be allowed near the music this time, either. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/75 "2003-09-14T00:35:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dizzy Fingers \* > \*\*You might have opted for “I Hold Your Hand in Mine.” \*\* \*I hold your hand in mine, dear, I press it to my lips, I take a health bite from your dainty fingertips. My joy would be complete, dear, if you were only here, But still I keep your hand as a precious souvenier…" ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/76 "2003-09-14T02:13:59Z")
Queen’s **Death On Two Legs** : _You suck my blood like a leech You break the law and you preach Screw my brain til it hurts You’re taking all my money And you want more. . ._ Or, alternately, **Is She Really Going Out With Him?** ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/77 "2003-09-14T03:10:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by panamajack \* > \*\*I was at a friend’s wedding when a song by a certain group was being played; she got upset and mentioned they’d really stressed that the DJ wasn’t supposed to play anything by them. Apparently the DJ thought it was cute to completely contradict any recommendations they’d made (as he continued to do later). > > The reason he wasn’t supposed to play any songs by that group was that it always reminded the bride’s mother of her first husband. > > Her mother’s first husband, who was killed a week after they were married. \*\* Pulling a stunt like this would have earned him a serious ass-kicking from us. It’s so _adorable_ when people you are paying an outrageous fee for just a few hours at an event that is “once in a lifetime” do things like that. Our DJ played a dance version of “Women on the Trashy Side,” led everyone in “learning” the electric slide, and played our requested songs only when we went up, flipped through our CD folder, handed him the CD and told him the track number. But all the guests had a great time, and that’s what mattered, really. If we’d had the money and connections, we would have had Robert Earl Keen Jr. and his band. We would play “All of Me” by Willie Nelson, a song of heartbreak and worthlessness… “Egg Sucking Dog” by the late great Johnny Cash, or even better, my favorite duet of all time: “Jackson” a song about a couple who are just so damn sick of each other–“we got married in a fever”–REK’s “The Came Lo Mein” about two crazy people squabbling at a Chinese Buffet… Howsabout that Nine Inch Nails song that goes, “I Want to Fuck You Like an Animal…” That’d be a fun reception to go to. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/78 "2003-09-14T03:55:14Z")
Heh. My cousins danced at their wedding to ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’ for what seemed like 20 minutes while my deafened-by-the-amps saintly grandma smiled uncomprehendingly. The traditional wedding march from LOHENGRIN is part of a story that does not end happily: the synopsis at [metopera.org](http://metopera.org) ends with: “Ortrud perishes, and Elsa, calling for her lost husband, falls lifeless to the ground.” Isn’t it romantic? Randy Newman has the greatest songs (listening to SAIL AWAY right now) where the most beautiful melodies accompany the most horrible scenarios in the lyrics–‘Sail Away’, ‘Jesus in the Summertime’, ‘God’s Song’, and especially ‘In Germany Before the War’ which is about a child killer. Good ones for the anti-wedding: ‘Guilty’, ‘My Life is Good’, ‘I Want You to Hurt Like I Do’, ‘You Can Keep Your Hat On’, ‘It’s Money That I Love’, ‘My Life is Good’, and possibly one of the loveliest songs I’ve ever heard, from a musical I saw in Chicago that never made it to New York but dammit should have, ‘Gainesville’ from RANDY NEWMAN’S FAUST. Margaret, the sweet Bethany Young, sang it to Kurt Deutsch’s Henry Faust. \*Are you really mine? Are you really mine? Do your eyes shine when you see me walking down the street, boy? Does your heart glow when you know that we’re about to meet? I don’t think they do. I was born in Gainesville, Florida, and my father was a tailor, and my mother ran a cafe near the University. And she didn’t raise a fool When she raised me.\* ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/79 "2003-09-14T18:33:42Z")
I’m amazed noone’s mentioned **Surprise! You’re Dead!** by Faith No More. I doubt even sadomasochists could find that song romantic. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126/80 "2003-09-14T18:51:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diane \* > \*\*True story - > > A good friend of mine served in Turkmenistan while in the Peace Corp. While there, she attended a local wedding. They played one song over and over because they liked the beat (even though they couldn’t understand the words) - **Smack My Bitch Up** by Prodigy. \*\* You’re killing me! A friend of mine is in the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan right now…she has written lots of stories about how she has to sit with the 10-year-old girls at weddings, since she is single, plus has to wear ankle-length skirts and not touch men, no matter how platonically. The juxtaposition is hilarious! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-wedding-song-choices/201126.md?page=5)