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.
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.
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”!
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
and
Oh, well. 
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:
Holy cow - I was just trying to be a smart-ass - can’t believe people actually did that!!! :eek:
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…
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!
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.
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.
See, now I lost my virginity to Erotic City. That was appropriate.
Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love for You”
:barfsmiley:
“Breakin’ up” by the Violent Femmes would probably be a poor choice.
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.
*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…"
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?
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.
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 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.*
I’m amazed noone’s mentioned Surprise! You’re Dead! by Faith No More. I doubt even sadomasochists could find that song romantic.
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!