# Best First Song Ever (Wedding Reception) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842 "2008-03-10T16:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/21 "2008-03-11T15:09:57Z")
My wife picked the song without telling me what it was. “Good Girls Don’t” by The Knack. I though “Hey, this marriage thing is going to be good”. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/22 "2008-03-11T15:34:00Z")
We didn’t have a traditional reception with contemporary music\*, but during our ceremony, the pavillion a quarter mile away started their sound check by playing Santana’s (featuring Rob Thomas) “Smooth”, loud enough to sound like it belonged to us, which actually worked well. It made everyone laugh during a moment that was turning from romantic to schmaltzy, and we danced a few steps before grinning and moving on with the ceremony. \*there was a drum jam, but saying our first dance was Bum whappa whappa whapitty bum doesn’t make much sense ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/23 "2008-03-11T15:54:11Z")
We’re going to use “If I had a million dollars” by the Barenaked Ladies, but I don’t thnk that’s especially interesting or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/24 "2008-03-11T15:59:33Z")
[QUOTE=Barrels] Traditional we are not. I’ve metioned to a few people that that’s going to be our song and for some reason no one belives me. We will follow it up with a slow dance to Norah Jones, Come Away With Me. [/QUOTE] Come Away With Me is what Himself & I used back in September; our _real_ song, Bring Me to Life by Evanecence is a little hard to dance to, and some of the family wouldn’t get it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/25 "2008-03-11T17:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=cards] Daughter name: Barbie Future son in law name: Ken Song: Come on Barbie let’s go party [/QUOTE] For the benefit of anyone looking for that song, it’s actually _Barbie Girl_, by Aqua. My pick would be _I Went to Your Wedding_ by Spike Jones even if there’s really no possibility of dancing to it. [“At last we got rid of **yooouuu**!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnCAQ3Nq93c) ---
**Author:** ![Barrels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Barrels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrels)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/26 "2008-03-11T17:16:10Z")
[QUOTE=Indyellen] Come Away With Me is what Himself & I used back in September; our _real_ song, Bring Me to Life by Evanecence is a little hard to dance to, and some of the family wouldn’t get it. 😉 [/QUOTE] We both love Come Away With Me, now if there was only a chance that we would be able to go away anytime soon! Everytime we write a check out for the wedding I remind Sweetie that I wanted to get married in Vegas, and was willing to deal on the Elvis thing. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/27 "2008-03-11T17:40:40Z")
“California Stars” by Billy Bragg and Wilco, [lyrics](http://www.bemydemon.org/songs/california.htm) by Woody Guthrie. Best I ever heard because it was ours. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/28 "2008-03-11T17:51:12Z")
You know, in reading all of these I forgot to add my own… I got married at home plate on a softball field, so ours was “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/29 "2008-03-11T17:55:03Z")
I’ve always been partial to the song “Frog Kissing” & maybe someday I’ll get to use it. ---
**Author:** ![uncle\_squeegee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b5e925/32.png) [@uncle\_squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncle_squeegee)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/30 "2008-03-13T02:25:41Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] “California Stars” by Billy Bragg and Wilco, [lyrics](http://www.bemydemon.org/songs/california.htm) by Woody Guthrie. Best I ever heard because it was ours. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Fantastic choice. I might steal it for mine. We’ve been tossing around using _Ring of Fire_ but it may not make the cut. We have a band and they said they’d be willing to learn a couple songs if we send them a CD. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/31 "2008-03-13T02:35:55Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] “California Stars” by Billy Bragg and Wilco, [lyrics](http://www.bemydemon.org/songs/california.htm) by Woody Guthrie. Best I ever heard because it was ours. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Great choice. I love that song. Too bad Woody never recorded it or the Mrs. and I could have used it!! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/32 "2008-03-13T14:54:58Z")
We used “Be My Life’s Companion” by the Mills Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/33 "2008-03-13T15:03:42Z")
A friend’s first song was Lyle Lovett’s “I Love Everybody (Especially You),” which I thought was great. Ours was Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842/34 "2008-03-13T19:16:35Z")
Hm. Well, we never really had a reception, so we didn’t have a “first dance” song, but the exit song from the wedding ceremony was Harry Connick Jr.'s, “It Had To Be You.” Although at the restaurant, there was an accordion player who did a version of the “Anniversary Song” for us. Lyrics: “Oh how we danced on the night we were wed We danced through the night for there wasn’t any bed I needed a wife like a hole in the head.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-first-song-ever-wedding-reception/440842.md?page=1)