# For the currently not married Dope-folk... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724 "2003-12-13T03:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![msLeo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@msLeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msLeo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/61 "2003-12-15T16:43:48Z")
Since I’ve been married once, those great songs I used make me want to vomit when I here them now. But, if it ever happens again and I actually have a weeding. “At Last”-by? (a soulful blues woman) would be my entering song. And “California Stars”-Woody Gutherie (Mermaid Ave I version) would be the exit. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/62 "2003-12-15T16:46:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by msLeo \* > \*\*But, if it ever happens again and I actually have a weeding. \*\* Freudian slip, maybe? You know, weeding out the bad husbands…? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/63 "2003-12-15T18:03:00Z")
Another one bites the dust? ---
**Author:** ![msLeo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@msLeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msLeo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/64 "2003-12-15T19:37:20Z")
Sorry for the spelling…but that is a good one dantheman. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/65 "2003-12-15T20:47:03Z")
Sabbra Cadabra by Black Sabbath. That would be very cool. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/66 "2003-12-15T22:53:07Z")
I’ve heard that “Can’t Find a Better Man” by Pearl Jam was actually popular for a while at weddings, obviously with people who don’t listen to anything other than the hook (the longer line is “She lies and says she’s in love/ can’t find a better man”). So what exactly _is_ a wedding song? I’ve only ever been to Orthodox Jewish weddings, which are structured very differently from the average American weddings (at least the ones I’ve seen in movies), and mostly play only Jewish music. Is it the song you walk down to? The song you enter the reception to? The song you have your first dance to? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/67 "2003-12-15T22:57:02Z")
I was thinking it was the one to which the wedding party entered the reception. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/68 "2003-12-15T23:29:04Z")
**MsLeo** , _At Last_ was sung by Etta James (and I’m sure tons of others, but that’s who you’re thinking of. And it’s exactly what I was coming in here to say. My second choice would be Aaron Neville’s version of _Crazy Love_ (the version that was in the movie Phenomenon). ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/69 "2003-12-16T01:00:49Z")
**Brass Monkey**. Performed on bagpipes… ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/70 "2003-12-16T02:00:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Now THAT sounds cool, but I’d use the march from the end of A NEW HOPE, when Han and Luke are walking down the aisle at the awards ceremoney. \*\* No shit…we did that! For the recessional we used that march. Got a great laugh out of our friends and a confused ‘huh’ from the relations. My handyman used ‘Man of Constant Sorrow’ for his wedding song. I believe my quote was ‘Dan…what the hell are you thinking?’ He just laughed and headed out to fix the porch. ---
**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/71 "2003-12-16T06:44:39Z")
assemblage 23 - let me be your armor nah, its too intense for something as boring as a marriage. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/72 "2003-12-16T07:41:00Z")
I’m hoping we come into money before the wedding so we can hire a live band. A swing band. And we’ll ask them to arrange an instrumental of “Nothing Else Matters” for us. If it works on cellos it’ll work on brass. Plus, then we can have all the Glenn Miller we could ever hope for, and after I change into my travelling suit we could cut a rug to “Sing Sing Sing (With A Swing).” ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/73 "2003-12-16T14:07:45Z")
“Fiesta” by the Pogues. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/74 "2003-12-16T15:30:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*Ice Ice Baby \*\* 😃 Appropriate, I suppose. Novemeber Rain, for me. We could all act out the video. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/75 "2003-12-16T17:55:22Z")
I knew of someone whose _processional_ was the Imperial March. His bride entered to “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” as her name was Star. At a wedding I helped run a few years back, the processional was “Jupiter” from the Planets. The recessional, of course, was “Throne Room March.” My current choice for my recessional is “Mazel Tov” by the klezmer band Mikveh, and for reception entrance either “Radetzky March,” or “Loudly Let the Trumpets Bray” from _Iolanthe_. For the first dance, I’m thinking possibly a classic tango. (“Hernando’s Hideaway” and anything by Tom Lehrer are right out.) ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/76 "2003-12-16T18:56:56Z")
Oh, my gosh, **Scuba\_Ben** , after I took a ballroom dance class in college, I was convinced for a long time I wanted my first dance to be a tango. How cool would that be? (Of course, I’ve long forgotten the steps…) ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/77 "2003-12-16T20:06:45Z")
A stately tango, with a good helping of fancy steps, would be totally cool. I’ve been to a few weddings where the happy couple had apparantly crammed a few classes from “McBallroom” (to swipe a phrase from my salsa instructor). They did a good job with their dance, and worked in a few basic turns, which brought lots of applause from everybody. I figure, I like to dance, I love tango, and everybody will be watching us – so we may as well give them the best show we can! Also, I learned at the last wedding I attended that a bridal gown is incredibly difficult to walk backwards in. So we would need to prepare a dance routine where the lady is walking forwards as much as possible. Of course, as the position of dance, dive, & life partner is currently open, I have plenty of time to compare tango vs. Viennese waltz. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/78 "2003-12-16T20:35:59Z")
Gah! The Viennese waltz always stymied me. If you can do that one, I am in awe. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/79 "2003-12-16T21:48:19Z")
GonzoGal and I are getting married in August. First Dance: “From this moment” - Shania Twain. Cheesy, yes. Sappy, yes. Ready-made cliche? yes. But for us it works. However, our reception-entry music will be “All Things” by Wildlife. AKA the “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724/80 "2003-12-16T22:20:42Z")
When I can do Viennese waltz, _I’ll_ be in awe. I tried it once, and kept tripping over my own feet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-currently-not-married-dope-folk/218724.md?page=5)