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.
Freudian slip, maybe? You know, weeding out the bad husbands…?
Another one bites the dust?
Sorry for the spelling…but that is a good one dantheman.
Sabbra Cadabra by Black Sabbath. That would be very cool.
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?
I was thinking it was the one to which the wedding party entered the reception.
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).
Brass Monkey.
Performed on bagpipes…
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.
assemblage 23 - let me be your armor
nah, its too intense for something as boring as a marriage.
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).”
“Fiesta” by the Pogues.
Appropriate, I suppose.
Novemeber Rain, for me. We could all act out the video.
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.)
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…)
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.
Gah! The Viennese waltz always stymied me. If you can do that one, I am in awe.
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.
When I can do Viennese waltz, I’ll be in awe. I tried it once, and kept tripping over my own feet.