If you’re at a wedding reception and you hear “The Rains of Castamere” and you don’t know why…you’re fucked.
I am trying to avoid weddings and go for the elopement route, but I am surprised I didn’t think of this and would like to try it. Although I don’t have children who are younger than my great grandchildren.
Since we’ve gone into hypotheticals instead of things we’ve actually heard played, I can’t imagine it would be a good sign if a groom requested “Smack My Bitch Up” by Prodigy.
I have actually heard “I Will Survive”. Then again, they’ve been married over 10 years and have 2 kids.
Has “You’re Having My Baby” been mentioned yet?
What’s wrong with him enjoying heroin/“…doing anything intensely…” It proves he’s committed to something. 
Weddings aside, I’ve often been amused at the totally inappropriate songs people want to dedicate on “love songs” shows on radio. I have occasionally filled-in on the love songs show on the radio station I work for and have heard them all, usually from clueless guys. “I Will Always Love You” has been mentioned. Another is “I Go Crazy” by Paul Davis, a wretched breakup song from the 70s, which guys always want to dedicate to their wives or girlfriends on their anniversary. I finally gave up trying to point out the message that song sends. One time a woman called and wanted to dedicate “Endless Love” to her daughter and her fiance. Without thinking I said “I hope they end up better than the kids in the movie did.” She said “What? There was a movie? What happened to the kids in the movie?” I had to quickly backpedal and get out of it. I more or less said “Never mind, it was only a movie.” Just glad it wasn’t live on the air.
(raising hand) “If you want to be happy” was a staple at the weddings I attended as a kid. I think the last time I heard it was at my oldest sister’s wedding, circa… ummmmm… 1985-ish.
Because if it wasn’t for the Jesus reference, the associations it has with The Graduate, would be perfect for a bar mitzvah! “Son, today you are a man”, indeed!
Back in the 60’s. One of the first weddings of a classmate, right after high school graduation: “You Saw Me Cryin’ in the Chapel”. An Elvis song, sung by a local band at the VFW Hall reception.
I once attended a wedding where “The Lady is a Tramp” was played as the bride walked up the aisle, to the discomfort of many guests.
(Of, course, if you listen to the lyrics you discover that the lady in question isn’t *really *a tramp, just unconventional, and man, it did fit this Bride to a T. After the wedding, when the Bride and Groom walked out (Processional? Recessional?) some other very non-traditional song was played, but I can’t remember what it was…)
In about 1998 I went to the very traditional wedding of two friends who were big fans of industrial dance music. They told everyone that the reception would be over at 8, when it actually ran until 9 or 9:30. Turns out 8 was just when they switched from the standard Catholic wedding greatest hits to their own playlist, which was mostly KMFDM.
I once attended a grade school concert where the sweet and well-intended and very young choir teacher had the 2nd graders sing “Let Me Entertain You” to the discomfort of all parents over 30.
ETA: That would be the version from Gypsy, not the 1990s Queen song of the same name.
Well color me 
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Some of the songs mentioned here are certainly open to multiple interpretations but this one? Sheesh. Not seeing it.
Was it a harmless gag directed at the bride (I can’t imagine how being called ugly on one’s wedding day as all that high-larious) or was no attention paid to the lyrical content which to my ears comes off relatively clear. Or the catch-all “something else”?
“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” by Carole King. Not exactly what I think of as a song you sing to someone you plan to stay married to for 50 or 60 years. I heard it played about 35 years ago at a wedding for high school friends. They were both about 19 at the time and I guess it was “their song”.
I never understood how Meat Loaf’s Paradise by the Dashboard Light got to be so popular at wedding receptions. It’s about a guy who makes a promise in the heat of passion and ends up trapped for a lifetime with a woman he can’t stand. My wife and I specifically asked the band not to play it at our wedding – but they gave in to audience requests and played it anyway.
Awesome! I’m never getting married, but if for some reason I have to, that sort of thing is inspiring.