I am starting to gather a music list for my wedding this September and I am looking for good love songs to be played at my reception. My taste in music is varied so I need songs that I may be overlooking as love songs.
What can you suggest?
As a side note, I would rather shoot myself in the foot than hear anything by Celine Dion or the like so please spare me. 
This Must Be the Place – the Talking Heads
I Forgot That Love Existed – Van Morrison
How Long Has This Been Going On – written by George Gershwin, there are a lot of nice versions, I like Chet Baker’s, but Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, and Tony Bennett have all done it.
In Your Arms Tonight – the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack
twicks, closet romantic 
I don’t know if it’s overlooked or not, but I’ve never heard it at a wedding (and I’ve been to about two dozen in the last year)
God Only Knows–The Beach Boys
This is perhaps my favorite love song of all time.
These are a few of the songs I’m putting on my wedding CD, hope it helps…
I Fell in Love With A Girl - Big Star
Question - Old 97s
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Someone to Watch Over Me- Ella
Nothing without you - Steve Earle
Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone - Bill Withers
Also, Sit on My Face by Monty Python, but that’s just for us.
I’m sure I’ll have to post again as more occur to me, but right off the top of my head I’d say check out “The Luckiest” by Ben Folds (can’t remember if it’s him solo or with Ben Folds Five). Very pretty, kinda unusual love song.
Thanks, these are some great replies a lot of which will probably be used. Keep up the good work.
Some of the songs mentioned here may be of interest to you.
Mine too.
“Sweet Pear” from Elvis Costello’s Mighty Like a Rose disc. It has one of the all-time great middle eights in a romantic song. Just don’t listen to the lyrics too closely, could be a bit of a buzz kill.
A favorite:
Have A Little Faith In ME
John Hiatt
Picture in a Frame by Tom Waits is a very tender and moving love song.
One Foot Out the Door by Van Halen along with its lead in instrumental Sunday Afternoon In the Park from the album Fair Warning.
Or Moments In Love by Art of Noise. A great dance song (slow) with some truly beautiful vocal treatments.
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison (He seems to be turning up a lot here.)
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys
Walk Through This World With Me - George Jones
You Are My Flower - Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Love You Til The End - The Pogues
Here Comes My Girl - Tom Petty
Is This Love - Bob Marley
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Don’t Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders
Show Me - The Pretenders
Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead
Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads
“Lovesong” by the Cure. You can’t go wrong with the Cure. Even better, singer Robert Smith wrote this song as a wedding gift for his wife, Mary (they’ve been married some twenty-odd years now).
That is one of the songs I am already planning on having played, in addition to a couple other Cure tunes.
The most heartbreakingly beautiful love song I have ever heard is “Miracles” by the Pet Shop Boys. I can also recommend “Home and Dry,” “Liberation,” and “It Always Comes As A Surprise.”
A few more from our cd:
La La Love You - The Pixies
Bit Part -Lemonheads
Oh My Lover and Find me a Home from the Detroit Cobras
Starry Eyes - Roky Erickson
Oh and Living in a World Without Her by the Pogues (well the pogues and whoever they got to sing for Shane McGowen on Pogue Mahone.)
Mixing CDs is fun!
One of my favorite (straightforward, non-ironic, non-buzzkill) love songs is “Overjoyed” by Stevie Wonder.
(Note: Stevie Wonder, like Paul McCartney and a few others, is a musical genius who is nevertheless capable of writing pure cheeze. “I Just Called To Say I Love You,” for example, is cheeze. “Overjoyed” IMHO is not; it’s a great song. And speaking of Sir Paul, there’s always “Silly Love Songs,” which is a bit cheezy, but it doesn’t pretend to be otherwise, and it’s got a cool bass line.)
A few unusual picks:
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” – Bonnie Raitt
Lovely and delicate, both musically and in its sentiments, and thus would make a good first dance song, even though it’s too sedate to be a standard dance number.
“Rich Kind of Poverty” – Sam and Dave
A classic, if relatively obscure, 1967 R&B song that works as an anthem for couples who have love but no money – the idea being that we may not have two nickels to rub together, baby, but it’s still great, 'cause we’ve got each other…
“We Have All The Time In The World” – John Barry, Hal David; voc. Louis Armstrong
The love song embedded in the '69 Lazenby Bond On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, used in the falling-in-love montage, and elsewhere as an instrumental theme. Ignore the fact that in the movie, Bond’s bride is gunned down by Ernst Stavro Blofeld as the couple drives away from their wedding reception… it’s really a very lovely song for young couples!
“No Matter What” – Badfinger
An offbeat, somewhat gritty love song (and 70’s nostalgia trip) that doesn’t use the “L” word. A guy declares that, “no matter what” his girl does or becomes, he will always be with her. That may sound like a backhanded compliment of sorts and a shaky basis for a serious relationship, but the upbeat, resolute rock riffs suggest that their bond is for real.
“Is It a Dream?” – The Damned
Uptempo post-punk pop song from the '80’s (with luscious production values, 'natch) from that band’s cabaret-rock period. A song about being bewildered, befuddled, and bedazzled by love (or lust, anyway).
“Earn Enough For Us” – XTC
Almost deceptively upbeat, overtly Beatlesque number related from the point of view of a young groom and expectant father, from their Skylarking LP. Old-fashioned in its theme that the husband will try to be a good provider, albeit with the twist that he’s admittedly anxious about his ability to live up to expectations. An apropos song for couples excited about their uncertain future, it was a 60’s trip when it was released in '86; now its layered musical context will likely be lost on the youngest generation… even as they dance to it.
“Here Comes Your Man” – Pixies
Like XTC’s “Earn Enough For Us,” this was also an inspired exercise in pop formalism, with the great '80’s-'90’s punk rockers offering a pseudo Brill-Building '60’s (or even '50’s!) girl group pop bauble. Nevertheless, the result is fresh-sounding, powerful, and even ecstatic, surging on the strength of the simplest (but irresistible) chord progressions and a bouncy bassline. It’s the pop music equivalent of Microsoft Windows: resistance is futile.
“Camel Walk” – Southern Culture On the Skids [SCOTS]
Even more off-the-wall than “Here Comes Your Man,” this is the declarative song for all men whose girl “makes [them] want to walk… like a camel,” among other silly things. Funky, brash, with 60’s surf guitar and a bongwater redneck sensibility, this song was used over the closing credits and outtakes of the movie Flirting With Disaster.