# Suggest a wedding song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 22, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540 "2009-11-22T17:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/81 "2009-11-26T05:32:04Z")
Little long for you at 6 minutes but Leonard Cohen “[Dance Me To The End Of Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PIadFsvDk)” ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/82 "2009-11-26T06:20:43Z")
> [@Persephone3](#): > > …Also good, if you’re a tad perverse: Tom Waits, ‘I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You’. What, not Better Off Without A Wife? 😃 I actually clicked with an eventual fiancee over that song. Had we lasted to the altar, it most certainly would have been our wedding song. 🆒 I’m loving the suggestions so far, but it’s proving harder than I thought to troll through my own files to see what might work. I will update if I find something I think worth suggesting as well. ---
**Author:** ![azurechile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@azurechile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azurechile)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/83 "2009-11-26T07:16:49Z")
I’ve gotta agree with what a few others have said here: Smile by Uncle Kracker and The Way You Look Tonight By Sinatra are both great songs. As a [first dance song](http://www.tcartermusic.com/products/dance_with_me), Dance With Me by Anthony Carter is also a good one. Overall though, The Way You Look Tonight is one of my favorite songs of all time, and I would never hesitate to play anything by Ol’ Blue Eyes 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/84 "2009-11-26T08:54:41Z")
I hope one day to be able to use Live’s Dance With You. Here’s a great acoustic version featuring Anouk. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1uRbnUdiWg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1uRbnUdiWg) ---
**Author:** ![Jamodu\_Green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Jamodu\_Green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamodu_Green)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/85 "2009-11-26T09:31:29Z")
I’m getting married on the day after tomorrow (very excited). We’ll be dancing to “Something” by The Beatles as our first dance and “Dance With You” by Live as our last dance. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/86 "2009-11-26T13:54:05Z")
“Will You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)” by Tanya Tucker. “Making Love out of Nothing at All” by Air Supply. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/87 "2009-11-26T14:24:24Z")
azurechile writes: \> . . . I would never hesitate to play anything by Ol’ Blue Eyes . . . Really? Including “The Lady Is a Tramp”?: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_VJY97l0jVA/hqdefault.jpg "The Lady is a Tramp - Frank Sinatra") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VJY97l0jVA) ---
**Author:** ![Sheepish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Sheepish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sheepish)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/88 "2009-11-26T22:29:16Z")
Bossacucanova - Águas De Março Bossanova kicks the ass of any so-called romantic music [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZEBkQxFbs) ---
**Author:** ![azurechile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@azurechile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azurechile)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/89 "2009-11-27T06:53:47Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > azurechile writes: > > \> . . . I would never hesitate to play anything by Ol’ Blue Eyes . . . > > Really? Including “The Lady Is a Tramp”?: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_VJY97l0jVA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VJY97l0jVA) :smack: ok ok I guess I wasn’t thinking… I meant more in general, not just playing at a wedding The lady is a tramp wouldn’t be a very good wedding song would it?:dubious: haha ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/90 "2009-11-27T18:31:54Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned [You Raise Me Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUxV9htH9U) by Josh Groban. It gets my vote should I ever get married… ---
**Author:** ![BeeDubU2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BeeDubU2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeDubU2)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/91 "2009-11-28T20:12:26Z")
I love the lyrics and musicality of “Forever and Always” by Randy Travis. If you really can’t dance, both of you could vamp it up to “Fire and Desire” by Rick James and Teena Marie… ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/92 "2009-11-29T00:40:02Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > “Making Love out of Nothing at All” by Air Supply. I know songs are open to interpretation, but I never got the idea the singer was singing about an equal and reciprocal love. “But I don’t know how to leave you, and I’ll never let you fall; and I don’t know how you do it, making love out of nothing at all” I always thought he was singing about how she was capable of sex without love! The song has some gorgeous lyrics though: “very time I see you all the rays of the sun are streaming through the waves in your hair; and every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes like a spotlight, The beating of my heart is a drum, and it’s lost and it’s looking for a rhythm like you.” ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/93 "2009-11-29T07:31:19Z")
We used “[A Wink and a Smile](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy_qlYjAh8o),” by Harry Connick, Jr. Straight tempo and bouncy, nice lyrics. (We choreographed a combination foxtrot and west coast swing, but you could just shuffle around to it pretty easily, too.) ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/94 "2009-12-04T21:22:40Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0BgxkYOxE9w/hqdefault.jpg "JAMES INGRAM - GIVE ME FOREVER") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BgxkYOxE9w) “Give Me Forever (I Do)” - James Ingraham and John Tesh. I don’t know why this song isn’t more well known. I know - “Eewww, John Tesh!!”…but the song is a _perfect_ wedding waltz. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/95 "2009-12-05T00:38:18Z")
I like the following: Time in a Bottle (It’s a waltz, but easy enough to dance to) It Had to Be You (Sinatra) Me and You (Kenny Chesney) Forever and Ever Amen (Randy Travis) I would also like to veto Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the following lyrics: \* Yet today my love has flown away I am without my love\* and \* Now laughing friends deride Tears I can not hide\* And if you want super sappy, try Inspiration (Chicago) Longer (Dan Fogelberg) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@Mister\_Owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Owl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/96 "2009-12-05T01:38:53Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned this one, Have I Told You Lately by Van Morrison, a wonderful slow ballad. Then, especially if the title fits, a segue into Brown Eyed Girl, a decent shake your booty kind of song. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/97 "2009-12-05T01:51:50Z")
> [@Mister\_Owl](#): > > I’m surprised no one has mentioned this one, Have I Told You Lately by Van Morrison, a wonderful slow ballad. Oh, nice suggestion indeed. I was just listening to Dusty Springfield “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?”, that would be fantastic. Yes, they used it for a diamond commercial but it’s still an excellent song. Dusty’s version is the best. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/98 "2009-12-05T01:56:18Z")
> [@ENugent](#): > > We choreographed a combination foxtrot and west coast swing Not the right venue here, but I’d LOVE to see a video of that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/99 "2009-12-05T02:25:16Z")
> [@Mister\_Owl](#): > > I’m surprised no one has mentioned this one, Have I Told You Lately by Van Morrison, a wonderful slow ballad. Agreed. Though I kinda like the Rod Stewart version better. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540/100 "2009-12-05T21:37:48Z")
It would have to be Sinatra. ‘All The Way’ would be good, but I’d go with simple, classic Cole Porter, the greatest popular song writer of all. ‘Night & Day’ for those who remember Astaire and Rogers, or maybe ‘I Get A Kick Out Of You’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-wedding-song/518540.md?page=6)