Little long for you at 6 minutes but Leonard Cohen “Dance Me To The End Of Love”
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.
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, 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 
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
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.
“Will You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)” by Tanya Tucker.
“Making Love out of Nothing at All” by Air Supply.
azurechile writes:
> . . . I would never hesitate to play anything by Ol’ Blue Eyes . . .
Really? Including “The Lady Is a Tramp”?:
Bossacucanova - Águas De Março
Bossanova kicks the ass of any so-called romantic music
: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
I’m surprised no one has mentioned You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban. It gets my vote should I ever get married…
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…
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.”
We used “A Wink and a Smile,” 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.)
“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.
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)
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.
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.
Not the right venue here, but I’d LOVE to see a video of that!
Agreed. Though I kinda like the Rod Stewart version better.
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’.