What is the dumbest wedding music you've ever heard?

Yeah, but it’s better than the Nazi Recessional (aka “Bridal Chorus” from Wagner’s Lohengrin).

My candidate: my former boss’s sister walked down the aisle to “Bad to the Bone.”

ETA: Well, that got superseded in a hurry…

Heck, what about the march from Lohengrin (the one we know as “here comes the bride”)? In the opera, it’s sung after the wedding as the couple are led to their bridal chamber, but the marriage is never consummated…the bride, Elsa, does what her husband has said she must never do and asks the forbidden questions: her husband’s name and origin. This curses the marriage, he ends up having to leave (he is a Grail knight, who must depart forever if his identity is known) and she drops dead of grief. Is that the kind of wedding you’d like to have yours identified with?!

ETA: Ninja’d. :stuck_out_tongue:

Father of the Bride grabs microphone before the first dance and sings:

“Please Release Me, let me go. For I don’t love you any more…”

Wow.

Bolding mine.

I can’t imagine ANY wedding where that song would be appropriate.

Close, but its about a guy telling his girlfriend she’s history if she doesn’t have anal sex with HIS CREW.

I’ve read the lyrics and they can just barely be interpreted as a sexual ultimatum. Anal sex, regardless of the number of participants, is not supported by the text.

Thanks Hermoine, ignorance fought. I thought it was strange due to the english words and also because I have heard it at 90% of the funerals I have been to.

Sounds like “reflecting on good times past”.

I think it’s good to go into marriage being 100% honest :smiley:

My wife and I had our wedding day first dance to Prince’s “Diamonds and Pearls”.

“Nothing wrong with that” you may say.
“Good choice” you may also say.
“The sentiment and the music match the mood of a wedding day” would also be a reasonable response.

That is all true but by choosing that song and handing the relevant cd to the DJ I also gave him the equivalent of a sweary time-bomb as he popped it on as background music when all the guests started filing in.
As one song started fading out my wife turned to me with arched eyebrows and asked pointedly if I could remember what the next song was.
I mentally fast-forwarded and then made my way rapidly to the booth to hit “pause” before the dulcet tones of “Sexy Mother-Fucker” came wafting to the dainty ears of relatives young and old.

I confess, half of me wanted to just let it play. That sense of humour is one of the reasons my wife married me. The other half of me thought better of it in that situation and that’s probably the reason why I am still married to her. (21 years and counting)

Yes. Randallstown to be specific, but I haven’t lived there in 30 years. Still have family in the area, though.

How about “The Party’s Over”?

Are you positive about that? Because there isn’t any wedding of Titania and Bottom in the play, nor any implication that they get married (in fact, she’s already married, whatever that means to Shakespearean fairies). In Act 5 there’s a triple wedding (Theseus and Hippolyta, Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius) - it actually happens offstage, between two scenes, but the piece of music could easily be used during the scene break and the opening of the second scene.

There’s still a slight element of dubiousness - one of the couples is only getting married because Demetrius is still under the influence of love juice - but I don’t think it has anything to do with Titania and Bottom.

You interest me strangely. My daughter is making threatening gestures towards a wedding.

My contribution to the OP is the couple I read about who chose Onward Christian Soldiers as their processional.

Onward Christian soldiers,
Marching as to war…

Regards,
Shodan

“One” by U2.

Yes, it was played during the ceremony. The title calls to mind the image of two people becoming one, therefore possibly appropriate music. The lyrics, not so much.

*Did I ask too much, more than a lot?
You gave me nothing, now it’s all I got,
We’re one, but we’re not the same.
Well, we hurt each other,
And we do it again.

You say “Love is a temple, love a higher law,
Love is a temple, love the higher law.”
You asked me to enter, and then you made me crawl,
But I can’t keep holding on, to what you got,
When all you got is hurt.*

And so on.

Yeah, I cant see it either.

Because you invited all of your hillbilly, redneck relatives to the reception and they won’t stop pestering me until I play that crap (minus Freebird - Never had that request since it’s not a dance tune)

…and you forgot to include “What I Like About You”, “Shout”, and “You Never Even Called Me by My Name (You don’t have to call me darlin, darlin)”

Our wedding, should it ever happen, should be a fun affair. My gf and I each get to pick one song. She frequently changes her mind, but I’ve stuck with my choice. Tom Waits Better Off Without a Wife.

:smiley:

I went up the aisle to “Ride of the Valkyries” and we came back down to “Liberty Bell March”, aka the Monty Python theme.

You’re not accounting for the possibility that some random asshole would make an off-color joke about the song, though.