Hadn’t thought of this in a while.
Stevie Wonder’s **Overjoyed **just missed the cut.
Thinking back, maybe that should have been the one we had gone with.
This Willie Nelson classic… There’s Nothing I can do About it Now. Mother-in-law-to-be nixed the idea. Some people have no taste.
We briefly considered Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ You Wreck Me, but decided we should choose something slower. We ended up going with Van Morrison’s Crazy Love, and launched into *You Wreck Me *immediately after.
Ditto. Can’t really dance to it, though.
“The Party’s Over”?
Our first dance was supposed to be to REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore”. Although we gave the band that information in plenty of time, they “couldn’t find the music”. (This was prior to Google.) They gave me some other suggestions, one of which was “Songbird” with the following lyrics: “Songbird sings from the heart/Each word can tear you apart…” When I told my husband (who is AndyL) this, he said, “That sounds festive.”
We went with the theme to “Around the World in 80 Days.”
Freebird.
Either “Kiss” by Prince or “Always & Forever” by Heatwave.
Not that it mattered, since the chapel forgot to play the song we actually did choose. Good thing we were really happy to get married and didn’t particularly care. 
A Spanish ballad called ‘‘Tu’’ by Shakira.
There’s a part in the beginning that my husband says sounds like ‘‘please love your spiders very much.’’ So it’s kind of a thing with us.
The lyrics themselves are beautiful.
Te regalo mi cintura
Y mis labios para cuando (please love your spiders)
quieras besar
Te regalo mi locura
Y las pocas neurones que quedan ya
(I give you my waist, I give you my lips when you want to kiss them, I give you my insanity, and the few neurons that remain… My faded shoes, the diary in which I write, I give you even my breath…)
We didn’t actually dance at our wedding…we just chose to have a regular buffet-style reception.
There was a song, sung by one of my bridesmaids (she had a lovely voice) called “My Valentine” by Martina McBride that got sung just before the bridal march (Wagner? I dunno…that traditional thing…dum DUM da dum! Dum DUM da dum! Dum DUM da DUM DUM DUM DUM DA DUM!). We kinda had to go with that one since we got married ON Valentine’s day. We figured it was that or “My Funny Valentine” which neither one of us liked.
During the pre-service music, one of the selections the organist was supposed to play was “Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof (which I really liked because it’s about the parents feelings on the whole getting married thing even though we’re not Jewish) and the darn organist forgot to play it. I was NOT happy.
The whole day was a comedy of errors, I swear.
Ben Folds’ “The Luckiest” is our song, but it wasn’t on our wedding band’s playlist. So we went with “My One and Only Love” instead.
I don’t remember what our original choice was, only that when we called the DJ and said we were switching to “I Want to Grow Old With You” his response was “you’re abandoning one of the finest rock bands EVER to EXIST in favor of an Adam F-ing Sandler song??!?!”