Tam is looking for The Song for the first dance at her upcoming wedding. She’s gotten some suggestions, including mine. Maybe you could drop over & give her some help.
Our song is/was “In My Life” by The Beatles. Do you and your SO have a song? What kind of music did you have at your wedding (or would you have if you haven’t married). Please comment or write your own blog entry about music that sums up some aspect of your life (or your life as a whole).
Have you ever thought of what songs you’d want played at your funeral? I haven’t thought much about mine. I think I’d have to make a Super Awesome Mix tape. Or I could play the CD Theryn sent me as a surprise.
18 Comments
November 20, 2006 at 8:19 am
Nick and I are struggling with a first dance song for our upcoming wedding as well. I think it just puts a lot of pressure on you to get it “just right”. One song I adore is “Take my Breath Away” by Berlin — no matter how cheesy it is. Nick and I took ballroom a while back, and that’s our favorite song to rumba to.
I’m not sure if I want to have a rumba for my first dance though…
“Can I have this Dance (for the Rest of My Life)” is a really nice romantic waltz (in my opinion), but it’s a bit “twangy” for my taste at times, haha. It’s another song I’ve thought about though.
November 20, 2006 at 8:35 am
I have a first dance song picked out, despite not quite being exactly engaged…does that make me a dork?
November 20, 2006 at 8:46 am
I totally want to make a funeral mix now. Damn you Eden
My suggestion was Night and Day by Cole Porter. I love that effing song.
November 20, 2006 at 8:50 am
Sterre by the Legendary Pink Dots is one of the songs I want at my funeral, followed by Andromeda Suite, also by the Dots…
November 20, 2006 at 12:25 pm
As far as wedding waltzes go, I think it begins & ends with “Annie’s Song.” Yeah, I love that song. Mock all you like
November 20, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Ooh! Big happy memories for “Annie’s Song”, so I will be your partner in nerd-dom.
My ex put together the wedding music for our rather homemade handfasting. I think it started off with Watermark by Enya. It might have had Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major, and I am prety sure it ended with 3rd movement from the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto by J S Bach. I tend to relate most strongly to classical/early music. My one regret (well, about the music) was that we didn’t get a chance to dance “Hole in the Wall”, a later English Country Dance from Playford. (I am a former SCA geek, after all. My ex rolled his eyes at that. Quite a lot of other things too. That’s why I am glad he is my ex. )
November 20, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Aren’t “funeral mix” and “wedding songs” the same thing?
Ya know, funeral/wedding?
Oh fine, be that way and don’t let me be cynical. My wedding song was supposed to be “Everything I Do, I Do It For You” by Bryan Adams. Stop it - it was the early 90s, and we were young and stupid.
November 20, 2006 at 8:55 pm
I don’t care what they play at my funeral as long as it’s on the bagpipes. Oh, wait, I forgot, I’m not having a funeral.
November 20, 2006 at 9:22 pm
I was gonna let Hawk make that joke but he hasn’t read this yet
Are you sure you two weren’t separated at birth? Are you coming here for Thanksgiving? 
November 20, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Dino Spouse and I were married at Moscow’s Wedding Palace #4 with a small orchestra providing music. Seriously, instead of having like a selection of recorded songs to choose from for your Vegas wedding chapel/city hall/Star Trek episode wedding experience, they had a little orchestra of starving musicians sitting in the back of the wedding chamber. We had given zero thought to music, our main concern having been how to get hitched in the Russian Federation before my accreditation expired or my water broke, so we told them to play the standard selection. Which included, as we signed documents and exchanged rings, “Last Waltz With You.” No wonder the Soviet Union fell.
November 20, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Oh, and “our” song is “Winds of Change” by the Scorpions. My husband thinks it’s something romantic from the Eagles, but I only pretend to agree with him.
November 20, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Well, I don’t know if we’re going to have a first dance, as we’re only having 12 people to the wedding, but I am walking down the aisle to Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song,” and he will be entering as R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming” is played.
If we were to dance? He wants “Take My Breath Away.” I would choose “The Best Thing That’s Ever Happened To Me.”
November 21, 2006 at 12:40 am
We had maybe 20-25 people and we still had a dance
Don’t give up that detail just b/c your gathering is small. You can always do it at home, just the two of you, as well 
November 21, 2006 at 8:29 am
we didn’t dance at our reception. we had an informal picnic where we played bocce and baseball and ate, and i think my husband’s uncle played some music. it was awesome.
our song, however, is “closer” by nine inch nails. not exactly appropriate for a waltz anyway. and lest we be judged, that song came out when we were first dating, and it seemed to be on any time we were in the car. so it just became our song, dirty as it may be.
if i had to pick a wedding song though, it would be “forever” by ben harper. hands down. (that song and “closer” both ended up on the cd we gave out as wedding favors).
November 21, 2006 at 10:13 am
My husband wrote the music for our wedding - it was a series of instrumentals on steel pan, marimba and piano, performed by some of our closest friends. At the reception, we danced to a live version of Bob Dylan’s “If not for you.” I love that song.
I don’t want a funeral, I want a hip hop dance party and it had better have an open bar.
November 21, 2006 at 11:52 am
“Closer” is one of the best songs ever. CDs as wedding favors = great idea!
November 21, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Depends on whether you want a fast song or a slow song. A waltz or a tango.
I have no idea who sings all these songs, but I would have “You take my breath away”, “Lady Lynda” (I know, but that’s how AJ spelled it), “Can I Have This dance . . .” (if you find the right music it’s not so twangy). Everyone had excellent suggestions. How about “Good Vibrations.” :0
TEE HEE
November 22, 2006 at 1:37 pm
My sister is deciding on the first dance at her wedding and she is deciding between “The Way You Look Tonight” which is a good classic and..I shit you not–”Aerith’s Theme” from the video game Final Fantasy! “The orchestra version! Not the one from the actual video game!” she keeps yelling at me. And they say that video games don’t damage the brain.
The best part is that her fiance is a musician and he has written some beautiful pieces that would be perfect for a first dance!