First dance music

[horselady]

I think this has been asked before but we need some suggestions for the bride and groom's first dance at my son's wedding in September. Everything one likes the other doesn't , they don't really want anything slow and "waltzy" the latest suggestion from my son is Love Cats by The Cure, which I think is pretty good, but she sort of pulled a face, they just can't agree!

[mkt]

why don't they have a 'medley' (cant think of a better word sorry!) rather than just one song? when our friends got married 3 months ago they had their first dance to a compilation of songs.....it was just 30secs to a minute of each song and they all played into each other rathen than stop starting at the end of each clip....it was a lot of fun and far more interesting than the usual boring sappy first dance at weddings! whilst they were dancing, the flower girls walked around them wrapping colourful ribbons all around them. it was lovely and pretty original.

[spudqueen]

Mr Spudqueens cousin and his wife at their wedding last year had Champagne Supernova by Oasis as the first dance.

[kazza12345]

what about the twisty song from pulp fiction it goes something like "c'est la vie say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell"
they could do the great dance in pf too!

[willa]

Kazza, that's a GREAT song, and would be really fun (and appropriate) for a first dance. (It's Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell".)

My sisters and I went for uptempo songs. I had the honeydripper, "Follow You Follow Me," by Genesis (well, it was the '80s). My sisters got married in the '90s; one used "I only want to be with you" by Hootie & the Blowfish, and the other, with her great sense of humor, used R.E.M.'s "It's the end of the world as we know it" - everybody young enough to know the song was hysterical.

Horselady, your son and his fiancee are to be commended for wanting to choose something fun. How about asking friends/family to email them suggestions? They would probably end up choosing something entirely different, but it would be fun to read their ideas.

[horselady]

Thank you all for some brilliant ideas, love the idea of "You never can tell" That's a good idea Willa to get friends and family to send them suggestions, they might get some fresh ideas and have a laugh, which I think is what's needed right now, tension is setting in!

[steve @ home]

At our wedding we had The Chain by Fleetwood Mac ( 'You can never break the chain...' ) which also has at the end of the track the Formula One theme music which got everyone else up and bopping!

[kazza12345]

let us knbow what they choose (especially if it's my answer!)

[plattbridge]

have you heard shania twain singing from this moment she has two versions a slow one and a dance mix one the words are lovely for a wedding

[ronnie_07]

For a slow song/ balled - try Bon Jovi - Thankyou for loving me .......

I aint got anyone to marry but if I did that would be mine ......!!
; )

[dr john]

DON'T play the song I once heard a DJ put on at a wedding reception: 'Band of Gold' by Freda Payne.
"I wait in the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon that you'll walk back through that door
And love me like you tried before..."
He was nearly lynched.

[willa]

Wow, Dr. John - if there's a contest for tackiest wedding song, that's got to be on the prize podium.

My entry in that competition is Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" ("hey, hey mama, said the way you move gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove . . ."). A great song, but bizarre for the circumstances:

An 8-months-pregnant bride (no moral judgment; just painting the visual picture) in a tight dress dancing solo to this song as male guests pinned money on her gown mid-strut. The pin-money thing is an Italian-originated custom by us (we are of southern Italian stock here). A dicey endeavor under the best of conditions. But the look of panic on the younger guys as they tried to avoid pinning the seedling was priceless. The older guys (70+) had things well in hand - they'd done it once or twice before, I'm sure. But the bride loved it, and when we picked our jaws up off the floor, we loved it too.

[almcd007]

Me and "The Wife" had "We have all the time in the world" by Louis Armstrong - from The James Bond film - On Her Majestys Secret Service. It's very fitting for a wedding and slow enough to dance to.

[claireyfairy]

My m8 Aliflump got engaged a few months ago and althou her and her chap aren't getting married any time soon (they want to save up). They have already decided on the first song thou and it totally sums up the pair of them and how daft they are.....THE BIRDY SONG!!!! Wet myself when they told me!!!