Wedding songs

Now that gay marriage is a possibility, I really want to get married one day.

I was just wondering what songs you lot would like your first dance to be (no matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life). Or, if you're already married, what song was your first dance to?

Here is my (current) shortlist:

Ellie Goulding - Your Song
Adele - One and Only
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Paul Weller - You Do Something to Me
The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

 

I was listening to Your Song right now and saw this thread and was going to mention it.

Eerie.

 

It's a popular wedding song, I think. Probably the most common out of my five. Ellie Goulding sang it at the Royal Wedding.

 

Miley Cyrus - When I Look At You

I could cry thinking about it right now!

 

I have so many. Probably a good thing somebody else gets an equal say in it...

First dance:

Julee Cruise - Falling
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Alicia Keys - No One

Wedding party:

The Ronettes - Be My Baby
Love Affair - Everlasting Love
Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You

 

I'll give Mr Stuaw the illusion of choice, but in reality if he's marrying me he better get damn used to me getting my own way.

I am of course kidding. But I do like to think about these things. If there happens to be a song that means a lot to both of us and would fit into a wedding, then we can have that. If not, then I'd like to think we could pick from a shortlist of songs similar to what I've posted.

 

This would be such a brilliant song for a wedding actually, probably my first choice but unless I marry Miley herself I can't see any girl going for that!! Gutted.

My other choice would be like, Taylor Swift - Sparks Fly probably.

 

I think me and Best Fiction were going to have Sex For Breakfast as we walked down the aisle.

 

I Am by Aguilera is the perfect wedding song. There is no other song that could fit one better.

However, I'd prefer a Taylor song for mine. Me Without You by Ashley Tisdale and Teenage Dream must also be on the soundtrack.

 

Selena - Dreaming of You
This is a childhood favorite and I adore it still today, I'd probably choke up if this was the song for the very first dance.

Spandau Ballet - True
Cranberries - Linger
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You

And the more upbeat songs would be:

Faith Hill - This Kiss
The Bird and the Bee - Meteor
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight
Plumb - Blush (Only You)

 

We got married in 2001. We had 2 slow dances and they were Savage Garden's I Knew I Loved You and Faith Hill's Breathe.

However........I playlisted our entire evening reception myself and the DJ got paid on the basis that he didn't deviate from my list!! So many guests asked who the DJ was because the music was so good!! The highlight for me was Kim Wilde's You Came and If I Can't Have You back to back!! I don't think I left the dancefloor all night!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I haven't thought about mine, but the band at my sister's wedding played a few acoustic songs with just a guitar in between courses and one of the songs was "Because Of You" by Kelly Clarkson and I thought that was a really weird choice to play at a wedding. I'm sure most people didn't pay attention to the lyrics, especially since it was in Germany, but I still found it strange.

Come to think of it, I'd love to include Pachelbel's Kanon in D-Dur at one point. And I'd absolutely love to do a surprise wedding dance, as seen a thousand times on youtube. Starting with a slow, romantic song for the first dance and then break out into Thriller or something. It looks like so much fun.

 

Woohoo.

 

I imagine it would end up being a song that means something to you and your partner, but there's always ways to make a song meaningful. Seeds can be planted, my friends, and they can grow into big, lovely favourite song trees.

Anyway, I would love my first dance to be to For Lovers by Wolfman and Pete Doherty. It's an absolutely terrific song, and gives me goosebumps.

Other songs I'd be happy to sway away with my new spouse to for the first time include:

Des'ree - Kissing You (though, to be honest, it's a bit funeral-y)
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
The Boy Who Trapped The Sun - Golden
Snow Patrol - Set The Fire To The Third Bar
Emiliana Torrini - Today Has Been OK (would be quite fitting if I ended up marrying a guy, and I find the idea of understating how fantastic the day is very cute)

 

I think all of these are classic and sweeping enough to be considered:

Stevie Wonder 'I Believe (When I Fall in Love)
The Cure 'Love Song'
Cyndi Lauper 'Time After Time'
Madonna 'Crazy for You', 'True Blue', 'Nothing Fails'
Sister Sledge 'Thinking Of You'
Belle & Sebastian 'Funny Little Frog'

and of course: http://youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U

 

To counter the funeral thread, and because we were chatting about it back in the Parlo Kylie rate...

 

"Starlight" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
"Forever And For Always" by Shania Twain.
"Enchanted" by Taylor Swift.

 

My dream First Dance song would be -

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU - ABBA