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She likes lions and Disney and we were off to Africa on honeymoon so it had to be Can You Feel the Love Tonight? from the Lion King.
People thought it was great fun and everyone sang along. Being effectively serenaded by our guests for our first dance was pretty special.
Love Cats. Was cool. But a bit cringey.
We kept the intro et all. Forget soppy stuff, forget cheesy choreographed stuff and doing weeks of lessons beforehand, just decided to make people laugh.
Awesome ^ wish I had thought of that (blue swede).
We went for "At Last" by Etta James
Did have one as we 'ran' off and got married in Vegas but if I was to choose one it would be this :-
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We chose stones serenade by Trace Bundy. Great song, by great guitarist, and f the few bands/artists in the hallowed ground of our overlapping zone of musical taste venn diagram.
Mrs Pondo wanted to waltz so we learned to waltz and had Valentine Moon as covered (I presume) by Sam Brown and the Jools Holland mob.
Ladies and Gentlemen is a great idea. Friends of mine have used Patience by Guns n Roses, which seems like more the song for your first marriage counselling session, and Wake Up by the Arcade Fire which was kind of awesome (I was best man for that one and they sprung it on me, so I was up dancing with the maid of honour, ironically an ex of mine that I'd literally never spoken to between when we split up 4 years earlier and the wedding day, and trying to work out how the **** to shufflewaltz to Wake Up...)
We had 'I Love You Baby' by Andy Williams.
My wife had Frankie Valli's original version of that at our wedding. Me, I had "Can't take my eyes off you", also by Frankie Valli.
Over ten years later and she still doesn't know the name of our first dance song 😀
We didn't exactly have a first dance but the song which is synonymous with our wedding is 'Protection' from Massive Attack. My wife still just refers to it as the 'wedding song'
We had 'Here You Me' by Jimmy Eat World. I had to give the DJ a copy.
We had this. Great cover.
My cousin had Ed Sheeran - Thinking out loud, which I thought was a pretty good choice given the lyrics and the fact it was a young couple. Followed by kasabian and then gold on the ceiling by the black keys. Strong openers!
She by Charles Azevanor - sung in both English and French as Mrs B is French as where most of the guests. We thought about Comme d'habitude by Claude Francois better known as the cover version "My Way" but decided "She" meant more. Married a year ago this week.
My eldest daughter had L.O.V.E. With a routine choreographed
by her sister - a wedding classic and good fun.
Some great songs and ideas above, OP it should be something personal
Sooner you can register a marriage on gov.uk like getting a new passport the better 🙂
It suits my sense of humour that if I really had to I'd play this:
We had Queens of the Stone Age...albeit a slow one:
Pink Floyd- Comfortably numb.
still makes me smile to this day.
No first dance, but we did walk out of the ceremony to the You and Me Song by Wanadies
Me and a couple of mates have a thing about bribing the DJ to play U2s I still haven't found what I am looking for.
not found a Dj willing to do it yet but we live in hope.
We had 'Something Changed' by Pulp - a band we both love and summed up the series of serendipitous happenings that brought us together.
Followed by:
which filled the floor and covered up my awful sidey sidey shuffling.We're planning to have Ramones, 'Baby I love you' in September.
We also had later on 'The Love Cats' just as part of the disco, to which we were treated to the most astonishing almost choreographed it was that 😯 performance by one of my Uni mates and his girlfriend. Still lives in the memory. Especially the grooming section......
Which ever song you choose, get the lyrics printed on canvas or put in a frame to go alongside the wedding pictures.
We had 'Celebrate' by the Levellers
Fairytale of New York - went down a treat! It was just before christmas and meant we only had to dance for the first, slow bit because as soon as it kicked off into the jiggy, upbeat bit everyone piled onto the dance floor!
Stevie wonders "signed sealed delivered"
She walked down the aisle to the arrival of the queen of sheeba
We exited the ceremony to "Hoppípolla" by sigur ros
First dance was to "Down by the Water" by The Drums
U2 - I still haven't found what I'm looking for
and
Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I love you less and less
mattbee - MemberWe had 'Here You Me' by Jimmy Eat World
OK, while it's a lovely song, the subject matter'd make me wonder which of you was planning to murder the other.
Quite like Iggy pop's new tune with Josh Homme..
PrinceJohn - Member
Quite like Iggy pop's new tune with Josh Homme..
+1
The last wedding i was at, the bride married a chap named Mr. Jones. Their song...?
This was ours. Combined with one dancing lesson. Made all the difference between awkward swaying and enlivening the crowd.
We had a ceilidh which meant there was no first dance. We were the first couple in the first set instead. Far less embarrassing than the standard shuffle round the dancefloor
She likes lions and Disney and we were off to Africa on honeymoon so it had to be Can You Feel the Love Tonight? from the Lion King.
Should have had what we had -
Africa by Toto.
Nothing to do with the lyrics, but was "the song of the holiday" when we got together.
We chose "The Everthere" by Elbow.
my mate (and my best man) was adamant that his first dance was going to be 'the birdy song' by the tweets but his wife said no way.
when i got married we didnt have a first dance as such but when we signed the paperwork after the ceremony 'long time coming' by crosby stills and nash was blaring... emma and i had only been together for over 20 years before we got married (and she asked me!).
if we had to choose a first dance tune it would simply have been something we both loved and easily be 'archangel thunderbird' by amon düül II which as been a track thats been with us forever...
'archangel thunderbird' by amon düül II
Good grief, I haven't heard that in over forty years!
nico - i wasnt born when it was released!
ive have loved all that stuff for years. julian cope's book has a lot to answer for on my impressionable mind!
I had the great misfortune of being at a mate's wedding where they chose Bob Dylan's 'Lay, Lady Lay'. The embarrassment was visceral.
We had Smack my Bitch Up, it was lovley
Louis Armstrong - We have all the time in the world.
Mainly 'cause its from our favourite Bond film.
Dead Kennedys actually.To drunk to ..... B52s (?)
I'm getting married on Saturday and we're not having a dance. t's only a small do & the whole ceremony doesn't start til 4 in the afternoon and the meal afterwards (all music provided by a pianist who has played with such luminaries as the Manchester symphony, Rod Stewart, several big bands, etc.) There will just be background music after the meal for drinking to.
Dashed 😀
Little trip to heaven - Tom Waits.
One of the artists we both love.
I whisked her round the floor without breaking any toes.
Result
Yesterday.............all my troubles seemed so far away, now it seems as though they're here to stay, oh I believe, in yesterday.
We had "I swear" by some boy band I don't know the name of, a cheesey classic that Mrs-g, or Miss-soon-to-be-g I suppose she was chose.
I wanted "You are the best thing" by Ray Lamontagne so we had that second. I still lie to people who ask that this was our first dance to avoid the embarrassment.