Wedding songs: First dance

We had Broken Stones by Paul Weller as we both liked the song when we started courting. Not to soppy either, then we had Forever in blue jeans as it was my song of choice to sing when bleashed up at the time..

I have since moved on to A boy named Sue by Johnny Cash.

Lamb. Gorecki.

Amazing song, but due to their love of iffy time signatures an absolute pig to shuffle round the floor to.

We went mega traditional in church with an organist playing the classics, church bells the lot. First dance was rule the world by take that on Mrs rockwell’s orders. Plenty of decent tunes throughout the night though and everyone seemed to have a great time.

You’re all I need to get by – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, my idea

My wife and I went to uni with no help from others, paid for our own wedding in its entirety and bought our own house with no assistance.

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol was the ideal choice.

Chasing Cars

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 :-
Bright eyes- First day of my life

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:

We’re planning to have Ramones, ‘Baby I love you’ in September.

which filled the floor and covered up my awful sidey sidey shuffling.

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 – Member

We 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.