metal heads reception music?

britisacult

Our reception is going to be pretty casual.  A lot of the details haven't been figured out yet (I still have a little time haha) but we do know that we're not going to do a DJ and are just going to use a playlist on our laptop or music player.

Here's my delima.  My Fiance and I, as well as almost every one of our friends, are metal heads.  Some more than others, but still the point exists.  Our family (and parent's friends) are not.  What should we do for music?  I want to enjoy the music, and I don't want to scare away the parents ... I know there is music that can be apporpriate and more mild (Iron Maiden for example) but I'm not going to play JUST them, you know?  I enjoy almost every style of music, and I want to have music for people to dance to if they get the urge (we aren't really dancing people lol), so I know I will pick some popular songs from the radio, like I know "Single Ladies" was a HUGE hit at my co-workers reception, but I still need help with some more suggestions or tips.

Thanks to anyone with advice!

karmellah

FI is a metal and Im a Gleek lol. Its his reception too so he's picking out whatever metal he wants. Since some of our groomsmen are in a big metal band, I dont see a problem. He has already said he'll pick ones that arent about death or with swear. I could careless though. Have the f-bomb if you want. I know we're featuring a lot of Coheed and Cambria cuz theyre our fav band,

Maybe if you do want to censor yourself, have a special late night mix for when the older people leave.

bfernz

We used Metallica -Enter Sandman to announce the Viennese Hour. 

Not heavy metal, but we both like 311-so we played Love Song-one of their lighter covers.

HTH!

MichelleApple

me and my fiance love metal but most of our friends and family do not so what we are doing is taking half the night [ the begining] as a lighter type of music, lots of bealts [i love twist and shout it always gets me to dance] and Beyonce, that annoying GAGA Bird and some other stuff i have on my MAC and when the old folks start winding down getting ready to leave we hit it up with some Dethklok, Metallica and children of bodom along with some of my "indi faves, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, bright eyes, death from above, deadmau5e, ect it should be interesting and everyone gets what they want, no awkward hip bumps!

dnice818

We are using "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness for our reception entrance.  We both secretly or not-so-secretly like hair metal, so this is a fun way to incorporate that genre. 

britisacult

Thanks guys! Those are all great suggestions! I think we are going to do something like MichelleApple commented and do some more common music for a little bit and when some of the more traditional guests leave we'll start playing more of the music us and all of our friends will enjoy   I can't imagine my parents friends listening to Dethklok and being pleased haha

denjen2011

Our DJ company has this covered!! We had the same dilemna about having some of the "harder" artists played at our wedding. Our DJ suggested the "Vitamin String Quartet". They are a string quarted that covers almost every genra of music. They have over 100 albums on iTunes!! So we chose 15-20 songs that will be played all througout dinner. We chose songs like "Sweet Child of Mine" by GnR, "A.D.I.D.A.S. by Korn,"Desire" by Slayer and "Cowboys From Hell" by Pantera. While all these songs would by disturbing to most of our guests, the string versions are really cool ! Check it out! 

TheWeddingSecret

Metallica -Enter Sandman?

Good Luck!

Jennie x

rockchalkwedding

Nothing's set in stone yet, but I know we will both want music at our reception that won't appeal to the older audiences.  My thoughts are that we would instruct the DJ to play our hard rock (me) and hip hop (him) choices later in the evening after our oldest and youngest guests have left, with plenty of variety in between.