Wedding Song?

nanigans918

I know I have a lot of time left before I actually have to choose the song for our first dance, but I was thinking about it so I figured I'd ask: What song did/will you use for your first dance? Does it have a special meaning to you? Is it a song typically used for weddings?

I think we might go with a song by Fun called The Gambler, but I wanted to get an idea of what other people do. It's an adorable song, but I didn't know if it was wedding appropriate..

grneyz12

We went with George Strait - I Cross My Heart

Amerbutt81

we danced to Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight".

The hubs used to sing it to me as I would fall asleep

[Deleted User]

We're going to dance to Two Step by DMB.  My family thinks we're crazy, who cares.  We wanted and up beat song and love DMB, esp me.  

Beagle211

Our first dance is to Ray LaMontagne's "You are the Best Thing"

noelwellin

I think we're going to do "Marry Me" by Train.  We were thinking about "Faithfully" by Journey, but I just heard this song about a week ago and love it.  I think I'm going to walk down the aisle to an instrumental version, someone playing on guitar or piano, and the regular version will be our first dance.

dolfin662

We are going to dance to "Everything" by Michael Buble.  It's our song and we absolutely love it!!

Musicheals71

"If I Ain't Got You" by Alicia Keys was our First Dance song.  We had our dance - a waltz - professionally choreographed, and it came out very well!

LaRositaMonita

We did "The Way I Am" by Ingrid Michaelson.  It's fun, it's upbeat, it's sweet, and it's only about 2 minutes long.  We never had a "song," but it came on my iTunes one day and we both looked at each other, knowing it was what we would dance to at our wedding.

As another idea, I walked up the aisle to a version of Ben Folds" "The Luckiest" played by two friends of mine - a violinist and a pianist.  Had they not offered to play my ceremony music for me as a wedding gift, DH and I would have probably chosen this song.  It is probably my all-time favorite love song.  I should also point out that the pianist friend is the one in whose wedding I will be a groomsmaid next year

Because I am an AW and majorly missing said friend, here is the arrangement of the Luckiest they played, set to the slideshow we had going during our cocktail hour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucyRKm_eSjA (This was uploaded to YouTube and sent to me to watch the day after the wedding, and I totally cried all over again.)

RecoveringActor

We are using "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys.  It's not OUR song.  Our song is kind of lame... it's "I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You" by Savage Garden, but we really didn't want to dance to it!  We want offbeat and upbeat music, so Beach Boys it is!!

kristinrotondo

We're doing "You and I" by Michael Buble. He wanted an older song, I wanted something more modern. Since it's originally by Stevie Wonder (which we admittedly didn't know until recently), it's got both!

drink227

We did "Then" by Brad Paisley

nicole8586

Our band covered When in Rome The Promise

jamiebean

We are going to be dancing to GooGooDolls " Iris " . It is our song and he had a guitar player playing and singing it while he proposed to me. He wnts to have the dj scratch the song and we will break out in different dances to different songs....Im still on the fence about that LoL

paprika28

Ours is 'I'd love to be your last' by Clay Walker. It's pretty fitting for us, as we've both been married before, and the lyrics definitely are tear jerkers.

Our second option (if we change our minds, because we're not sure yet) is the song 'so close' from enchanted. I have it on my ipod, and he heard it the other day in the car and asked me about it.

Neither of them is 'our song'... ours is actually 'Then' by Brad Paisley. It's the first song we ever danced to (in my kitchen, while i was making him dinner).

miguelhilary2010

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[QUOTE]We're doing "You and I" by Michael Buble. He wanted an older song, I wanted something more modern. Since it's originally by Stevie Wonder (which we admittedly didn't know until recently), it's got both!
Posted by kristinrotondo[/QUOTE]

We had a DJ do our ceremony music and Stevie Wonder's "You and I" was played as we lit the unity candle :)

Stacylynn702

We danced to Pearl Jam's cover of Neil Young's Harvest Moon.

We love PJ, go to concerts together when they're here and even travel if we can to see them.  It was the only love song we could knew from them other than Just Breathe.  We've seen them do Harvest Moon in concert and love it.

Stacylynn702

Sorry, I forgot to add that I don't think it matters if the song is "wedding appropriate".  If the song means something to you and your relationship then I think that makes it "appropriate" no matter what as long as it's not screaming the Fword all over the place, I think it's okay

FutureMrsTCT

FI and I will be dancing to "Bring it on Home" by Little Big Town. FI picked it because it's exactly us. He's very supportive of my emotional self, and is always there - I don't think it's a traditional wedding first dance song, I've never heard of anyone who wanted to use it. But it's really lovely.

FI and I also have an electic taste in music, so we've gone far from tradition for every song in the ceremony as well.

paprika28

TCT- I love that song. It was literally JUST playing on my ipod.

Northstar1808

dink that was our wedding song too!!! I love that song and Brad

noel - Marry Me is such a beautiful song, love it!

caraellen23

We danced to "You Are the Best Thing" by Ray LaMontagne (good choice, Beagle!)

Its "our song" and the song that he had playing when he proposed. 

JNJApril2012

We will dance to "If You're Not the One" by Daniel Beddingfield. It had been our song since high school. It is so fitting for us and even though there are other songs that we have been drawn to, nothing us feels right.

JJMsBrideToBe

We are having a super hard time choosing between Starting Line's "The Best of Me" and The Spill Canvas' "So Much" The lyrics are just beautiful to both, but we have also considered Weezer's "You're My Best Friend" We have 8 months though, so no rush.

When I was younger though, I always pictured something classic though like an Etta James or Sinatra song. I've been interviewing tons of DJs lately (though that is definitely FI's job, haha) and one thing I've been pressing is that I want tons of OLD music mixed with our alternative/indie rock for the reception.