My fiance and I are on a tight budget so we are doing all of the music ourselves. This is much more stressful than I thought it would be! Especially since (due to our budget) our reception will ony last 3 hours. The first hour will be cocktails and dancing, then an hour (ish) for buffet dinner (approx. 50 people) and immediately to the cake cutting. Most of our guests are middle aged family so there won't be very many young people there so I'm trying to choose music for both, but not too much too young because I don't know who will dance. Here is what I have right now and I need opinions! Thanks for any help or advice you can give!
This is approx. 3 hours of music.
All You Need is Love (instrumental) – Entering ceremony and announced as MR & MRS
Thank you for Loving Me (Bon Jovi) – First dance
My Wish (Rascal Flatts) – Mother/Son dance
Marry Me – Train (everyone can start dancing now)
When a man loves a woman – Michael Bolton
I can see clearly now – Johnny Nash
How Sweet it is – James Taylor
Ho Hey – The Lumineers
I Got You Babe – Sonny and Cher
Heaven – Bryan Adams
I Would do anything for Love – Meat Loaf
Baby I love your Way – Peter Frampton
A Thousand Years – Christina Perri (I am walking down the aisle to the instrumental version of this song)
Love of a Lifetime – Firehouse
Dinner should begin around this time – followed immediately by cake cutting
More than Words – Extreme
I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith
Love of my life – Michael W. Smith
All I ask of You (from Phantom of the Opera)
Angel – Aerosmith
When You Say Nothing at All – Alison Krauss
Everything I do, I do it for You – Bryan Adams
Every Rose has it’s Thorn – Poison
Lucky – Jason Mraz & Colby Caillat
Come What May (from Moulin Rouge)
I Will be Here – Steven Curtis Chapman
I Won’t Give up – Jason Mraz
I’ll Be – Edwin McCain
Drunk on You – Sunshine Brothers
Hopefully cake cutting will be finished by now and the fun dancing can begin
I Want You to Want Me (the live version, I like it so much better) – Cheap Trick
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Tammy Terrell and Marvin Gaye
Twist and Shout – The Beatles
Shout – Otis Day and the Knights
Tonight, Tonight – Hot Chelle Ray
Cupid Shuffle
Just Dance – Lady Gaga
The Wobble
I’m a Believer – Smash Mouth
Stellar – Incubus
While my Guitar Gently Weeps – The Beatles (the fiancé insisted lol)
Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
I’ve Had the Time of my Life (from Dirty Dancing – ideally this should be the last song)
White Wedding – Billy Idol
Bless the Broken Road – Rascal Flatts