Wedding songs.

What was your wedding song, the song you danced to for the first time as man and wife? DF and I are in love with a song by Tim Minchin, which I know might seem like an odd choice for a wedding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZ...e_gdata_player

I know it's about Christmas, but for us the deeper meaning is that it's more about family, togetherness and love. The humour is a little odd but again that's us. Would you think it would be out of place, if you were at a wedding and this was the song played? We love it but I'm still interested in peoples (honest) opinions :)

Oh, and what was your wedding song?

All my life - KC & Jojo

Ours was Angels by John Farnham :D

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Our Wedding Song was David Gray - This Year's Love.. YouTube - David Gray "This Years Love"

I'm listening to it as I type. Do you know I would rather hear a song like this which is obviously unique and special to the couple than a more commercial "wedding type" song. I think it sounds cute and if I was a guest I would be smiling at how unique it is.

Our songs were "only time" by Enya and "Everlasting Love" by U2 as we are massive U2 fans

Ours was 'i've been loving you' by Otis Redding.

Re your Christmas song - that made me laugh in a good way. And I'm sure your guests who know you will love it! Honestly - it's your day so just do what you want, as it will go by sooooooo fast. :)

We had my cousin sing our first dance song "When you say nothing at all" by Ronan Keating

ETA: Just listening to your song now, it's sounds beautiful. Ultimately "your" song should be something that means a lot to you.

I'm bawling because Lu would have loved that song so much. I think it's fantastic PZ xx

Our first dance at our wedding was Garth Brooks- shameless.
I fell in love with my DH to that song, and also Garth Brooks- if tomorrow never comes.


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Right, just listened to the song and I'm in tears too. That last bit where he's talking to his daughter... Oh, I'm bawling again!

You asked for honesty, and I will be - I don't think it really works well as a wedding song. Maybe the last bit, but not the whole thing. BUT *you* think it does, so it doesn't matter one jot what I think. I was told (ratger rudely) there was no way I should be allowed to include "Another one bites the dust" in our wedding by someone on my bridal forum, and you know what? I'm still getting positive comments about it from people who came! Everyone thought it was hilarious :D

In short, use the damn song. It's frigging awesome :lol:


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Aww I'm loving listening to other peoples songs :loveshower:

Cai :hug: I'm so glad she would have loved it. I'm just worried I'll bawl too much to dance properly lol!

Thanks Teni :) Yeah the first few very christmasy versus are a bit odd for a wedding, but they make us :lol: and I don't feel like the song doesn't work if it's cut a bit.

Ours was Amazed by Lonestar....one of our favourite songs of all time and describes us perfectly :)

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All my life - KC & Jojo

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Mine too!!!

Ours would have been You're my best friend by Queen as ultimately that is what we wanted to celebrate.
But we didnt want to dance in the end. After the rest of our music didnt work i was feeling a bit disheartened.

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Thanks Teni :) Yeah the first few very christmasy versus are a bit odd for a wedding, but they make us :lol: and I don't feel like the song doesn't work if it's cut a bit.

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Yeah, I thought the same :-/ When I started listening, I didn't realise the entire song would be "Christmassy" so I was thinking some words could be changed to suit a wedding better (with a live singer - sooo probably not good if you're on a budget :redface:)


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Our first dance at our wedding was Garth Brooks- shameless.
I fell in love with my DH to that song, and also Garth Brooks- if tomorrow never comes.


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Snap Shameless was our first dance too.


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We had two. My Girl (danced to half of it with DH and the other half with my dad :)) and Do You Love Me from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. We had dance lessons so we did a funky jive to that one and it was loads of fun. Not overly sentimental but we had sentimental songs during the ceremony to make up for it :lol:

We had two David Gray songs throughout the day - This Years Love was one of the several beautiful songs at our ceremony and Sail Away when we were introduced at the reception. That was really fitting as we love sailing (especially DH, sailed all his life) and our reception was at a maritime museum :)

I walked down the aisle to Dido's 'Thank You'

I love wedding talk!

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Ours was Amazed by Lonestar....one of our favourite songs of all time and describes us perfectly :)

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We had this one as we were signing the register. My friend is a country singer and she sang it for us and then its your love - Tim mcgraw and faith hill at the end of ceremony.

When i see you smile because my DH fell in love with my smile LOL

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We had two. My Girl (danced to half of it with DH and tge other half with my dad :)) and Do You Love Me from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. We had dance lessons so we did a funky jive to that one and it was loads of fun. Not overly sentimental but we had sentimental songs during the ceremony to make up for it :lol:

We had two David Gray songs throughout the day - This Years Love was one of the several beautiful songs at our ceremony and Sail Away when we were introduced at the reception. That was really fitting as we love sailing (especially DH, sailed all his life) and our reception was at a maritime museum :)


I walked down the isle to Dido's 'Thank You'

I love wedding talk!

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My dance with my dad was to My girl as well :)
I walked down the aisle to From this moment by Shania Twain
Signed our marriage certificate to I Believe by Il Divo
Walked back up the aisle to Truely, madly, deeply by Savage Garden
Walked into the reception to Walking on Sunshine
Tossed the bouquet to Girls just wanna have fun by Cindy Lauper
Did the leaving circle to time of my life (dirty dancing)
Walked out to Another One Bites The Dust by Queen

We walked down the aisle with "Eye of the Tiger"

PZ, if you didn't know - Tim Minchin is on Adam Hills' new show tonight, it's just started ;)


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Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley :) a fav from way back and a bit non traditional! We had our second fav for cake cutting Wonderwall by Oasis!

Love hearing everyone else's songs

I have been going through heaps of wedding music and heaps of wedding music websites and the more we listen to the more we change our minds.

Some songs we def want to include either aisle song, first dance, wedding dvd backing track, etc, basically just somewhere in our wedding are:

Jack Johnson- Better Together (maybe a wedding dvd track or first dance or walk down the aisle song)
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (Strange choice but LOVE the words- this might be a wedding video backing track)
Peter Gabriel - Book of Love (maybe walk down the aisle song)
Michael Buble - Save the last dance for me (Last song of the night)

We had our friend sing Adam Sandlers Grow old with you :)

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PZ, if you didn't know - Tim Minchin is on Adam Hills' new show tonight, it's just started ;)


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Hehe, I know :p DF has a man crush on him I think.

I wrote a song for DH and recorded it as a surprise :)

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Hehe, I know :p DF has a man crush on him I think.

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Tim or Adam? If it's Adam I don't blame him, he makes me tingle :rofl:

Getting back on topic, I'll get on the computer later to tell you all about my wedding songs :p My wedding is one of my favourite topics to blather on about!


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Tim lol!!

Thankyou so much for sharing girls, I keep welling up listening to them all on YouTube and imagining how special it would have been :heartbeat:

Snap frantelle- what an awesome song :)


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For a giggle...

I heard this recently... the worst wedding song ever...

Today - Smashing Pumpkins

I mean it's an awesome song... one of my absolute fave's. But as a wedding song no. Unless you have no idea what they are singing about LOL!

My celebrent told me that the most common one she was hearing was banana pancakes by jack Johnson.

I forgot I walked down the isle to Lullaby by Bond (electric sting quart) its a bit like pachabels cannon in d


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Rouge - what are they singing about???? I just sing along and pay no attention! My DH is curious now too!!

It's totally sarcastic. Implying that its the greatest day but that really is no basis of comparison as life has been well... pretty crap.

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"I was really suicidal. I just thought it was funny to write a song that said today is the greatest day of your life because it can't get any worse."

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We had "Don't wanna miss a thing" by Aerosmith as my husband is a metal fan (I'm not) so a rock ballard was a happy compromise and we both loved the song

We walked into our reception to U2s "Beautiful Day" (and it was :loveshower: )

After we finished our first dance the DJ played Unchained Melody which my Wedding Party all danced too - a friend video taped it (badly), but right at the end you can see my Mum and her partner Waltz past and she says "Jesus Christ" as our singing was so appalling - cracks me up every time :rofl: But it reminds me of our wonderful wedding :) YouTube - Naomi & Seans wedding party dance

**still chuckling**

Annnnnyway - PZ, I REALLY like your choice, I agree its about family and connection - what a wedding and marriage is all about x x

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It's totally sarcastic. Implying that its the greatest day but that really is no basis of comparison as life has been well... pretty crap.

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:rofl:

We also wanted Careless Whisper, the Seether version...but similarly it's not really sending good wedding vibes lol!

LOL!!! Ohhhhhhh I get it

If you love it then go for it! Its your day :) I think its beautiful1
We had At last by Etta james....I still get all emotional when I here it....we wanted to have My happiness by powderfinger cause it really summed up our relationship but we thought it was a bit too sad :P

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We also wanted Careless Whisper, the Seether version...but similarly it's not really sending good wedding vibes lol!

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LMAO that would be GOLD - I love 'left field' wedding songs - and by that I mean the non smaltzy traditional ones (although we caved a bit)

DH is a mad Iron Maiden fan, we just couldn't find any Maiden that was 'Weddingy' LMAO

We had 6 for different parts of our Wedding!

"When you love someone" by Bryan Adams
"Everything" by Michael Buble
"Feels like home" by Chantelle Kreviazuk
"Amazed" by Lonestar
"From this moment" by Shania Twain
and "No one" by Alicia Keys...