Wedding songs
by I'm meeting with our wedding DJ to discuss wedding songs. He's a very cool guy, everyone that's been to weddings he's done says he's great; plus he's a witness, so we don't have to worry about inappropriate songs.
We're adamant only about having no country music and no theme dances. Sorry, the electric slide and the chicken dance are the lamest songs in the world to me.
What songs to you like dancing to at weddings?
What do you hate to hear?
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Oh man when my DJ said "you have to have those dances, it's for the guests, they are the ones putting money in the envelopes"
I remember I was pretty annoyed.
We had the chicken dance. UGH.
Um this is gonna be ghey but I really love J.Lo's "let's get loud" or whatever that song is, it's so great.
You gotta have Latino Love. Any latino music is just amazing to dance to haha... (and i normally HATE dancing... i really stink at it)
I'm at weddings EVERY weekend now, and really it totaly varies from one to the other. There can be one song at one wedding and everyone's dancing, same song at another wedding and the floor is empty. I think it depends on everyone's mood. And stuff.
My old congregation is very "dancy" and so is my family and all of our friends, but the new congregation that I'm in with my fiance is full of older people. (Our service report indicated that 80% of the publishers are over 30). So we're going for a lot of younger dances, but lots of Sinatra, too.
oooh... Sinatra is good times.
at the wedding this past weekend, the DJ played a lot of like, funky jazzy groovy type stuff, and i wanted to dance SO bad haha...
YEEEEEEES! BAN the electric slide! BAN IT! i love you. can you throw in a swing song or two for us?
Oh, there'll be lots of swing. Don's wearing a zoot suit, after all. We also wanted to do a special swing dance with just the bridal party.
haha sweet. does he need to borrow any accessories from andrew? hat, chain, wingtips?
He's looking for a new pair of wing tips; his soles are worn through. He has chains, and I don't think he and Andrew are the same shoe or hat size (Don has a very round head and big feet. He's a weeble.)
yes!!!!! very exciting. hint: don't dance swimg with someone really good (like jeremy) when you're not that good (me).
personally i hate when they play 'celebrate' and all those other 80's/early 90's songs. they have no beat-how do you even dance to that without looking completely spastic? i prefer something with a hip-hoppy or techno beat.
You know us well enough to know there'll be no gay songs like those.
Anything latin or swing always works. We had a few swing songs at our reception, and there were a few couples who OWNED the dance floor. My brother-in-law literally FLIPPED my husband's sister (it was easy....he's 6'7", she's 5'6"), while they danced, and some of our other friends were doing the whole spinning thing. It was like we had professionals on the floor. It rocked.
Yeah, all of our friends are like that and Don and I can do the flips. It'll be cool.
Hahaha...I can too, but there was NO way I was trying it in my wedding dress. I was having a hard enough time keeping the dress up, hahaha.
I actually had them alter the dress to be a little higher than usual so we can dance more easily. That would be the ultimate; flipping me in a huge dress with a cathedral train bustled to my butt.
I should have had them do that.....I actually didn't have mine fitted at all, which was great. We had a very short engagement, so time was of the utmost importance. But walking down the aisle that day proved to be more difficult than I had thought....the front of my dress kept wanting to go under my toes. It was fine after it was bustled.....until the weight on the back of the dress wanted to keep pulling the top down, hahaha. Fun wedding times.
if you do play any latin songs, "suavamente" and "besame" are good ones
I don't know anything about latin music - we're leaving that category to the DJ.
just dont play both...elvis crespo overload! how about some dlg or el general?
no,no everyone always plays besame. always, always.
BUST A MOVE is a must.
House of Pain : Jump Around!!!!!!!!!
You know you guys have to see how high you can toss Donovan during that song...
I can honestly say there will be NO chicken dance or hokey pokey at my wedding. I have been a bridesmaid one to many times and it's all ridiculous.
I mean the electric slide has to beat out the conga line... even then those two are not in the top five.
the chicken dance in italian is cool imo. reminds me of good times with family and friends. then there is always the tarantala.
qua qua qua qua!
calabrese!
oh...I hear that dj is the best. And i understand he is incredibly good looking also.
: )
i hate that stupid "last dance" song. what is this telling us? it starts out slow, it gets faster, it has terrible singing. it's almost like someone said "let's write a song to make people hate us and go home". and it works. ugh.
i agree 10,000%
if i ever get married, my wedding will be a "Smiths" theme. We will only play Morrisey. and James Taylor. Sweet caroline .. BAUM BAUM BAUM
i will boycott this wedding...
teh smiths are awesome mike so shhhh
and definitely Oasis man. Don't go away...
i love the cure...robert smith has a thing with incredible love songs(besides 'love song' look into them theyre great for wedding stuff...mostly slow stuff though
My fiance loves the cure too. We're going to have a lot of their songs.
ahhhh, "catch"!
i think that elton john's "your song" is verrrry cool. vintage - original.
are there going to be candelabras at the wedding?
Hopefully not. I don't want to be scared at my own wedding. :)
Aww..I <3 Candelbras and Potato mashers!
especially zesters.
do you know what song you're dancing to for the father/daughter dance?
what about -- Time in a bottle Jim Croche
or -- Kind & Generous Natalie Merchant.
My dad is dodging the selection of that song. He's more sentimental than he'd like everyone to believe. I'm pushing for "Last to Leave" by Arlo Guthrie, but it's very sad. Donovan thinks I'm trying to make my dad cry with that one. ;)
aw thats a good one.
My best friend danced with her father to that one song by Michael Crawford, Take her She's mine, OMG let me tell you she was balling and so was i. it was SO sweet!