Wedding Songs?

[lls_mutant]

Hmmm.

My sis is getting married and she is desperately searching for a first dance song. (She and her fiance don't have a song.) However, they're looking for something that sort of bucks the current trends. Something a little different. Doesn't have to be outlandish, just not used at hundreds of weddings last year. She's totally flexible... except for his mosh pit idea :)

Anyone know some good love songs that make a good first dance? (Keeping it slow, please, because the boy can NOT dance at all.)

Comments

[wickedevra.livejournal.com]

I've no idea what the current trends are, but I love U2's "All I Want is You". Classic and very very slow. A friend of mine told me once that she wants Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are". The words are really nice for a wedding song.

And now you have my 2 cents :p

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

It's very, very hard to go wrong with U2, I think. (We used a U2 song for our cake cutting.) That's EXACTLY the kind if thing I was looking for!

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

"The Book of Love" by Peter Gabriel is very slow. Though I don't know at how many weddings it was featured...

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Peter Gabriel is always good, at least in my book. Thanks!

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

"Drive Home" by Edmund McWilliams and Neil Finn. Hard to find (is on the 'Rain' soundtrack), but is one of the most beautiful pieces of music, ever. I can email it to you in MP3 if you'd like.

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Would you mind? I've never heard of that one. My email is drliss @ comcast.net. Thanks so much!

[elsie.livejournal.com]

"The Luckiest" by Ben Folds Five makes me cry. I also like "Yellow" by Coldplay. Or Rufus Wainwright's "Tower of Learning." I dunno if any of this would be your sister's style, but I like them a lot. I have all these on my comp, so I can send them to you if you want to hear.

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Coldplay might be his style. It's his style I actually can't put a finger on.

All of those are in hubby's collection. I'll have to dig them out- thanks!

[venilia.livejournal.com]

There's a little known band called Innocence Mission. They have an old accustic album named Birds of my Neighborhood, and you can find it on amazon. The eleventh song is called Going Away (yes, sad title) and it is lovely. My favorite lines go:

Would you let me take care of you?
I would like to sing you a song in the morning
Walk you to your car when you're going where you're going

And some other time, I wouldn't care so much about
Being understood as I do now
I would leave myself and go away
I would like to follow you away

And seeing you
I know what is right and what is true
Oh I see the way I want to be
I see the way I want to be

The singer wrote it as a long song to her husband.

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

That sounds beautiful- I'll have to see if I can dig it up. Thanks!

[shaggydogstail.livejournal.com]

I had 'Moon River' at my wedding, which is tres romantic and stylish. The good thing about going for an old song is that it isn't played at 5 millions other weddings that year, but it doesn't scare the aunties.

I also had Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' played when I walked up the aisle, and spent the whole day giggling because none of my relatives had the least idea it was about heroin, and all thought it was so sweet. Yes, I really am that childish.

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Moon River is a gorgeous song. I'm an older-song fan, too. We had Van Morrison's version of "Have I Told You Lately?"

And that's too funny about Perfect Day!

[marauderthesn.livejournal.com]

No ideas, but I commend your sister for not wanting a trendy and overplayed song. :)

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

I do too :) I was very glad to hear her say that! We wanted something that also wasn't trendy and overplayed, and went with Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lateley?" Popular maybe (although I've never been to a wedding that used it), but it fit and wasn't by Shania Twain :)

[poolman.livejournal.com]

We had "It Had to be You" (the Harry Connick Jr version from When Harry Met Sally, minus the big orchestral opening). Peppy, not overly sappy, good tempo, and a really nice message.

For something fun, I might also recommend "I Love You" by the Barenaked Ladies. Really fun song, and it has two little moments where the tempo goes all double time and it's really fun to just wiggle around too.

Personally, I can't STAND when the first dance is a really slow, drawn out ballad. No offence to anyone here who had a slow ballad, but it really pulls the energy out of a wedding to me. I had a buddy get married and dance to some song that was SEVEN MINUTES LONG, and slow as Forrest Gump. Imagine slow dancing to something the same length as Stairway to Heaven. Yikes.

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

I like "It Had to be You." And I was REALLY looking for a good BNL song, but the discs I had in my car didn't have anything really appropriate. (I thought about suggesting "Call and Answer" and then I listened to it carefully. Nope.)

We had a slow song ("Have I Told You Lately?", the Van Morrison version), but it's fairly short. We also only had one other dance, when Howard danced with his mother, so that helped too. But I agree, really long dances suck the life out of the room!

[caranille.livejournal.com]

There's a song by Art Garfunkel called "All I Know" that's absolutely gorgeous; it's off the album Angel Clare. If they like 80s music, maybe Journey's "Faithfully"?

[(Anonymous)]

possibly something by damien rice ..um. maybe cold water or cannonball.