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A Poll for fun: Your wedding day songs
Talking about "Dancing Queen" in my previous post got me thinking back to my wedding day. ?It's been awhile for some of us, so let's?reminisce.?
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? ?Your wedding party?
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony?
3. Exit song??
4. Entrance songs to your reception?
5. First dance song?
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song??
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? ?Cake cutting song?
8. Last dance song?
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...?
Re: A Poll for fun: Your wedding day songs
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party?
We all walked down to a new agey variation on Canon in D.
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony?
too many to list...
3. Entrance songs to your reception?
DH and I came in to Darude (Sandstorm- his choice)
Wedding party came in to Zombie Nation (again his choice)
4. First dance song?
True- Ryan Cabrera
5. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song?
Brad Paisley - He Didn't Have to Be and Stand by Me
6. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song?
No bouquet toss or garter toss, cake cutting was When I'm 64.
7. Last dance song?
Our slow dance was Taking You Home by Don Henley, but we followed it with Jump Around by House of Pain to keep everyone up one last time.
8. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party? Ave Marie, Cannon in D minor
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony? Irish wedding song, Corinthians 13 song (forget what it is called), Here I am Lord
3. Entrance songs to your reception? "Soul Bossa Nova" for us and everyone else walked into "(Your love keeps lifting me) Higher and Higher"
4. First dance song? "Love Will Keep Us Alive", The Eagles
5. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song? "The Way You Look Tonight", Frank Sinatra - "Stand by Me"
6. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song? Bouquet Toss: "That Old Black Magic" we didn't have the others
7. Last dance song? "Save the Last Dance for Me", the Drifters
8. Any other special dances/songs you want to add... n/a
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party? Wedding Party: Ode to Joy. Me: Canon in D
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony? N/A
3. Exit song? Signed, sealed, delivered
4. Entrance songs to your reception? Hehe... Crazy train, Ozzy Osbourne in honor of the Pats! A surprise to DH
5. First dance song? *sniff* Everything to me, Braid Paisley
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song? *bigger sniff* You are so beautiful, Joe Cocker. (No mother/son dance)
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song? Bouquet: she's a lady. Garter: Candyman, Christina Aguilara. Cake cutting: Pour some sugar on me!
8. Last dance song? Day before you, Rascal Flatts
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add... Paradise by the Dashboard light, as lipsung by me and a friend with massively huge blowup mics, DJ taught the dance for Grease Lightning, played my parents' wedding song knight in white satin as a surprise for them and they had their own dance to it
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party?
No idea....I told the pianist to play whatever they normally played so I'm guessing Canon in D, same for the bridal party
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony?
none
3. Exit song?
see # 1, lol (I am not a music person at all)
4. Entrance songs to your reception?
didn't do an entrance
5. First dance song?
When You Say Nothing at all, Keith Whitley version
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song?
Father/daughter - I loved her first, Heartland
Mother/son - I hope you dance, Lee Ann Womack
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song?
No bouquet or garter
Cake - How Sweet it is, James Taylor
8. Last dance song?
No clue, lol
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...
The only must play song for our DJ was Copa Cabana for DH's mom cause thats her favorite song
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party?
No Idea on what the names of them were... Just some simple organ music for the wedding party and the traditional "here comes the bride" for me, ha-ha!
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony?
None,... quick ceremony and then we left..
3. Exit song?
Again, the traditional one you hear on TV. Couldnt tell you the name of it though. I honestly did not care much about this part of my day.
4. Entrance songs to your reception?
The whole wedding party came in to the same song. Yello's "Oh Yeah". You might know it better from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. First dance song?
Dave Matthews Band - Steady as We Go
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song?
Father / Daughter (Uncle/Niece) - Rascal Flatts- My Wish
Mother / Son - Faith Hill - There you'll Be
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song?
Dont remember the Boquet or the Garter toss song.. The cake cutting song was When Im 64 by the Beatles..
8. Last dance song?
George Strait - I cross my heart
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...
I danced with my best friend Chris to the Pretenders - Ill stand by you...
All night Long was Very Popular
Last Dance - Donna Summer
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party? It was all the same song but I don't remember what it was.
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony? I don't remember
3. Exit song? I don't remember
4. Entrance songs to your reception? I think it was Beautiful Day by U2 but I could be wrong.
5. First dance song? "Still" by Elvis Costello
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song? Father/daughter dance was "In my daughter's eyes"
Mother/son dance was some Andrea Botachelli long-ass song.
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song? We didnt do a bouquet or garter toss. Cake cutting song - I don't remember
8. Last dance song? ????
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add... I had to have some old school Connie Francis played becuase it is special to the family.
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party? I walked down to Canon in D and the wedding party was Trumpet Voluntary.
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony? None
3. Exit song? All You Need is Love (the Love Actually version)
4. Entrance songs to your reception? Wedding party was the theme to Star Wars, DH and I was the Imperial March
5. First dance song? Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song? F/D was My Girl, we didn't do a M/S
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song? Bouquet toss: Girls by the Beastie Boys, Garter toss: Moving in Stereo by the Cars (the song from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the pool scene) Cake cutting: I wanna Grow Old With you by Adam Sandler
8. Last dance song? It got messed up, it was supposed to be Sweet Caroline, but ended up being We are the Champions by Queen.
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add.. We had my BFF's dad do our wedding and he sings and plays guitar too, so he played one of his special songs for us because it makes us crack up. He does a version of American Pie like he is a broken record. Too funny, just as people start to sing along, it "skips" and goes to a completely different part.
Also, my BFF's brother did the Napoleon Dynamite dance for us. I'm soooo glad we have it all on DVD!
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party?
Canon in D
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony?
None
3. Exit song?
I can't remember!
4. Entrance songs to your reception?
Us- Beautiful Day. Wedding Party- My Best Friend
5. First dance song?
Come Away With Me by Nora Jones
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song?
F/D I loved Her First M/S Wonderful Tonight?
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song?
Cake curtting was Pour Some Suger on Me, didn't do garter or bouquet
8. Last dance song?
At Last
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...
Sweet Caroline was a must as well as Sexy Back
Isn't it funny how important it seemed at the time and now I can't remember half of them.
1. Canon in D I think and something Mozart
2. None
3. Don't remember
4. Dirty Water
5. Lover Lay Down - DMB
6. Father Daughter was Scottish Fiddle Arrangement, Mother Son was an Elvis song don't remember which one
7. Didn't do tosses, don't remember cake cutting song
8. We requested a couple specific DMB songs and specifically said no chicken song.
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party? Cannon in D for everyone, the beginning of it for the bridal party, the middle of it(when the violins come in) for me
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony? We had a full mass, so just the normal church songs. We had the soloist sing Ava Maria for the seating of the mothers, it was so beautiful
3. Exit song? Don't remember (was too excited to be walking back up the aisle with DH to notice what was playing), I think it was Ode to Joy
4. Entrance songs to your reception? Bridal Party/parents was upbeat instrmental music, we had the chorus Beautiful Day by U2.
5. First dance song? It's Your Love, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song? Father/daughter was Butterfly Kisses (My father's only request during the planning was that we dance to this song, because he has always loved it, who am I to deny that?)
I don't know what the Mother/son song was. DH & his mom couldn't agree on one, so we just told the DJ to play a nice song that he would usually play for it, and he did.
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song?
Bouquet was Girls Just Want To Have Fun (the DJ picked it),
Garter removal and toss was Keep Your Hand to Youself (because of an inside joke between me and DH) .
Cake cutting was Grow Old with You
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add... We had them play old songs from the "Rat Pack" during dinner, it made the mood fun and relaxing.
We had the DJ play our parent's first dance songs for them, so they could have a special "spotlight" dance, they all loved it.
Towards the end of the day our DJ, me, DH, our bridal party, the groomsmen's wives, our parents, and about 20 of their and our friends line danced to one of DH's favorite songs, Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. It was a riot, and we have it all on video. We all did an excellent job considering it we all learned the dance from the DJ in about two minutes on the spot.
They played the chicken dance while DH & I were to go changing into our clothes to leave. I was so pissed, I wanted to do the chicken dance at my own wedding! It was on our play list, but we thought the DJ had forgot to play it, until we got our video back. At the very end before we came back down to make our exit, were about 25 peoiple doing the chicken dance.
1, 2, 3 ( c & P from our program which is still saved on the computer) it was Catholic so we had a somewhat limited selection of songs for certain parts.
Our ceremony songs are:
Mothers? Entrance ?Lady of Knock?
Recessional ?Canon in d?
Responsorial Psalm ?you are all we have?Gospel Acclamation ?Celtic Alleluia?
lighting of the unity candle ?the irish wedding song?
Offertory Hymn ?how Beautiful?
Communion Song ?I have loved you?
recessional ?canticle of the sun?
4. Wedding party entered to an Irish song, the chorus is: "Hand in hand and toe to toe all for maury's wedding "
we walked in to "I'm A Believer by smashmouth
5. Brad Paisley - She's Everything
6. my dad and I danced to some Irish song about dancing w/ daughter at her wedding (my dad wanted it, I wasn't crazy about it). I forget the mother/son
7. our cake song was Adam Sandler's I wanna grow old with you. I forget the others. I think I let the DJ pick.
8.The last song the DJ played was Sweet Caroline and then everyone made an arch which we ran through and they sang something...
9. wedding party danced to that brad paisley song - all you really need is love, our DJ was also a wedding singer, (and he is Irish so he was able to sing some of the old Irish songs for the many Irish guests) but then many of our guests also sang. My MOH sang "the hills of Donegal" for my mom, she;s from county Donegal in Ireland, she also sang a fermanagh song, anna from fermanagh maybe for my dad. my parents sang a duet- johnny lovely johnny, admittedly I was getting a little tiny bit sick of the singing, cuz I wanted the younger crowd to be able to dance.
at one point the DJ had everyone on the floor pretending to row boats and singing along to "rock the boat"
we also did an anniversary dance, to I forget which song...
It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember some songs, so I had to look for my DJ instructions...
Bouquet Toss = Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Cindi Lauper
Garter Removal = Cherry Pie Warrant
Other Must play songs/artists
Come Monday Jimmy Buffett
I love this bar Toby Keith
Its your love Tim McGraw/Faith Hill
5 O?Clock Somewhere Alan Jackson
Tessie Dropkick Murphy?s
Fields of Athenry Dropkick Murphy?s
Standells Love that Dirty Water
I love you Because Johnny Cash
Nothing Else Matters Metallica
A song for Ireland The Coors
Black Velvet Band traditional
Useta Love her Saw Doctors
Old Time Rock and Roll ? I forget
The way you look tonight Sinatra
She?s a brick house ?
Alcohol Brad Paisley
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice
I love that "Ice, Ice Baby" was on your must play list. ?You are a riot!!
I got married 5 years ago soooo ... I might not remember some of these. Doing my best here.
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? My wedding parting walked down the aisle to Canon in D I think ... and I walked down to the timeless "Here Comes the Bride."
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony? None.
3. Exit song? I can't remember. Something pretty as I recall, though.
4. Entrance songs to your reception? My wedding party went in to ... Oh My GOD ... I can't remember!!!!!!! That's going to really bug me. It was something really cool though, we picked it and the DJ had never used it before ... crap. I wish I could remember. We walked in to the beginning of "TNT" by ACDC. It was soo fun.
5. First dance song? We danced to Van Morrison's "Someone Like You."
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song? My dad and I danced to Paul Anka's "Times of Your Life," and I can't remember what Eugene and his mother danced too ... something not heard often.
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song? Bouquet toss song ... I can't remember ... Garter toss ... OMG I can't remember that either ... cake cutting song was Natalie Cole's "This Will Be (an everlasting love)
8. Last dance song? Ok. This is bad. I have NO idea. =(
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...
1. Cannon in D and Here comes the Bride.
2. None.
3. Just the traditional end of ceremony music...
4. Superstition by Stevie Wonder
5. Heaven (The candle light mix)
6. Father daughter was "Tough little Boys" by Gary Allan and Mother/son was "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor
7. Bouquet toss was "Isn't she Lovely", Garter was "Another one bites the dust" and the cake cutting was "Grow old with you" from the wedding singer.
8. The Luckiest by Ben Folds Five
9. My dad "danced" with Emily (she was only 11 months old) to Return to Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins
1. The regular "Here comes the bride..." The girls used Canon in D (how original)
2. It was in the Catholic Church, so all hymns
3. The Wedding March? (is that what it's called?)
4. I Love You More Today Than Yesterday (but not as much as tomoooorrrrooooooowww.....) by Spiral Staircase
5. Follow Through by Gavin Degraw
6. Daddy's Little Girl for us, My Wish by Rascal Flatts for groom/mom
7. L.O.V.E. by Nat "King" Cole for cake. Didn't do bouquet/garter
8. The Last Dance by Frank Sinatra
9. Step by Step- NKOTB (aw, yaaaaah)
I have mainly been lurking lately but this was too fun to pass up, I love reminiscing about this stuff!
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party? I have no idea but I know we used a lot of traditional wedding music. The mothers walked down to Ave Maria.
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony? ??
3. Exit song? ??
4. Entrance songs to your reception? The flowers girls and jr usher came in to the Peanuts theme song (snoopy, etc) and the rest of us came in to "Centerfield" by John Fogerty.
5. First dance song? Babylon by David Gray
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song?
Father/daughter - Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder
Mother/son - The Rainbow Connection - Kermit version
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song?
No bouquet or garter Cake - Love will keep us together - Captain and Tenille
8. Last dance song? Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...
The first fast song song we chose to be "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire. We dedicated "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver to our Baltimore friends and all of us danced together to that. Dedicated "Through the years" by Kenny Rogers to our parents and we did a special dance with them to that song. We also played the Tarantella (Italian dance). My college girlfriends had the DJ play Baby got back for me (my favorite song!)
We also did the Anniversary dance to "That's Amore."
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? Your wedding party?
The wedding party was - Cannon D, and " here comes the bride". We had three musicians that played during our ceremony and cocktail hour.
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony?
I know we had one during our vows, but I can't remember it.
3. Exit song?
Triumph Voluntary
4. Entrance songs to your reception?
I can't remember what the bridal party came into, but we used the Rock theme song for us! DH's choice ofcourse!
5. First dance song?
"When you say nothing at all" by Alison Straus
6. Father/daughter dance song & Mother/son dance song?
Father daughter dance- You Raise Me Up- Josh Groban
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? Cake cutting song?
Cake cutting- " Everlasting Love"
8. Last dance song?
My Valentine- Martina McBride
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...
I can remember dancing to " We are family" not sure who its by... but it was so fun with all my friends and family! One of my BM's husband did this ridiculously funny dance to the Milkshake song by Kelis. LOL!!
1. Song you walked down the aisle to? My sister/one of my MOHs played "Here comes the bride" on flute (and both of my parents walked me down the aisle)
Your wedding party? don't remember!
2. Songs sang or played at your ceremony? don't remember
3. Exit song? The Wedding March
4. Entrance songs to your reception? Chapel of Love - Elton John's version from "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
5. First dance song? There You'll Be - Faith Hill from the "Pearl Harbor" soundtrack - We saw that movie on one of our first dates
6. Father/daughter dance song? Father and Daughter - Paul Simon
& Mother/son dance song? What a wonderful world - Louis Armstrong
7. Bouquet toss song? Garter toss song? We didn't do either....
Cake cutting song? "How Sweet it is (to be loved by you)" - James Taylor
8. Last dance song? Can you feel the love tonight - Elton John
9. Any other special dances/songs you want to add...
We asked as many of our guests as we could (on the sly) before the wedding what their first dance songs were from their weddings and had the DJ play each one dedicated to each couple throughout the night.