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Dear readers, my friend has a pressing question: What is a great wedding first dance song? She is getting married in August and is looking for a romantic song, but all the ones she likes seem to have depressing lyrics! Any ideas?
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what about the beatles “love you forever”
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What a great collection of ideas, I get married in 3 months time and we’re struggling on this one too – I’ll be going through some of these on itunes later!!
My favourite artist is Kate Rusby – she’s a folk singer and most of her songs are just too depressing/inappropriate for a wedding
– she has a lovely duet with Ronan Keating ‘All over again’ – perfect for a wedding song, but my other half vetoed it cos it’s Ronan…
I highly, highly agree with the person who said “This Will Be Our Year” by the Zombies.
I would also add
“Pledging My Love” JOhnny Ace
“There’s No Other Like My Baby” The Crystals
reflecting light – sam phillips
Here is an interesting take on using “At Last”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm4AKCGrySk
My husband and I danced to “I will not take my love away” By Matt Wertz. It is short but we love it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLOqfVJeQ5g&feature=related
“My Love for You is Real” by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals. Slow enought to dance to, sweet lyrics, but still unique.
My love for you is real
It moves like a summer breeze
My love for you is strong
Lord it brings me to my knees
Its born in the wild
This real love
Love strong
True love is ours
Honey now
My love for you is real
My love for you is gone
Candy sweet and thunder strange
My love for you is wild
It breaks the lockets melting
My love for you is long
Across the oceans all the same
My love for you is true
Need exchange the love it takes
It’s born in the wild
It’s river long
Rock strong
True never stings
Honey now
My love for you is real
Uh huh
It’s real, ohhh
It’s real, ohhh
Honey now
My love for you is real.
wow, juliet! that is hilarious and so appropriate.
I don’t really have any suggestions and this is a little off topic, but speaking of the pixies, I lost my virginity to here comes your man…it just happened to be playing on the telly at the time but it was rather appropriate!
And to the person who said Dire Straights Romeo and Juliet…I”m pretty sure you wouldnt be saying that if your name was in fact Juliet…plenty of jokes were made at my expense to the lyrics “when we made love, you used to cry” at high school! Altho my current boyfriend put it on a mix cd for me and i realised it is a lovely song!
Our first dance was “My Baby Just Cares For Me” by Nina Simone.
Whatever you do, don’t choose “At Last” by Etta James. Sooooo predictable. Everyone will roll their eyes inside!
sting’s version of “my one and only love” is perfect. i don’t know who originally sang this….
“You Send Me” by Sam Cooke. I loooove that one.
“Let’s Do It” a Cole Porter song. We danced to the version sung by Billie Holiday – it was upbeat and tremendous fun to dance to!
Our first song was “Over the Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole which is such a great upbeat version! I heard it at another wedding a few years ago and fell in love with it. Our second choice was another great song…”When you say nothing at all” by Alison Krause. Good luck and let us know what you choose!
“Into the Mystic” is for the honeymoon night! That has to be one of the sexiest songs of all time.
Our first dance was to Van Morrison’s “into the mystic”
Hello sweet Jo! Thank you for the lovely comment you left on my blog. I am sorry I am late to this post but it has been great fun reading all of the suggestions!
I agree with:
The Luckiest by Ben Folds
In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
What about All You Need Is Love by The Beatles or the version from Love Actually
It Had to Be You by Frank or Harry Connick Jnr
Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra. Actually pretty much any Sinatra would be great!
We Are in Love by Harry Connick Jnr! Quite jazzy, so perfect for lots of twists and dips. They could really show off their fancy footwork.
The Sweetest Thing by U2
Just Like Heaven by The Cure
and my fave – Islands in the Stream by Dolly & Kenny.
My friend’s first song at her wedding dance was Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice!
In agreement with several others… I love Etta James’ song “At Last”. (I think Celine Dion has also done a version of it.)
Thanks for posting this gorgeous picture. I am perpetually in love with the images of the Kennedy’s and our American Camelot.
wow. as the friend Jo mentioned, i feel like I have to comment here. all these ideas are incredible. what a creative bunch of readers…I’m not sure which song i’m going with yet, but I’ll let you know when i do. thanks, JoJo (and cup of jo)!
With whom to dance – Magnetic fields. It is so sweet.
My SIL + BIL danced to Regina Spektor’s cover of ‘Real Love’ – I loved it! Such a beautiful song, and i loved that it wasn’t girly..
I think our wedding song was the best – “somersault” by zero 7, sung by Sia.
these are soooo amazing, thank you so much! my friend emailed to say she is downloading them all through iTunes–she has so many incredibly choices! i’m excited to see what she picks….
THE MAN I LOVE
also “you belong to me” by bob dylan.
my first dance was to jackie wilson’s “lonely teardrops” –
it wasn’t planned but my husband knew i loved the song and we had such a good time dancing to it.
Can’t help her unless she’s from Jersey because I danced to “Jersey Girl”!
i’m a little late but i really like royal wood’s i’m so glad. it’s going to be my friend’s first dance song.
My best friend used ” Never Tear us Apart” by INXS
Marry me by Neil Diamond!!
how about “come fly with me” by frank sinatra?
We danced to “64” by the Beatles… upbeat & unusual, but was great!
By far the best idea I have ever seen is the one in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byj_y0E0ktQ
So creative!
Ours was “I Must Have Done Something Good,” from The Sound of Music.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow…great message and I believe it is in every Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie
My husband and I are big nature lovers so we used John Denver’s Annie’s Song last year for our first dance (was very popular in the 70s):
You fill up my senses like a light in the forest, like a mountain in springtime, like a walk in the rain, like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean, you fill up my senses, come fill me again
come let me love you, let me give my life to you, let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms, let me lay down beside you, let me give my life to you, come let me love you, come love me again
Stacey Kent singing “They All Laughed” – it’s such a sweet one, and she’s fantastic. Gershwin!
“They all laughed at Rockefeller Center, now they’re fighting to get in
They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin
They all laughed Fulton and his steamboat, Hershey and his chocolate bar
Ford and his Lizzie, kept the laughers busy, that’s how people are
They laughed at me wanting you, said it would be, “Hello, Goodbye.”
But oh, you came through, now they’re eating humble pie
They all said we’d never get together, darling, let’s take a bow
For ho, ho, ho! Who’s got the last laugh?
Hee, hee, hee! Who’s got the last laugh now?”
all of my days by alexi murdoch.
My husband and I danced to an acoustic version of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Maps. My friend just told me today that she heard the song somewhere and it reminded her of our wedding.
what about the beatles “love you forever”
My husband and I chose the classic Beatles “Here, There, and Everywhere” It’s sweet but not cheesy. We unintentionally had a Beatles wedding. I walked down the aisle to an acoustic guitar playing “Here Comes the Sun” and we ended our ceremony with “I’ve Just Seen a Face”. Just to mix it up we played Glen Phillips “Don’t Need Anything” while we lit candles. That’s also a good first dance song.
The Very Thought of You.
Agreed on “At Last”. That was our first dance. Worked especially well since we’d been together for 7 years before our wedding (started dating in high school).
At Last (My Love Has Come Along)
Mack Gordon/Harry Warren
At last, my love has come along,
My lonely days are over,
And life is like a song,
Ohhh at last
The stars above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clover,
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I could speak to,
A dream that I, can call my own,
I found a thrill, to press my cheek to,
A thrill that I, have never known,
Ohhh you smile, you smile
And then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven,
for you are mine, at last!
“never my love” by the association
Oh Gosh!
Here are my top three:
God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
Jesus Etc (Wilco)
Favourite Book (Stars)
Although it may sound cheesy, I love “When I First Saw You” from the Dreamgirls Soundtrack. There are two versions of it, one very acoustic and the other one a little more dramatic.
my husband and i danced to “if i should fall behind” by bruce springsteen. i personally think it’s the ultimate “first dance” song.
these are AMAZING suggestions. you guys are incredible!
my friend mike just recommended I’ll Take You There by the staple singers. here’s the youtube video, looks very fun:)
I don’t know if this has been suggested, but how about Crazy love by Van Morrison? I think that is such a sweet song.
the way you look tonight, tony bennetts version
Toothpaste Kisses by the Maccabees. Just a sweet little lovesong!
Best wedding dance song ever is:
Golddigger by Kanye West
followed closely by
Baby Got Back. by Sir Mix-A Lot.
:-)
We didn’t have dancing at our wedding, but I walked down the aisle to a friend strumming In My Life by the Beatles on the guitar. To my mind, it is the perfect wedding song. It is romantic, but light and optimistic. Also all the guests usually know the song and that adds to the nice moment.
under my skin – sinatra
‘What a Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong is favourite song in the world. But Etta James’ ‘At Last’ is up there too.
my husband & I danced to “The Way you the things you do” by The Temptations and half way through the UB40 version took over(that’s really our song!)
here’s a great 1st dance:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aeoi16lScf4
We danced to Come Away With Me By Norah Jones. It has the most romantic beginning. Also, All I Want Is You by U2 from Reality Bites is my all time favorite romantic song.
I just remembered another one:
“Lovely Tonight” by Joshua Radin. So sweet and pretty! Listen to it on his myspace.
Guess I am on the same page as airstreamdiva. We had a big band at our reception and our song was ‘It Had to Be You’
“have i told you lately” but by Van Morrison NOT Rod Stewart. Love it!
If I ever did have a wedding, the first dance would be ‘Sea of Love’ – but the Catpower version. It’s such a beautiful song!
dire straits’ romeo and juliet (the live version with the great saxophone and guitar),
or wonderful tonight by eric clapton, just because. :)
i’m only 20 this year, but i dream of dancing to these when i finally get married.
our first dance was to Elton Johns “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” as it’s ‘our song’ however a wedding I recently went to had “Somewhere over the Rainbow” which although it sounds twee was absolutely stunning – and I’ve always liked the idea of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon” but probably more for the comedy value…
“Cheek to cheek” by Frank Sinatra.
“Fields of Gold” by Eva Cassidy. So beautiful!
wonderful world by louis armstrong, and it’s short and sweet so that you’re not out there forever. :)
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