Music – Need Your Advice
Ξ June 3rd, 2008 | → 26 Comments | ∇ party planning |
If you have been following along, you read about us trying to put together a wedding in much less than a month. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Honestly, it is fun and exciting. But I have sorta hit a snag.
Bride is busy and a DJ isn’t really in her budget. She asked me to take to the internet her plea for music suggestions. The wedding is outside on our aunt’s porch. There will be one of those white thingies for the bride to walk on, but still she is walking through the yard as opposed to walking down a “real” aisle. So, what music should she walk to? Traditional “Here Comes the Bride” or something different? (Our cousin walked to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on the beach last year so that is out.)
Also, reception tunes are being requested. The party will be inside, at a church hall, and the bride really wants to simply throw on some CDs and let it ride. She wants you to suggest music. We have three to four hours to fill, so be generous with your suggestions in the comments.
on June 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 AM
When is the wedding? I’ll burn you some CDs and bring them with me to NYC.
on June 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 AM
I only listen to death metal so I’m inept. Just kidding, I’m sure “At Last” by Etta James hasn’t been fully beaten to death yet as far as a wedding song, let alone a cat food commercial. Sorry to sound like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit but, need “Input”. Have the whole wedding audience bring their Ipods and make an on-the-spot decision, that’d be a cliffhanger.
Go Pens!
on June 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 AM
My very favorite love song which is perfect to play during a reception is by John Hiatt, “Have A Little Faith In Me”. God I love that song!
on June 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 AM
If all you did is put Wild Thing (Tone Loc), The Hustle, & The Chicken Dance on a loop for 5 hours, it would be a successful wedding.
on June 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 AM
Fuck. Karl beat me to the offer. You know I dj and play weddings dozens of times a year. I have EVERYTHING you could possibly need from the 30′s to country to the hokey pokey.
Let me know what you need.
on June 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 AM
This is what we used:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpPk8qk3uQ
on June 3rd, 2008 at 8:50 AM
Thrash metal. You can’t go wrong with thrash metal.
on June 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 AM
ask someone with an Ipod and speakers to borrow it (unless you have one yourself) download all the music you can…do a search of wedding songs, love songs, romantic songs, etc on google…people have lots and lots of lists …I know all this because I have a wedding to plan for in a year, and my little sister already has started the list of songs her DJ might not have for his computer DJ system. I told her it could easily just be put on an iPod and the DJ can hook it up to his laptop and viola!
sorry I derailed, but yeah, you could do that, or just burn the music to CD’s as well….for walking the aisle, I always thought Bach’s Minutet in G major was quite pretty, and can be found in simple piano, or also in full orchestra (strings and flutes, etc.)..it’s short, but can be played over and over and over until the bride reaches her destination….and the waltz temp is nice for walking the aisle….just a suggestion
on June 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 AM
I was actually planning on bringing my iPod with a massive playlist to just let it run. It’s so much easier than swaping cds all night. Unfortunately, my laptop went kaputz a week or so ago, so I’m trying to gather up as many suggestions as I can so when I do get to someone elses computer I can do all of this in one swell foop.
I’ve got about 25 from a few googlings at work… I’m really stuck on the processional though.
Sucks being ecclectic…
on June 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 AM
Shit. I can’t remember now for the life of me what I came down the aisle too. But it wasn’t Here Comes The Bride. It was some Trumpet song. Helpful, yes?
Dude – start googling “wedding music”.
My suggestions for MUST HAVE RECEPTION MUSIC:
*YMCA
*Chicken Dance
*Macarena
*Electric Slide
*Strokin’
I mean, unless you’re not into cheesy dance music that everyone loves even if they pretend like they don’t. But that would just be CRAZY TALK!!!
on June 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 AM
I love Avi’s idea, also I love Ravel’s Bolero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw.
I’m sure you could also find good songs by Mozart or Beethoven.
on June 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 PM
I walked down the aisle to Pachabel’s Canon in D. There are many versions and a very nice guitar one is out there. After the ceremony and walking back up the aisle, it was All You Need is Love by the Beatles. Oh yeah, my “aisle” was a carpet outside. We married by a pond.
Another beautiful song is There is love by Peter, Paul and Mary
on June 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 PM
I’m not sure if you have iTunes, but there are some great wedding mixes on there, with tons of songs. (You can look at the mixes without actually buying anything.)
on June 3rd, 2008 at 6:33 PM
karl – i would love to have you burn some music, but the wedding is on june 25th. 3 weeks. still think you can get come cool tunes my way. i know you have my address because you are stalking me. (note: saturday mornings usually find me in a wife beater and underwear in the backyard.)
animan – not that i ever plan on getting married, but i would totally go with the whatever the hell came on attitude. could be great fun! (speaking of fun, did you see that game?!??! holy hell, i think i almost passed out from the blood pressure. sheesh!)
lisa – i will find it and ensure that it is played! it’ll be just kinda sorta like you are there! xoxo
othurme – when are we getting married again?
jester darling – karl didn’t beat you to it, he is just offering to compliment what you put together. we’d love to have you make cds. keep in mind we need like four fucking hours of music…room for you both! both bride and groom love pop, jazz, country, 80′s…everything! just no hokey pokey, k? the music would be more background than dancing. p.s. i so love you. i really need to be a gay man so that i can make sweet, sweet love to you. and umb.
avit – i was almost afraid to click on that! thought it might be dolphin or snake porn. but that was really sweet of you to find that for me. thanks. (in my head i am so two arm hugging you right now!)
fab – fucken right!
cissa – thanks, pretty lady.
sar – i think uncle mark has a cool walking down the aisle music thing picked out. fingers crossed. although honestly, for you, i really like what avitable picked out. (damn, did i really just say that?!??!!)
britt – hehe, now strokin is in my head and i have to leave for bowling. they are gonna love my dance moves in the lanes. hehe (oh, and thanks for the awesome suggestions)
finn – you have good taste! (i’ll try to avoid the trashy “and i bet you taste good” comment. trying…)
rach – mmmmmmmm, shopping…
on June 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 PM
And I’m also less filling…
on June 3rd, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Did she use the Judy Garland “Somewhere over the rainbow” or the Israel Kamakawiwo’ole version?
on June 4th, 2008 at 8:42 AM
I know the song I’m gonna use is Never Never Gonna Give You Up ;-)
on June 4th, 2008 at 9:10 AM
finn – seriously, you are gonna bring out all kinds of girl on girl comments if you don’t knock it off!
killer – israel version. we were on a beach and it was way cool. speaking of cool, i can’t thank you enough for going out of your way to email me that video. fucking awesome. i know how insane your schedule has been and i hope you know you are appreciated. as are your balls. (sorry, hadn’t talked about them in a long time. hehe)
turn – squeeeeeeeee! i’m so stinkin happy for you. love having you all giggles and smiles.
on June 4th, 2008 at 10:36 AM
U2′s Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.
I KID!
Looks like everyone already has you covered but no reception is complete w/o the chicken dance.
on June 4th, 2008 at 1:48 PM
gwen – oh i will make certain that this receptioin is complete WITHOUT the damn chicken dance. ya nut!
on June 4th, 2008 at 6:39 PM
gotta do the chicken! but it’s got to be done ~after~ the fuddy duddys leave and everyone’s hammered. :-)
on June 5th, 2008 at 10:08 AM
When our characters got married in the first wedding ever in the Bar Story, Alexandria walked down the aisle to Never Saw Blue Like That by Shawn Colvin. Then they danced to These Arms (The Wedding Song) by All 4 One. The Colvin song is poignant and non-traditional, but it I think it’s a spectacularly moving song for a walk down the aisle.
Here’s the Imeem links to the songs so you can hear them.
http://www.imeem.com/thebarforum/music/xpTGjqtl/shawn_colvin_never_saw_blue_like_that/
http://www.imeem.com/thebarforum/music/8ZCIHKrK/all_4_one_these_arms_the_wedding_song/
on June 5th, 2008 at 10:47 AM
kathy – i am so terribly sorry that you got hung up in my spam filter! your comment was very appreciated. (getting married by a pond would be awesome…i would take a pond over an ocean on most days.)
heather – ahhhhh, the chicken dance. sigh. i always make an ass outta myself when that comes on.
winter – thanks for taking the time to find the links for me. you rock!
on June 5th, 2008 at 5:08 PM
I have tons of stuff… lots of playlists on Imeem for things we used for the big wedding (you should see the vows we used too!). If you wanna see more playlists of songs lemme know. Shoot me an email and I’ll give you the login. You can check out all the lists on your own.
on June 5th, 2008 at 7:16 PM
win – awesome! i’ll get my ass over to email you. thanks again.
on July 30th, 2008 at 12:01 AM
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