I haven't got married yet... lol obviously but I have already chosen a wedding song(is that weird probably but oh well.) I really want my first dance to be too Lullaby- The Spill Canvas..... it is so cute and I just love it.

 Our first dance was   "Forever and Ever, Amen" by Randy Travis.

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"Power of Two" - Indigo Girls.

(And it's my ringtune, when Beloved calls. *silly, happy grin*

Christ's peace - r

Our wedding song was a Ron Klusmeier classic - "To show by touch and word".

www.musiklus.com/anthology-catalog/to-show-by-touch-and-word

Why? Maybe it has something to do with its simplicity, or the words:  "Let love from day to day, be touchstone, guide and norm...."

Our dating song, which we also played at our wedding was Together Forever by Rick Astley.

Other music at our ceremony included...

Theme to Star Trek: First Contact

Canon in D

What a Faithful God Have I

We danced to "Sea of Love", but really, the one I remember most was Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - played right at the end of the evening before we packed up and left.

Now, oh if I could do it again:  Louis Prima "I've Got You Under My Skin" or "That Old Black Magic"

I've even got my sweetheart almost agreeing to dance lessons, cause we love this music!!

Being both introverts, when my husband and I married we had no songs, but chose a reading  on marriage from Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet".

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand toether yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."

All these years later, I still think it describes what marriage means to me.

The Battlehymn of Love by Kathy Mattea - an old piece but a good one

Ours was "Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole (the original recording, not the posthumous duet with Natalie). If I had it all to do over, I might go with Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight", but my wife isn't really into pop/rock so I doubt it would fly.

Mendalla

Wonderful tonight was great, better as an end - but I'm one who listens to the words.

Specifically from Wonderful Tonight:

It's time to go home now and I've got an aching head,
So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.

that wasn't going to be too far of a stretch for my sweetie and he was trying hard to behave himself, so we were avoiding the connection :)  

Sorry, I forgot to say why we played this music. "Together Forever" was our song whilst dating. It signified our bond, and our desire to remain in union til death do us part.

The Canon in D is the traditional bridal wedding march that women in my family have always used for their weddings. My three sisters and my sister-in-law all used the same tune to enter the church on their big day.

For the grooms party entering the church, we used Theme to Star Trek: First Contact for two reasons: one, because I'm a big Star Trek fan, and two, because it is simply such a beautiful piece of music.

One of the hymns we included was What a Faithful God Have I, a popular praise chorus. We used it to express our belief that God is always faithful to us, and has a good plan for our lives. It was significant for me to include it, because during periods in my single life I doubted that God had my best intentions at heart in the area of companionship. I was, however, thankfully corrected.

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"Someone Like You" - Van Morrison

My daughter had Joyful Joyful we Adore You as the music when she walked down the aisle.  I don't remember what she choose for her first dance.

We had a small wedding (8 people) in the church parlor, with a small intimate lunch after, no dance.  I think the minister provided some recorded music but I really don't remember.  If I were to get married again I would choose I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry - it has a beautiful stanza about 'If you find someone to share your time, and you join your hearts as one, I'll be there to make your verses rhyme from dawn till rising sun.'

Strangely, I also want it sung at my funeral.  The 6th stanza is  "When the evening gently closes in and you shut your weary eyes, I'll be there as I have always been with just one more surprise."

wedding, funeral, most men would say same difference *lol*

it sounds beautiful seeler.  i'm going to try and youtube it.

i walked down the aisle to ave maria. the opera singer gave me goose bumps. our wedding party dance was mj's don't stop till you get enough.  our wedding dance was adam sandler's grow old with you.  my daddy's dance was i hope you dance by leanne womack.  our last dance was just the way you look tonight by tony bennett.  music was a huge part of our wedding.  it didn't stop all night.  we had a jazz band followed by a dj that went to the wee hours of the morning.  we didn't have a traditional wedding.  it was a cocktail party.  no set seating.  no speeches.  just partying :)

The songs (hymns) I had at my wedding service were

Whereever you go I shall go (adapted)

The Sea Pours In (Written for me by a friend)

Borning Cry

We walked in to "Praise to the Lord the Almighty" and recessed to "Love Divine all Love's Excelling"

Should have had "I'd Rather Have Jesus"  ;)

Seeler - I had I was There To Hear Your Borning Cry sung at my dad's funeral.

I didn't know that hymn seeler and pommum (Borning Cry) so listened to it on u-tube and it's beautiful.

I'm not married.  But a favourite song is "Fools Rush In" (the Elvis Presley version) so I kind of imagine that for a wedding song.  

TL

I thought it was a funeral song.

Aquaman - actually at my former church where I first heard Borning Cry it was used most frequently (almost exclusively) at baptisms. 

I can't sing "I Was There To Hear Your Borning Cry" without tears.  It gets me every time, no matter what the occasion.

Busydad and I danced to Anne Murray's "Could I Have This Dance".  The reason is this:

Months before our wedding Busydad was very nervous about the first dance, so I suggested we take dance lessons.  We drove to a city 80 kilometres away to meet for dance lessons every Friday night for 10 weeks.  At the end of the 10 weeks, the instructor suggested we could use another 10 weeks of dance lessons before the wedding (which was possible so we registered for another 10 weeks!)  Even then the only song that Busydad could hear the beat to was you got it....."Could I Have This Dance" by Anne Murray.  In the wedding video you could see me whispering sweet nothings in Busydad's ear while we danced.  The truth of the matter was I was whispering "1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3"

Would we pick a different song.....maybe the Hokey Pokey????

Thanks for adding the link to the Adam Sandler Song.  I really love it.

I am no longer in active ministry, (retired, former college lecturer, disabled) but years ago when I was in pastoral ministry it seemed that 'cheesy' songs made the rounds.  At one point, years ago, every wedding had 'Color my World' by Three Dog Night or "Could I have This Dance" by Ann Murray.  (I am a huge Ann Murray and Three Dog Night fan, it's just the context within which these songs were used.)  I got to HATE these songs, so I'd stand there and make up my own words in my mind.  At least I was smiling.   (It never came up, but I probably would draw the line at 'Let's Spend The Night Together' by the Rolling Stones.)  If couples MUST have cheesy, popular songs, perhaps the best time for them is during the signing of the register.  And, please, make sure the soloist or musicians can 'sing'.  The wedding service is, supposedly, a worship service with the focus on asking God's blessing on the couple.  The music should reflect that reality.

See, I'd never consider using a pop/rock song in the ceremony. First dance, other reception events, sure. But if I was going to have a song in the ceremony, it would likely be a folk song or a hymn ("Come Sing a Song" by Carolyn McDade comes to mind). However, I'm not likely to have to worry about it again (then again, neither did Dad and then Mom died unexpectedly so he remarried. Twice. ).

Mendalla

We had Mairi's wedding for our wedding song. Seemed appropriate.

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Hava...nagila, haavaaa nagila...havaaaaa nagila...ve nis'mecha!

lol  I'm putting my newfound knowledge to use!

As-salaamu alaikum

-Omni

Hello!  Mendalla and stoneeyeball, I'm pretty sure when people talk about their "wedding song," they mean the song they had the first dance to at the reception, not one during the marriage ritual.  Some folks upthread have mentioned music during the service as well.

Our first dance was to Harry Connick Jr's song from "When Harry Met Sally" -- if they asked me, I could write a book.... how to make two lovers of friends.  Very appropriate for me and my beloved as we are very good friends first and foremost.

We're also both clergy, so we had a ton of fun planning our "celebration of the covenant of marriage" worship service.  I can't remember all the music now, but it was all Voices United stuff, as far as I recall, with "Joyful Joyful" as one of the pieces.

shalom!

Greetings!

Never had a wedding song . . . just two witnesses, a marriage commissioner, our son, and us . . . married in our home.

At our niece's recent wedding she had a Karokee machine, and when the bride got up to sing she sang "I'm So Excited" - we all got a chuckle out of that.

Hope, peace, joy, love . . .

My brother sang "Grow Old With You" as a surprise at our ceremony.  He was in Basic Training at the time & we didn't think he'd get home for the wedding.  What a shock, I think I stopped signing my name mid-way through the third letter!  We had a hymn at the wedding, which is unusual in my neck of the woods.  I know that I would have cried through the whole ceremony without it - just took the edge of the emotion off so I could be present through the vows.

Our first dance was "I Do" by Paul Brandt, still one of my favorites.