Music - again.

Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud would be gorgeous I had songs I loved, but we chose ours as H introduced me to the artist so it was special to us. This was ours, Sarah McLachlan Push:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVrXd9f7Pfs

I really like Paloma Faith - Just Be

But some might not think its gushy enough, but to me, its wonderful and the lyrics are apt "There is no one in this world i'd rather be unhappy with" - I'm not unhappy!! :-)

A bit too alternative do you think?

I do love Ed Sheeran, Thinking out Loud too, maybe I shouldn't worry about their popularity??

I saw Paloma Faith on Friday! That is a great song, but it depends how important your guests opinions are, I don't think my mum would have been happy if we'd had a song that said let's be unhappy together. The Ray LaMontagne song will need some slightly more upbeat dancing, can you cope with that?

My Mums opinion means a lot, and I suppose since I could choose one of many songs which she would like, I suppose I could choose something different! Oh yes, I think we can booogie a bit - I feel excited, sitting here listening to all this music, I'm feeling 'eeeek'

Ooh, love song suggestions ?

I want this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a0A-UZoHnk. When we first met OH was part of an amateur dramatics group and this was sung during a show I went to see. I was in floods in the middle of the theatre because it summed up exactly how I felt.

He wants this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx5HuAPd6RM Cos it's fun, and he can just jump around as he has no sense of timing and can't dance lol.

Hopefully we will compromise and have both ?

Aww, lovely, you should definitely go from the first into the second! You don't need to be able to dance for a first dance, we found we just held each other and had a lovely moment, it felt wonderful, we barely moved at all!

Yeah, definitely that way round lol. Think he might need to release some tension from trying to keep in time with my swaying ?

We had a few fave choices-

Edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros- home wanted a slow one but couldn't find it.

Jimi Hendrix- angel

Edd sheeran- kiss me - thinking out loud

mumford and sons- winter winds

in the end we settled for arctic monkeys - baby I'm yours cover. We may change our minds by the time the wedding comes round we love our music

its so hard to find a first dance when you enjoy a good variety.

For me it was mor the lyric but for h2b it was the artist and something different.

We're having sum 41, "with me". Has all the sentiment we want to convey, starts off slow and then we get to surprise our guests by going crazy when the chorus kicks in!

Hi,

We always advise to choose a song which is personal to you both, or a song that has meaning to you.

We have recently played 'All that you are' by the Goo Goo Dolls which is cool. If you like Rod Stewart then his version of 'Have I told you lately' is so sweet.

Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking out Loud' is just great!

We recently played a Ben Howard track called 'Only Love' which sounds beautiful.

The fab Tom Odell version of 'Real Love' is going to be very popular too!

But........if you want a more up tempo song then go for it! One couple had 'Welcome to the monkey house'! (It was 'their' song when they met!).

Good luck in choosing!

James

We had 'Still into You' by Paramore. Not your typical first dance song but the lyrics seemed to fit us.

I've had about 12 (maybe more) requests for the edit of Tom Odell's Grow Old With Me, so I'd say that's pretty popular We haven't planned a reception yet, but we have talked about a first dance, and I think we might have Teenage Dream by Katy Perry.

We are having 'At last' by Etta James. The words say exactly how I feel about my husband to be ? We originally wanted John Legend 'All of me' as that song was playing on the radio when our son was born but I think by next October it will be too overdone!

We couldn't agree on a first dance song - we've never had "our song", and we both have different tastes. A lot of my favourite artists (Iron & Wine, Decemberists, Elbow) are just too downbeat, quirky, or overdone to dance to. I really wanted "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" by Whitney Houston, b/c it's fun, and cute, but in the end h2b talked me round to "Perfect Circle" by REM. It may not exactly be a love song, but h2b loves the line "a perfect circle of family and friends" - he says it embodies what a wedding should be, so how could I say no to that?! Plus it works, as the first concert we went to together was REM at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in 2008.

Oh lordy, just listened to that. Lovely, and so us too lol. I've been waiting a long time to finally get to where I am/we are

We're having

Hall and Oats - you make my dreams come true.

one day early on in our relationship we were watching 500 days of summer and the song came on and we had a mushy moment - and its stuck with us ever since.

We originally wanted John legend - all of me purely coz it's a lovely song but when I got Ed Sheerans album and we heard 'thinking out loud' it absolutely had to be that!! It's a shame its been released and is on the radio a lot but h2b says that's not a bad thing because it will always remind him of the lead up to the wedding which is very sweet another contender was sam smith - latch, but I think we'll just have that played some other time during the day!

We are having "High" by the Lighthouse Family. Really good words, a beat that is a little more up tempo, easy to dance to rather than to shuffle to, and having heard them sing it live, it has memories of another great night out.

Then we're going straight into Love Shack by the B52's....doing a bit of a cheesy "family" dance as I can't do the traditional Father-daughter dance.

Hey,

I've played so many different first dances but the one's that have always stuck out are the ones that were meaningful to the couple. The Ed Sheeran tune is a great one! I'd say not to worry about the popularity of your first dance choice, people will love it because its special to you. I once played 'all I want for Christmas is you' in the middle of August because the couple met on a Christmas skiing break.... and it was wonderful!

Its worth bearing in mind if you have a band whether or not the tune will work in a band context, if you're not using a band than that won't be a problem.

Cheers,

Dave Sanders

www.davesandersmusic.com

Picking the music is tricky!

Our first dance is Crash Land by Twin Atlantic, it is by no means a love song but it is 'our song' so was the obvious choice. We're then going straight into Paul Simon's 'You Can Call me Al' - another song that reminds us of each other but should hopefully get people on the dance floor.

We've also decided to get a playlist together of songs we love (together and separately) which can be played as background music between the ceremony and dinner (and maybe during dinner, haven't decided yet). Adds the personal touch plus we then have a soundtrack to the day!

x

i LOVE that song!

This has been really interesting as we're struggling for a first song choice - Boy is a musician and yet has no clue what he might want to dance (/shuffle awkwardly) to.

Of course if I had my way we'd be doing something choreographed, but that would be pushing him way outside his comfort zone. I was thinking Michael Buble's "Everything" which sums up everything I feel about us being a team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPUJIbXN0WY .

But I really like the Etta James idea too.

It's beautiful isn't it?! I loved it before but now I know it'll be our first dance I get goosebumps when I hear it.