Music During Wedding Breakfast? - Thoughts?

We'll be having a mixed playlist going, consisting of our favourite songs, submitted songs from guests who can't join us, and songs that remind us of those that are no longer with us, so it feels as though they are with us.

It'll be playing basically through the WB and evening before the speeches, then after the band have finished if there are a lot of people still milling around.

TBH I haven't chosen anything specifically, but I will definitely be having music playing...either a playlist or a live musician...the boy is banning me from going on about these little details as we still have so long to wait, thank goodness for Hitched so that I can poke my nose into other people's planning

Funny you mention this, we nipped to our venue on thursday lst week to see our DJs stuff all set up and the wedding coordinator was with him, she asked about it and yes, definatly having it. if the venue has a intergrated PA system then its a great idea!

We are having an iPod playing through. Our rule is: no songs that will make people want to sing/feel like they would want to hear later on when dancing. It should be inoffensive and unobtrusive. T'is not the time for Rage Against The Machine (although that will be an evening song anyway)!

The string quartet will be staying to play throughout our wedding breakfast.

Imdid put a playlist together for the ipod but our lovely pianist who was booked to play up until the meal said he was having fun so would stay until his next appointment which turned out to be just before the speeches which was great

Yup we'll be having an ipod playlist, which I'm gradually adding to between now and wedding. It will basically be all our favourite songs that are too mellow/ quiet/ slow to be played at the disco!

Thank you ladies! I think we were thinking very much the same as you. Anything that's not really danceable, but we still like. I can't decide whether to allow any Christmas Songs onto our play list or not. I've been trying so hard to keep the wedding 'Winter' and not 'Christmas'.

At a friend's wedding they had one of those pan pipes CDs playing and it was songs from films lol at first we thought it was a bit lame, because let's face it, it is but it got everyone talking because we were going 'Oh it's such and such a song' 'what film is this from' etc etc and it was pretty good fun

I've got a couple of tracks that i've got instrumentals for that i love that from TV Adverts that have been on the TV recently. I let my OH hear them and he was like "Oh!! I know this, where have i heard it before!!" I like the idea of movie themes.

Our DJ will be playing some chilled songs. I think its nice to have background music. I went to a wedding recently where they didn't have any and it felt a bit strange. Think the ipod idea is a good one

We put together an Ipod playlist of fairly laidback, slightly lovey-dovey music. Twas nice actually - added to the atmosphere without drowning anything out. I'd recommend it for creating a relaxed atmosphere ?

Generally when I am asked to provide background music I like to ask the couple a question... how would you describe the perfect mood at your wedding breakfast and from there I try to suggest what is suitable based on what they specified. More often then not you get responses along the lines of elegant, fun, romantic, engaging, captivating (although one time I did get a groom who said "not to suck" which I thought was quite funny).

My personal favourite style of background music is stuff like Michael Buble its not too upbeat to set the mood too excitable but its not too mellow so it creates a nice atmosphere and alot of his songs are orientated around the concept of love. My personal favourite is Paul Ankra's - Rock Swing... I urge you all to have a listen! He makes famous rock songs (like eye of the tiger, its my life, wonderwall, etc...) in to jazzy swing songs that are so perfect as everyone taps there feet and sings a long a bit but its not TOO strong. Have a listen here: https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Swings-Paul-Anka/dp/B0009A1BXG

I'm interested to see what you think of it? Generally it seems to always get a positive word upon sampling it.

We've bought a harp CD for background music. We thought it would be nice and relaxing and not something people would start singing to etc.

I would love to have a live harpist there but couldnt afford it. I know its not the same having a CD playing but its the closest I could get to the real thing! Lol.

I didn't mean that music from films is lame, it was one of those pan pipes CDs that you buy off an advert which made it sooo lame ?

We're having music during our wedding breakfast, just a mixture of nice background music, nothing too beaty

We've got a playlist of instrumental rock for the wedding breakfast - there's nothing worse than people trying to sing when they're eating! (Yes it does include various film themes - quite acceptable!)

I think we'll just have a classical music wedding album playing discretely in the background.

A few of the most popular selections are here: https://www.celebratewithmusic.co.uk/recommendations.html

I'm a violinist and pianist and everything I've been requested to play over the last 18 months is on that list.

Hope that helps!

Simon