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We're using One Boy, One Girl by Colin Raye. It was hard to narrow down since there are so many that we like and feel really close to. So, as a compromise we're using one of them for the video we'll show at the rehearsal dinner, I'm using one for his surprise groom's gift video and then we're using our second most favorite... Steady as We Go by Dave Matthews Band (that song single handedly helped me get through his 8 month deployment with the Navy) as our "last song". We figured it was a great send off.
Funny story though... My dad and I are dancing to Sweet Home Alabama. Hehe. My dad and I have a strained relationship and I already told him that someone else would be walking me down the isle, but that I'd like to do a daddy daughter dance. We went back and forth on what to use. Under my Thumb and If You Can't Be With the One you Love, Love the One You're With were two of his suggestions (I told him I didn't think my mom OR his current girlfriend would appreciate the second choice!). ::eye roll:: I suggested You Can't Always Get What You Want. Hehe. So after weeks of going back and forth we finally decided that we'd Texas two-step to Sweet Home Alabama. One of the most played songs of my childhood.
I think we are going to do Someone Like You by Van Morrison. He is one of our favorites, and one of his concerts was our first date, but I am still unsure! I love the song, but I am having trouble comitting to it! I don't know what we are using for parents dances either - every time I go to a wedding, someone steals my ideas!
I'm a HUGE fan of Fred Astaire (as in Astaire and Rogers) and have been for years so the first dance song was like the ONLY thing with which I already knew what I wanted. I always imagined myself dancing with my FI to Astaire's song Cheek to Cheek. While its not full of complete romantic sentimentality, it does have personal meaning for me. So in this, my FI has no say whatsoever...even if he doesn't really care for Astaire...impossible I know. 
We used a Rascal Flatts song... "The Day Before You"
We don't really have a song that is "our song" (well we do, but its fast, and a bit unappropriate for a wedding). We wanted to choose a song that wasn't the same as you hear at everybody's wedding, aka From This Moment by Shania Twain. Now, everytime I hear The Day Before You, I tear up! hehe
We're dancing to Push by Sarah McLachlan. It's special for us for many reasons. It was hard to pick a song because we don't have a song to call "Our Song" and we have wildly different tastes in music (FI loves heavy metal, I like country and top 40's). But Sarah McLachlan is from our hometown, and I've loved her music since I was 12 years old. When we'd been together for just 4 months, FI bought me tickets to her concert that was still 5 or 6 months away at the time. I remember I was so happy because it was a sign that he was committed to me that he would buy tickets for us to go together to an event that was several months away. And we had such a fantastic time at that concert and really enjoyed the music, so it was a natural choice. It's a cool song, we call it a "real life love song." It doesn't talk about a relationship that's all mushy and perfect all the time, but a real relationship that works because you accept each other as you are. We like that.
i haven't decided yet.. it's very hard for me to choose!! so far my top picks are dashboard confessional's "stolen", ingrid michaelson "the way you are" and lauryn hill's sweetest thing.
We did Dashboard Confessionals' "Stolen"...it really worked out nicely and a lot of people asked us about it.
It was a good choice, since "our song" is "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leopard. We did walk into the reception to that, though. You could really tell who knew us -- some laughed, some looked confused.
Better together is our song, but I don't know how we'd dance to it! Any thoughts? Otherwise we'd just use it on our slideshow an dance to possibly At Last (we'll have been engaged for about 2 years, so I thought it might be fitting) or maybe find another song.
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My friends did "Push"! Everyone loved it. It is such a great song, and its sad because we now can't dance to it!
We used a violin/guitar version of L.O.V.E. by Nat King Cole. It was so cool how my guy filled in the words as we danced.
Our first dance song is "Stars" by Kindred. My FH picked it. We don't really have a "song" but we are both music lovers and words are important and this songs really speaks for us and our relationship. It's a beautiful thing.
This is probably terribly tacky, but *if* we do a first dance (I don't want to - I'm weird) it'll be to Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" mostly because we've hired a motown band to play for us. I think it's hilarious and fun. :)
We used "Question" by the Old 97's. It's a super sweet song about a proposal and it's been our song for a long time. The best part...it's only about 90 seconds long!
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i'm trying to decide between kenny chesney's you had me from hello or george straits i cross my heart
Push is definetly at the top of my list.
As is At Last.
I'm also currently loving I Will Show You Love (Kendall Payne) and Song for the Asking (Simon and Garfunkel).
Thank goodness I have time!
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we did "stolen" by dashboard confessional and all our friends (guys included) said they were crying! every time i hear it i get all choked up too. i know it's a top 40 song which we dind't really want, but we were deciding between that and marc cohn's "true companion" and a lot of people on his side of the family had that as "their" song, so we went with the one geared more for our generation. it makes me so happy to listen to it!
"our" song is really "heaven" by dj sammy - but it talks about lying down and stuff so we thought that wasn't appropriate haha.
For some reason, really only known to us, our song has been "Breathing" by Lifehouse. We were able to dance to that, but I found myself signaling to the DJ to cut it early near the end. It was kinda long!! Other than that, we did the Bridal Party dance to "Inside Your Heaven", and had a amazing vocalist, who is a family friend. Had I know she was as great as she is, our first dance would SO have been to "Faithfully" by Journey!!
I'm wierd in the we had two first dance songs. We've both lost parents - so there was no daddy/daughter dance and no mother/son dance. I kinda wanted to avoid this stuff altogether since the day was already sooo full of emotion. But also knew I really wanted a first dance song! We didn't really have normal dancing at the wedding so we did our first dance after pics and before we headed to dinner on the same deck we got married on.
It took me a long time to choose because some songs I'd love one verse - but then another verse wouldn't fit. I'm a country fan so decided on It's Your Love by Tim & Faith (even though it's so common :)) and I Loved Her First by Heartland as a tribute to my daddy. Or course I cried - but tears aren't always bad. It was really special to dance with my new husband to that song and feel so close to my daddy too :)
Of course my husband didn't really care what I choose ;) His job was just to show up :)
Our song is The Cure's "Love Song" but that's not great for dancing, so we danced to "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds.
We still have not finalized our first dance song but some close friends of ours did "Always" by Erasure and I have to say it was a huge hit. It starts off slow and as soon as it picked up the couple broke away from each other, waved the rest of the bridal party onto the dance floor and cut a rug. One of my favorite memories! :) I desperately want to use the same song but my fiance doesn't want to copy them. I have some kind of silly ideas in general, like "Just can't get enough" by Depeche mode and Counting Crows "Accidentally in Love" (from Shred!). I know these songs aren't terribly romantic but they are songs that have such a happy easy to dance to beat.
Weird! Our song is the the 311 version of "Love Song."
I became obsessed with it the summer before I met him and made it my ringtone, turned out he was a HUGE 311 fan and was completely impressed that was my ringer.
However, our wedding is so far away I have no idea if we'll dance to that or not. It is kind of an awkward song to slow dance to.
I love country and he hates it, so choosing a song will be interesting.
For my father/daughter dance, I really want to dance to a John Prine song "Daddy's Little Pumpkin." One of the lines is: "You must be Daddy's Little Pumpkin I can tell by the way you roll." However, the rest of the song is just like a John Prine: a little black humor and lots of honesty. Not to mention it is a pretty up-tempo song.
I'm so far from making these decisions, I wish it were a bit closer! How fun!
PS: I remember reading that one of the Bees practiced dancing at home and I will be doing that. All of those people staring!
We are doing 311 Love Song too! I love it but it will be hard to dance to but I like it that it is short...
I want to be introduced to I'm a Believer but not sure
one of our songs is john hiatt's 'have a little faith in me', perfect for so many reasons-- including the fact that we've been together for 9 years! the only problem: it's not really a good song to dance to. we're trying to figure that one out...
another song i'd love to dance to is patty griffin's 'heavenly day'-- i fell in love with it the first time i heard it, but it lacks the personal history of 'have a little faith'. bettter for dancing though... we'll see!
We don't have a 'song' either - we have bands...like Radiohead, but they have no "suitable" first dance songs. I'd ideally like to use Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place) by Talking Heads - but its not so much a slow dance - and my FI is worried about that. I'd love to use Better Together, but we have close friends that have used that recently....
I love the song We are Man and Wife by Michelle Featherstone. I'm not sure if we'll dance to it or not
strwbry313...take a listen to Christopher O'Riley (plays Radiohead). He's a pianist that has transcribed Radiohead (as well as other's) music to the piano. Perhaps they are a bit more suitable for dancing.
I love his music, and Radiohead's, and will be incorporating it into our cocktail hour.
Help, so okay, what do you do if your father is passed. I'm sad that I won't get to do a Father/Daughter dance...
Then there is my son. But he's only 12 years old. He's as tall as me (5"4 3/4"), but will probably be taller than me come time of my wedding on 2/16/2008.
Can anyone give some advice? What son would be good? Should I even do a Mom/Son dance? Since he's the one giving me away?
Kenny Chesney's "You Had Me From Hello". The fact that my DH really felt this way was the clencher for me. We printed the lyrics to the song inside the menu - ppl enjoyed reading the lyrics as we twirled to our first song as husband and wife!
ours is "love street" by the doors.
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Our is George Strait's "I cross my heart". Our real song is Cole Porter's "I love you", but since we're having a country band, it would've been weird for them to play a jazz song. That and every time I heard it on the radio, I would think of us dancing to it and start crying.
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Our first dance will be to 18th Floor Balcony by Blue October... Our song is I Walk Beside You by Dream Theater, but it's waaaaaaaay too long to dance to so we're using it as our entrance music... Last song will be Calling You by Blue October =)
I'm walking down the aisle to:You Give Me Something - James Morrison
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gWdC-ELzfYE
We are exiting the ceremony to: Beautiful Day - U2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=omFdpnSu57U
And our First Dance will be: Do You Realize - The Flaming Lips
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6tRXO9Q8LkY
Cheers, LORETTA*
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We were torn between two songs. We ended up dancing to one as our "first dance" since we took dances lessons for it and the other we did the regular non-fancy sway.
Michael Buble - Everything
Patti Griffin - Heavenly Day (awesome song for your wedding day!)
Could I Have This Dance by Anne Murray
Best Wishes,
Todays Destination Wedding
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What's your first dance song going to be? It's a toss up for us... Jack Johnson's Better Together or Spiral Staircase's I love you More today than Yesteray, but not as much as tomorrow...