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hehe I think this thread will be interesting!
Here's what we have so far. Some of them are silly songs, but they're very meaningful to us so we couldn't bring ourselves to leave them out!
Somewhere over the rainbow - IZ
Here - Hellogoodbye
Do you love me? - the contours
The way you are - bruno mars
I feel pretty - west side story
Iris - Goo goo dolls
Chasing cars - snow patrol
Big girl - mika
Somebody to love - queen
I wanna hold your hand - beatles
Strawberries fields forever - beatles
Popcorn song
Fly away - lenny kravitz
Rolling in the deep - Adele
Count on me - bruno mars
Marry you - bruno mars
California girls - beach boys
Surfin usa - beach boys
At last - Etta James
Something's gotta hold on me - Etta James
Stairway to heaven - led zeppelin
Whole lotta love - led zeppelin
Smoke on the water - deep purple
Walk this way - aerosmith
Revolution - the beatles
Come together - the beatles
Born in the usa - bruce springsteen
Here comes the sun - the beatles
Sweet home alabama
I want you to want me - cheap trick
Rock and roll music - beatles
Fairground - Simply Red
500 Miles - The Proclaimers
In the summertime - Mungo Jerry
Rhythm of love - Plain white t's
What makes you beautiful -
this is not finalized - but our work in progress:
Cocktail Hour/Dinner
Just Say Yes Snow Patrol
Steady As We Go Dave Matthews Band
Romeo and Juliet Dire Straits
Africa Toto
You’ve Got the Love Florence and the Machine
Born To Run Bruce Springsteen
All You Need is Love The Beatles
Im Amazed My Morning Jacket
Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes Paul Simon
Marry Me Train
I Walk The Line Johnny Cash
We Belong Pat Benetar
Love You Til The End The Pogues
Clocks Coldplay
Jessica The Allman Brothers Band
Time After Time Cyndi Lauper
Lying in the Hands of God Dave Matthews Band
Now and Always David Gray
Mykonos Fleet Foxes
Cosmic Love Florence and The Machine
Flightless Bird, American Mouth Iron and Wine
Go Do Jonsi
Hallelujah Justin Timberlake & Matt Morris
Somewhere Only We Know Keane
Walking in Memphis Marc Cohn
Tuesday Afternoon Moody Blues
You are Mine Mute Math
In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel
Answer Sarah McLachlan
Daughters John Mayer
We Belong Together Richie Valens
When Im 64 The Beatles
Bubble Toes Jack Johnson
Free Fallin John Mayer
The Book of Love Peter Gabriel
Dancing:
Jason Mraz Im Yours
Etta James At Last
Ben E King Stand By Me
Bueno Vista Social Club Candela
The Ronettes Be My Baby
Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling
James Taylor How Sweet It is (to be loved by you)
Frank Sinatra Fly Me to the Moon
Rihanna We Found Love
Flo Rida Good Feeling
Guns N Roses Sweet Child O Mine
Paul Simon You Can Call me AL
The Bee Gees To Love Somebody
Chris Brown Forever
The Temptations My Girl
A-Ha Take On Me
UB 40 Cant Help Falling in Love
Jamiroquai Canned Heat
ABBA Dancing Queen
The Killers Human
Harry Belafonte Jump In the Line
The Cult She Sells Sanctuary
Cascada Every time we Touch (radio edit)
Queen Fat Bottomed Girls
Dean Martin Aint That a Kick in the Head
Justin Timberlake Senorita
Jimmy Eat World Sweetness
Color Me Badd All For Love
Miley Cyrus Party In The USA
The Proclaimers 500 Miles
Lady Gaga Poker Face
Creedence Clearwater Revival Lookin Out My Backdoor
Bob Segar Old Time Rock N Roll
Enrique Iglesias Escape
Journey Faithfully
Michael Jackson Rock With You
Bob Marley Three Little Birds
The Beach Boys God Only Knows
Bon Jovi Livin On a Prayer
Kesha We R Who We R
Blink 182 All The Small Things
Brooks and Dunn Boot Scootin Boogie
Dave Matthews Band You and Me
Van Halen Panama
The Beatles I Saw Her Standing There
Elton John (or Ewan MacGregor) Your Song
Enrique Iglesias No Puedo Mas Sin Ti
James Brown Get Up Offa That Thing
Tim McGraw I Like It, I Love It
Jay Z Empire State of Mind
MGMT Electric Feel
Frank Sinatra You Make Me Feel So Young
Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin Somethin
The Replacements Cant Hardly Wait
Unkle Cracker Smile
Shakira She Wolf
Will Smith Getting Jiggy With it
Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Richie Valens La Bamba
Rascall Flatts Bless the Broken Road
Bob Marley Jammin
NKOTBSB Don’t Turn Out The Lights
Stevie Wonder Signed Sealed Delivered –Im Yours
The Four Tops I Cant Help Myself
Michael Buble Save The Last Dance For Me
Journey Don’t Stop Believin
Dirty Dancing Soundtrack I Had The Time of My Life
Dropkick Murphys Going Out in Style
Send Me On My Way Rusted Root
I love the variety you both posted! I think I just added ten songs to my list! I need to start a word file with my list, so far it's mostly in my head ;)
Which ones jumped out at you? And what are some songs that you have that we didnt? We're still working on fine tuning the list so Im curious to hear from tastes other than ours.
If you're still looking for more - do you have a website? We added a song suggestion box on our website, and we've been getting all sort of good ideas!
@mandypop: My ideas are all over the place. I feel like my music choices are a little schizophrenic! Your songs that jumped out at me: Marry Me, We Belong, I'm Yours, Faithfully, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Do You Love Me?, Dancing Queen... and I'm sure a few more.
I'll get my list together sometime today and post what I have so far in a bit.
Here's what I have so far. It's in no certain order yet. Just grouped by fast and slow songs.
Fast Dance Music:
Just Dance - Lady Gaga
Blow - Ke$ha
Don't Stop the Music - Rihanna
Give Me Everything - Pitbull
Single Ladies - Beyonce
Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO
Country Girl (Shake it for me) - Luke Bryan
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Piano Man - Billy Joel - (group "circle" dancing)
Cha Cha Slide - DJ Casper
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Hot in Here - Nelly
Slow Dance Music:
True Companion - Marc Cohn
Bless The Broken Road - Rascal Flatts
History in the Making - Darius Rucker
My Best Friend - Tim McGraw
Clearly I need more on this list!!!
We haven't started our list yet, but I needed this! Thanks to the ladies who shared, I'm bookmarking this one!
I am planning to use an ipod for my wedding, but this music stuff is keeping me up at night! It seems overwhelming to create a playlist for such a huge event. I am grateful to everyone who is willing to share and inspire me!
Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine, and ACDC - You Shook Me All Night Long - we went through the list the other night and couldn't believe we'd forgotten those.
Keep a piece of paper or a notepad app on your phone handy for whenever something good pops in to your head or on the radio.
I like the notepad on the phone idea. I am always thinking of stuff and not writing it down!
I haven't compiled a definite list. My problem is I HATE most modern music. It seems all of my songs are at least 10 years old, so I'm having to pick and choose a few newer things to throw in there. Whatever you do, make sure there is a good variety. People want to dance, so make sure there are good songs for that. Some popular favorites I've noticed from weddings this year are:
The Cupid Shuffle
Cha-cha slide
Electric slide
Bust a move (lol)
Thriller
One wedding I attended had too much country music. The bride and groom got mad that the guests were requesting popular dance hits, and ordered the DJ to stick to country. Needless to say, that was a BORING wedding reception. It's okay to throw a country or slow song in now and then so that people can rest, but you want to make sure that it's not a drag.
Anytime I hear a good song, I go to my Wedding Music document on the computer and write it down.
Thank you for this post! Selecting music is not something we seem to excel at...
Before the ceremony/Cocktail Hour:
Soft Rock
Processional:
Marriage license signing:
Recessional:
Bride & Groom Grand Entrance:
First Dance:
Dinner: (fun, upbeat jazzy music)
Father Daughter Dance:
Mother Son Dance:
Early Evening Dancing:
Cake Cutting:
Bouquet Toss:
Late Night Dancing:
Do not play:
@AngelKitten713: Bumping is moving your chat thread back to the top in the forums so more people see it and hopefully reply! You "bump" a thread to the top by posting anything on it.
@awcm: Thank you for sharing!!! There are a ton on your playlist that I want to use :) I'm loving Don't Wanna Miss a Thing for a slow song and I definitely want to use Bringing Sexy Back.
My playlist was a pretty much a hit! I certainly loved it :)
Seating Music
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes Album
Ceremony Music
Processional
Iron and Wine - Love and Some Verses
Bridal Walk
Jack Johnson - Angel
Recessional
Vitamin String Quartet - Hallejuiah cover of Paramore
Cocktail Hour
Sufjan Stevens
Hear the Illinois Album
Intro Music
Queen
Another One Bites The Dust
Dinner
Iron and Wine
The Creek Drank the Cradle Album
Cake Cutting Song
Belle and Sebastian
Funny Little Frog
First Dance
Regina Specktor
Real Love
Daddy Daughter Dance
The Rolling Stones
Wild Horses
Dance time music
Artist
Song
La Roux
Bulletproof
Britney Spears
I'm a Slave 4 U
Britney Spears
Toxic
Kesha
Your Love is My Drug
Kesha
Tik Tok
Lady Gaga
Bad Romance
Lady Gaga
Born This Way
The Beatles
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
The Beatles
Twist Shout
Journey
Don't Stop Believing
AC/DC
Shook Me All Night Long
Goldfrapp
Ooh La La
Goldfrapp
Strict Machine
Justin Timberlake
Like I Love You
Justin Timberlake
SexyBack
Belle and Sebastian
The Blues are Still Blue
ABBA
Dancing Queen
Michael Jackson
Thriller
Michael Jackson
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Queen
Fat Bottomed Girls
BeeGees
Stayin Alive
Scissor Sisters
I don't feel like dancing
Ceelo Green
Forget You
Bruno Mars
Marry You
Rhianna
Only Girl
Rhianna
Don't Stop the Music
Far East Movement
Like a G6
Sir Mix a Lot
Baby Got Back
Mc Hammer
Can't Touch This
Vanilla Ice
Ice Ice Baby
Salt n Peppa
Push It
B52's
Love Shack
Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP
No Americano
Cherry Poppin Daddies
Zoot Suit Riot
Bruno Mars
Just the Way You Are
Al Green
Let's Stay Together
Jack Johnson
Better Together
Lou Reed
Perfect Day
Lou Reed
Satellite of Love
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
Neil Young
Such a Woman
Feist
Brandy Alexander
The Beatles
Blackbird
The Beatles
I Will
The Beatles
Julia
The Beatles
When I'm Sixty - Four
The Beatles
In My Life
The Beatles
Here There and Everywhere
The Beatles
And I Love Her
Adele
To Make You Feel My Love
Adele
Daydreamer
Adele
Crazy for You
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
Jason Mraz
I'm Yours
Michael Buble
Everything
Michael Buble
Haven't Met You Yet
The Mindbenders
A Groovy Kind of Love
Plain White T's
Rhythm of Love
Train
Marry Me
Linda Ronnstadt
All I Need to Know
Trace Adkins
The Rest of Mine
Randy Travis
Forever and Ever Amen
She & Him
I Was Made For You
Fleetwood Mac
Songbird
Beach Boys
God Only Knows
Elton John
Your Song
Dave Matthews Band
Crash
Elvis
Can't Help Falling in Love
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
It's Your Love
Sonny & Cher
I Got You Babe
Okay, I've been working on my list big time today. The wedding is exactly a month away!!!
Here's my current list: (They are not in order yet)
Ceremony Music
Prelude
VSQ – ?
Walking down the aisle
VSQ – ?
Postlude
VSQ – ?
Cocktail Hour/Dinner
John Lennon – Imagine
Johnny Cash – Walk the Line
Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes
John Mayer – Daughters
Tom Petty – Free Fallin’
Adele – Lovesong
Elton John – Your Song
Colbie Caillat – Bubbly
Michael Buble – Haven’t Met You Yet
Slow Songs
First Dance
Marc Cohn – True Companion
All other slow songs
Hoobastank – The Reason
Lifehouse – You and Me
Rascal Flatts – Bless the Broken Road
Blake Shelton – God Gave Me You
Firehouse – Love of a Lifetime
Brad Paisley – Then
Keith Urban – Making Memories of Us
Darius Rucker – History in the Making
Big and Rich – Lost in this Moment
Luther Vandross – Here and Now
Frank Sinatra – The Way You Look Tonight
Journey – Faithfully
Bruno Mars – I Think I Wanna Marry You
Train – Marry Me
Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
Aerosmith – Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing
Fast Songs – New
Taio Cruz – Dynamite
Ke$ha – Blow
DJ Casper – Cha Cha Slide
Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
Lady Gaga – Just Dance
Pitbull – Give Me Everything
Justin Timberlake – Sexy Back
Black Eyed Peas – Let’s Get it Started
Jennifer Lopez – On The Floor
Flo Rida – Good Feelin’
Ke$ha – We R who we R
Rihanna – Don’t Stop the Music
Lady Gaga – Born This Way
Fast Songs – Old
Bob Seger – Old Time Rock n Roll
Jimmy Buffett – Volcano
Michael Jackson – PYT
Bowie – Let’s Dance
Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline
Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
B52’s – Loveshack
Grease Megamix
Roy Orbison – Pretty Woman
Billy Idol – Mony Mony
Sister Sledge – We Are Family
Def Leppard – Rocket
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
Abba – Dancing Queen
The Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There
Stevie Wonder – Signed Sealed Delivered
Kenny Loggins – Footloose
Billy Joel – Piano Man
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
Michael Jackson – Thriller
James Brown – I Feel Good
Fast Country Songs
Zac Brown Band – Chicken Fries
Shania Twain – Man, I Feel Like a Woman
Rodney Akins – These Are My People
Jason Aldean – My Kinda Party
Luke Bryan – Country Girl (shake it for me)
Blake Shelton – All About Tonight
Jason Aldean – She’s Country
Rednex – Cotton Eyed Joe
Toby Keith – Red Solo Cup
Big and Rich – Save A Horse (Ride a Cowboy)
Last Song of Night
?
Wow... I just took The Reason by Hoobastank off my list. I just read the lyrics as I listened to it and maybe it's not quite right for a wedding! lol!
I know this post is a couple weeks old, but I'm so glad I found it! I've been so frustrated trying to pick out all the music and all these lists definitely help. Just wanted to say thanks for posting them! 
I'm just starting my list and this was super helpful! Thank you!
A few I haven't seen on here yet-
U Got it Bad by Usher
Back at One by Brian McKnight
What's Right is Right by Taylor Hicks
Two is better than one by Boys Like Girls
Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade
Summer Lovin' from the Grease soundtrack (A friend of mine played this one at her wedding and everyone got really into it with the girls and boys doing their respective parts)
I'll also pick some Fall Out Boy songs
This is one of the most helpful music posts I've ever seen!! Thanks :) Our wedding is still a looong ways away but we just booked our DJ so this will be a big help.
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I have been stressing a lot about our music. I will be creating our playlist. I love a huge variety of music, but I want our guests to be happy too! I love top 40, but I also love country, classic rock, motown, etc. I am afraid I will make too many guests unhappy if I play top 40 all night.
I just ordered my invitations this week and I put a spot on the RSVP for song requests. Would anyone mind sharing their playlists or "must have music" for the reception. I would love to get inspiration from all the bees :)