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If there are rules, I was unaware and they will not be observed at my wedding. I decided I really wanted a Frank Sinatra feel to our cocktail hour and fiance caved when I pointed out we would be busy taking pictures so he probably wouldn't be listening to it anyways.
We chose rock music for dinner, we both love queen and 80s rock and since it's not all great dancing music we decided the best time to play it would be during dinner.
That is definitely not a rule, and lyrics are fine. Usually at cocktail hour and dinner is that the music is played on a lower volume so that it's just background noise and people can hear each other talk. But there's no rule at all against lyrics... almost everyone at every wedding I've ever been to plays Sinatra at their cocktail hour. ;)
No rules, play what you want! :)
Think about the feel you want at both. Personally, I'm saving songs that might make people sing along for dancing later. We'll have live musicians playing jazz and broadway-type music for cocktail hour and the DJ will play something easy-listening for dinner.
OK, thanks ladies. I have a lot of friends from a camp where I used to work coming to my wedding, so there will be lots of singalongs going on, I'm sure. I didn't know if that would be obnoxious. I mean, it might be obnoxious, but who really cares, right? :-)
I am over-analyzing everything at this point. Insane person, right here.
@MissBananaBread: I totally agree! It's not rude at all, but definitely think about the feel you're going for. DH and I wanted our dinner music to be as upbeat as possible without being distracting, so we used a bunch of song by the Vitamin String Quartet, and that was perfect for us. :)
Yah, I don't think there are rules!
We opted to do happy, upbeat songs for the cocktail hour, like Beatles, Jack Johnson, Tom Petty, Ingrid Michaelson, Plain White Ts, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Then for dinner we slowed it down a little, since the music was turned down, stuff like Eta James, Norah Jones, One Republic, Adele, Eric Clapton
And then for the rest of the night it was dance music!
The only thing you might want to keep in mind is to limit the number of songs with bad language, so the older folks aren't offended. Or just play the edited versions. Of course, that said, we played more hip hop and "questionable" songs later in the evening, after the older crowd was already gone. Good luck!
LMFAO - Shots was on our cocktail music playlist. But I bet that doesn't surprise you.
I cannot even remember what our cocktail music was. I literally can't name on song. . . how weird is that? I'm pretty sure we asked for general Rat Pack/Jazzy stuff, but I can't even tell you if that's what was played ;-). Hahaha.
Oh well! I think you can make it what ever you want it to be :-D
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Soooo...I'm confused, as per usual. Should cocktail music be only instrumental? Or can there be songs with lyrics all up in there? What about dinner music? Are there rules for this?