Weddingbee Blog

“I knew I loved You” by Savage Garden. I always loved the lyrics….
“I knew I loved you before I met you…I think I dreamed you into life…”

We also had some Michael Buble songs…big band era type stuff he sings for cocktail hour.

I just started putting together a playlist (our DJ has this nifty thing set up on the internet for us to choose music from their catalog) - my fiance requested “Mother” by Danzig! Ugh. Hopefully his brothers will see the humor in that. So much for an altogether classy affair.

I chose “Take On Me” by A-ha because on one of our first dates my fiance drank a little too much japanese beer and sang the song karaoke style. It was SO BAD, but it’s also such a hilarious memory.

just a note: check with your DJ what s/he will say if someone requests a song you don’t want played. Our DJ simply said he didn’t have that song (nice). I’ve heard of some DJs saying, “Oh, the bride & groom don’t want Baby Got Back played” and then everyone runs over to the bride whining for the song. Not nice.

Our wedding was an outdoor lunch reception. My do-not-plays include anything by Shania Twain, no jazz or blues (FI doesn’t like those genres). Must play Chasing Cars and Crazy. Anything else the DJ had free rein. Thank goodness I didn’t hear anything that had already been played to death at weddings (ie, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion etc etc)!

I found it useful to let the DJ know the kind of “mood” I was going for, ie, I love the ambience and the style of music at Starbucks cafe (or any other place in your locale, favorite restaurant etc etc- unless it’s some obscure place I find it helps a lot).

If I were to do it again I would buy the entire Grey’s Anatomy playlist and ask the DJ to play those songs. I love them!

I had a do not play list and they ALL got played! My husband and I left for a couple of pictures after dinner and when we came back our DJ played all the songs we hated for the kids. All the kids enjoyed dancing to them so I guess I shouldn’t complain.

We are family!! Oh god, I totally forgot that one. Thanks, tea.

I have to agree with many of the above posts….no YMCA, no CEELLEEBRATTIION, no Conga Lines, no electric slide, no Love Shack….my list could go on. Do you think that means i’m going to have a boring wedding? HECK NO!! I can’t wait. Our music will consist of a little Beatles, some classics by Sinatra, and some Justin Timberlake. I can’t help it, I love his new stuff!

when i first heard the song “at the beginning” from the Anastasia soundtrack, i knew i wanted it played at my wedding. I’m not sure where we will put it, but i like that it’s not over-used and it’s very sweet. we have had an on-going play list and do not play list. (we’ve been writing them down as we hear them.) thanks for the ideas of what to add to the do-not-play list. we will also being playing some michael buble as well as some josh groban, imogen heap… we want to keep it romantic and classy, but also have some unique music. we will mix in some old classics with the new stuff without adding the crowd participation songs and the over-played wedding music.

On my do not play list…no “group dances” - the chicken dance, macarena, cha-cha song, the electric slide, hokey pokey…nothing that you must form a line or circle to dance to.

As for songs that I definitely want played, I’m not sure yet. Lol.