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sure - I’ve been working on this recently too. Oldies are always good ~ Dancing Queen, Respect, Stayin Alive, Ain’t no Mountain, Beatles, Elvis (Little less conversation is a good one), Grease.

Some others I think we are using:
Counting Crows - Accidentally in love; B52 - Love Shack; Van Morrison - Brown Eyed girl; Smashmouth - I’m a believer; Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Love Rollercoaster; Romantics - What I like About You; Beyonce - Crazy in Love; Jennifer Lopez - Let’s get Loud, Waiting for Tonight; Madonna - Music, Ray of Light; The Wiseguys - Start the Commotion

I also am a big techno fan so I have a bunch ~ Darude Sandstorm is always great! Let me know if these are similar to what you are looking for and I can email you some more. Hope this helps

Jess, try this site. I just googled “ipod wedding” and came across this article. At the bottoms is a lot of feedback - from people who have done it, people who are thinking about it, people who have been to one, djs and their two cents, etc. Might help you out

http://news.com.com/Its+a+nice+day+for+an+iPod+wedding/2100-1041_3-5874790.html

Thanks for the great posts! I’m feeling better than ever about our odds of pulling off the iPod wedding. My fiancee has literally 100GB of incredibly varied music, at least as much as many DJ’s own. We have a couple of guests who *are* DJ’s, of the techno-variety rather than the wedding-jockey variety, who I’m sure will be able to handle the occasional playlist change or soundboard management issues. It should go okay, I hope!

Some great cha cha’s:
J.Lo “Let’s Get Loud”
Christina Aguilera “Come On Over”
Pink “Get the Party Started”

Let me know if you need more songs that young people can recognize and are ballroom-danceable for the older folk. =)

Check out this great website for iPod Wedding!
http://www.youdjit.com

As father of the bride I asked the kids what they wanted. No band cause you’re stuck with them the whole night. No cheesy DJ. They had seen too many of them at other weddings (I am sure there are some good ones out there but they didn’t want to go that route). They really wanted the music to be personal and just seem like what they would play if they had people over to their house. So we IPoded it. Worked great. I made two playlists. One for the Opening Music which was for people coming in to the reception hall and into dinner. Then we stopped the music for toasts and cake cutting. Then started another playlist for Dance Music.

Basically after we exited the ceremony I went into the adjacent reception hall, plugged in my player into the built in sound system the hall had, and set the volume. Done. Stopped it for toasts and cake and then started it again for dancing. Done.

There is some advice I would like to pass along. Make sure you have a MP3 player that has smart volume. Smart volume is a feature on the MP3 player that allows you to set the volume you want and songs that are over that volume are brought down to that level and songs that are under that volume are increased to that level. You don’t want to fool around with going back and forth setting the volume the whole night. You do need to be prepared to adjust the volume a few times. The reason is that even though you have a player with smart volume you can’t control the noise level of the crowd. When they eat, their mouths are full so they don’t talk so the level may need to come down a little during dinner. Once they finish eating they start to mingle and the volume level will most likely need to be increased some. And if they get a little wild when the dancing starts the volume may have to increase even more. This seemed to be the only thing that having a DJ would fix. So if you want to shell out some dough to have someone adjust the volume a few times during the evening that is your choice.

If you can find a hall that has the sound system built in that is ideal. For us the Bose speakers were in the ceiling out of the way and the sound quality was very good. The plug in access was in a closet so that it was out of the way and no one that had one too many drinks could fool with the player.

Another thing is to have a back up player. I did not have to use a backup but had one just in case.

Bring an AC adapter. Last thing you need is to run out of battery. Most likely you will have to set the volume on your player quite high to play through the sound system. This high volume will drain the battery faster.

I was a little leery about IPoding the wedding music but it worked out great and a good time was had by all.