Wedding Blog
I gotta tell you, I am getting really excited about our wedding, and the big reason behind that is our playlist. It’s pretty freaking cool. And by cool I mean totally cheesy and goofy - you know, just like us. Our hope is that the night will be filled with, “Oh, my gawd I LOVE this song!”
Really, how can you NOT have a great time at a wedding when Wham and Toto are on the playlist? Most of the credit goes to the mister, who was born about a decade too late. Ready? Here goes…
{They’re not organized in any way, just listed in the order they occurred to us.}
| Song Title | Artist |
| Rainbow Connection | Kermit the Frog |
| Anything | Johnny Cash |
| Take on Me | Aha |
| Wake me up before you go-go | Wham |
| Here in your arms | hellogoodbye |
| On the road again | Willie Nelson |
| You are so beautiful | Joe Cocker |
| With a little help from my friends | Joe Cocker |
| Up where we belong | Joe Cocker |
| Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond |
| You’ve got a friend | James Taylor |
| Walking on sunshine | Katrina and the Waves |
| Walk like an egyptian | The Bangles |
| Heaven is a place on earth | Belinda Carlisle |
| Blister in the sun | Violent Femmes |
| Sweet Home Alabama | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Islands in the Stream | Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton |
| Faithfully | Journey |
| Sweet Child O Mine | Guns N Roses |
| Welcome to the jungle | Guns N Roses |
| Rocking the suburbs | Ben Folds |
| Everlong | Foo Fighters |
| Would you go with me | Josh Turner |
| Your kiss is on my list | Hall & Oates |
| Private eyes | Hall & Oates |
| Maneater | Hall & Oates |
| Uptown Girl | Billy Joel |
| Piano Man | Billy Joel |
| The Longest Time | Billy Joel |
| It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me | Billy Joel |
| Tiny Dancer | Elton John |
| Africa | Toto |
| Get out of my dreams (and into my car) | Billy Ocean |
| At last | Etta James |
| My Maria | Brooks & Dunn |
| Neon Moon | Brooks & Dunn |
| Living off the wall | MJ |
| Billie Jean | MJ |
| Country Road | James Taylor |
| How Sweet It is | James Taylor |
| You Save Me | Kenny Chesney |
| Black Horse and the Cherry Tree | KT Tunstall |
| Boondocks | Little Big Town |
| Bring it on home | Little Big Town |
| Sunday Morning | Maroon 5 |
| Long Day | Matchbox 20 |
| Can’t help falling in love | Elvis |
| For Once in My Life | NOT Michael Buble (Stevie Wonder) |
| Moondance | Michael Buble |
| I’m Yours | Jason Mraz |
| Here Comes the Sun | Beatles |
| Obladi, oblada, life goes on | Beatles |
| What a wonderful world | Michael Buble (not Louie) |
| Bye Bye | Phil Vassar |
| My Next Thirty Years | Phil Vassar or Tim McGraw |
| Feels Like Today | Rascal Flatts |
| God Bless the Broken Road | Rascal Flatts |
| Mrs. Robinson | Simon & Garfunkel |
| Settlin’ | Sugarland |
| Come On Get Higher | Matt Nathansen |
| Down in the west Texas town of El Paso… | no idea |
| Fishing in the dark | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| Maria (Shut up and kiss me) | Willie Nelson |
| Time after time | Willie Nelson |
| 2 something | Spin Doctors |
| I’m a scatman | Scatman |
| Angel Eyes | Jeff Healy |
| Life is a Highway | Not Rascal Flatts |
| I wish | Skee Lo |
| Love Fool | The Cardigans |
| Rubberband Man | TI |
| Crazy on You | Heart |
| You spin me right round | Adam Sandler |
| Owner of a lonely heart | Yes |
| Sweet Dreams | Eurhythmics |
| Karma Chameleon | Culture Club |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | Cindy Lauper |
| Mr. Jones | Counting Crows |
| Spoonman | Sound Garden |
| Slide | Goo Goo Dolls |
| Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison |
| Smooth | Rob Thomas Santana |
| All Night Long | Lionel Richie |
| Baby Girl | Sugarland |
| Lady | Styx |
| Who Do You Love | George Thorogood |
| Making Memories of Us | Keith Urban |
| Keep On Loving You | REO Speedwagon |
| Somewhere over the rainbow/ what a wonderful world | Israel Kamakawiwo’ole |
| Just the Way You Are | Diana Krall (or Billy Joel if that’s easier) |
| To the Beat of the Rhythm of the Night | DeBarge |
| Take Me Home Tonight | Eddie Money |
| Summer Breeze | Seals & Crofts |
| Don’t Stop Believing | Journey |
| Fooled Around and Fell in Love | Mickey Thomas |
| Now That We Found Love | Heavy D and the Boyz |
| Under the Bridge | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | Joe Cocker |
| A Kiss to Build a Dream On | Louis Armstrong |
| Paint It Black | The Rolling Stones |
| Back in Time | Huey Lewis and the News |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | Cindy Lauper |
After that bit of goodness, what more can I possibly say? I’ll write more about our music plan in another post. Are you channeling your inner cheese for your playlist?
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Umm, can I come to your wedding?! You are going to have such a fun party with that playlist. People will dancing all night!!
Love it, your list is extremely similar to mine, I love all of it, I would dance so hard at your wedding!!!
What a fun playlist! Map props for Toto. The mister LOVES them!
I don’t consider that list as “cheesey” persay, but more timeless classics 
I may have to borrow about half of your list.
Just an FYI, Cindy Lauper’s Girls Just Want to Have Fun is on the list twice–Do you want to have that much fun? 
GREAT playlist!!!! Totally what we would play… And I think the original artist who dod Life is a Highway was Tom Cochrane… Much better than the Rascal Flatts version, to me!
Looks like it’s going to be a BLAST at your wedding!!
@FMH: LOL. I REALLY want to have fun. Every time we think, “Oh, that HAS to go on the playlist” I just add it to the end… before I blogged I double-checked, and we had about ten songs listed more than once. “Africa” had three entries!
how FUN!!!!!!
I was doing exactly what you hope your guests do as i was reading through it…”ooh, i love this song,” “ooh, i love THIS song…”
I love “Africa” by TOTO…it’s okay to have it 3 times on the list!
you should have “D’yer Mak’er” by Led Zeppelin…that songs always makes me want to dance!
You have Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison twice!
Hall and Oates + Wham = eighties music heaven!
Mission accomplished Cheese! As I scrolled down I kept exclaiming (in my head, or my cubicle mates would probably think I was insane) “oh my gosh, I looooove that song!” Since West Coast Groom and I are doing our own playlists too, I’m so updating them tonight:-)
@West Coast Bride: That’s awesome! I laugh and giggle and sing songs in my head every time I look through that list. Is it bad to be more excited about your playlist than your dress?
@Gerbera: Mr. C contributed that one. I thought he was joking. He was not. Ha.
Fun playlist, it’s really diverse which should get lots of people dancing!
OMG I want to come that is a great playlist. I guess I will just have to copy it and send it to our DJ. Gotta love the classics.
That is a long list of really great music, the day after your wedding i would be sore from dancing so much!
I love your list! Especially your amount of Billy Joel! If I could Billy would just come and play at our wedding and we’d call it a night
The Spin Doctors Song you are thinking of is 2 Princes
I just copied this into a word doc and am modifying it for ours - what a great list!!
i’m dancin’ in my chair over here!! *sprinkler!*
what a GREAT playlist!
The “west Texas town of El Paso” song was done by Marty Robbins. My mom loved him.
Great list,
you just reminded me of so many songs to add to my list!! thanks for posting yours!
AH! I am so stealing some of these songs! So fun! It makes me want to dance and get happy anyway! Thanks for the posting!
WOW, you just saved me a ton of work… Thank you so much for posting! These are perfect!
“Not Michael Buble” was in our DJ contract at least three times. That cracked me up when I saw it on your list.
What a fab list! I’ve already got a bunch of those on our playlist - I definitely intend on playing lots of great cheesy ’80s songs - including Wham! yeah!
Why are there so many songs about rainbows, and what’s on the other side?
When I asked a DJ if he had any Jason Mraz, he didn’t know who I was talking about!!! 
Nice! I am getting married on May 16,2009…and want a lot of cheesy 80’s!!
I love the glam rock stuff…Crue, skid row, gnr, warrant, bon jovi, europe, poison…and so on.
I’m thinking of using “Make a Memory” by bon jovi as my wedding song.
Any more suggestiosn for wedding songs?
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Mrs. Cheese, Knoxville
Age and Occupation: 29, Engineering Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, CAD Designer
Engagement Date: July 31, 2008
Wedding Date: May, 2009
Blogging Since: October 16, 2008
Venue: Our home and the two acres it sits on
About Me: I’m an emotional girl who loves sentimental things, parenthetical asides, and trying to do things herself. I can cook, sew, am a whiz at planning, terrible at delegating, and totally in love with my fiancé (who will be my second husband but first love of the rest of my life). For our home/ garden/ DIY wedding, we’ll be moonlighting as interior designers, home improvers, and gardeners with the help of our fabulous friends and neighbors. We can’t wait to be married, and are learning how fun getting married can be.
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