tell me your first dance song at your wedding

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So its my wedding next week and I’m still in a dilemma over which song to have for our first dance. The one we have chosen so far is an old song and not a typical ‘first dance’ song. I think only older people will really know it as its not a really well known song (although my mum did say it was one of her dads favourites). Now I’m wondering whether to change it to something more well-known.

So...tell me your first dance song and why you chose it. And did you regret it or have a similar dilemma to me i.e. a not typical song? (first world problem i know - this is light-hearted!)

Basically I want you to help me get all romantic and misty-eyed for my wedding!

For once I've not read the full thread
Dido's Thank you.
Because the lyrics spoke to usand we liked it.
18 years later we're different people but we still like the song and we still remember how much we both liked the song then. Every time I hear It it makes me very misteyed for those 2 young people we once were.
Getting married is a long term promise but it's also a snap shot of who you were and who the people in your life were at that time. You still have amazingly important friends to make, experiences to have, children to come. Don't be afraid to pick something that you might think may not have longevity. The more it means to you right now the more you will look back with fondness.

We had Fall On Me by Andrea and Matteo Bocelli. DH actually picked it knowing that I'm a huge Andrea Bocelli fan. I'd never heard it and he played it to me a few weeks before our wedding. So I learned the Italian verses to sing to him

We tried not to have a first dance, but our BMs requested Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye. Which we had to dance to infront of elderly grandparents, great-aunts and uncles etc. We seriously wanted to curl up and crawl away 😆

Nothing's going to change my love for you - Glen Medeiros

or was it, 'The One' by Elton John as that is 'our' song.

'Unforgettable' by Frank Sinatra was our first dance on honeymoon.

Thousand Years by Christina Perri followed by Rule The World by Take That

Perhaps unsurprisingly, 'The Luckiest' by Ben Folds!!

When we were stumped for a song, DH called me one day & asked me to listen to it as he had finally 'found the right words'...big soft bugger

The lyrics really are perfect.

@Warmhandscoldheart We had Groovy Kind of Love too 😍😍The words are just perfect ❤️❤️

Baby I’m Yours - Arctic Monkeys cover.

I was tempted by Til There Was You by the Beatles and with hindsight I’d have probably preferred this.

We left the church to For Once In My Life by Stevie Wonder.

Got my mind set on you by George Harrison. The joke being that we had neither a lot of time nor money to do the wedding. We walked back down the aisle to Three Little Birds.

There will be time by Mumford & sons

We didn’t have a first dance but if I’d heard Kodaline’s The One before we got married then it would have been that. It’s perfect

Al Green - let's stay together.

Fly me to the moon, Frank Sinatra

Can’t take my eyes off you - Andy Williams.

My Dh used to sing it down the phone when we had had a drink when we were dating.

Afternoon delight-Anchorman

@PicaK you just blew my mind with how old that song is!!

cafenoir - that’s so funny!

And Glen Medeiros! I remember that song...

Cannonball by The Breeders.

We were not taking it seriously.

🤣

Whatelsecouldibecalled - that’s why I want the song I’ve chosen - dp sings it to me in the car!

Fly Me Too the Moon - Frank Sinatra

I wanna be yours - arctic monkeys
Lyrics are beautiful both me and dh are huge music fans.

It was either this or I wanna make it wit chu - queens of the Stone Age

@NeverTalksToStrangers

That was ours too. Its not her song but we adored her version. My best friend ended up having it too when she married the year after us. Its a stunning song x

Zoom by Fat Larry's Band for 1st dance but i also did a dad/daughter dance to Under The Moon Of Love by Showaddywaddy as me and my dad used to dance to it when i was little. Great memories!

My list was:

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack

Amazing by Aerosmith

Wonderful World by Sam Cooke

But I chose all of the music for the ceremony (registry office) so I let dh choose the music for the first dance and we had Just Like Heaven by The Cure

We had Toto - Hold the Line ( love isn’t always on time)

We were together a looong time, so this was really appropriate. And it’s a great rock to tune.