First dance & walking down the aisle songs?

[SugarMitts]

What songs did you walk down the aisle to and what did you have your first dance to?
And why?
Did you have songs that meant something to you as a couple personally, or just songs that are romantic?

I don’t know if any of ‘our songs’ are really appropriate for either and I am trying to see how much that matters on the whole 🤔

I had Gabriel's Oboe from The mission to walk down the aisle to, played on the organ and Highland cathedral played on the bagpipes on the way out (church in Scotland) first dance was a Scottish waltz. Can't remember first wedding 🤣

Agree tbh re datedness and cheesiness.

The problem with registry offices is you’re not allowed anything religious, and unfortunately a lot of classical music was written for the church. So any Ave Maria for example is verboten.

I think even an aria that makes no mention of religion but is in a biblical opera would be off limits - at least I’ve definitely heard of someone being refused on that basis, whether or not that was a rather hardcore interpretation of the rules.

Ooooh I haven’t had one of these before! 😈

I should’ve mentioned in the OP to walk down the aisle and back up (hadn’t even thought that we need a song for that too!) we won’t be playing the actual song, like a CD, we will be having a violinist playing the song
It’s just that most of the songs with any relevance for us are RnB songs so I didn’t know if it would be slightly … inappropriate? But there’s such a variety on here it doesn’t seem it would be 🙂

@SummaLuvin that was actually my mum & stepdads first dance song and I have suggested it as ours too, the lyrics are very appropriate as well have been together 18 years at the wedding!
So that brings up another question - would it be ok to use someone else’s first dance song? A nice tribute, or a bit rude??

Theres so much unspoken etiquette to weddings I’m so bloody worried everything we do will offend somebody!

The shaky sings are great

We walked out of the registry office to Rebel Rebel by David Bowie and first dance was On the Sunny side of the Street. Maybe a bit niche!

My first wedding was in the village church and in those days it was here comes the bride up and Mendelssohn down unless you married in a great Cathedral. Registry office weddings didn’t have music. My husband’s first wedding was in a great Cathedral as he used to be a chorister there, and they walked out to Widor. What an utterly wonderful piece of music! When we got married in a civil venue the music was important to both of us and it is tricky. I had the air from Handel’s water music but there’s a limited number of suitable pieces as they are so strict. Our ceremony was delayed for 15 minutes whilst they debated whether one of our readings was allowed! And then the registrar led a round of applause after each reading which I had seen before and find utterly cringeworthy and completely inappropriate. It’s almost like they do it to differentiate from church readings which are acts of worship.
Anyway, I agree classical over pop for the ceremony. It feels more appropriate to the occasion to me. We had At Last by Etta James for our first dance which some would think hackneyed..

We walked in to The Wedding March. We did have a big church wedding though. There was an unfortunate mix up with our first dance and we ended up with something by Eric Clapton who neither of us particularly like. Soon remedied when our next song came on and we could headbang to Paranoid!

Walked down the aisle to Offspring Want you bad.

Didnt have a first dance.

Planning on walking down the aisle to the acoustic version of Everlong, Foo Fighters.

Daughter had this for first dance, mixed into the usual version so what started as a lovely romantic moment ended up in a sort of mosh pit

I walked in to a piano and acoustic version of First Date by Blink-182 as we got married on the 7 year anniversary of our first date. We walked back out to I’m a Believer by Smashmouth.

Our first dance was Better Together by Luke Combs

When DH asked me to marry him (3rd time he proposed), he just said 'Are you going to marry me then?' and when I said yes, he said (in his Yorkshire accent) 'Just so you know, I mean the lot- thick and thin, rich or poor, till death us do part. That's what you're saying yes to.'

I thought this song went with that so we had it as our first dance.

Then we had this as his choice for our second dance- Prince 'Forever in My Life'. It was really hard to dance to.

Canon in D to walk in, Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere and Seal's Kiss From A Rose for signing the register/photos and walked out to It Must Be Love by Madness. Then we had Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden for our first dance. That was all nearly 20 years ago though and would probably do it all differently today! 😊

Ah @KezzabellaB DF (is that how to do fiancé??) wants Truly Madly Deeply for our first dance!

I am loving how varied all of these songs are, I’ve clearly only been to very boring weddings so far 😂

Following with interest as I am struggling with this!

First dance - the way you look tonight - James Darren version.

The aisle - can't remember think it was just generic organ wedding music.

Awww bless him! It's definitely a very apt song for a first dance I think and still makes us go 😍 when it's on the radio 😊 x

“Somewhere over the rainbow” to walk down the aisle
”Dancing in the moonlight” to leave
:)

Warner bridal chorus (Here comes the bride) as the processional.Dont think I have ever been to a wedding which used anything else!

Love by John Lennon to walk in; Just one Look by Doris Troy to walk out; and Chan chan by Buena Vista Social Club as first dance.

I generally hate slow smoochy love songs, so to surprise everyone for our first dance, DH and I learned how to swingdance and got the band to play 'Whoo Hoo' by the 5,6,7,8s from the Kill Bill soundtrack, a very upbeat old-school rock'n'roll track. DH is film-mad, we both liked the film (the first one, at least) and wanted to do something a bit different. We were still totally rubbish at swingdancing because we are just not very coordinated, but people we so surprised that they loved it.

You don't necessarily walk up the aisle to anything at Jewish weddings, but I had my dad arrange an 'Ancient Synagogue Melody' by French-Jewish composer Charles-Valentin Alkan for the klezmer band we had (so guitar, keyboard and violin) and it was lovely. I had a fairly long walk as it was through a reasonably large marquee for the ceremony.

DD had Canon in D going in
Tabhair Dom Do Lámh (Give me your hand) going out

She had harp/fiddle/flute for church

And I can’t remember first dance but something they both liked.

Pre-ceremony - steel pans playing
Bridal entrance - instrumental version of Kissing You by Des'ree
Register signing - over the rainbow - Israel kamakawiwo'ole
End of ceremony - signed, sealed, delivered - Stevie wonder
First dance - You & Me by Lifehouse

I'm very recently married.
Walking down the aisle - The Snuts - Somebody Loves You

Signing the register- Arctic Monkeys - Baby I'm Yours

Walking out - DNA by Billy Gillies

First Dance - Jamie Webster - Something in the air.

They all mean something to us apart from the walking out song 😂