We had Hayao Miyazaki music for the pre-wedding. Then I came in to Pachabel's Canon in D (Emily wanted to play that for me and she plays it well, I wanted Vivaldi's Winter, but this was really nice because she played it beautifully), signing of the registry was Geek Like Me and an acoustic version of the Princess Bride theme, exit to the cheese stick "Happy Together".
Jon and I are trying to work out wedding tunes, seems most of our favourites are about love gone terribly wrong (with psycho exes), deep depression or manic drug/sex sprees.
On the other hand, if we put the worst ones towards the end of the night, people will have drunk a bit, and no one will really be listening to lyrics (and probably won't know the titles?).
One of the funnest weddings I've attended was one where the folks being wed didn't pay any attention whatsoever to the deeper meaning of the songs - they just picked songs that were fun and that they liked and that they knew everyone would dance to.
I think part of what made that fun was that you didn't get a sense that the ritual of the day was more important than the couple themselves... if that makes sense.
I guess it's hard when you're picking songs for other people, though!
I like the sound of the stuff you wrote :) Perhaps I'm being oversensitive - it's only one song, and if it sounds happy and dancy it probably doesn't matter what the lyrics are.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1-4LcmE538
or we had this as our exit from the church:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhMzZ_KCp_E
neither are gothtacular, but the first is super-geek and the second is too lovely :)
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The second might just be cheesy enough to work :) (Did I mention J & I signed the registry to a track from The Princess Bride?)
(ps - I do hope that t-shirt in the first vid has on the back...)
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We had Hayao Miyazaki music for the pre-wedding. Then I came in to Pachabel's Canon in D (Emily wanted to play that for me and she plays it well, I wanted Vivaldi's Winter, but this was really nice because she played it beautifully), signing of the registry was Geek Like Me and an acoustic version of the Princess Bride theme, exit to the cheese stick "Happy Together".
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On the other hand, if we put the worst ones towards the end of the night, people will have drunk a bit, and no one will really be listening to lyrics (and probably won't know the titles?).
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I think part of what made that fun was that you didn't get a sense that the ritual of the day was more important than the couple themselves... if that makes sense.
I guess it's hard when you're picking songs for other people, though!
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