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Hearing Slave to Love -- Bryan Ferry
Weekend Assignment #24: First Dance Songs
You hear that? It's the sound of a Weekend Assignment coming your way: I give you a topic and you write it up and come back to leave a link so we can all see what you have to say. It's easier than whistlin' Dixie.
This week, I'm thinking about marriage and music -- two great tastes that go great together:
Weekend Assignment #24: Tell us what the first song was at your wedding reception and why you chose that song. If you're not already married, tell us the song you would like to have played first at your wedding reception. Also, for the purposes of this assignment, those of you who have had commitment ceremonies can join in the fun (it's that whole "we're going to spend the rest of our lives together, and now we're going to dance" thing).
Extra Credit: What song did you make sure wasn't played at your reception?
Our first song at our reception was actually two songs, with the first song fading into the second. The first was Bryan Ferry's "Slave to Love," because it's a beautiful and hugely romantic song, which is what you want in a first song. And then at the end, we segued into Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like A Hole," because it was our wedding and we could do what we wanted, and while we were dating, we danced wild and spastically to that song. Like, a lot. Also, it served notice to everyone at the reception that we were actually going to play music that wasn't lame. And it worked; to this day we get compliments on our choice of reception music.
What song we made sure wasn't played: "Electric Slide." Because hearing that song always makes me want to jam an ice pick into my eardrums, and Krissy feels the same. See, we were meant for each other!
Now, it's your turn. What was on the turntable the first time you danced as a married couple? I can't wait to hear the stories!
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our song was "true" by spandow ballet-sounds lame now-but it was all the rage in 1984 when we got married. If I had to do it over again (first I'd change my answer at the church-lol-kidding)-then I'd take my time and pick a more timeless-more meaningful song-like "stand by me"-an oldie but a goodie-who knows. But that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
As for the songs not played by request-there were none-we didn't give a dam-let the band play there hearts out-we just drank and had a blast. -
At our 1994 wedding ...... Our first song: "Misty" by Johnny Mathis. It's just very nice and romantic sounding and it was often heard while we were dating. I told the DJ that we we hated country, but if someone requested it, then maybe it would be OK for one song. I absolutely refused to have that damn Hokey Pokey song played. Our other big request .... no songs about big butts or anything related to that subject (those seemed to be pretty common at the time).
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Heres a Link, Yep Ivan almost made it a non-existant wedding. BUT WE WON, IN THE END.. HEHEHHEE : http://journals.aol.com/bella
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The first song played at our wedding in 1991 was "Endless Love." We did not pick this song my father did. I was seventeen, my husband nineteen and we wanted Motley Crue: Without You. My Dad would not have it with all of his friends there, so he chose that song and we were allowed OUR song at the end of the night. As you can see I was being treated like the child I was. The song we refused was "the chicken danc e." hra73 - http://journals.aol.com/hra73
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