Showing posts with label Songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Songs. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Songs - final (ish) list!

This weekend we meet with our celebrant at the hall for a trial run for the big day!  EEEEEEK!!! so close!

So by Sunday 11am we need to have our music sorted, we're pretty close, I posted back in mid May a list we were working on, and not much has changed (links to Youtube vids on song titles):

Arriving at the Hall - Marry You - Bruno Mars
Walking Down The Aisle - Jessica's Theme - Man From Snowy River
Signing Registry - Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version
Walk Back Down Aisle - Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
First Dance - Halo - Beyonce
Cutting cake - maybe How Sweet It Is - James Taylor
Bouquet Toss - Single Ladies - Beyonce
Garter toss (if we do it) - You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker
Loving the Bruno Mars song, really up beat, I think it's perfect to be be playing as our car arrives, and we're getting sorted, then we'll go to Snow River song for the walking bit, it's more mellow, and just lovely.

I love Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Somewhere Over the Rainbow version, I think it will work well as background music while the 'official' stuff is happening.

Everyone loves a bit of Queen for the end of the ceremony.

Probably my favourite song ever is Beyonce's Halo, I cry nearly every time I hear it, so I've told the makeup girls to make sure I'm waterproof everything, and have a supply for touchups!

Not overly worried if the music just goes freeform from there, but if we remember, I think How Sweet It Is will be perfect for the cake, Single Ladies for the flower toss and a good stripper song (and I loved 9 1/2 weeks movie!  Mickey Rourke was so hot before he got carved up!) for the garter (if we do it!).

Now just to make sure we're 150% ok with them and burn them to disc for the celbrant on Sunday!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Finetuning the Songs

When we met with our celebrant Victoria last Friday, she asked us what songs we were having for each part of the ceremony, while we had started to put together a list of songs, we hadn't really put alot of thought to what we'd play when.

So with that prompt from Victoria, we put our thinking caps on, so far we have it narrowed down to:

Arriving at the Hall - Going to The Chapel - DixieCups
Walking Down The Aisle - Jessica's Theme - Man From Snowy River 
Signing Registry - Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version
Walk Back Down Aisle - Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
First Dance - Halo - Beyonce
Cutting cake - tba, maybe How Sweet It Is - James Taylor
Bouquet Toss - Single Ladies - Beyonce
Garter toss (if we do it) - tba
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - amazing voice (photo source)
Will update as we finetune!

Friday, April 29, 2011

Songs for the big day - list 1

We've decided to use my iPod plugged into the sound system in the hall, rather than a band or DJ for music for our wedding & reception. And we're slowly gathering a list of songs we love that we want to include.

We still need to split them up into sections ie Ceremony, First Dance, Dancing, Background etc etc, but these are some of our faves so far.

  • All You Need Is Love - The Beatles
  • At Last - Etta James
  • Beautiful Day - U2
  • Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
  • Bridal Train - The Waifs
  • Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis
  • Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli
  • Come What May - Ewen McGregor & Nicole Kidman
  • Could I Have This Dance - Anne Murray
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
  • Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters
  • Feelin Good - Michael Buble
  • From Little Things Big Things Grow - The Waifs & Jon Butler
  • Going To The Chapel - Dixie Cups
  • Halo - Beyonce - I'm pretty sure I'll cry like a baby but I love it (earlier post on this song) probably be either our first dance or aisle song
  • I'm Still Standing - Elton John
  • Into My Arms - Nick Cave
  • Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
  • Kissing You - Des'ree
  • Love Foolosophy - Jamiroquai
  • Love Shack - B52s
  • My Happiness - Powderfinger
  • My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson
  • Somebody To Love - Queen
  • Somewhere Over The Rainbow - just love Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version
  • Songbird - Eva Cassidy
  • The Way You Look Tonight - Frank Sinatra
  • Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses
  • With You - Chris Brown

As you can see our taste is quite varied, but should be able to cover most genres once we get the full list together!
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