Wedding Themes

- Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" - Nixed due to the somewhat sinister "You're Going to Reap Just What You So" lyric.

- Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice" - My first choice for no other reason than that it's a cool Bond theme, but a little too dour in spots, alas.

- Massive Attack's "Protection" - Great song, but a bit too melancholly & slow. Likewise to Jeff Buckley's "Everybody Here Wants You" (which in itself closely resembles "Protection," if you put you ears to it).

- The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" - Lovely tune...too bad it's actually about heroin.

The fiancee is really rallying hard for "Danke Schoen" by Wayne Newton, but that's a bit too "Ferris Bueller" for my taste.

So anyway -- how about y'all? This is an old question, but what do you want to hear during the wedding ceremony (we have another thread somewhere about the reception -- look it up!)

You need to tell us these things! Congratulations and then some. :-) Seriously, if there was another thread about it, I missed it.

This is ILX's year for marriage, I think -- I can name at least four off the top of my head now (no, wait, five).

That's a beautiful image, thinking of that epic guitar lead as someone walks down the aisle...& thanks for the kind words Ned.

NB: best check to make sure your intended has blue eyes before suggesting this one 'though, or you might just find "Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man"!

Congrats, Mark! Hooray! That Coltrane song sounds perfect.

I actually got married the month before that. It was an intimate garden ceremony behind a jazz/champagne club which also served as the setting for the reception. (no points to other Chicagoans for sorting that out!) There were about 40 or so people there and no traditional processional, just the two of us walking out into the sunlight to "Asleep and Dreaming" by the Magnetic Fields.