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Songs you should NEVER play at a wedding (Original Post) True Dough Feb 2023 OP
I saw an interview with Sting and he was aghast at the couples who played this stalker song. Arkansas Granny Feb 2023 #1
😉 TDale313 Feb 2023 #2
This Sneederbunk Feb 2023 #3
Here's one I snuck in during the 'eating dinner' portion of the ceremony Hugh_Lebowski Feb 2023 #4
ha llashram Feb 2023 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2023 #6
From the Grand Wazoo GreenWave Feb 2023 #7
I worked with bands that played weddings Yonnie3 Feb 2023 #8
What sort of reaction did it get? True Dough Feb 2023 #22
It was played in the last set Yonnie3 Feb 2023 #26
Paul Anka: You're Having My Baby Mister Ed Feb 2023 #9
Hells Bells bottomofthehill Feb 2023 #10
Part time Lover--Stevie Wonder debm55 Feb 2023 #11
"F**k like a beast" gay texan Feb 2023 #12
Well, yeah True Dough Feb 2023 #23
For the slow dance: Chainfire Feb 2023 #13
My runner up Chainfire Feb 2023 #14
Don't Dream It's Over......Crowded House ProudMNDemocrat Feb 2023 #15
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap. AC/DC blueinredohio Feb 2023 #16
"Torn Between Two Lovers" Higherarky Feb 2023 #17
Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light keithbvadu2 Feb 2023 #18
"What made it so bad, they gave her the same room I had." Marcuse Feb 2023 #19
You're No Good Beatlelvr Feb 2023 #20
"Single Girl, Married Girl" BluesRunTheGame Feb 2023 #21
I wanted to play "Don't Fence Me In,".... bahboo Feb 2023 #24
Tim Hawkins did an entire skit based on this subject. Angleae Feb 2023 #25
Saving All My Love For You AngryOldDem Feb 2023 #27
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" (nt) Paladin Feb 2023 #28
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. Here's one I snuck in during the 'eating dinner' portion of the ceremony
Sun Feb 5, 2023, 01:00 PM
Feb 2023

Wife-to-be had told me no, I did it anyway, cause I love this song, and think it's romantic (in the classic sense), and it was also appropriate in my mind ... we'd been fighting a lot and at that point, I sadly felt like things were already in trouble with us.

She didn't notice at the time.



Margaret arrayed the rocks around the hull before it was sinking,
A million stones, a million bones,
A million holes within the chinking.

And painting rings around your eyes
These peppered holes so filled with crying.
A whisper weighed upon the tattered down where you and I were lying.

Tell me now, tell me this
A forest's son, a river's daughter
A willow on the willow wisp, our ghosts will wander all of the water.

So let's be married here today
These rushing waves to bare our witness,
And we will lye like river stones
Rolling only where it takes us.

But I pulled you and I called you here,
And I caught you and I brought you here
These hazards of love, never more will trouble us.

Oh Margaret the lapping waves are licking quietly at our ankles
Another bow another breath this
Brilliant chill's come for the shackle.

With this long last rush of air we speak our vows and sorry whispers,
When the waves came crashing down,
He closed his eyes and softly kissed her.

But I pulled you and I called you here,
And I caught you and I brought you here
These hazards of love, never more will trouble us.
And these hazards of love, never more will trouble us.

Response to True Dough (Original post)

Yonnie3

(17,485 posts)
8. I worked with bands that played weddings
Sun Feb 5, 2023, 01:13 PM
Feb 2023

One year I worked over 36 wedding parties.

At one we played this ...



The groom was named Jack. MOB rule said it was OK in advance. MOB = Mother of Bride. Apparently it was a joke.

True Dough

(17,326 posts)
22. What sort of reaction did it get?
Sun Feb 5, 2023, 04:23 PM
Feb 2023

Curious. I'm guessing it's like most things in life: the majority found it amusing. A couple of people got bent out of shape over it.

Yonnie3

(17,485 posts)
26. It was played in the last set
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 10:36 AM
Feb 2023

The last set is mostly fast dance stuff with the infrequent requested slow ones. The drunks either shouted the lyrics or tried to dance.

No complaints to me as I ran the soundboard and lighting at stage left. I was usually the target for complaints and requests.

True Dough

(17,326 posts)
23. Well, yeah
Sun Feb 5, 2023, 04:24 PM
Feb 2023

not in front of the parents. But during the honeymoon, that would be entirely appropriate!

bahboo

(16,358 posts)
24. I wanted to play "Don't Fence Me In,"....
Sun Feb 5, 2023, 04:38 PM
Feb 2023

I was vetoed....opted for "Blue Skies" and "September Song"....

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
27. Saving All My Love For You
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 01:14 PM
Feb 2023

“A few stolen moments/are all that we share./You have your family/And they need you there…”

Idina Menzel was a wedding singer before she hit it big and she says singing this song was….uncomfortable.

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