Songs you should NEVER play at a wedding

[True Dough]

Here are a couple of examples. Whatcha got, DUers?

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I saw an interview with Sting and he was aghast at the couples who played this stalker song.

[TDale313]

2. 😉

[Sneederbunk]

3. This

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Here's one I snuck in during the 'eating dinner' portion of the ceremony

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.

[llashram]

5. ha

nice

[GreenWave]

7. From the Grand Wazoo

[Yonnie3]

8. I worked with bands that played weddings

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]

22. What sort of reaction did it get?

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]

26. It was played in the last set

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.

[Mister Ed]

9. Paul Anka: You're Having My Baby

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[bottomofthehill]

10. Hells Bells

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[debm55]

11. Part time Lover--Stevie Wonder

[gay texan]

12. "F**k like a beast"

By W.A.S.P.

[True Dough]

23. Well, yeah

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

[Chainfire]

13. For the slow dance:

[Chainfire]

14. My runner up

[ProudMNDemocrat]

15. Don't Dream It's Over......Crowded House

A friend of mine called it her "Divorce Song"..

[blueinredohio]

16. Dirty deeds done dirt cheap. AC/DC

[Higherarky]

17. "Torn Between Two Lovers"

Mary MacGregor

"Baby Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me"
Mac Davis

[keithbvadu2]

18. Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light

[Marcuse]

19. "What made it so bad, they gave her the same room I had."

[Beatlelvr]

20. You're No Good

Linda Rondstat

[BluesRunTheGame]

21. "Single Girl, Married Girl"

From the first family of country music…

[bahboo]

24. I wanted to play "Don't Fence Me In,"....

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

[Angleae]

25. Tim Hawkins did an entire skit based on this subject.

[AngryOldDem]

27. Saving All My Love For You

“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.

[Paladin]

28. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (nt)