What was your first dance song at your wedding?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Mine - CORRS - Runaway

[RebelOne]

1. What wedding? I eloped to Georgia when I was 16. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Anything on the car radio you remember ?

[RebelOne]

8. This was back in the '50s.

Our favorite song was Hearts Made of Stone. It was a doo-wop song.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

48. Here you go RO

[LWolf]

3. I didn't have one. At either wedding.

I'm cheap. We left the church and went home for a potluck at the first wedding. I'm sure there was music, but we didn't dance, and I don't remember it.

I got married in Vegas the 2nd time. We left the little chapel and went to a bar. No music, no dancing.

Is this why I couldn't seem to stay married?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Yep, that's it. Next time you will know ! :>)

[blueamy66]

5. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

Too bad it didn't work out.

If my guy and I ever do get married, we will have to choose between Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately and James Taylor's Carolina In My Mind.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Love them both !

[blueamy66]

16. Sweet!

I was living in AZ when I met my guy, who was living in NC at the time. I used to listen to James Taylor 10 times a day and feel so sad......we did the long distance thing for a year, until he moved out here.

No real story for Van...just that he is one of the all time greatest! And the song is magical.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. Reminds me of college. I went to a Catholic girls college and we would

have a "crying" night...just for the hell of it and play all these sad love songs.

Love James Taylor. He was great at the inauguration this year.

And, one of my all time favorite songs...Into the Mystic

[Xyzse]

6. Never Married

I'm still young...
My sister's was Bob Marley's - Is This Love... Which I just learned in the Ukulele.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. this is very good

[Xyzse]

45. Yeah, it is awesome!

[irisblue]

7. The book of Love

Peter Gabriels' version......then 'My Girl' by The Temptations. You made me mist up...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. nice

[bif]

9. Some unpronounceable Greek song, probably

We had a Bazouki Band.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Love ethnic weddings. The ones I remember growing

up in a big Polish family. I can still smell the coffee and whiskey and hear the polka music !

[blueamy66]

17. I'm from a Polish family as well.

We eat good and party even better!!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. yep...but I do worry that the food will disappear

I have tried to make perogies a couple times and it was an utter disaster. Hope there were grandparents out there who showed their kids and grandkids how to cook !!

[blueamy66]

30. My Aunt still makes them.

She makes her own kielbasa as well.

I visit Buffalo just to eat!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. thank god the rust belt is keeping it alive ! Kielbasa

Love it...but then I have to drink 99 glasses of water.

I will have to buy my mom in CT a meat grinder. Every Easter and Christmas we have to drive
all over because she has to have a specific brand of kielbasa or we all go to hell.

Believe it or not, we actually started our honeymoon in Buffalo. Got married 4 days after 9-11 in New Orleans and were going to fly to Europe and canceled. We pulled out the PC and looked for the cheapest flight out of the flights that were back flying after the ban. It was Buffalo ! I actually called my boss on my honeymoon to tell him because he used to live there and always called it Beirut. Anyway, it really turned out great... Niagara Falls, ice wineries, and into Ontario and on to Toronto. It was really cool going into a pub there. Bush was on TV and all the Canadians were heckling him. He told the international flights to not land in US but to land in Canada and they were like "thanks a lot ! Send the highjackers our way !

sorry, couldn't tell that story in fewer sentences !

[blueamy66]

46. Great story!

I love the falls and Canada. We used to buy beer there when we were underage.

[Flaxbee]

13. We eloped to NYC City Hall :)

Actually, it was a really fun way to get married.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. cool. Just like in the movies !

Found this on a photographer's website:

Ken and Melissa live in New York City and invited me to photograph their nuptuals at City Hall. It was fantastic!! Getting married at City Hall is kinda like going to the DMV. I could have spent all day photographing the randomness..

[cliffordu]

15. Superfreak

[Honeycombe8]

18. The judge didn't sing, as I recall. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

19. Is there a song called "Run for your Life!"

Cause then, I probably will... If I am in that position!

[benld74]

20. CRAP I CANT remember! The LAST one of the night was,,

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Was it back in the late 60s early 70's?

That is a great song. It brings back strong memories of the spirit of banding together
against the establishment and the war.

[benld74]

43. Got it! Jefferson Starship Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now

Brain Fart, big time, right before VDay too......

[fizzgig]

21. nick cave, nobody's baby now

we only danced once before the wedding and it was to this song. maybe not wedding appropriate, but fuck em, it was our wedding

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. I had never heard of him. Sounds like interesting guy. Almost

a faint hint of Johnny Cash in his voice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave

In the past, Cave identified as a Christian. In his recorded lectures on music and songwriting, he has claimed that any true love song is a song for God and has ascribed the mellowing of his music to a shift in focus from the Old to the New Testaments. He does not belong to a particular denomination and has distanced himself from "religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked".[55] He said in a Los Angeles Times article: "I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god. It's kind of defending the indefensible, though; I'm critical of what religions are becoming, the more destructive they're becoming. But I think as an artist, particularly, it's a necessary part of what I do, that there is some divine element going on within my songs."[56]

In a 2008 interview with Beat Magazine, Cave expressed a desire to return to the original pronunciation of his name - Ka-VAY.

Lyrics - Nobody's Baby Now
I traveled this world around
For an answer that refused to be found
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now

I loved her then and I guess I love her still
Hers is the face I see when a certain mood moves in
She lives in my blood and skin
Her wild feral stare, her dark hair
Her winter lips as cold as stone, I was her man

But there are some things love won't allow
I held her hand but I don't hold it now
I don't know why and I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now

This is her dress that I loved best
With the blue quilted violets across the breast
And these are my many letters
Torn to pieces by her long-fingered hand
I was her cruel-hearted man

And though I've tried to lay her ghost down
Well, she's moving through me, even now
I don't know why, I don't know how
But she's nobody's baby now

She's nobody's baby now
Nobody's baby now
She's nobody's baby now

[kwassa]

22. It Had To Be You

we hired a band to play swing-era classics, a jazz band made up of current and former military band musicians.

It was wonderful. It was in 1999, and we partied like it was 1942.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. what a great idea...memories for a lifetime

[Behind the Aegis]

26. Not allowed to marry.

Were we able to do so, I would like the gay version of "Sunrise, Sunset."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. +1000

That makes me sad. Thankfully we are seeing that change in our lifetimes

[Behind the Aegis]

29. It would be nice, but I don't hold out much hope for my state.

I think about this from time to time, but especially when my anniversary draws near (11 years next Friday). My mom has been bucking for a wedding for awhile. LOL!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. Can you just go to a state that allows it? Or do you have to

establish residency?

[Behind the Aegis]

33. My partner's job is here in Oklahoma, not much choice.

Even if were married in a state that allows it, it wouldn't be recognized here, nor would it be recognized on a federal level. I always get a bit upset/hurt/angry around this time because not only is it our anniversary, but I do our taxes and, once again, I am listed as a "dependant" as opposed to a "spouse." But, I always have my dreams, and I have a wonderful man in my life, so I can't be too bitter, I have it pretty good.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. Sure, I understand. If you ever change your mind..

go to my home state Connecticut. It's beautiful there in he summer.

Connecticut shore.:



As of November 12, 2008, any couple regardless of gender can marry in Connecticut, provided they meet the state’s marriage requirements. Those requirements include:

*must be 18 or older (if under 18 a person can marry with the approval of a parent, guardian or district judge);
*not be married or in a civil union with a different person (you can marry the same person with whom you already have a civil union);
*not be closely related by blood or marriage; and
*have approval if under conservatorship.

For non-resident couples, the couple must apply for the marriage license in the town where the ceremony takes place. After submission of the application, the town clerk provides a marriage license. After the ceremony, the person who officiates at the wedding must return the marriage license to the town where the ceremony took place.

[DFW]

34. A Norwegian Wedding March

Played by Hans Troost of the Holland-America Line (instrumental folk group of the 1980s)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. how cool is that? ya got me...no youtube for you.

[DFW]

38. They never made a video

http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/BGdiscography/?v=bresults&format=&browseBy=band&filter_band=1073

Two vinyl albums produced in Germany, Maiden Voyage in 1983 and Cornbread, Kilts & Cossacks 1985

Although they were listed on a bluegrass site, they really did little bluegrass. Mostly Appalachian and Celtic, with oddball stuff thrown in, like the Norwegian Wedding March, selections of Balkan dances, a Hungarian piece and a medley of Russian balalaika tunes. Their LPs were distributed by an outfit in Vermont called Silo-Alcazar, but outside of some cassettes from the first LP, they never did anything other than vinyl. The fiddler, Hans Troost, was brilliant, but came down with a rare auditory nerve condition around 1999 that amplifies the perceived volume of sound a thousand times, so that a pin dropping sounded like a dynamite blast going off, and he had to stop playing music, a real tragedy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Interesting. this is not it is it?

It says Frommerman /Holland America Line. Probably not. When I typed in Holland America Line, there were lots of
cruise videos ...this was the only actual music

[DFW]

44. Hardly LOL!!

I have no links to their music, don't even know if any of it is on the web. I do have the vinyl, probably should get it up on the web somehow before it gets forgotten.

One album review I remember from the eighties said their music sounded like a parking lot get together of the musicians at a folk festival. Apart from the fiddle player, there was a banjo player who also played spoons, and a guitarist who also played the bass tracks and the oddball instruments from Eastern Europe (Balkan tambouritsa and Russian Balalaika). On their few tours they sometimes had a bassist, but they only did a few live gigs, including a folk festival with Steeleye Span in Germany in 1984.

[MadrasT]

41. Vegas wedding.

Specifically to avoid all the fuss around things like having a "first dance".

It was awesome.

[sinkingfeeling]

42. Didn't dance. Held reception at the church.

[mulsh]

47. We had a quartet playing chamber music, no dancing.

Evening wedding at UC Berkeley Faculty Club. No dancing and no regrets about it. some of the little kids shook their tail feathers to chamber music, that was pretty cool.

[a la izquierda]

49. We got married in Vegas...

but had all our friends and family there. Our first dance was "Can't Help Falling in Love," the Elvis version.