Wedding music...

Now that I'm sitting around, not being able to sleep and thinking about music, I've decided in the most absolutest, totalitarian sense, that the Electric Slide will be specifically banned at any point in the wedding reception.

Violation of this rule by any guests and/or DJs will result in execution.

Instructions will be given to replace the obligitory Meatloaf Rock Operetta from "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" to "I Will Do Anything for Love."

The power of the wedding band/DJ is great, but there must be control exercised.

Other unfortunate wedding reception songs to go on the banned list:
Come on Eileen (No...stay...don't come, there's nothing to see here!)
I Want Candy (Ow...ow...ow)
YMCA (I love the Village People, but my family isn't very literate, so I don't trust them to not look stupid in front of my in-laws with the YMCA part)
December '63 (Why this keeps turning into a radio "hit", I don't know)
American Pie (I don't think you can go anywhere that has a DJ, without someone requesting this song...I like the song, I just want to be dictitorial with this one)
Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson, entire discographies (This is along the same lines as the American Pie thing, except my man's got a couple brothers...if they hear one song by Jimmy Buffett or Alan Jackson, its over. At a nephew's wedding, he bribed the DJ play Cheeseburger In Paradise 4 times in a row. I like mine with lettuce, tomato and a mute button.)

I know you are thinking, why would you hire a DJ, just so you could make this gig the worst night of this poor persons life? Just burn some CDs...Trust me, that would turn into a project on a scale of the Panama Canal. I would qualify for social security before I'd finish it. I'd rather leave the screwing up to someone else.

This begs the question, what are the most famously bad wedding reception songs to go on my banned list?

Hehe...Viva, no one responded to your thread, obviously....I can't think of any songs to add to the "banned" list right now. I can't think of much right now actually....highly sleep deprived! But, I thought your post was funny. Hmm, now I'm going to be laying awake trying to think of bad weddling music. :rolleyes:

I don't understand this whole wedding fascination but if I had a real wedding like other princess brides I'd get my boyfriend to make a playlist and we'd just do it with mp3's and have an open bar and hope people get drunk enough to let loose and dance!

Butttttt we'll probably elope :)

I hope you have a fun time though and that it's an event you will cherrish for a lifetime!

The nicest and most beautiful wedding and reception that I ever attended; which went off without a single hitch, was my sisters. It was an outdoor wedding with JUST carillon bells in the background which the bell player was cued to play at all the right points. Lovely!! (And it was only $150 to get the carillon player out there... :eek: )

Then the reception was on a small 85' chartered yacht (The Finished Business) and we had it catered. 55 people total. It was PERFECT. The yacht had a 5 disk CD player and my sister and her husband chose the CDs they wanted played on "Random" and therefore NO ONE else had a say.

Total wedding costs + gowns, catering, flowers, yacht, carillon bells, etc: UNDER $7k.

Even just this last month I overheard one of the family friends mentioning how that was absolutely THE best wedding he'd ever attended in his 56 years of life.

Wanna know how much work/stress the bride put into the planning? ZIP. NADA. ZILCH. From 3,000 miles away, she called me and asked me to "take care of everything." After some prodding and questioning, she goofily said ~ totally a flippant comment ~ you know, maybe if we were rich, we could rent a yacht or something! We both cracked up at that... but then I thought "well, how much could it be?" NOT THAT MUCH, come to find out.

I think, ideally, what EVERY bride wants is to have their day... but that day is going to SUCK if you spend months and months STRESSING OUT over every idiotic nuiance and wanting to control who might do what.

Viva, sweetie... hand as much of this "planning" stuff as you can over to your TRUSTED friends and family members if at all possible and really, you GOTTA let the little stuff go. These things take on a life of their own.

I swear, if I get married again, I'm JUST going to show up to be with the man I love. Someone else can plan it, I'll just be there. LOL. NEVER again would I do to myself what you're doing to yourself just thinking about MUSIC.

~phos

HA HA!!! It was more a joke. Everyone's looking forward to our wedding because its just another party. With dinner. The best kind of party. Bill's brother will show up with the entire Bobby Bear discogrpahy and there will be nothing i can do about it. Except stay reasonably sober, which ISN'T going to happen.

Plus there will be very little planning for this. Besides the fact that there is a certain pastor and a certain church we need to get to in Brooklyn...the rest is gonna be...rent out this Italian place for a night that we like, get some music and just get plastered. Oh yeah, and big bottles of advil.

I'll wear cargo shorts under a dress.

I should find out if we need a assembly permit for this.

Sometimes I just can't stand wedding DJ's!! I hope u get a good one. I am lucky enough that I am friends with enough DJ's that if I ever get married I will just hired one of them and I know they won't let me down.

I also would want a casual wedding party.

Phos, the yacht idea is fabulous. I'll file that away in a dark corner of my brain for future reference. Except, maybe a sailboat....and then we could take off for the honeymoon on that..... ;)

Alrighty....back to reality. :D