Primarily aimed at married/to-be-married members of DiS I guess. I’m getting married in 2018, and below is the current list of my frontrunners for our first dance song. What have you other lovely people gone for?
Caramel - John Grant
Switching Off - Elbow
I Need My Girl - The National
To Be Alone with you - Sufjan Stevens
Incidentally, we didn’t bother hiring a DJ or band for the reception and just put on a carefully crafted playlist after dinner, which saved us a heap of money.
Started off with some stuff the older guests would enjoy too like Elvis, Little Richard, the Doors, then gradually led into Bowie, Talking Heads, Queen, then moved onto Pulp, Ash, Daft Punk until it got to about 10pm and we had The Knife, Public Enemy and Pixies, ending with a load of in-jokes for our friendship groups. It was a lot of effort but it worked really well and I’d recommend it especially if you’re on a budget.
Entrance music for the bridal party: The Decemberists - June Hymn (performed by my wife’s friend and her partner)
Exit music (for a ceremony): Tegan & Sara - Love They Say
First dance: Elbow - Mirrorball
Last dance: Westlife - Flying Without Wings
Yeah I was going to say that To Be Alone is pretty much unavoidably about Jesus and his death… Futile Devices would be a nice choice for entrance of the bride, I think. Or Impossible Soul (and just keep the guests waiting 15 minutes til the “it’s a long life” bit kicks in )