Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Dance Your Cares Away...Worries for Another Day

I forgot to mention my celebrity sighting at the bridal show over the weekend. I saw Marvelous Marvin! I have been listening to oldies since I was about 7 or 8yrs old. In fact whether I liked the music first or the movie Grease is a bit of a chicken or the egg question. Marvelous Marvin has been a local DJ since I was a kid. There he was live and in person.

Maybe I'm the rare bride in the 20-30yr old set set that a)recognized him b)got excited, but it was very exciting. We have planned from the beginning to make our own play list and have a family member MC. For budget and control reasons. But this sighting made me consider for the first time, the possibility of a DJ. Well, not a DJ this DJ. It's not in the cards, but I'm still hanging on to his card.

It's all the warm fuzzy childhood memories and my deep love for oldies music. I always thought if I got married my first dance would be Stand By Me. Mike and I will have our first dance to our song And I Love You So by Don Mclean, but we will dance to Stand By Me before the end of the night I assure you.

The other plus (besides $ and complete control) is we included a song request form on our website so that when guests RSVP they can submit 5 songs at a time they want to hear. It should be a great mix of music. No chicken dance or electric slide. I am insisting on The Twist and the Crocodile Rock, though. There will be a lot of oldies, Beatles songs, 90's music, 80's pop and maybe a Disney song or two.

It's going to be a great party. I urge and implore everyone to wear their dancing shoes. I will take it as a personal insult if every guest doesn't find at least one song to dance to. For those of you who have known me that long (lucky people) I'm finally going to top my 15th birthday dance party! It only took 14yrs.

I want to hear everyone's first dance songs!

30 comments:

  1. Colour My World
    Against the Wind
    Tom Joad
    Visions of Johanna

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  2. Yeah, first dance songs!

    L-O-V-E
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErVP6xLZwg

    When I'm 64

    Somewhere Beyond the Sea (my sailor sister's first dance with her Coast Guard new husband)

    Punk Rock Girl (my ideal first dance song... when I was 16)
    http://www.mtv.com/videos/the-dead-milkmen/101968/punk-rock-girl.jhtml

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  3. "When I fall in love" by Nat "King" Cole :-) Phil

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  4. Amazed by Lonestar Stacy

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  5. ‎"Forever" by KISS -Rebecca

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  6. "Breathe" by Faith Hill-Tara

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  7. ‎"Calling You" by Blue October- Daniel

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  8. Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. This is the only song we've ever danced to, since DH doesn't dance, ever. LOL. Jessica

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  9. "I Cross My Heart" by George Strait -Shireen

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  10. Happy Together by the Turtles, but performed at a slower pace live at the reception, acoustically, by a very talented bridesmaid. It's a simple little love song that We felt a connection to. Sandy

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  11. Our unofficial dance song was "Mushaboom" by Feist...but we did not dance at our wedding. We were dancing on the inside.- Bekah

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  12. Same as Shireen!!! I cross my heart by George Starit! Mia

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  13. I'll Give All My Love to You by Keith Sweat
    Stephania

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  14. "Come What May" From Moulin Rouge Soundtrack. I attached a link to the lyrics. It worked well for us. Nicole

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  15. "You take my breath away", Simply Red? Or " Lead me" Matthew West
    Uncle Kenny

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  16. "Still the One" Shania Twain
    Tiffany

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  17. "She's Everything"... Brad Paisley
    Jackie

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  18. Good Morning Beautiful by Steve Holy
    Amy

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  19. ‎"That's All" by Michael Buble can;t ever fight the tears, might as well have been our vows.... Katie

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  20. The Story by Brandi Carlisle (not sure if I spelled her name right...but I love that song)- Liz

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  21. From this moment by Shania Twain-Vickie

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  22. Can't Help Falling In Love With You - Elvis. Another song that had a LOT of meaning to us was Joss Stone's version of "God Only Knows" (originally by the Beach Boys... love the words!)- Stephanie

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  23. Amazed by Lonestar
    Nedi

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  24. "I Could not ask for more" By Edwin McCain- Kevin

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  25. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You by Van Morrison- Sandy W.

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  26. Color My World by Chicago-Cindi

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  27. "At Last" by:Etta James
    Duncan

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  28. When I was 19, I worked at Nutrition S'Mart, and I recognized his voice while I was scanning him out once. I used to listen to him on the Oldies station and on news radio 970, and I was totally geeking out! He was really nice and talked with me for a few minutes.-Bekah

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  29. "I Will Be Here." by Stephen Curtis Chapman for our twentieth anniversary memory video I made him. We didn't have a first dance.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlxQbYPawT8

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  30. Color My World- Aimee

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