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Our first dance in 1994 was "Let's Get It On".
It was perfect.

We didn't pick out any wedding song -- I'm a musician, and since most of the guests were musicians too, we just asked them to bring instruments and play whatever song they thought was an appropriate wedding song for us. Then the entire reception turned into a jam session. :-)

For our first dance we used L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole - a classic!

We got married in a traditional ceremony in Chicago. We hired a great band to play timeless tunes, and they bait and switched on us. A band of great musicians showed up - but they played regeae music. We wanted "The Very Thought of You" for our first dance and they played "Stir It Up" by Bob Marley. We wanted to die - people kept coming up to us telling us how "interesting" we were. Meanwhile - we just wanted The Very Thought of You!" We like reggae as much as the next person, but in a historic old ballroom in Chicago in March - it didn't work!

My husband and I recently got married in Bar Harbor, ME. We worked really hard to keep our wedding personal and intimate, whether it was our 70 person guest list, using my Mother's china, OR having my Dad's band funk band play at our wedding.

Our first dance was to Patty Griffin's "Heavenly Day," sung by my best friend..and it transitioned into "You Are the Best Thing," by Ray LaMontagne. It was personal, sweet and wonderful!

Our's was "Darling Be Home Soon" by the the Lovin' Spoonful.

I was first turned onto this tune by Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) as one of his favorites... its a teary classic.

my wife i enjoyed "petit pais" by cesaria evorra for our first dance. it remains a treasured memory, and a lovely song.

imho, wedding music should be all about timelessness, but i seem to be constantly in the minority with most of my opinions!

We danced to a mix of new and old songs. We walked down the aisle to Find Love by Clem Snide, recessed to All You Need is Love by the Beatles and danced to Cole Porter's From This Moment On. AND we were very lucky to have Steven Bernstein join the band for a few numbers.

When we got married in '98 (ages 30 and 32) we didn't have dancing at our outdoor luncheon wedding, but we had a trio play "Fly Me to the Moon" as our recessional, and then just American standards spinning on a 5-cd changer for the rest of the wedding as background sounds. 'Twas sweet!

At a friend's wedding in the mid-90's, they played the Dick Dales piece used in Pulp Fiction for the wedding party to enter to. Whee!

My brother and his wife, for their first dance, knit together many traditional, cheesy wedding reception favorites:
the electric slide, YMCA, the hustle, the chicken dance, the hokey pokey, and the locomotion, etc.
they had choreographed a routine, after which the DJ said, "you won't be hearing those songs again tonight!"
it was a lot of fun.

My wife rejected "Here Comes the Bride" because Wagner was an antisemite; then she disregarded irony and had my uncle play The Wind by Cat Stevens. What can you do?

Wow, sorry to be a downer but this is almost as brutal as listening to friends describing every single detail of their wedding day.

Time to turn to AM.

We danced to Cole Porter's From This Moment On. Perfect!

My wife and I just got married on a farm in Maine...

Walking down the aisle, our friends played an instrumental version of Bert Jansch's 'Courting Blues'

First Dance - George Harrison's 'If Not For You'

And my wife surprised by singing the Beach Boys 'I Can Hear Music' with our friends band Oh Liza Jane.

my fiance and i want the dylan song 'sad eyed lady of the lowlands' to us it is perfect but we have a feeling we are going to get some strange looks....

considering how many people allow songs like brown sugar to be played at their weddings with no thought, baby got back is really inoffensive.

idid be interesting to know what the artists and producers are playing at their weddings, wooden it?

Does Joe Satriani get royalties for that coldplay song at the wedding? LOL.

Dave

My wife wanted strings, so as said ok as long as I could pick what they played.

Then I walked down the aisle to G n R's "November Rain."

My "down the aisle" wedding song was "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gee's, which sounded shockingly cool played by a flamenco guitar duo.
My and my husband's entrance song was "Ring of Fire," but the version by punk band Social Distortion. We really wanted to represent our own music taste, and to portray a celebratory, fun vibe, and it worked!

My pick for the wedding:

Hysteria by Def Leppard

(Pour Some Sugar On Me is more appropriate for the Bachelor/Bachelorette Party)

At my wedding three weeks ago we wanted to convey our nontraditinal approach to our fairly vanilla lives. We both thought it wouldn't feel like a wedding with out Pachebel's Canon, but we found a version by Blood Sausage that starts out conventionally but by the end rocks out with a great electric guitar part. The wedding party walked down the aisle during the slower beginning and my father and I entered right when it broke into the electic part. It was fabulous - it totally set the scene for the rest of the wedding and reception.

Favorite Songs For 1st Dance at a Wedding
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
I Talk to the Wind - King Crimson
Strawberry Fields - The Beatles
Jigsaw Puzzle - The Rolling Stones
Eyes of the World - The Grateful Dead
Venus - Television
Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck
Joe's Garge - Frank Zappa
So What - Miles Davis
Stolen Moments - Oliver Nelson

My friend just got married a week ago. The ceremony and party took place outside on the deck of a restaurant in MA. Waterfall in the background.
Marykate and her father walked down the "bridge" with a song from Beyonce "Single Lady (put a ring on it)". It was the best entrance ever, we all loved it!

Ours was an untraditional wedding, and for our wedding's processional music, we chose Fats Waller's "Your Feets Too Big". We told no one except for the pianist. We waited for the second stanza before we started to walk, arm in arm, to the altar. By that time, almost all of our family and friends were smiling and dancing -a wonderful way to start a joyous ceremony and a happy life together.