Sigh. Music. Why must you hate me? Okay ladies- what music are you using, and how did you pick it?!?!?

OMG Shellie never knew it would be this hard lol I havent made any selections either

If you can't find what you want on Itunes, check out beatport or soulseek. I think that's where H finds a lot of his music. I think both have great remixed versions of many familiar songs, not always electronic.

As far as ceremony music, we had a very traditional church ceremony so we went with all hymns and high church classical pieces. My dad's a pastor so that part was pretty easy.

Dances were a little more difficult to choose, but I knew I wanted classic, nothing trendy. We planned to use the Fred Astaire version of "Heaven/Dancing Cheek to Cheek" for our first dance but then I was in Starbucks of all things and heard "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" and that was it.

If there's a song or genre you kinda like but you haven't found "the" song yet you could always build a pandora station around it for more ideas.

Are you looking for instrumental for the ceremony or songs with lyrics? a dream is a wish your heart makes in piano is beautiful , our recessional will be here comes the son (instrumental) by the beatles

A dream is a wish your heart makes -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyzNzCjaSD0

here comes the sun -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLtFovGyCI

Shellie, my dear date twin we are in the same boat! I have no idea what I'm doing for the ceremony music, and for some reason my pastor keeps telling me that it'll take three minutes per BM to go down (I have 4 BMs, 1FG&1RB and a MOH going down) that's freaking me out becuase I DO NOT want it to take that long!! That's almost 20 MINUTES!! Anyway, they're gonna have max 5 to go down, I think he's exaggerating so we'll have to make it work.

For my entrance I really wanted to use this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w94_eIpRUro

It's I dare you to move done by the Vitamin String Quartet which I LOVE but FH does not :-/

So I have no idea. We do have our first dance and the mother/song dance since those are the only special dances we're doing at the reception, the ceremony is what's killing me!

I had ideas of what I wanted, but I browsed under the WW songs tab and found more I liked. I was able to listen to some on youtube and the rest my FH got for me on itunes. Our DJ has an enormous selection on his site, so we found stuff on there too.

My girls are walking to Canon in D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpPk8qk3uQ

I am walking to Jonathon Cain's Bridal March.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tiZHVMvNPA

My FH and I are recessing to Ode to Joy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wod-MudLNPA

Our first dance is A Kiss to Build a Dream On by Louis Armstrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDgncPD0bew

We aren't doing parent dances, but an anniversary dance to Unforgettable by Nat King Cole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy_JRGjc1To&feature=related

Good luck!

* My bridal party is walking down to The Wedding Song- Kenny G

* I'm walking down to A Moment Like This- Kelly Clarkson

* My FH and I are walking down to At Last- Etta James (We've been engaged for 4 years and have postponed the wedding 3 times! It's very fitting )

* Our first dance is Better Today- Coffee Anderson

* Father Daughter Dance Butterfly Kisses

* Mother Son Dance You Raise Me Up- Josh Groban

Those were the easy choices for me! HA! I'm trying to find songs to get the guests to dance! HA!

Bridal party walking down to Canon D

I am walking down to "Perfect Moment"

First Dance "At Last"

Mother/son dance "I hope you dance"

The rest I was able to pick from the list my DJ sent to us - a mix of 60's, 70's, 80's and country

I'm letting my lovely girls who are playing my ceremony pick it all for me. I trust them and told them that I don't want regular wedding music. I think our recessional is a march from Aida (the opera, not the musical)?

When I was looking for music to make a playlist for the party, I simply googled "wedding music" and found a ton of stuff that way.

I found a great site, which I now can't find (of course), that had little clips of all the songs you could listen to... Wish I could send it your way!

Pandora- good idea.

I didn't even think of I hope you dance, or unforgettable.....

If you find what you like on you tube you can use the you tube coverter to download it into a mp3

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

My bridesmaids are walking down to the first part of "marry me" by train, the instrumental version... its mainly just a guitar solo with cello background and I'm walking down to the second half which noticeably adds more instruments like a piano, and a pan flute I think. Its amazing! and once we say the i do's and are pronounced husband and wife they're going to start playing start playing "we are man and wife" by michelle featherstone. Its so beautiful!

Some other songs I'm going to have playing before the ceremony and during the reception are::

- a dream is a wish your heart makes, by michael bolton

- God gave me you, by blake shelton

- Love never fails, by brandon heath

- the way you look tonight, by michael buble

- Tangled up in you, by staind

Well, I'm still debating what song FH/Groomsmen/Bridesmaids will be walking into...

It's either:

1,2,3,4 by Plain White T's or

And I Love Her by The Beatles

My song:

The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel

Recessional:

When I'm 64 by The Beatles

First Dance:

Stolen by Dashboard Confessional

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnBIGiHM_0

The Mother/Son and Father/Daughter dance... I'm letting them decide if they want to do it, and if they do, they will choose.

I also plan on doing a Mother/Daughter dance (much closer to my mom than dad) and I'm planning on using:

Like My Mother Does (still debating which artist to use)

My processional was: The Story,by Brandie Carlisle (performed by an amazing vocalist) (the song has a soft but powerful undercurrent with a beautiful story, it was perfect, not many dry eyes, including my tough guy (now) husband)

Our recessional was: Signed, Sealed,Delivered

Our first dance was :With this ring

Entrance song to reception was: The best of my love

Father/Daughter dance: My girl

* I listened to Pandora at work every day and jotted down songs as I heard them that I wanted on the playlist or my special ones, also I found this music list on WW very helpful

Good luck

We are probably having a Harpist so the songs we picked for the ceremony are ones that we liked the sound of on the harp...

Processional (bridal party) Enya- To go beyond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVy-iqyptrg

Processional (me) Lark on the Strand- Traditional Celtic Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcPldW96gwU

Recessional Fanny Poer (Traditional Celtic song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-iYJ-psTg

First dance- This is from the first concert we went to together. We had just got engaged and we having issues agreeing on a song. We also had a mostly phone relationship until we moved in together a year ago. Blue October-Calling You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JKOnYh6snc

Parent dance- We had decided to do a joint father/daughter Mother/son dance and sadly my song has jumped to great popularity since I fell in love with it but Im keeping it. Neither FH or I have the best relationship with our parents but we wouldnt give up on them. So Jason Mraz- I wont give up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-4u9W-bns

Processional : "To a Wild Rose" The guy playing the piano at the ceremony suggested it and I loved it!

Recessional : Uncle Kracker's "Smile" because everytime I heard it, it made me think of my dude and I smiled. He liked the song, too.

First dance :We were originally going with one of two songs by Dave Barnes, either "God Gave Me You" or "Nothing Fancy." I really wanted something that spoke about us as a couple and wasn't too commercial. THen "God Gave Me You" got redone by Blake Shelton & was a hit. And the more I listened to "Nothing Fancy" I didn't like how it made the guy sound like a little bit of a loser. Then I stumbled onto a song called "One Good Love" by Waylon Jennings and Neil Diamond. As both of us are a little older (40's) and have been through lots of crap to find each other, it totally fit. Plus my dude is a Waylon fan. I loved dancing to that song with him!

Parent dances : I danced with my mom to Reba McIntyre's "I'm a Survivor" because that's what she is!

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3HV3RBw6s "To a Wild Rose"

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQK6GIrpYU&ob=av2e "God Gave Me You" Dave Barnes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R353Inq3rHg "Nothing Fancy" Dave Barnes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnbioXELuFQ "One Good Love" Neil Diamond & Waylon Jennings

I downloaded Spotify onto my computer and my Fiance and I spent an evening thinking about our childhood and all the songs we have loved through the years and then were able to pull them up and listen to them on spotify. We wrote everything down as we went. We ended up dancing in the living room by the end of the night. It was actually really fun and got us excited about the reception. For music that appeals to everyone, I googled reception dance songs 2012 and made up a list of the ones that worked for us!