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Mrs.Wife
Super October 2017

TERRIBLE Wedding Songs

Mrs.Wife, on December 13, 2016 at 6:21 PM Posted in Community Conversations 0 59

I wanted to make a fun post! Has anyone went to a wedding where the DJ played something completely inappropriate for a wedding??? Or maybe tell us a song you absolutely do not want for your first dance or at your reception.

One of the most hilarious (my mother would use the term mortifying) stories from my parent's wedding centers around their first dance.

After they went to the dance floor, the DJ decided to get creative with his song choice. He played "As we lay" by Shirley Murdock, made popular again by Kelly Price years later. If you don't know this song, it's about two lovers laying in bed the morning after and realizing they have to go back home to their spouses.

Now that I'm planning a wedding this story gets brought up a lot. And I plan to have a very detailed list of songs to be played/not played.

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Latest activity by Micaela, on December 29, 2016 at 2:01 AM
  • CJ
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    I saw someone do their garter toss to "Pony" by Ginuwine. No joke.

    I am not a fan of the garter toss to begin with, but this tipped it over the edge.

    (p.s. I love this song, but not for a wedding lol)

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  • Jamie
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    Beyoncé To the Left

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  • Nicole
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    I once went to a wedding where the groom's family hated rap with a passion. As soon as the first dance was over the DJ played "Baby Got Back." The bride immediately marched over to the DJ and insisted he turn it off. Her in-laws looked really upset and she looked just as embarassed as she was apologizing to them.

    I personally like the song, but I also understand the request.

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  • Mrs.KatieK
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    There was literally only one song on our "Do not play" list.

    The Cha-Cha Slide.

    Not that it's inappropriate. It's just so...over. And if they play the extended version, I don't want to be dancing to that for 8 minutes.

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  • Bethany Ann
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    FH and I joke about "started from the bottom" being our first song! Both of us had just gotten out of horrible relationships when we met.

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  • AyeZeeBee
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    Gold Digger by Kanye West

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  • PressTheStarKey
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    H and I were at a wedding in September where the DJ played "Them Boys From Oklahoma" by Cross Canadian Ragweed. The rest of the line says "them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong".

    I love Ragweed, but it seemed like weird dinner music.

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  • Rachel DellaPorte
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    How about the Scientology wedding of Tom Cruise and Katy Holmes? This sour singer actually serenaded his new bride with, "You've Lost that Loving Feeling". Here are the lyrics:

    "You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips

    And there's no tenderness like before in your fingertips

    You're trying hard not to show it

    But baby, baby I know it

    You lost that lovin' feelin'

    Whoa, that lovin' feelin'

    You lost that lovin' feelin'

    Now it's gone, gone, gone, woh

    Now there's no welcome look in your eyes when I reach for you

    And now you're starting to criticize little things I do

    It makes me just feel like crying

    'Cause baby, something beautiful's dyin'

    You lost that lovin' feelin'

    Whoa, that lovin' feelin'

    You lost that lovin' feelin'

    Now it's gone, gone, gone, woh

    Baby, baby, I'd get down on my knees for you

    If you would only love me like you used to do, yeah

    We had a love, a love, a love you don't find everyday

    So don't, don't, don't, don't let it slip away

    Baby, baby, baby, baby

    I beg you please, please, please, please

    I need your love, need your love

    I need your love, I need your love

    So bring it on back, so bring it on back

    Bring it on back, bring it on back

    Bring back that lovin' feelin'

    Whoa, that lovin' feelin'

    Bring back that lovin' feelin'

    'Cause it's gone, gone, gone

    And I can't go on, woh

    Bring back that lovin' feelin'

    Whoa, that lovin' feelin'

    Bring back that lovin' feelin'

    'Cause it's gone, gone, gone/"

    Yeah, I get the "Top Gun" reference, but come on. This is ridiculous.

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  • Mrs.Wife
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    Probably an UO but my family doesn't dance if there aren't line dances. Cha cha slide, wobble, Cupid shuffle, can't wang wit it, bikers shuffle, all those songs that have random dances to them, and so so so many more. This will probably be half of our reception.

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  • Mrs.Wife
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    @centerpiece that's absolutely horrendous. Lol!!!!

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  • AMW
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    At my friend's wedding in June, nobody danced. And I do mean---nobody.

    It was a dry wedding, and the DJ was atrocious. Most of the guests cleared out of the wedding right after dinner, and so only the table of her friends, and the bride's family was left when the dancing started (even his family cleared out, it was about 6:30 pm).

    The DJ was played some really random LOUD pop songs. At our table (the only table left) we all kept waiting for at least one slow song to play so we could go out on the dance floor with our fiances/husbands (no alcohol, early evening, nobody felt like shaking it on the dance floor)...but he never played a single slow one. The bride and groom danced to their song, then kids ran out and wiggled to the pop songs, and the rest of us sat in our chairs chatting until the bride finally called it because there were only a few people left.

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  • The Bride
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    At my friend's wedding the DJ apparently wandered away for a snack and left things on autoplay -- we were treated to the entire "Best of Hall and Oates" CD. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Hall and Oates. However, "Maneater" probably shouldn't be high on a wedding playlist.

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  • Van Pear
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    Ah man, this one..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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  • K Dot
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    "Dance (Ass)" by Big Sean ft. Nicki Minaj... slightly inappropriate, but I enjoyed it haha

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  • Natalie
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    Omg I just attended a wedding where the Pony song was played during the garter toss and the groom was so raunchy getting the garter off the brides leg. It was funny, but lacked class. My parents would have shit if that would have happened at my wedding.

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  • Del
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    I really hate Butterfly Kisses for the father/daughter dance. There's a really gross incest vibe to the girl giving her father butterfly kisses in her wedding gown as her mother does her hair. Like, sure. Give your dad a kiss. But planting delicate little kisses all over his face is a bit weird as an adult.

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  • FutureLivi
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    There isn't anything I can think of. I'm all about the line dances as well @Jessie, they'll be played at our wedding. I really don't like Drake and neither does FH, so he's on my do not play list.

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  • MrsSki
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    Get Low, the uncensored version. It was the third song the DJ played. It was about 6 pm and the dance floor was filled with kids and young teens

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  • GreektoIrish2017
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    They have a catchy beat but after learning their meanings they're a hell no...... Cotton Eyed Joe and Macarena

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  • Kathleen Smith
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    Tonight's the Night by Rod Stewart. The PERFECT 1st Dance (jk)!!!!!! The parents would be mortified!!!!

    Aaahaha!

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