UPDATE: Ideas posted!! Can we post some ideas

for Must Play v. Do Not Play lists? I need help . . . trying to be productive today. TIA!

ETA:
I have been working on our lists this WHOLE time!!! OMG. OK, here is do not play, in no particular order:
Walkin’ on Sunshine
Black Eyed Peas, Let’s Get Retarded
Bee Gees, Night Fever / Stayin’ Alive / You Should Be Dancing
I Will Survive
Oh What a Night
Celebrate
We Are Family
Line dances (electric slide, conga, cha cha slide, Macarena, ymca etc)
Miley Cyrus
Grease songs
Hot, hot, hot
Through the Years
Brick House
Meatloaf
Last Dance
It’s Raining Men
Taylor Swift
Shout
Respect
Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart
My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
Mony Mony / White Wedding – Billy Idol
Love Shack – B52s
New York, New York – Frank Sinatra
Summer of ‘69
Bryan Adams
Rap
Rihanna, Umbrella
Lionel Richie

See below for MUST Play

Do Not Play:

- sweet caroline (although i'm up in the air about this since my fg's name is caroline)
- Hey baby
- cha cha slide
- umm... yeah lol a lot of others that I can't think of right now.

Do not play:

ANY crowd participation songs

Do Not Play (For Me)
YMCA
Chicken Dance
(altho I might do a couple cheesy songs just for the kids. like hokey pokey)

Must Play (For Me)
Unforgettable by Nat King Cole (one of our songs)
Never My Love by The Association (FI's parent's wedding song)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (FFIL's fav song)

Still some kinks to work out, songs for our formalities, etc, but here goes. It's not so much as 'MUST' play, but as our ideas of music we'd like to hear. I'm not going to really make any demands, except for our formalities, which are TBD:

CH Compilation Music
Italian Music
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Billy Joel, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Moby, Porcelain
Nat King Cole, For Sentimental Reasons
Toto, Africa
Moon River
Nat King Cole, Unforgettable
The Beatles, All You Need is Love
Van Morrison, Crazy Love
Van Morrison, Into the Mystic
Dean Martin, Volare
Elton John: Your Song / Tiny Dancer / Something About the Way You Look Tonight

Jazz Trio / Solo Vocalist (during 'down-time, dinner)
Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra, The Way You Look Tonight [Father / Daughter OR Jazz Trio]
Michael Buble, Everything [Solo Vocals OR slow reception song]
Van Morrison, Moondance
*Andrea Boccelli, Con Te Partiro
*Paul McCartney, Baby I’m Amazed [Jazz Trio OR slow dance]
Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are [Mother/Son OR Jazz Trio]
Elton John: Your Song / Tiny Dancer / Something About the Way You Look Tonight

Play List:
*Coldplay, Viva La Vida [Parent Entrance Song]
*The Darkness, I Believe in a Thing Called Love [BP entrance song]
*U2, City of Blinding Lights [Our entrance song]
*Joshua Kadison, Beautiful in My Eyes [First Dance with Solo Vocalist]
Frank Sinatra, The Way You Look Tonight [Possible Father / Daughter OR Jazz Trio]
Josh Groban, You Raise Me Up [Possible Father/Daughter OR nix]
Paul Simon, Father and Daughter [Possible Father/Daughter OR nix]
Natalie Merchant, Kind and Generous [Possible Father/Daughter OR nix]
Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are [Possible Mother/Son OR Jazz Trio]
Ben E. King, Stand by Me [Possible Mother/Son]
Rascal Flats, My Wish [Possible Mother/Son]
*U2, Sweetest Thing [Cake Cutting]
*The Beatles, In My Life [Anniversary Dance Song #1 OR slow reception song]
*Ella Fitzgerald, The Very Thought of You [Anniversary Dance Song #2]
*Michael Buble, Everything [Solo vocals OR slow reception song]
*Paul McCartney, Baby I’m Amazed [Jazz Trio OR slow reception song]
*Keane, Somewhere Only We Know [slow reception song]
*Speak Softly Love [slow reception song]
*Journey, Don’t Stop Believing
*Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman
*The Beatles, Twist and Shout
*Eric Clapton, Wonderful Tonight [slow reception song]
*DJ Sammy, Heaven
*Cascada, Every Time We Touch
*Rolling Stones, Satisfaction
*George Michael, Freedom
Van Morrison, Brown Eyed Girl
Neil Diamond, Sweet Caroline
Kanye West
Motley Crue / Skid Row / Poison / Warrant
The Foundations, Build Me Up Buttercup
Rihanna, Please Don’t Stop the Music / Disturbia
Beyonce, Crazy in Love, Single Ladies, Halo
Chris Brown, Forever
Black Eyed Peas, Meet Me Half Way
Christina Aguilera, Ain’t No Other Man / Keeps Gettin’ Better
Estelle, American Boy
Madonna
Marvin Gaye
The Contours, Do you love me
Al Green, Let’s Stay Together
Barry White, Can’t Get Enough of Your Love
Justin Timberlake

Maybe this is over the top...but I'm probably going to say no Chris Brown just b/c I would personally feel odd having his music at my wedding. That's just me though.


For must play...I'm def going to have Don't Stop Believing and Sweet Caroline.

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Posted by JAAMS

Maybe this is over the top...but I'm probably going to say no Chris Brown just b/c I would personally feel odd having his music at my wedding. That's just me though.

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I know. I know. But I really like that song.

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Posted by CappyGirl

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Posted by JAAMS

Maybe this is over the top...but I'm probably going to say no Chris Brown just b/c I would personally feel odd having his music at my wedding. That's just me though.

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I know. I know. But I really like that song.

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Me too, I'm kinda on the fence lol

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Posted by MikesBride2B

Do not play:

ANY crowd participation songs

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ITA! I hate them!