We had the thread where we were discussing songs for ending the night, so I'm curious as to songs you've been asked for as a first dance at a wedding, as I've just received my list for a wedding in a couple of weeks with Oasis - Wonderwall as the first song.

Freda Payne band of gold

since you've been gone all that is left is a band of gold........

Help Yourself by Tom Jones

Hokey Cokey by Black Lace

Under Pressure by Queen/Bowie

Most 'love' song are about breaking up

Whitney - I Will Always...

Sinead - Nothing Compares...

Many many more...

1st dance - Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot (well they were from Belfast)

couple of weeks ago, had the first dance request : Greenday- Time of your life

Metallica - Nothing else matters
Linkin Park - In the end
Travolta / Newton John - You're the one that I want

Yellow = Cold Play
At Last = Etta Janes
You Make It Easy = Air
Half Light = Athlete

Other than that the usual things.

I had green day - time of your life a couple of weeks ago as well,

this weekend had Zero 7- destiny which is unusual.

The bride and groom at a recent wedding requested a fantastic first dance - 3 Colours Red with Beautiful Day. Lovely song although I have no idea what the hell the lyrics are going on about...are they happy together? is one of them dead? are they split up? no idea!

When I got married just over 2 years ago my first dance was 'Time of your life' by Green Day followed by 'Lucky Man' by The Verve.

I've had a number of requests for 'Beautiful' by James Blunt over the past year and I did a wedding for my mate ages ago when the first dance was (** Wee Wee taking by Gary**) 'You walk in my Soul' by Gary Numan (they even had the title engraved on their wedding rings).

I love it when someone does something different and I must admit that the best so far and most definitely the funniest was when my mates parents wanted to celebrate their anniversary (50th I think)......

Wait for it.....


The first dance was the theme tune from 'Terry and June' because their names were Terry and June!!!! It was a great start to the evening and I was asked to play it right at the end too as they staggered off to bed......Quite a messy one that night!!

Chris Rea - Road to Hell

OK, so the couple were having a laugh and asked me to have it cued to the point where it played "Oh no, this is the road to hell"

After this brief "mistake" I went on to play the real first dance.
Was quite an amusing little moment though and got a laugh from the crowd

Weirdest were either:

I Could Be So Good For Your by Dennis Waterman
Lady by Modjo or the most obscure so far is:
Beautiful [7" Canny Mix] by Mandalay (from Cafe Del Mar vol 6)

Bless em