Our Wedding: Song Choice

Not sure why I want to talk about music, perhaps its because this previous weekend I fist pumped the night away for a friend's birthday! 

Music is so important to the Mister. It pumps him up, gets him in that MODE. He knows song titles and artists and lyrics to all his favs. I am the type of person that only has music in the background to just have while doing the business in the bathroom. :P

Song and lyric became more important as we dated because we would start youtubing songs to each other. I am a memory hoard and I saved a list of songs he would send me and we actually used a few of them in our wedding and one for our First Dance! <3

When guests walk in the door, I want them to reminisce their childhood memories and Disney songs would be perfect.  If you ever look at our alphabetized movie shelf, you can notice most of the Blu-rays that we own are Disney so that one day we can bond with our children watching Lion King.  There was one song, JUST ONE, that was the most important to us but unfortunately couldn't be played Utada Hikaru- First Love because of time! Gosh Darn it!   I have no idea what she is saying but it sounds beautiful when she does sing a part in English: "You will always be inside my heart I hope that I have a place in your heart too
Now and forever you are still the one You are always gonna be my love" When I hear these words, I think of high school. I think about moments where we were in the same places, had similar friends, but never met until later in life. I even remember watching a performance of a group of Newton guys singing a backstreet boys song at a high school Asian Night and after dating, I found that he was one of the singers. We never knew each other in high school but its funny when songs can tie people together.

YOUTUBE LINKS: Canon in D Full Orchestra, Andrea Bocelli – Con Te Partiro, Taylor Swift – Enchanted

I really really wanted the Andrea Bocelli song. The mister actually fought against it but after listening to it, he fell in love with the song as much as I did. I first heard it from a Will Ferrell Movie 'Blades of Glory' and just thought wow. It is makes me feel like I am floating on clouds.

*TIP: When walking down the aisle, I had to remember not to walk too fast. Take your time because it will go by soooo fast and keep your back straight! 

YOUTUBE LINKS: JOHN STAMOS FOREVER, 

ITS FULL HOUSEEEE!!!!!!! 'nough said. 

The first dance choice was pretty important to us since this was the 1st dance as Husband and Wife and we didn't want the typical first dance songs. It was really hard to pick one. The mister was thinking of using this Taylor swift song (Safe and Sound) as our first dance. My first thoughts: Sounds like we are killing ourselves- no offense. I like this music/lyrics but maybe not for a wedding? 

Remember how I hoard? Well I forgot that I had that list of songs that me and the mister shared together and by accident I opened the file and we saw the songs and voilà! It was that easy. 

We actually played the whole 3 minute song and swayed for 3 minutes. The parent dances made us a little more nervous because typically we aren't that way at all. I ONLY just started hugging my parents when I left to go to away for graduate school. So dancing for a full song was super scary and we shortened to 1 minute. 

 I was hesitate with the bouquet toss and garter toss.  I have been to many weddings where it is like a force to get up there. The mister thought it would be fun and wanted to include it. The minute I came up for the bouquet toss I was super nervous because I thought 'DAMN no one will come up' because honestly I WOULD NOT COME UP! One minute it was completely empty and the next minute a stampede of girls were waiting behind me!!!! Even my aunt mentioned that she has never seen so many single ladies before.  I felt so happy that I had so many friends to support me!  To get the garter belt off me I remember he had to do a push up under my dress, it was hilarious and overly embarrassing. 

Fortunately the world did not end on 12-21-12 so we were able to get married that weekend but I thought these last songs would be good for the end of year.

Photo by David Tith

To involve guests in the planning of our wedding, I asked if they had any song choices they wanted to hear. Along with the mister's music choices we got so many responses back. So I hope you got a chance to hear what you asked for and had a great time!