I have to turn in our music selections to our DJ in six days.
We've made our selections already--it took a couple of months to finalize everything, but I think we're both pretty pleased with our decisions. While I won't list off everything from our 5-page packet, I just have to mention that our First Dance song, while not necessarily a "classic classic" is a '90s R&B ballad that takes me back to when I was nine years old and got my first Sony Walkman and cassette tapes. For folks born after 1995, a Walkman is like a giant iPod (For folks born after 2003, an iPod is like an iPhone with fewer apps). Basically just picture a device the size of a paperback book (we still have those, right?) and headphones attached. Or go watch Guardians of the Galaxy again. It's the item from childhood that Peter Quill fiercely protects--and I don't blame him. Look how excited it made me:
While I was too young to realize that "NatureQuest: Midnight Jazz" probably wasn't the coolest thing I could be listening to on the Walkman (that's the full moon cassette tape in my hand blocking the much more awesome device), I soon obtained a copy of the Pocahontas soundtrack (super cool) and the music of All-4-One.
All-4-One's cassette tape (also titled All-4-One) consisted of songs I loved to sing ("Down To the Last Drop", "So Much in Love", "Oh Girl", and "A Better Man") and songs I was definitely too young to understand ("(She's Got) Skillz" about a woman who apparently had a very good lollipop licking technique). But my all-time favorite song off their album, and the song they are best known for, has to be "I Swear."
What better song for a wedding than a song about promises, standing beside you, creating memories, and building a future? It's even more potent knowing that this song brings back childhood nostalgia for me (I even got to dance to it at my cousin's wedding when I was about 12), and was picked by my fiance when we were trying to think of the perfect song to become "our song". (And after listening to it about 100 times together to practice our First Dance, I truly can think of it as "our song" now!).
The rest of our wedding playlist will hopefully be made up of '80s and '90s music as well, with a little bit of '50s and '60s classics and a little bit of modern pop thrown in (think Bruno Mars, not Justin Bieber). Probably not too much country. Probably not too much club music. And I definitely want to line dance to "Cupid Shuffle."
Now that I'm feeling nostalgic, I think I'll pull out my Guardians of the Galaxy DVD steel case, which reminds me that cassettes are now vintage, and thus still "cool" too.
We've made our selections already--it took a couple of months to finalize everything, but I think we're both pretty pleased with our decisions. While I won't list off everything from our 5-page packet, I just have to mention that our First Dance song, while not necessarily a "classic classic" is a '90s R&B ballad that takes me back to when I was nine years old and got my first Sony Walkman and cassette tapes. For folks born after 1995, a Walkman is like a giant iPod (For folks born after 2003, an iPod is like an iPhone with fewer apps). Basically just picture a device the size of a paperback book (we still have those, right?) and headphones attached. Or go watch Guardians of the Galaxy again. It's the item from childhood that Peter Quill fiercely protects--and I don't blame him. Look how excited it made me:
While I was too young to realize that "NatureQuest: Midnight Jazz" probably wasn't the coolest thing I could be listening to on the Walkman (that's the full moon cassette tape in my hand blocking the much more awesome device), I soon obtained a copy of the Pocahontas soundtrack (super cool) and the music of All-4-One.
All-4-One's cassette tape (also titled All-4-One) consisted of songs I loved to sing ("Down To the Last Drop", "So Much in Love", "Oh Girl", and "A Better Man") and songs I was definitely too young to understand ("(She's Got) Skillz" about a woman who apparently had a very good lollipop licking technique). But my all-time favorite song off their album, and the song they are best known for, has to be "I Swear."
What better song for a wedding than a song about promises, standing beside you, creating memories, and building a future? It's even more potent knowing that this song brings back childhood nostalgia for me (I even got to dance to it at my cousin's wedding when I was about 12), and was picked by my fiance when we were trying to think of the perfect song to become "our song". (And after listening to it about 100 times together to practice our First Dance, I truly can think of it as "our song" now!).
The rest of our wedding playlist will hopefully be made up of '80s and '90s music as well, with a little bit of '50s and '60s classics and a little bit of modern pop thrown in (think Bruno Mars, not Justin Bieber). Probably not too much country. Probably not too much club music. And I definitely want to line dance to "Cupid Shuffle."
Now that I'm feeling nostalgic, I think I'll pull out my Guardians of the Galaxy DVD steel case, which reminds me that cassettes are now vintage, and thus still "cool" too.
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