Reception Music....

very nice gen!

Gen, I couldn't have picked better choices...you are my hero!
It must have been about the most fantastic reception to be at! Your guests were lucky!

Wow...what a cool list Gen!

We were less heavy on the Finn stuff during the reception since the ceremony had so much. BUT...we burned CD's based on stuff from our collection. I had Fast 1 & 2, Medium 1 & 2, Slow 1 & 2. We hand-picked every song, made a chart for the DJ's with which songs were where and how long each one was, and said, play whatever you want with these CD's.

Here's what I remember WAS used (and I'm sure there were more, but you tend to forget that stuff when you're the bride because you're so busy):

Things Can Only Get Better/Howard Jones
Hungry Like The Wolf/Duran Duran (played twice for some reason!)
Mustang Sally/Buddy Guy
She's No Lady/Lyle Lovett
Down Under/Men At Work
Friday I'm in Love/The Cure
New Sensation/INXS
Young At Heart/Frank Sinatra
Gettin' Jiggy With It/Will Smith
Cult of Personality/Living Colour
I See Red/Split Enz
Fade Into You/Mazzy Star
In Your Eyes/Peter Gabriel

We entered the hall to the Iron Chef theme song, cut the cake to the Newlywed Game theme song, I danced with my dad to It's A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. Our first dance was my cover version of Distant Sun (song suggested by Neil Finn during a webchat), the bridal party came out during Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet (from the Four Weddings and a Funeral Soundtrack), and everyone joined us during the acoustic version of Beside You by Dave Dobbyn. Our final dance was Grow Old With You by Adam Sandler, and then the last dance of the night was Don't Dream It's Over.

I only wish we'd discovered Rhett by then. When we got married, Bic was the big new discovery, so we plugged her stuff hard.

Cool lists.

I don't have a list as such because I chose to have a Ceildigh with a live band for my reception. It was absolutely wild.

At first people were a bit hesitant but once they were up the roof nearly lifted, it was magical. Because of the nature of the dances nearly everyone got to dance with everyone and when people lost their place in a dance it was just hysterical (ok....the liqour helped).

The highlight for me was when everything stopped and my dad got up on stage and sang for me, a couple of beautiful folk love songs. There was hardly a dry eye in the house.