Here’s a quick list of 10 songs that I won’t really recommend asking your DJ to play at your wedding.

1. Every Breath You Take – Police – This song is about stalking isn’t it?
2. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor – Really?
3. White Wedding – Billy Idol – It was claimed that Idol wrote this to convoy his displeasure with his sister’s fiance. However Idol claims that there was never any family resentment towards his sister, and that the song simply heightened fantasy and nothing more…. still.
4. What’s Love Got to Do with It? - Tina Turner – Mind you Ike Turner was a lovely chap wasn’t he?
5. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen – Actually playing that one is quite funny.
6. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion – Love on a sinking ship metaphor anyone?
7. Fix you – Coldplay - Bit of a Gavin and Stacey reference for you there.
8. My first Wedding – The Wombats – First line :“This is my first wedding and I hope it is my last. Things would be fantastic if me and the bride didn’t have a past”.
9. She’s no lady, she’s my wife – Lyle Lovette - Again it could be quite funny to play this one if the Groom’s parent have a sense of humour.
10. We Should Never Have Children – Absentee - First line : “Darling you’re no oil painting and I’m no Michelangelo”

If you are wanting to be a bit original you might want to have a look at (and avoid) What are the most popular first dance wedding songs?

Personally we went for Bobby Darin’s 1946 interpretation of “La Mer” by Charles Trenet, Beyond the Sea.

Here’s the top five….

1. Lonestar - Amazed
2. Aerosmith - Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
3. Shania Twain - From This Moment On
4. Bryan Adams - Everything I do (I Do It For You)
5. Take That - Rule The World

For those of you who might be interested here are the lyrics:

Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
Baby when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
I’ve never been this close to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams

I don’t know how you do what you do
I’m so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I want to spend the rest of my life
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby, I’m amazed by you

The smell of your skin
The taste of your kiss
The way you whisper in the dark
Your hair all around me
Baby you surround me
You touch every place in my heart
Oh, it feels like the first time, every time
I want to spend the whole night in your eyes

Chorus

Solo

Every little thing that you do
I’m so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I want to spend the rest of my life
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby, I’m amazed by you