Wedding party songs?

SkyKitty

My venue has just emailed me asking if I have any ideas of songs I'd like the DJ to play and all ideas have gone clean out of my head.

We both like mainstream, chart, cheese, bit of rock, anything that kind of says 'girls night out'

For example a bit of Pink, Lady GaGa, Sugababes etc. I fully intend to be on the dancefloor for the full three hours that the DJ is on.

But I also want songs that the slightly older generation will enjoy, I know my mum loves the Beatles but don't know what songs of theirs would work for dancing to. Also I'd like some slower songs for a bit of smoochy dancing at the end of the night. We're not having a 'first dance' because my partnerdoesn't want one so I do want a couple of real crowd pleasing songs to start the set off with as I would hate the DJ playing to an empty floor, I know my friends will dance, I just need to pick the right song to get them up there at the start.

Any suggestions.....

lilian1977

Westlife - World of our Own for dancing, then Flying Without Wings for the slower section

Blur - Song 2 for some rock!

Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground

picklepick

I'm busy compiling a wedding playlist aswell

Google "wedding playlist" and you should get lots of results of lists that others have compiled already.

dizziblonde

Can't go wrong with a spot of Queen to be honest! Was the thing that filled the dancefloor at a recent do I was at.

frannyann

Good old Kylie, will get them all dancing!

chelbel1981

Here's a mixture out of my media player
Some old, some slow and some chessy

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Twist & Shout - The Isley Brothers Pilot
The Locomotion - Little Eva
The Jean Genie - David Bowie
Nutbush City Limits - Ike & Tina Turner
I Love To Boogie - T.Rex
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
Chain Reaction - Diana Ross
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Rio - Duran Duran
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue
Red Red Wine - UB40
December '63 (Oh What A Night) - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Love Is In The Air - John Paul Young
Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
Get Down Tonight - KC & The Sunshine Band
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead
You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
The Bump - Kenny
Tiger Feet - Mud
I Hear You Knocking - Dave Edmunds
Sandy - John Travolta
(Is This The Way To) Amarillo - Tony Christie
Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Lou Bega
The Ketchup Song (Aserej!) - Las Ketchup
Macarena - Los Del Rio
Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men
Hot Hot Hot - Arrow
U Can't Touch This - M C Hammer
Hey Baby - DJ Otzi
I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
The One And Only - Chesney Hawkes
Spinning Around - Kylie Minogue
Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) - Spiller feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Black Lace Agadoo
Sugar Sugar - The Archies
Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker
Let's Dance - Chris Montez
The Hippy Hippy Shake - The Swinging Blue Jeans
Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Beatles Medley - Starsound Stars On 45
Abba Medley - Starsound Stars On 45
Y.M.C.A. - Village People
D.I.S.C.O. - Ottawan
Superman - Black Lace

ali_at_achnamara

Some friends of mine made their playlist by asking all the guests to nominate a couple of their favorite songs for dancing to, resulting in a packed floor all night.
With no effort.

SkyKitty

Chelbel - Thank you. Now that is a whole heap of inspiration.

Although I'm not keen on 'gimmick' songs eg macarena, I do love Kylie Spinning Around, and Brown Eyed Girl, and I have to admit to a soft spot for Footlose to, and Chesney Hawkes.

So far I've also come up with:

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars and Eva Cassidy - Songbird for slow dances

Lady GaGa - Pokerface
!!!!!cat Dolls - Don't Cha
Katy Perry - I kissed a girl
Sugababes - Girls
Sam Sparro - Black and Gold
Elton John - I'm Still Standing.

Any other suggestions welcomed.

SkyKitty

In case anyone wondered, I did not put those exclamation marks in. It would seem this board has a very effective censoring programme. But I assume you all know the song I mean.

frannyann

SkyKitty wrote: »

In case anyone wondered, I did not put those exclamation marks in. It would seem this board has a very effective censoring programme. But I assume you all know the song I mean.

:rotfl::rotfl:

It doesn't seem to like the kittycat word at all!

minerva_windsong

This is what I can think of off the top of my head (apologies if any have been mentioned before):

Earth Wind & Fire - Let's Groove Tonight
The Jackson 5 - Blame It On The Boogie / Shake Your Body Down To The Ground / I Want You Back
Abba - Waterloo
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean / Thriller / Bad / Beat It
Deneice Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There / Twist And Shout / I Wanna Hold Your Hand / Help! / Please Please Me / Can't Buy Me Love
The Monkees - I'm A Believer
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go / Freedom / I'm Your Man
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Grease Megamix
Whigfield - Saturday Night
Black Lace - Do The Conga
Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
Candi Stanton - You Got The Love

Motown compilations are normally a good choice as well.

And for more modern stuff:

Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
Mika - We Are Golden
Black Eyed Peas - I Got A Feeling / Boom Boom Pow
Michael Buble - Save The Last Dance For Me

Re: smoochy songs, I'd go for Michael Buble's version of The Way You Look Tonight, especially if you want something a bit different. Or a song called It Is You I Have Loved (off the Shrek soundtrack), can't remember who it's by though.

The slowies that used to always get played at weddings at the hotel where I used to work were Amazed by Lonestar, You're Still The One by Shania Twain and Rule The World by Take That.

Oh, and it's not a proper wedding if it doesn't end with everyone in a circle high kicking along to New York New York!