You Make it Feel Like Christmas - Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefaniġ0. Spending All My Christmas with You - Tom Odellħ. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Sam SmithĤ. Winter Song - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelsonģ. All of these contemporary Christmas songs are perfect for any wedding moment, from your walking down the aisle song to a festive first dance.Ģ. If you want the playlist at your wedding to have a modern but merry feel, you need to add these modern-day Christmas classics to your wedding playlist.
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To Sir, with Love, from the 1967 movie of the same name, in which a graduating student (Lulu) offers herself to an older man (her teacher, played by Sidney Poitier): "People ask me for it all the time for the father-daughter dance, and even when I tell them what the song is about and that it's very inappropriate, sometimes they still insist on using it.These romantic Christmas wedding songs will provide the perfect soundtrack to your December wedding, whether you’re looking for fun festive sounds to bring the Christmas spirit to the dance floor, or a romantic Christmas song to walk down the aisle to, our Christmas wedding playlist has every December wedding song for a festive celebration you could ever need!
It's uncomfortable to watch a room full of people watch a father and daughter dance awkwardly to it for five minutes."
It's a lazy choice."įather and Daughter, a sweet and lightly bouncing ditty from Paul Simon, written for The Wild Thornberrys Movie: "It's such a weird tempo. I look forward to it not being so overplayed, in five or six years."īecause You Loved Me, a wedding warhorse from 1996 by Celine Dion: "She's a great singer, but her songs have been done to death. But last year, I personally did 15 weddings that used it for the first dance. When a song like this comes around, it gets overexposed."Īll of Me, a cloying piano ballad from the song-peddling schlockmeister John Legend. I think part of the problem is that there's so little good music getting radio play these days. "It's a great song, but it's a bit overdone now. Thinking Out Loud, an easygoing 2014 love-song hit by Ed Sheeran, accompanied by a video of young lovers dancing unnaturally well. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours, a Motown hit by Stevie Wonder, who desperately apologizes for doing his woman wrong, hoping to win her back with help from the U.S.
I'll ask the bride, 'So, you've never met your husband?' It's about a guy on the subway who sees a hot chick and sings to her, but he's never met her. You're Beautiful, a career-making hit by the trembling-voiced balladeer James Blunt in 2005: "People try to use it for their first dance. It's about a person whose father is dead." It's long, too, so you've got a room full of people listening for five-and-a-half minutes to this really lame song that everybody hates."ĭance With My Father, a tribute by R&B crooner Luther Vandross to his deceased dad: "Listen to the lyrics. People put all their effort into finding a first-dance song, and they get lazy when it comes to ceremonial music."īutterfly Kisses, a breathy, saccharine-laced ballad sung by one-hit-wonder Bob Carlisle: "It's been so overdone as a father-daughter dance choice, it's no longer touching. The Globe asked Jason Rolland, a veteran working wedding DJ and owner of Toronto's Bounce Productions, for his advice on what not to program when it comes to first-dance music, wedding marches and father-daughter dance-floor twirls.Ĭanon in D, a soothing composition by German baroque composer Johann Pachelbel: "It's the most boring, unoriginal song for walking down the aisle. There's certainly nothing wrong with getting hitched, but couples make the mistake of handcuffing themselves to unimaginative and sometimes wildly inappropriate songs to accompany their blessed event. Here comes the same music we've heard far too often at matrimonial affairs. Here comes the song, here comes the song.