Members BlueStrat Posted August 30, 2010 Members Share Posted August 30, 2010 My daughter got married last Saturday. She asked me to do a song, so I did Van Morrison's 'Crazy Love'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tommyboomer Posted August 30, 2010 Members Share Posted August 30, 2010 Here's the setlist we did at a recent wedding. You by no means have to do these exact same songs. It isn't important that you do "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Shout" or "Don't Stop Believin'" specifically. But it IS important that you give them familiar songs they can have a good time partying to. The reasons this set works VERY well for us at weddings are these: 1) a variety of material. You see how we start we some older, cheezy stuff at the beginning, work our way through styles and age-of-material and end up rocking hard at the end. This format works very well. And at a wedding, more so than at any nightclub, you're going to have a wide variety of people and tastes. So giving them a couple of country songs, AND a couple of disco songs, AND a couple of hard rockers is important to do if you can. 2) sing-a-long/dance-a-long stuff the get the audience involved. It's a wedding. They want to celebrate. Let it be THEIR party and you provide the backdrop for them to do so. SET 1 BROWN EYED GIRL BRICK HOUSE YOU MAY BE RIGHT I WANT YOU TO WANT ME LET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 30, 2010 Members Share Posted August 30, 2010 This an awesome list similar to one we do for most pricate gigs assuming they are there to party. Easy at the start and rockin at the end works - sometimes we even get away with Enter Sandman and Crazy Train at the end if they are rockin' hard enough.Thanks. Posting my setlist ended up being completely irrelvant for the thread topic though. I need to learn to read better. But yeah, those two songs would work I'm sure. Not the best fit for my band, so we do other rockers instead, but if you guys kill on "Sandman" then I have no doubt the audience would eat it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted August 30, 2010 Members Share Posted August 30, 2010 At my daughter's wedding, they couldn't afford a band (because they wanted to spend the money on a 4 week Italian honeymoon-I'm jealous!) so they ran an ipod through my PA. The stuff they picked was all over the road...Sinatra and Martin to AC/DC to Maroon 5 to Kenny Chesney to Akon...and those kids danced to all of it. It was weird, but fun to watch and encouraging, too, that they not only danced to it but that they took the time to select it and out it on an ipod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 30, 2010 Members Share Posted August 30, 2010 At my daughter's wedding, they couldn't afford a band (because they wanted to spend the money on a 4 week Italian honeymoon-I'm jealous!) so they ran an ipod through my PA. The stuff they picked was all over the road...Sinatra and Martin to AC/DC to Maroon 5 to Kenny Chesney to Akon...and those kids danced to all of it. It was weird, but fun to watch and encouraging, too, that they not only danced to it but that they took the time to select it and out it on an ipod. Yep. That's one of the things I dig about playing weddings. Yeah, the songs need to be familiar to point of being cheesy for the most part, but the variety of stuff you can play makes it interesting and fun. Plus everybody is having such a good time it's almost impossible for the gigs to not be huge successes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Christhee68 Posted September 1, 2010 Members Share Posted September 1, 2010 My wedding song list consists of the following: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted September 1, 2010 Members Share Posted September 1, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Christhee68 Posted September 1, 2010 Members Share Posted September 1, 2010 There's gotta be a way to mash these two up? Yeah, make it a medley with Wilco's "You and I." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flemtone Posted September 1, 2010 Members Share Posted September 1, 2010 [YOUTUBE]eLRyYETnoIE[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]ADUC4l6t3Bk[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flemtone Posted September 1, 2010 Members Share Posted September 1, 2010 Oh, and Pat - congrats on your daughter's wedding! :phil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mr3lions Posted September 1, 2010 Members Share Posted September 1, 2010 Lick my Love Pump- Nigel Tufnell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drunkinminer Posted September 1, 2010 Members Share Posted September 1, 2010 Angel Eyes by Jeff Healey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members New Trail Posted September 2, 2010 Members Share Posted September 2, 2010 Don't forget the #1 wedding song of all time......The Macarana... Oops, I meant "Colour My World" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scafeets Posted September 2, 2010 Members Share Posted September 2, 2010 My daughter got married last Saturday. She asked me to do a song, so I did Van Morrison's 'Crazy Love'. Congrats. And a great song from Van, too. We've had multiple requests on wedding gigs for "At Last" (Etta James) and "She's Everything (Brad Paisley). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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