Best and Worst Wedding Songs

[Lord Manhammer]

I'm watching a wedding on tiktok live right now. The best wedding song is Take Me Home Country Roads. The worst wedding song is the Cha Cha Slide/Cupid Shuffle.

 

[soccerdad72]

Macarena was the first, worst wedding song I thought of. But that Cha Cha Slide definitely qualifies.

Not sure on the best - any non-cheesy, normal song that grandmas don’t dance to works for me.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Worst ones.

Every breath you take.
The one I love.
I will always love you.
Macarana

 

[Praying Colonel]

Worst ones.

Every breath you take.
The one I love.
I will always love you.
Macarana

Yes, Sting has talked about couples telling him that Every Breath You Take was their wedding song, and he's appalled.

 

[RedAngie]

Not that I ever heard it at a wedding.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

This thread reminds me of this:

 

[DaisyDuck001]

I don't know of a worst one, and I actually like some of the ones listed above as worst. The best one is:

 

[kyton]

I knew an older couple my parents age that had House of the Rising Sun then a guy we know had his second wife walk down the aisle to Pearl Jam’s “Better Man” - I’m not sure which one is worse?

 

[Micca]

Highway To Hell???

 

[Kitty 34]

 

[Lord Manhammer]

So at the wedding I watched last night, they played the cha cha slide and this one dude was getting so into it he started moving his arms in a wax on wax off style from the karate kid. What a hoot.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Most weddings I attend have line dances and funny songs, or at least they used to. The Chicken Dance was one of the ones I remember. The Alley Cat was another. And The Hustle.

The worst song I ever heard for a first dance was 3 Times A Lady. Did they not listen to the lyrics before choosing that?

 

[fly girl]

I instantly go to the father/daughter dance with Butterfly Kisses. That song makes me cringe.

 

[ncc1701]

Yes, Sting has talked about couples telling him that Every Breath You Take was their wedding song, and he's appalled.

I would also put U2's With or Without You in the same category. Great song, but if you used , did you listen to the lyrics ?

 

[ncc1701]

I instantly go to the father/daughter dance with Butterfly Kisses. That song makes me cringe.

Agree. A lot of my age group used Daddy's Liitle Girl. My Dad didn't care for that song. My Sis and I both used Lulu's To Sir With Love. It's the title song from the Sidney Poitier movie.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Agree. A lot of my age group used Daddy's Liitle Girl. My Dad didn't care for that song. My Sis and I both used Lulu's To Sir With Love. It's the title song from the Sidney Poitier movie.

The last wedding I went to was my youngest niece's. Her Dad danced with her to I Loved Her First by Heartland, and we were all crying. To Sir With Love isn't a song that comes immediately to mind for a father/daughter dance, but I like it, yeah. It fits.

 

[ncc1701]

The last wedding I went to was my youngest niece's. Her Dad danced with her to I Loved Her First by Heartland, and we were all crying. To Sir With Love isn't a song that comes immediately to mind for a father/daughter dance, but I like it, yeah. It fits.

That is a great Father/ Daughter song. My Sis and I grew up in the 60s/70s . So not in time for us. We heard some bad Father/Daughter songs at weddings growing up . I rewatched the movie in my early 20s. After hearing the song , I knew that would be the one when the time came.

 

[princesscinderella]

This was our first dance song and it’s still one of my favorites of all time.

 

[E&Cmom]

I went to a wedding in the 90s and they had “ I will Always LoveYou”. I have alway wondered why this song is a popular wedding song. It is a song about someone leaving and saying goodbye,

 

[PezRuth]

This is so interesting to me that you said country roads. I have never in the States heard Country Roads at a wedding. then I went to a wedding in Ireland and it was a huge deal when they played it.