Worst Wedding Reception Songs Ever

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“I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston is terrrible for a wedding. It is a nice song, but it is about breaking up.
 
At my nephew’s wedding a couple of years ago we discovered that “YMCA” was on the banned list. My sister (groom’s mother) knew that all of us siblings LOOOOVE to dance to that song (after a wine or two…). She got the bride and groom to approve it, and the DJ played it. That dance floor immediately got so crowded that we could hardly do our spectacular choreography! 😃 After that, the bride and groom relented and let the DJ play a couple of other dancin’ fool favorites, such as “Celebrate.” (It’s not as though we asked a string quartet to play them – this was a DJ, for goodness’ sake!)

Yeah, they’re way overdone, but they’re oh-so-fun to dance to! And, hey, it’s much better than at another nephew’s wedding where the DJ played all hard rock – not one slow dance, no classics, nothing. The only people dancing were the bridal party. The couples’ parents didn’t even dance after the traditional daddy-daughter dance.

A note to all couples planning your reception: Please consider ALL of the guests at your reception – not everyone wants to dance to heavy metal music! Have some Johnny Mathis for us middle-fogeys, and some Big Band era music for the older folks. It is just common courtesy, and you’ll have a lot more happy dancing folks at the reception!

My two cents, 'thann
 
lak611 said:
I like that one. I’ve also heard “Too Fat Polka” at weddings. That the one with the lyrics “I don’t want her. You can have her. She’s too fat for me.”
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No upstanding mid-west wedding would be complete without the polka.

Too bad I live in the Southwest now. They just don’t understand.

At my wedding, for our first dance, my father actually had the band play “For the Good Times” – you know – "Don’t look so sad, I know it’s over . . . "

WHAT WAS HE THINKING!!!

He has never lived that one down.

That was 23 years ago and we’re still happily married, TBTG.
 
az_4_faith said:
No upstanding mid-west wedding would be complete without the polka.
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Also, if it is a Polish wedding, the money dance must be included. That’s where the men pay a dollar, drink a shot and dance with the bride. It’s a staple of all Polish weddings I’ve been to.
 
lak611 said:
Also, if it is a Polish wedding, the money dance must be included. That’s where the men pay a dollar, drink a shot and dance with the bride. It’s a staple of all Polish weddings I’ve been to.
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Italian weddings, too. At least in the midwest.
 
mommyof4 said:
Italian weddings, too. At least in the midwest.
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lak611 said:
Also, if it is a Polish wedding, the money dance must be included. That’s where the men pay a dollar, drink a shot and dance with the bride. It’s a staple of all Polish weddings I’ve been to.
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…uhh, every cajun wedding (including mine!lol!) has that tradition too!👍
 
wifenmommy said:
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…uhh, every cajun wedding (including mine!lol!) has that tradition too!👍
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Now back to our regularly scheduled thread!😃
 
mommyof4 said:
Italian weddings, too. At least in the midwest.
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Aaaand Mexican weddings… only the drink is optional and the women line up to dance with the groom and sometimes… the women dance with the bride and the men dance with the groom… and like I said, the drink is optional although you probably couldn’t tell.

But we raked in almost $300 at our wedding ($1.00 was the minimum, and my BILs were pinning $20s on us!) which paid for the gas for us to drive to Niagara Falls (note: this was back in '88, obviously!)
 
Almost forgot one truly awful song that was played at our reception. It was a typical Hispanic wedding, and I didn’t really consult the DJ, so a lot of Mexican music was played (mostly requested by family members and friends) and there was one song that I didn’t catch the lyrics to until I saw a video someone had taped at the dance. The song (which is in Spanish) has to do with a man and his wife approaching their golden anniversary and the fact that the man has always been proud of all of their children, how good-looking they all are, except for the youngest who seems very dark-skinned in relation to the other children (this song is quite racist… they keep referring to the youngest child as “el negrito”), so the husband is asking his wife to confess: whose child is “el negrito”?

And the last verse has the wife saying: *“el negrito es el unico tuyo” *(“el negrito” is the only one that’s yours):eek:

Which reminds me of another song that was played at a friend’s 21st birthday party, a song which was popularized by a local band (I don’t know if they authored it, but…) Anyway, the song concerns a young man trying to find a wife, but every time he brings a girl home to meet the family, his dad takes him aside and says, “That girl is your sister, but your mama don’t know”.:eek:

Well, the last verse, after finding out that just about EVERY girl in town is his sister, the boy goes to his mother in despair and tells her what dad’s been telling him and she tells her son, “Hell, your daddy ain’t your daddy, but your daddy don’t know!”:bigyikes:

Sort of redefines classy, don’t you think?
 
lak611 said:
Also, if it is a Polish wedding, the money dance must be included. That’s where the men pay a dollar, drink a shot and dance with the bride. It’s a staple of all Polish weddings I’ve been to.
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We had the dollar dance too, and my husband’s 85 year old Irish grandma had never heard of this and was appalled . . .

We took in at least 200-300 bucks, mostly dollar bills. We used most it for tip money on our honeymoon! Never had to ask for change!
 
Billy Idol’s “Mony, Mony, Mony”… especially with the ad-lib (drunk) lyrics from the crowd…

(If I hear “On Eagle’s Wings” at 1 more ceremony…)
 
Jay2 said:
(If I hear “On Eagle’s Wings” at 1 more ceremony…)
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Truth be told, my wife and I played it at my sister’s wedding. 😊

And as I posted elsewhere, even David Haas joked that Michael Joncas just wanted a song that began with “yoo-hoo.” 😉
 
thann said:
Yeah, they’re way overdone, but they’re oh-so-fun to dance to! And, hey, it’s much better than at another nephew’s wedding where the DJ played all hard rock – not one slow dance, no classics, nothing. The only people dancing were the bridal party. The couples’ parents didn’t even dance after the traditional daddy-daughter dance.
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Well, if I had designed ours with just the music I liked, no one would be dancing at all! Mainly because most of the songs I like are over 10 minutes long. Just try and dance to Genesis’ “Supper’s Ready” sometime and you’ll see what I mean! 😃

Speaking of Genesis, for something completely different, we led everyone around the room doing their non-moonwalk from their “I Can’t Dance” video. Everybody loved it! Guess that was our answer to the Bunny Hop.
 
Cygnus_X1 said:
Truth be told, my wife and I played it at my sister’s wedding. 😊

And as I posted elsewhere, even David Haas joked that Michael Joncas just wanted a song that began with “yoo-hoo.” 😉
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I would not permit it at my father’s funeral. I picked the music and the Scripture readings personally to avoid any of that. No Haugen, Haas or Joncas.
 
My brother always wanted “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before” played at his wedding. His wife put a stop to that.

Can we say, “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” anybody? What a better way to wish a couple well than to all sing and dance about people having marital relations prior to marriage and then marrying in haste with regret to make it “ok.”

I actually favor a nice polka at a wedding. Being that I’m from the midwest and Czech, people don’t really seem married until I’ve done a polka.
 
gmarie21 said:
Nothing says an “Italian-American” wedding like the Godfather Waltz.
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Our first dance was the theme from “The Godfather,” which is really titled “Speak Softly Love.” My dear Italian-American husband is one of the loudest people I know. Actually, we picked the song because “The Godfather” was one of the first movies we saw when we were dating, and hubby had recently been godfather for the first time, to his older niece.
 
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