On our wedding day, Ryan and I danced to I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing.
I guess we were both fans of Aerosmith.
Or maybe we really liked the movie Armageddon.
I don’t remember why we chose that song.
I just know that on the rare occasion it comes on the radio, my smile is inevitable.
Songs have this way of bringing back memories. And the memories attached to that one are sweet.
Let’s Talk: What’s your song? Or if you don’t have one, what song do you think is particularly romantic?
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I think I’ve found another song that I really like – I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing. Thanks, Katie. Have replayed that one several times. AND I am enjoying listening to everyone’s choices! Fun stuff.
Hubby and I met online so I tease that our song should be the country one… “So much cooler online…”
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Honestly, I was 18 when we got married, didn’t care a thing about what songs were in our wedding as long as I got married to the man I was blissfully in love with. One of them was “this is the day” by I have no clue, but honestly, my mother-in-law picked it out and it wasn’t my favorite… I was just like, “SURE!” while I stared adoringly at my handsome prince…
When I hear “you don’t have to cross Jordan alone” I think of my Dad. He love that sng and sang it often. Now it was both sung at his and my Mom’s funeral. I miss them both.
I absolutely love reading all these comments and song titles and the stories behind them! So much fun!
So many!
We ALSO used Bebo’s “A Page is Turned” at our wedding as well as Blessid Union of Souls’ “Rest of my Life” (which is TOTALLY our story set to music–go listen if you haven’t heard it).
Then there’s the first song we danced to: Sarah McLachlan’s “In the Arms of an Angel.”
There’s the gorgeous “Feels like Home” by Chantal Krevaziuk. “Where You Are” by Rie Sinclair.
The whole of Over the Rhine’s “Drunkard’s Prayer” album.
Good grief. I think there’s been a soundtrack to every part of our life.
Our song is a silly little made up melody and words that Peter came up with when we were newlyweds. It’s special because it’s just ours.
As to a song I think is ridiculously romantic…Bryan Adams Everything I do.
We danced to “Quando, Quando, Quando” by Michael Buble at our wedding, but our song is the one Mike unexpectedly sang to me during our reception. It’s one I’d never heard but now, it’s the most beautiful song in the world: “We Will Dance” by Steven Curtis Chapman. Sigh. Love.
A song we had sung at our wedding was “We Will Stand” by Russ Taff with just a bit of tweaking to the words… and we walked out to a chorus sung at that time in our church and had the audience sing it as we walked out…
I will arise and go forth
In the name of the Lord of hosts,
For He has conquered every foe
By His name, by His name.
I will declare He is the Lord.
I will trust and not be afraid,
I will arise and go forth by His name
We celebrate 29 years on June 23. 🙂 Thanks for this trip down memory lane.
Our song is “Slide” by Goo-Goo Dolls. Kristin and I still to this day (13 years) smile and sing when it comes on Pandora.
I love ‘The Way You Look Tonite’, don’t know who sings it, except for the groom singing it to Julia Roberts in ‘My Best Friends Wedding’. I cry when I hear it.
What fun these comments are! And AMY, goodness, girl talk about a great real-life romance. Gives us single girls hope. 😉
Such a beautiful post to spark a fun conversation! Someday I’ll be able to share my “song” too… 🙂
Sorry, just had to say that the pic above is enough to spring tears to my eyes. You guys look beautiful! I’m listening to the song right now. So help me, I do not want to cry. I can just picture you and your husband dancing to this.
To answer your question.. Hmm I listen to a lot of songs! Romantic ones especially. 🙂 Here’s one that I finally found a while ago after hearing it in a wedding video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvjnPVkhJMQ
Thank you for making me smile this morning.
Singin’ In The Rain by Bing Crosby. We will be driving somewhere and will.break into this song. It us a silly.song, but his singing always seems (my hubby’s, that is), when life has been somewhat chaotic and serious, that makes us both take a deep breath and smile at each other!!
Well, you’re going to get swamped today!
We danced to Anita Baker’s ‘Giving you the best that I got’
You can sway along -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4_XeYe8Fyo
But our song? Trisha Yearwood’s How Do I Live?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFnD3uwKHag
I wanna cry almost every time I hear it…
I’m a little farther along the happily-ever-after than most of y’all and so the meaningful songs have transitioned along with our marriage. Right now it’s “Remember When” by Alan Jackson. Always makes me tear up — and my husband does too.
I love it, love the photo too!
Our first date ended with us dancing (and only dancing) down a back road. Song? I Can’t Fight This Feeling by REO Speedwagon. We laugh now but I admit, I still swoon when I hear it. 🙂
🙂 who didn’t love that Aerosmith song!
At our wedding my hubby and I tore it up with a swanky choreographed “Moondance” by Michael Buble. But it’s not really our song. By unspoken agreement our song is that pretty cheesy Billy Currington tune “baby I must be doing something right.”
I love it now, but when we were dating I HATED country music. Of course he loved it and snuck a listen in the car whenever he could. It was early on in our relationship and honestly I’ll never forget the look in his eyes when that song came on… He started singing along in his adorably tone deaf way “you lean into my kiss and close those deep blue need you eyes. I don’t know what I did to earn a love like this but baby I must be doing something right.” I was a goner. Especially right after that line when he laced our fingers together and told me that every time he heard the song he thought of me. Sighs…..
Oh my word, Amy! Wonderfully romantic! Sounds like your husband and my husband are both wonderfully, romantically tone deaf and just can’t help singing to their ladies!
Haha! Sometimes it’s the sweetest sound (awful, but sooo sweet). 🙂
After having lost my fiance to congestive heart failure, dating and getting married again was not in the books for me. But thanks to a stubborn man I met twelve years ago that opinion changed. Our song? From Hello by Kenny Chesney. The lyrics about building the wall (due to the death of my beloved friend) and falling for him from the word hello are so very true! Thanks for allowing me to share.
Love that, Lindy! I don’t love the losses you’ve gone through, but I just love that God’s plans weren’t your plans when it came to finding love again. I think you and the heroine of my newest novel would be able to relate!
My husband and I both love music and find a lot of meaning in songs. We played some obscure stuff at our wedding because it had meaning. The song we danced to is “A Page Is Turned” by Bebo Norman because it sort of described our spiritual journeys. Today, though, I would say our song is “Dancing in the Minefields” by Andrew Peterson because we’ve had a lot of ups and downs in our marriage. Makes me cry every time. (So grab a tissue if you look it up on YouTube!) Occasionally my husband will sing me some classic rock ballads, too. Great question! And thanks for sharing!
Lisa – how fun with the Bebo Norman song! That was the song we used for our photo video montage thinger-majig! It’s PERFECT!
Oddly enough, this is our song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCppRzwbUC4
LOL.
Okay – I seriously love that song, Julie! So fun!
Himself and I danced to Only You by the Platters. The most romantic song, long before the movie Ghost made it popular, is Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers.
I’ll have to give that one a listen! Haven’t heard it in years!