Wedding Guest Chokes Grandma!

As a groom, I don’t know if this is a bad sign of things to come when during the wedding reception your cousin gets hit in the head with a brick, all mayhem breaks loose, your father is curled up on the ground guarding his face and someone has got your grandmother in a chokehold.  Maybe your first thought is, “I better never forget our anniversary.”  After you rescue your grandma, of course.

The details of this outright brawl is even more confusing, so leave it to us to sort it all out for you. On November 8th, 2009,  Tasha Johnson and Markeith Brown exchanged nuptials at the Rusty Pelican restaurant in Tampa, FL.  That should be a red flag right there, but this is where the story begins.  The reception took place at the same location and during the reception, the groom was throwing money onto the dance floor and letting the children scurry to get the cash.  The bride’s family didn’t like that at all.   A few stiff comments than turned into a physical altercation with about 30 to 40 people involved which then spilled from the restaurant out into the parking lot where a man was hit in the head with a brick.  Police were called in and they broke up the altercation and sent everyone on their way which at this point was the Residence Inn where most of the guests were staying and that is where the fun begins.

Enter Sandra Felicia Dean, a woman with 4 previous felony convictions and the cousin of the man who was hit with the brick.  She was at her house babysitting when she heard about her cousin and immediately came out to the scene at the hotel to get more info.  Nothing was said about who was watching the kids once she left, but doesn’t matter.  When she arrived, she heard the groom mouthing off about the situation and she took to remedying the scenario by charging him.  In her path was the 78 year old grandma who was greeted with a shove and a, “Get out of the way, old lady.”  Once she reached Thompson (that’s the groom. stay with me folks), she hit him in the nose with her car keys.

The grandmother than said her peace about the situation chatting about how barbaric this had become and was met with a choke hold from Dean as she yelled in her ear, “Momma, I’m a choke you out.”  Police arrived shortly thereafter when Dean finally let go.  Dean and the person who arrived with her were both arrested.  The groom was not arrested even though there was the brick incident that apparently no one would admit happened, but that some mumble was the groom’s doing.

Fast forward to April 2010 and Dean’s trial just finished.  It took the jury less than 16 minutes to convict Dean of her 5th felony of assault on a person over 65.  The judge is aiming for a stiffer sentence since Dean is obviously a career felon.  As for grandma, she’s just happy about the conviction and that Dean never got a chance to choke her out.  Yeah, we agree.  No one should choke a granny out.  It affects what’s referred to as cookie karma and it’s not pretty.

Exclusive Free Edwin McCain Mp3

Edwin McCain

So, Get Married did something really cool and has somehow arranged to get an exclusive MP3 download called Walk With You from Edwin McCain’s upcoming The Best of Edwin McCain album.  And you can’t get it anywhere else until April 22nd.  Edwin’s song I’ll Be is already a wedding staple, but now he’s released this tune for his “best of” collection that I’m sure will end up being the standard for daddy/daughter dances everywhere.

For those looking for that perfect song for the father-daughter dance, Walk With You would be it.  And you can get it for free from here at http://www.getmarried.com/edwin-mccain-download/ before it’s even available to the public.  The album doesn’t even drop until April 22nd, so this is pretty cool. And free is even more cool.

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Carrie Underwood Releases Wedding Details

Word is that pop superstar Carrie Underwood is way too busy to do the whole beautiful wedding cake shtick and so she does what all brides in her position would do. No, dont buy the wedding cake from Publix, you do something that’s even MORE time consuming than a cake.  Cupcakes!  Where you have to make dozens of little cakes instead of one big one. Yes, that makes sense. Much more time efficient.  However, some are saying it has nothing to do with time.  It’s just what she wants to do.

Carrie has been with her fiance, hockey player Mike Fisher,  since 2008.  She initially shared some details about the wedding when she stated, “I‘m Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner. I want my wedding to be me, so I’ll probably be rocking some big hair and eyeliner… I want the dress to be pretty traditional. I think I want flowers on it – not real flowers.  The designer will probably be someone I’ve worked with before.”

We know that the wedding will most likely be Fall or Winter themed since Carrie is currently on tour until the end of July.  So, we have cupcakes for the reception, a wedding dress from a designer she’s worked with before that will have fake flowers on it, and that will most likely take place in Fall or Winter.  We’re going to call Fall, because as a Georgian, there isn’t any place more beautiful in the fall than the Georgia mountains.

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5 Funny Wedding Disasters – Volume 1

So I’ve been seeing a lot of sad stuff like the Tiger Woods debacle, scary stuff like Simon Cowell’s planned nuptials and just plain stupid things to numerous to remember or care about.  So I figured I would make a small collection of the funniest wedding disasters that have happened that I’ve read about where no one died.   And there will be more to follow…

Click on the photos on each one for the story or video.

1) Care For a Swim?
The Telegraph UK shared the story and some photos of a wedding party of about 80 taking an unexpected dip.  The photographer wanted to capture the group on film with scenic mountains in the background.  The group joked about the deck giving way as it creaked and little did they know they were actually foreseeing the future as all 80 of them including children and even the bride’s wheelchair bound mother splashed into the water.  Yeah, I know. Not funny, but once you know that everyone was okay, it becomes funny. So you now have permission to giggle.

2) Groomsman Passes Out
Better known as the thump heard round the world, this groomsman was supposedly okay, but just ouch. The service was a tad solemn and apparently the groomsman was very tired from the bachelor party and simply passed out.  Backwards.  Down a flight of steps.  You have to cringe when you realize that the thud you hear was his head on the ground that sounds like someone dropping a bowling ball.  What’s even more humorous is the pastor being more concerned about losing his place in the reading. Watch it once for the fall and another for the pastor.  Funny, but just, sensitive folks should keep the sound off.

3) Keyboardist Eats It
German weddings are funny anyway, but this one has a hint of scary if just for a moment.  While it doesn’t show the end result of this occurrence, you see more than you probably want to anyway.  Essentially they have a Barry Manilow looking keyboardist that isn’t set up properly and has his mike stand pointing out into the crowd. Add in drunk German dancers and you get a wedding disaster!

4) Choppers
Then there’s this one of the bride losing her teeth during the communion part of the ceremony.  Most have already seen this video, but there are parts of this video that people miss.  The funniest part of the video is the brides expression when it initially happens.  The looks that say, “Do I pretend like that didn’t happen? Will he notice when it’s his turn? Yeah, I better get that.” The fact that the groom holds it together is just great. It’s probably why he married her anyway.

5) Lady in Red
This one is also pretty funny. A drunk guest, a pretty woman in red, is having a great time dancing to one of the most annoying songs you’ll ever hear in your life.  Thing to watch in the video: the brides expression as the lady in red dances with groom, and as the guest brings down the house. Literally.  Props to the groom for keeping his eyes on his bride, but by the time this video is done, the guest won’t be the only one wearing red.

So there you have it.  Volume 1 of the 5 funniest wedding disasters.  I’ll dig up about 5 every week or so, but this should add a year to your life. Happy chuckling.  Send me some other funny ones you’ve seen and maybe they’ll be in volume 2 coming soon!

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The Top 150 Wedding Songs of 2010

So how does this list differ from others you’ve seen?  For this list, we scoured the web and pulled multiple lists from tons of sources of top wedding songs (DJ’s, wedding planners, wedding bands) and then smashed them all together and see which ones were on multiple lists.  Then we repeated the process until we found the 150 most popular wedding songs as of 2010!

Some songs are a tad strange (Boom Boom Pow? Atomic Dog?), but these were the most requested songs at weddings and there are more folks at a wedding than just the bride and groom, so I imagine that’s why those are there.  As a bride or DJ, this list will serve you well and probably has a majority of what your guests probably want to hear.  And to make it even easier for you, we linked every single song title for easy buying power!  That was a huge pain by the way.  But, here it is!

The Top 150 Wedding Songs (as of 2010)

1999	Prince
Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme)	Peabo Bryson
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg	Temptations
All Shook Up	Elvis Presley
All Summer Long	Kid Rock
Always	Atlantic Starr
Always & Forever	Heatwave
Amazed	Lonestar
At Last	Etta James
Atomic Dog	George Clinton
Baby Got Back	Sir Mixalot
Billie Jean	MichaelJackson
Boom Boom Pow	Black Eyed Peas
Boot Scootin’ Boogie	Brooks & Dunn
Breathe	Faith Hill
Brick House	Commodores
Brown Eyed Girl	Van Morrison
Bust A Move	Young MC
Cant Get Enough Of Your Love Baby	Barry White
Can’t Help Falling In Love	Elvis Presley
Celebration	Kool& The Gang
Cha-Cha Slide	Casper
Chicken Dance	Various
C’mon N’ Ride It	Quad City DJ’s
Come Fly With Me	Frank Sinatra
Come On Eileen	Dexys Midnight Runners
Copacabana (At The Copa)	Barry Manilow
Cotton Eye Joe	Rednex
Crank Dat	Soulja Boy
Crazy	Patsy Cline
Cupid Shuffle	Cupid
Da Butt	EU
Dancing Queen	Abba
Don’t Stop Believin’	Journey
Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough	Michael Jackson
Electric Slide	Marcia Griffiths
Endless Love	Lionel Richie
Faithfully	Journey
Fly Me To The Moon	Frank Sinatra
Footloose	Kenny Loggins
Forever And Ever, Amen	Randy Travis
Friends In Low Places	Garth Brooks
Funky Cold Medina	Tone Loc
Funkytown	Lipps, Inc.
Get Down Tonight	KC & The Sunshine Band
Get Low	Lil John & The East Side Boyz
Get The Party Started	Pink
Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It	Will Smith
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)	C & C Music Factory
The Grease Megamix	John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
Here And Now	Luther Vandross
Hey Ya!	Outkast
Holiday	Madonna
Hot In Herre	Nelly
Hot, Hot, Hot	Buster Poindexter
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)	James Taylor
I Feel Good	James Brown
I Gotta Feeling	Black Eyed Peas
I Like It, I Love It	Tim McGraw
I Saw Her Standing There	The Beatles
I Want You To Want Me	Cheap Trick
I Will Survive	Gloria Gaynor
Ice Ice Baby (Exclusive Version)	Vanilla Ice
I’m Yours	Jason Mraz
In Da Club	50 Cent
In the Mood	Glenn Miller Orchestra
It Had To Be You	Harry Connick Jr.
It Takes Two	Rob Base & DJ Easy Rock
It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere	Alan Jackson/Jimmy Buffet
It`s Raining Men	Weather Girls
It’s Your Love (with Faith Hill)	Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
Jump Around	House of Pain
Jump, Jive, An’ Wail	Brian Setzer Orchestra
Keep Your Hands To Yourself	Georgia Satellites
Kiss	Prince
Kiss Kiss (Main Version)	Chris Brown
Last Dance	Donna Summer
Let’s Get It On	Marvin Gaye
Let’s Stay Together	Al Green
Livin On A Prayer	Bon Jovi
Louie Louie	Kingsmen
Love Me Tender	Elvis Presley
Love Shack	B-52′s
Macarena	Los Del Rio
Margaritaville	Jimmy Buffet
Melt With You	Modern English
Mony Mony	Billy Idol
Moondance	Van Morrison
Mustang Sally	The Commitments
My Girl	The Temptations
Oh, Pretty Woman	Roy Orbison
Old Time Rock N Roll	Bob Seger
Open Arms	Journey
Paradise By The Dashboard Light	Meatloaf
Play That Funky Music	Wild Cherry
Poker Face	Lady Gaga
Pour Some Sugar On Me	Def Leppard
Pride And Joy	Stevie Ray Vaughn
Pump Up The Jam	Technotronics
Push It	Salt n Pepa
Red, Red Wine	UB40
Respect	Aretha Franklin
Right Round	Flo Rida
Rock & Roll All Night	KISS
Rock Around The Clock	Bill Haley & The Comets
Rock This Town	Stray Cats
September	Earth, Wind & Fire
SexyBack	Justin Timberlake
(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty	KC & The Sunshine Band
Shout (Part 1 & 2)	Isley Brothers
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)	Beyonce
Soul Man (Live Version)	The Blue Brothers
Stand By Me	Ben E. King
Stayin Alive	Bee Gees
Strokin’	Clarence Carter
Super Freak	Rick James
Sweet Caroline	Niel Diamond
Sweet Home Alabama	Lynyrd Skynyrd
Tainted Love	Soft Cell
Take My Breath Away	Berlin
Take On Me	A-Ha
That’s The Way I Like It	KC & The Sunshine Band
The Twist	Chubby Checker
The Way You Look Tonight	Frank Sinatra
Thriller	Michael Jackson
(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life	Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
T-R-O-U-B-L-E	Travis Tritt
Twist & Shout	Kingsmen
U Can’t Touch This	MC Hammer
Unchained Melody	The Righteous Brothers
Unforgettable	Nat King Cole
Up Where We Belong	Joe Cocker
Vogue	Madonna
Walk Like An Egyptian	The Bangles
Walk This Way	Aerosmith
Watermelon Crawl	Tracy Byrd
We Are Family	Sister Sledge
What A Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong
What I Like About You	The Romantics
When A Man Loves A Woman	Percy Sledge
Wild Thing	Tone Loc
Wonderful Tonight	Eric Clapton
Wooly Bully	Sam the Sham
YMCA	The Village People
Yeah!	Usher w/ Lil John & Ludacris
You Are So Beautiful	Joe Cocker
You Dropped A Bomb On Me	The Gap Band
You Sexy Thing	Hot Chocolate
You Shook Me All Night Long	AC/DC
You’re The Inspiration	Chicago

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Weddings and Ipods Don’t Mix

Ok, I’m about over it.  I’ve heard multiple suggestions on multiple budget wedding tip articles (even including ones posted here) about various ways to cut corners during the wedding ceremony.  And ALL of them, not just some of them, but ALL of them put the wedding music on the list as things you should cut corners on.  And ALL of them threw out the suggestion of using an Ipod instead of a band or DJ.  Let me tell you how bad of an idea that is on all accounts.

While I’m sure there are some stories of success using this method, they are few and far between and their expectations were very low to start with.   As a professional vocalist and also the owner of a Georgia DJ company, you probably would guess that I’m very biased and shouldn’t even be allowed to talk about it, but let’s get real.  Nothing can match the personal touch of a wedding band or wedding DJ when it comes to managing the flow and feel of the wedding reception.

There’s a great video posted on Youtube that is the perfect reason as to why this is a bad idea.  You can watch it here.  Now granted, this wedding is primarily a disaster from the beginning because there was apparently no rehearsal or planning with a dash of total disorganization. But the use of the Ipod run by friends and family as your MC’s/sound/videographers, etc is just a bad idea.  Bands and DJ’s handle most of the announcing, music, and everything is thought out in advance.

Do you really want to take the chance of your cousin starting up “Shook Me All Night Long” during the Daddy/Daughter dance?  If you want memories that last a lifetime, that’s definitely the way to do it.   You can find affordable DJ’s (and even bands) for under a grand without even looking hard.   Now granted, you take a chance if you get too low on your pricing, but doing your homework and using directories of wedding vendors will give you multiple options. I’m sure there are dozens of horror stories from Ipod weddings and I can insure you that you do not want to be one of them.

Please share your disaster (or even success stories) here for all to see.

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Wedding Bouquet Toss Causes Plane Crash

Ah, the bridal bouquet toss.  A sweet gesture from a bride to her bridesmaids that sometimes turns out plain ugly.  We’ve all heard about people getting bloody noses, broken bones, getting knocked out, etc.  But now for the first time ever, a bride’s bouquet has caused a plane crash.  No, it wasn’t because it was tossed too high.  The exact opposite actually.  What started as a good idea discussed during the wedding planning actually became the idea that made it the wedding to remember.

An Italian couple had just gotten married and thought that it would be a neat idea to have a light plane fly overhead and drop the bouquet instead of the normal over the shoulder toss.  A 44 year old man named Isidoro Pensieri simply had to open the door and toss out the bouquet at the right time. Isidoro couldn’t handle that task and instead failed to throw it far enough away from the plane.  The result?  The bouquet was sucked into the plane’s engine causing the engine to catch fire and then explode.  The pilot Luciano Nannelli then  lost control of the plane as the plane went into a steep plummet to earth and then slammed into a busy hostel near Montioni Park.

The pilot and all 50 of the hostel residents got away unscathed, but Isidoro (the bouquet tosser) was hospitalized with a head injury and multiple fractures.  Talk about a wedding to talk about.

Top 20 Most Ugly Wedding Cakes

WARNING: Please be aware that this is done very tongue in cheek. Not everyone will think these cakes are ugly. Remember that we’re talking about cakes in contrast to a typical white tiered wedding cake. Stop getting so angry!

People will spend a fortune on their weddings and especially their wedding cakes in order to create a cake that will be remembered forever. And some will be simply be remembered as one of..

The 20 Most Ugly Wedding Cakes

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#20 – The Roller Coaster Wedding Cake
So I’m not sure if this qualifies as “ugly” or not, because it’s definitely inventive, but for a wedding?  But it starts the countdown because it teeters on the fence of ugly.

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#19 – Sandy Beaches
This cake is obviously designed to have a beach theme and we guess that’s supposed to be sand and a phallic symbol on the back side. Whoops, no. That’s a castle. My fault.

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#18 – The Cake of Many Designs

So when you simply can’t make up your mind and have no concern about people’s sensibilities, you end up making something like this.  Going to guess this wedding was in October.

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#17 – Gay Wedding Cake
This wedding cake is the main reason why all states haven’t implemented gay marriage rights.  They are deathly afraid there will be more cakes made like this. Actually, not a bad looking cake considering, well, considering.

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#16 -Halloween Wedding Cake
Yes, I get it.  They either got married on Halloween, really like Halloween or are a “goth” couple.  That doesn’t make this a pretty cake.

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#15 -Bling Bling

Thass riiight, beeyatch.  Blang blang next to the chicken wangs.  I’ll be taking my wedding gifts back now because you obviously don’t need it.

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#14 -Just Groovy Cake

So like, yeah man.  Me and the old lady were like baking your matrimonial tower of love when we thought, this would be so much easier if we just got baked right along with the cake.

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#13 – The Video Game Cake

I don’t have any punch lines for this.

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#12 -Tetris wedding cake

You can’t go back to the 80′s so we’re going to bring them to you with this Tetris wedding cake. Nothing says “love” like falling blocks in various geometric shapes that fit neatly into one another when you turn them and, well, um, I want a corner piece!

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#11 -The Cupcake Cake
The new trend is making wedding cakes with cupcakes in various colors and even if it’s done right, it looks ridiculous.  This unfortunately was done right and this is the best that you can expect a cake to look when it’s made by Little Debbie.  And it still made the ugly cake list.

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Yes folks, it’s the top 10.  The worst of the worst. Proceed.

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#10 – The Weed Cake

Marketing gone bad. It had floral, well, not floral, but greenery, well it wasn’t green.  It’s an eco-cake! Is that mold or did a peacock boa explode nearby?

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# 9 – The Bride Cake
This was made to look just like the bride and is very disturbing.  I’ll have a breast please.  NO, no. I mean a thigh!  Oh boy, ok, just give me a slice of her weave.

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#8 -Chocolate Dipped Something-er-Uther
What if we took a bunch of chocolate dipped pastry and fruit and just stacked them on top of each other really high? – (an hour later) -  Ok, well this isn’t what I envisioned, but we can’t turn back now…

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#7 – Pink & Green Disaster
Just frigging wow.  What the heck is this supposed to be anyway? Is that Jello?

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#6 – Cake and Fruit Explosion
This looks like it was dropped in the parking lot, picked up in handfuls and then there was an attempt to sort it all out.  It’s um, fruit because I see banana and then some chocolate and, um, screw it, Eat up!

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#5 – The Centerpiece
The true story behind this is that the bride reportedly thought this was a centerpiece until a kid stuck his finger in it.  The story is that it was dropped and the layers collapsed and this was a very bad attempt to fix the problem.

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#4 – Til Death Do Us Part Cake
Not sure if this is meant to be a “forever and always” theme or a warning to those that eat it.  How exactly do you get that color?

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#3 – The Strawberry Prison
Even though it’s ugly, I’d probably still eat it.  It just looks like the strawberries are doing time for being fruity.  I just can’t come up with anything better.

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#2 – The Sushi Cake
It’s just not right on so many levels.  Fish and cake? It’s an assault on the senses and causes me emotional trauma.

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And here we are folks!

The winner of the ugliest wedding cake award.

#1 – Camo Cake

This one is worthy of the number one slot simply because it is not only hideous, but frightening.  Ladies and gentlemen, the worst wedding cake in the history of wedding cakes.

And there you have it.  The 20 worst wedding cakes I’ve ever seen.  Some are designed to be ugly by request of the bride and groom and they should be held responsible for these atrocities.  Maybe the bridesmaid gifts will be nice enough to draw attention away from these hideous sweets.

10 Questions to Ask Your Wedding Planner

Choosing a wedding planner is one of the most important decisions to make on your wedding checklist of things to do for your big day.  They can be invaluable, and make your event more amazing than you could have imagined (and most importantly, more stress free!)  So when selecting your second most important partner in the wedding, know the answers to ten important questions.  Ask before hiring and feel that much more confident that this is a marriage made in heaven.

1. What do you get for your price?
Make sure you know exactly what you’re getting for your money: what is included; different package options; how they bill (hourly, deposits, payment plans, billing, etc).  This will help to ensure that there are no surprising costs that will pop up unexpectedly during or after the planning process.  Perhaps you don’t need help with every little element, or you have an hour cap that you need to keep in mind.  Does the fee include the cost of assistants on the wedding day, and how many?  Know what you are paying for.

2. Do you understand my vision?
A planner could have done every celebrity and high-end wedding in the world, but if they don’t share your understanding of the style and vision, you might be unhappy with the final outcome.  Some planners can create one fabulous look, but if that look isn’t you, then be sure their portfolio reflects many styles – look for the personality of the couple to shine through in the events, not the same likes of the planner over and over again.  Talk with your planner and bounce ideas off each other to make sure you’re on the same page before you begin.

3. Referrals
As obvious as it may seem, make sure to ask for and check your planner’s references.  Know their experience level, how long they have been in business, the size, scope, and budgets of the weddings they have done to make sure they have enough experience in the type of wedding you want and can afford.  Check with past clients they refer you to, but also do your web and chat room research.  Make sure there are no outstanding issues out there.

4. Are they familiar with your venue and vendors?
Most wedding planners are well connected with other professionals in the wedding industry, and can help give you reliable options that they know of or have worked with before.  If, however, you chose some of your own vendors, make sure they are willing and able to work together so that everything goes smoothly on the day of and egos stay out of the way.  Ask if the event planner takes a referral fee from vendors and if so, be sure you’re seeing the selection you want.  If one company is heavily pushed on you over all others, that can be a sign of a back end financial agreement.  This is very common and often industry standard, so don’t be too put off by it, just be smart about your selection.

5. How involved will you both be?
Find out how often you will meet, if they will come to your vendor meetings, how much planning you will do on your own.  Think of things that you really would want to do on your own, if any.  Make sure both of your jobs are clearly discussed and understood.

6. How busy are they?
See how often your planner has a wedding on a calendar, especially for the month, week, and even your same day.  If you feel like they are trying to overbook there is a good chance that you won’t get the personal attention that you need and deserve.  You want to be the only bride she or he tends to that day.  You might also ask if wedding planning is their full time job or if it is a side hobby as that can also lead to scheduling conflicts.

7. Emergency situations
Although hopefully you won’t have any last minute emergencies to deal with, such things do happen and you need to be prepared.  Ask what would happen if your wedding planner was suddenly not able to make the wedding, if someone in the wedding party got sick, bad weather affecting out of town arrivals and the event itself, etc.  Find out if they have had any situations like this in the past, and how they did, or would, deal with them – in case of an unforeseen occurrence, does the planner have staff and/or a backup plan if they cannot make the day.

8. Budget?
This may be an assumed task for the wedding planner to oversee, but you can never be too cautious.  A wedding can quickly go over budget, so make sure you find a planner who makes your budget limit their top priority.

9. Is it a real business?
Ask your planner if they have a business license, insurance, education.  See if they belong to a professional organization like the ABC, ACPWC, Weddings Beautiful, June Weddings, WIPA and ISES, all of which are respectable bridal consultant groups.  Also ask if the group they belong to requires them to have training every year or simply pay an annual fee.

10. Honeymoon!
Don’t forget that after the party is over, you want to have an amazing relaxing honeymoon vacation with your new spouse!  Ask if your wedding planner has travel contacts or resources for you to use.  Perhaps they can even help to plan your special vacation.

But above all the rules, paperwork, and fine print, most of all, make sure you really like your wedding planner, because you will be spending a lot of time together in the coming months!

Top 500 Wedding Songs

Mr. Christopher back again to make your wedding planning easier.  I’ve seen lots of lists online for wedding songs, so I decided to redistribute this list from Ambassador of the Top 500 songs that are requested at weddings. And we’re not referring to current songs that come and go like Cupid Shuffle. We’re talking about the 500 wedding songs that never go away and are requested over and over.

And don’t forget to check out the updated version of this list of the Top 150 Wedding Songs of 2010 that was compiled from dozens of lists and then filtered out.

Song Title A Day in the Life, A Hard Day’s Night, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Ain’t No Sunshine All Along the Watchtower, All I Have to Do Is Dream All I Wanna Do All My Life All of Me All Out of Love All Shook Up, All Star All the Things You Are Almost Like Being in Love Always Always & Forever Always On My Mind Amazed American Pie And I Love Her Another Brick in the Wall Another One Bites The Dust As Time Goes By At the Hop Atomic Dog Babe Baby Got Back Baby Love Baby, I Need Your Loving Back At One Back That Thing Up Bad Girls Bad To The Bone Band on the Run Be My Lover Beat It, Beautiful Day Beautiful In My Eyes Because You Loved Me Begin the Beguine Bent Best I Can Best of My Love Best Of My Love Better Off Alone Billy Jean Blue Blue Bayou Blue Suede Shoes, Blueberry Hill Bohemian Rhapsody, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom Boom! Shake the Room! Boot Scootin’ Boogie Born to Be Wild, Born To Run Brandy Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Breathe Breathless Brick House Bridge Over Troubled Water Brown Eyed Girl Brown Sugar, Build Me Up Buttercup Burning Down The House Butterfly Kisses Buy Me A Rose Bye, Bye, Bye California Dreamin’, California Girls Call Me Can I Get A.. Can You Feel the Love Tonight Can’t Help Falling in Love Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You Cara Mia Celebration Cha Cha Slide Chances Are Chances Are Chattahoochee Cherish Chicken Dance Closing Time C’mon & Ride It (the train) Color My World Come On Eileen Come Rain or Come Shine Come Sail Away Come Together Conga Copa Cabana Cotton Eyed Joe Could I Have This Dance Could I Have This Kiss Forever Could It Be Magic Country Grammar Cowboy Cowboy Take Me Away Crash And Burn Crazy Crazy for You Crocadile Rock Crystal Blue Persuasion Da’ Butt Dance With Me Dancing Queen Daniel Daydream Believer De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da December 1963 ( Oh! What a night) Desert Rose Devil with a Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly Dizzy Do You Love Me Don’t Be Cruel Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me Don’t Worry, Be Happy Downtown Dream On, Dreams Electric Boogie (Electric Slide) Endless Love Evergreen Everlasting Love Every Breath You Take Everything I Do, I Do It for You Faithfully Fame Feeling Groovy Fire and Rain First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) Footloose Free Bird, Friends in Low Places From This Moment On Funky Town Georgia on My Mind, Get Down Tonight Gettin’ Jiggy With It Gimmie Some Lovin’ Girl From Ipanema God Only Knows, Gonna Make You Sweat Good Golly, Miss Molly, Good Lovin’ Good Vibration Good Vibrations Goodbye Earl Graduation Grazing In The Grass Grease Megamix Great Balls of Fire, Happy Together Have I Told You Lately Heart of Glass Heartbreak Hotel, Help Here & Now Here With Me Hey Jude, Hip Hop Hooray Hit Me With Your Best Shot Honesty Honkey Tonk Woman Hooked on a Feeling, Hot, Hot, Hot Hot Stuff Hotel California, Hound Dog, How Deep Is Your Love How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You Hungry Heart I Belong To You I Can’t Get No Satisfaction I Can’t Smile Without You I Cross My Heart I Do (Cherish You) I Got You (I Feel Good), I Heard It Through the Grapevine I Heard it Through the Grapevine, I Honestly Love You I Hope You Dance I Just Called To Say I Love You I Just Want to Be Your Everything I Knew I Loved You I Like It, I Love It I Love Rock & Roll I Made It Through The Rain I Melt with You I Need To Know I Need You I Still Believe in You I Swear I Try I Turn To You I Want to Hold Your Hand I Want You, I Need You, I Love You I Will Always Love You I Will Survive I Write The Songs If If I Fell If Tomorrow Never Comes If You’re Gone I’ll Be There for You I’ll Make Love to You Imagine In the Ghetto In the Midnight Hour, In The Mood In the Still of the Night In Your Eyes It Had to Be You It’s My Life It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me It’s Your Love Jailhouse Rock, Jammin Jock Jam Johnny B. Goode, Jump (for My Love) Jump, Jive & Wail Jump, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Jumpin’ Jumpin’ Just the Way You Are Kashmir, Killing Me Softly with His Song Kryptonite La Bamba, Lady Last Dance Layla Le Freak Legs Let It Be Let’s Get Married Let’s Hang On Let’s Stay Together, Let’s Talk About Sex Light My Fire Limbo Rock Listen to the Music Locomotion London Calling, Longer Looks Like We Made It Lost In Love Louie, Louie Love Me Do Love Me Tender Love on the Rocks Love Shack Love Will Keep Us Together Love You Inside Out Lucky Macarena Mack the Knife Maggie May Magic Man Mambo # 5 Man, I Feel Like A Woman Mandy Margaritaville Maria Maria Maybe I’m Amazed McArthur Park Me and Mrs Jones Midnight Train to Georgia Mircales Miss You Mmm Bop Mony, Mony Moon River Moonlight Serenade More Than a Feeling, Morning Train Mrs. Robinson Music Mustang Sally My Cherie Amour My Eyes Adored You My Eyes Don’t Cry ( The Hustle ) My Generation, My Girl My Heart Will Go On My Life My Love My Sharona My Thanksgiving My Way New York, New York Night Fever Nights in White Satin No More Tears No Woman No Cry, Off The Wall Oh Girl Oh, Pretty Woman Old Time Rock & Roll On Broadway On The Radio Only God Knows Why Only the Good Die Young Only Wanna Be With You Only You Oops! I Did It Again Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Party (Up In Here) Piano Man Pinch Me Play that Funky Music Please Don’t Go Pop Muzik Power Of Love Proud Mary, Pump Up the Jam Purple Haze, Push It Rag Doll Rapper’s Delight Rapture Ready To Take a Chance Again Recipe For Making Love Red, Red Wine Return to Sender Revolution Rhiannon Rhythm Is A Dancer Rock & Roll All Nite Rock & Roll, Rock Around the Clock, Rock This Town Rock With You Rockin’ Robin Roxanne, Run Around Sue Sailing Satisfaction Scarborough Fair September Morn Sexual Sexual Healing, She Bangs She Loves You, She’s Always a Woman to Me She’s Not There Ships Shout Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely Simple Kind of Life Sittin’ On The Dock of the Bay, Sloop John B Smells Like Teen Spirit, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Smooth Somebody to Love, Someone Like You Something Sometimes a Fantasy Soul Man Sounds of Silence Space Oddity, Spanish Eyes Stairway to Heaven Stand By Me, Start Me Up, Stayin’ Alive Staying Alive Steal Away Steal My Kisses Still Stop In The Name of Love Strangers in the Night Strawberry Fields Strike It Up Strokin’ Summertime Blues, Sunshine of Your Love, Super Freak Superstition, Surfin’ USA Suspicious Minds Sweet Caroline Sweet Home Alabama Swing the Mood Jive Sympathy for the Devil, T.R.O.U.B.L.E. Take It Easy Taking You Home Tears of a Clown Tequila Thank God I’m A Country Boy Thank You That Old Black Magic That’ll Be the Day, That’s Life That’s The Beat Of A Heart That’s The Way It Is The Dance The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face The Gambler The Letter The Long and Winding Road The Most Beautiful Girl The Most Beautiful Girl in the World The Real Slim Shady The Rose The Thong Song The Tide Is High The Twist The Way You Look Tonight The Way You Love Me The Winner Takes It All Then The Morning Comes There You Go This Is Your Night This Magic Moment This One’s For You Three Times a Lady Thriller Through the Years Thunder Road, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Time In A Bottle Time of My Life (I’ve Had) To Be Real To Love Somebody Tonight, I Celebrate My Love Truckin’ Truly Try A Little Tenderness Tubthumper Turn Turn Turn Twilight Time Twist & Shout U Can’t Touch This Unchained Melody Unforgettable Up Where We Belong Upside Down Vision of Love Vivir Sin Aire Vogue Voodoo Walk This Way, Walking in Rhythm Wanderer Watermelon Crawl We Are Family We Are the Champions, We Like To Party We’ve Got Tonight What A Girl Wants What a Wonderful World What I Like About You What’s Going On, Whatta Man When a Man Loves a Woman When Doves Cry, Whip It Who Let The Dogs Out Whole Lotta Love, Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On, Whoomp! (there it is) Wild Thing Wild Thing, Wind Beneath My Wings Windy With Arms Wide Open Wonderful Tonight Wooly Bully Words Working My Way Back To You Wouldn’t It Be Nice Yesterday YMCA You and I You Are So Beautiful You Are The Sunshine of My Life You Can’t Hurry Love You Dropped A Bomb On Me You Light Up My Life You Needed Me You Really Got Me, You Sang To Me/ Muy Dentro de Mi You Send Me You Shook Me All Night Long, You Should Be Dancing Your Mama Don’t Dance Your Song Your Still The One You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

Artist The Beatles The Beatles Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell The Supremes Bill Withers Jimi Hendrix & The Experience. Everly Brothers Sheryl Crow K-CI & JOJO Frank Sinatra Air Supply Elvis Presley. Smash Mouth Tommy Dorsey Frank Sinatra Atlantic Starr Heatwave / Luther Vandross Willie Nelson Lonestar Don McLean The Beatles Pink Floyd Queen Tony Bennett/Dexter Gordon Danny & the Juniors George Clinton Styx Sir-Mix-A-Lot The Supremes The Four Tops Bryan McNight Juvenile Donna Summer George Thorogood & Destroyers Paul McCartney and Wings La Bouche Michael Jackson. U2 Joshua Kadison Celine Dion Traditional Jazz Matchbox 20 Chris Perez Band The Eagles Emotion (Disco) Alice Dee Jay Michael Jackson Eiffel 65 Linda Ronstadt Carl Perkins / Elvis Fats Domino Queen. The Andrews Sister The Venga Boys Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince Brooks & Dunn Steppenwolf. Bruce Springsteen Looking Glass Neil Sedaka Faith Hill Corrs Commodores Simon and Garfunkel Van Morrison The Rolling Stones. The Foundations Talking Heads Bob Carlisle Kenny Rogers N’Sync The Mamas and the Papas. The Beach Boys Blondie Jay-Z Elton John Elvis Presley Frankie Valli Jay and The Americans Kool & the Gang DJ Casper Bob Seger & Martina McBride Johnny Mathis Alan Jackson The Association Various Semi Sonic Quad City DJs Chicago Dexy’s Midnight Runners Tony Bennet Styx The Beatles Gloria Estefan Barry Manilow Rednex Anne Murray Whitney Houston with Enrique Iglesias Barry Manilow Nelly Kid Rock Dixie Chicks Savage Garden Patsy Cline Madonna Elton John Tommy James and the Shondells E.U. Debelah Morgan ABBA Elton John The Monkees The Police Four Seasons Sting with Cheb Mami Mitch Ryder/ Detroit Wheels Tommy Roe The Contours Elvis Presley George Michael Bobby McFerrin Petula Clark Aerosmith. Fleetwood Mac Marica Griffiths Diana Ross & Lionel Richie Barbra Streisand Carl Carlton The Police Bryan Adams Journey Irene Cara Harper’s Bazarre James Taylor Roberta Flack Frank Sinatra Kenny Loggins Lynyrd Skynyrd. Garth Brooks Shania Twain & Brian White Lipps Inc Ray Charles KC & The Sunshine Band Will Smith Spencer Davis Group Antonio Carlos Jobim The Beach Boys. C+C Music Factory Little Richard. The Rascals Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch The Beach Boys Dixie Chicks Vitamin C The Friends of Distinction John Travolta & Olivia Newton Jerry Lee Lewis. Turtles Van Morrison/Rod Stewart Blondie Elvis Presley. The Beatles Luther Vandross Dido: Sarah Brightman The Beatles. Naughty By Nature Pat Benatar Billy Joel Rolling Stones Carl Carlton Buster Poindexter Donna Summer The Eagles. Elvis Presley. The Bee Gees James Taylor Marvin Gaye Bruce Springsteen Lenny Kravitz Rolling Stones Barry Manilow George Strait 98 Degrees James Brown. The Temptations Creedence Clearwater Revival Olivia Newton-John Lee Ann Womack Stevie Wonder Andy Gibb Savage Garden Tim McGraw Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Barry Manilow Modern English Marc Anthony Lee Ann Rimes Vince Gill, John Michael Montgomery Macy Gray Christina Aguilara The Beatles Elvis Presley Whitney Houston Gloria Gaynor Barry Manilow Bread The Beatles Garth Brooks Matchbox twenty Rembrandts Boys II Men John Lennon Elvis Presley Wilson Pickett. Glen Miller & His Orchestra The Five Satins Peter Gabriel Harry Connick, Jr. Bon Jovi Billy Joel Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Elvis Presley. Bob Marley & the Wailers ESPN Presents Chuck Berry. The Pointer Sisters Brian Setzer Van Halen. The Rolling Stones. Destiny’s Child Billy Joel Led Zeppelin. Roberta Flack Three Doors Down Ritchie Valens. Kenny Rogers Donna Summer Eric Clapton Chic ZZ Top The Beatles Jagged Edge Four Seasons Al Green. Salt ‘n Pepa The Doors Chubby Checker The Doobie Brothers Kyile Minogue The Clash. Dan Fogelberg Barry Manilow Air Supply Kingsmen The Beatles Elvis Presley Neil Diamond The B-52′s Captain and Tennille The Bee Gees Britney Spears Los Del Rio Bobby Darin Rod Stewart Heart Lou Bega Shania Twain Barry Manilow Jimmy Buffett Santana Paul McCartney Donna Summer Billy Paul Gladys Knight and the Pips Jefferson Starship The Rolling Stones Hanson Billy Idol Henry Mancini Glenn Miller and his Orchestra Boston. Sheena Easton Robinson, Paul Simon Madonna The Commitments/Wilson Pickett Stevie Wonder Frankie Valli Stevie Wonder The Who. The Temptations Celine Dion Billy Joel Paul McCartney & Wings The Knack Don Henley Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra Bee Gees Moody Blues Streisand/Summer Bob Marley & the Wailers. Michael Jackson The Chi-lites Roy Orbison Bob Seger The Platters Donna Summer Kid Rock Billy Joel Hootie & The Blowfish The Platters Britney Spears The Temptations. DMX Billy Joel Barenaked Ladies Wild Cherry KC and the Sunshine Band M Celine Dion/Jennifer Rush Creedence Clearwater Revival. Technotronics Jimi Hendrix. Salt N’ Peppa Four Seasons Sugar Hill Gang Blondie Barry Manilow Harry Connick Jr. UB40 Elvis Presley The Beatles Fleetwood Mac Snap Kiss Led Zeppelin. Bill Haley & His Comets. Stray Cats Michael Jackson Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5 The Police. Dion & The Belmonts Christopher Cross Rolling Stones Simon & Garfunkel Neil Diamond Amber Marvin Gaye. Ricky Martin The Beatles. Billy Joel The Zombies Barry Manilow Isley Brothers Backstreet Boys No Doubt Otis Redding. The Beach Boys Nirvana. The Platters Santana featuring Rob Thomas Jefferson Airplane. Van Morrison The Beatles Billy Joel Blues Brothers Simon and Garfunkel David Bowie. Elvis Led Zeppelin Ben E. King. The Rolling Stones. N-Trance The Bee Gees Robbie Dupree Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals The Commodores The Supremes Frank Sinatra John Lennon Black Box Clarence Carter Eddie Cochran. Cream. Rick James Stevie Wonder. Beach Boys Elvis Presley Neil Diamond Lynard Skynard Bunny & the Mixmasters The Rolling Stones. Travis Tritt The Eagles Don Henley Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Champs John Denver Dido Glenn Miller Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Frank Sinatra Warren Brothers with Sara Evans Celine Dion Garth Brooks Roberta Flack Kenny Rogers The Boxx Tops The Beatles Charlie Rich Prince Eminem Bette Midler Sisqo Blondie Chubby Checker Frank Sinatra / Tony Bennett Faith Hill Abba Smash Mouth Pink Amber Jay and The Americans Barry Manilow Commodores Michael Jackson Kenny Rogers Bruce Springsteen. Tony Orlando and Dawn Jim Croce Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes Cheryl Lynn The Bee Gees Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack Grateful Dead Lionel Richie Otis Redding Chumbawamba Byrds The Platters The Beatles M.C. Hammer The Righteous Brothers Nat “King” & Natalie Cole Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes Diana Ross Mariah Carey Ruben Ramos Madonna Godsmack Aerosmith. The Blackbyrds Dion Tracy Byrd Sister Sledge Queen. The Venga Boys Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton Christina Aguilera Louie Armstong Romantics Marvin Gaye. Salt’N'Pepa Percy Sledge Prince & the Revolution. Devo Baha Men Led Zeppelin. Jerry Lee Lewis. Tag Team Tone Loc The Troggs. Bette Midler The Association Creed Eric Clapton Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs The Bee Gees The Four Seasons Beach Boys The Beatles Village People Eddie Rabbit & Crystal Gayle Joe Cocker Stevie Wonder The Supremes The Gap Band Debby Boone Anne Murray The Kinks. Marc Anthony Sam Cooke AC/DC. The Bee Gees Loggins and Messina Elton John Shania Twain Righteous Brothers Blood, Sweat & Tears

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