First Dance Songs Your Friends Probably Won’t Pick First

We’ve mentioned first dance song options here a few times, but haven’t so much gone through the motions. Unlike your Grand Entrance Song, which most people choose to show some creativity with and have a litle fun around, the first dance is one that most likely, people are going to pay attention to the lyrics to the song. This summer, a lot of people were talking about a playlist of top first dance songs from discjockeys.com, but let’s open it up a little bit further than that, perhaps…

One song I’m hearing a lot of right now is Jason Mraz’ “I’m Yours,” which has been making a move this year when it comes to people’s dance choices. It’s a little bit faster than some might be used to, but it’s definitely modern and shouldn’t make you feel like you’re picking something that you might have seen picked at a wedding 10 years ago.

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Also making the list of modern, and not something all your friends might have chosen is Rivers Cuomo’s “I Was Made For You,” which I’ll bank that your mom or dad will give you a look about, but it’s a pretty awesome song. [via]

Jack Johnson’s “Better Together” is another option that ups the tempo a little bit and makes perfect sense, no?

Okay, okay so it’s another Jason Mraz song, but it’s a really good one, too. Check out “Lucky,” where Mraz and Colbie Caillat do a great duet.

Last, but not least, you have to check out The Fray’s “Look After You,” which any of you who watched NBC’s “Journeyman” might recognize…

Now there’s five songs for you that you probably won’t catch at anyone else’s wedding.

I just can’t help the water sprinkler.

I know, I know, you’re probably sick of it already, but I might as well make a damn category for people I’m finding doing the “water sprinkler” at their wedding.

Check out this featured dance, which is pretty darn interactive between the bride and groom. Sometimes one or the other “leads” and does their thing while the other one hangs out and just looks generally uncomfortable. Not here… Water sprinkler at 0:22, btw.

Uncle Luke & marriage

Sorry for being out of pocket for a few days, Groomify readers - had some craziness in the last week (including getting a great photographer for our wedding - more on that later!), but we’re back in action…

Last week, I caught this item by John Sellers in Time Out New York about Luther Campbell - who some of you might know as Uncle Luke, among other names - getting engaged, and wanted to pass it along, as it’s definitely a pretty cool piece, and I know had gotten a few of my friends buzzing. Campbell, at least to me, is one of the main names I remember from being into rap and hip-hop during high school, in the early 90’s. I remember snagging my copy of 2 Live Crew’s “Banned in the USA” from a friend who worked in a local record store, and spending entirely too much time banging that, among other Crew jams, in a few of my friends’ rides on the way to and from school, and those were the days. In any case, a lot of people have made a big thing about Campbell getting engaged, and aside from the TONY piece, you’ve gotta check out AllHipHop’s video on the subject, with Campbell himself.

Five second rule applied to wedding cakes

Check out this example of the “five second rule,” as applied to wedding cakes. You know, the rule where you pick food up off the floor if it hasn’t been there for five seconds (okay, probably 10), and eat it anyway? Well, howabout applying it to your wedding cake top?

 
I’m a pretty typical five second rule follower, but Judith’s mention of it being not-so-bright on Monday morning might change my mind. Oh, okay, probably not.

Because moms need to have fun, too

Okay, the embedding was disabled on this fantastic YouTube posting, so you’ll have to click through, but check out what happens when the mother of the groom and the mother of the bride decide to have an air guitar duel to Billy Idol’s “Mony Mony.” You probably won’t be disappointed.

Yep, it’s a dance-off

Check out this dance-off from a recent wedding whose video I caught on YouTube this weekend.

 
You’ll note my favorite part of all of these dances, the water sprinkler, at about 1:45.

Bridal Boxing: A New Sport?

By now most of us are familiar with the concept of “trashing the dress,” where the newly married couple go out and take some (typically) awesome photos in the ocean, laying on the ground somewhere that might stain their clothes, or doing really fun things. That was all well and good, but it’s got nothing on the videos I’m including here, I must say.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a bride and groom duke it out with giant, air-filled boxing gloves, while standing in a kiddie pool. There’s three rounds worth…really. Oh, okay. It’s not *really* a bride and groom. But it’s amusing nonetheless.

Round 1

 
Round 2
 
Round 3
 
Did I mention that the pool was full of baby oil?

Scotch commentary

If you haven’t caught this already, and you’re a guy who’s into some scotch (or maybe you’re not, and would like to be), then check out the latest episode of Wine Library TV, featuring Gary Vaynerchuk (as usual), and WordPress guy Matt Mullenweg, as they check out a few scotch options.

 
Check out the full post, comments and all, here.

In the basement, yeah

You thought you were hardcore by getting some dance lessons with your fiancee. You thought you were hardcore by coming up with a creative dance. You even thought you were creative by deciding you were going to put your dance on YouTube. But what you didn’t bank on was these folks practicing their entire wedding dance in the basement, wedding party and all.

Hold the haterade

Now I’ll gladly admit that I’m the first one to pour the haterade on a lot of dances that people have tried to pull off at the wedding receptions, but let me be one of the first to say that these two are actually pretty darn good, and the groom’s pretty good with his feet, at the very least. And for once, I really liked how they closed it down, and it’s worth the wait to watch.

The water sprinkler does it again

Choreography’s no big surprise when it comes to weddings, and it hasn’t been for years. That said, I think it IS pretty rare when it’s a bunch of dudes who come on out to C+C Music Factory.

 
Make sure you catch the water sprinkler at about 0:44!

I’m so not dancing Flamenco

This guy gets a ton of points for me, because I’m not sure I’d try and throw down the Flamenco dancing at my own wedding. Or anyone else’s, frankly.

 
The bride’s a pretty damn good sport, no?

Drawing spoofs = success

Looks like getting more than 10 million views (good job, Brubakers!) on your first dance video does more than just spawn a few other people trying to do the same thing … it spawns people playing your video on a screen at their wedding and a pair of bridesmaids pulling off a spoof of said video.

Upstaging the wedding, maybe?

While I can absolutely see how this would be unique, humorous, and downright hysterical to have at a reception, I can’t help but think that this would be the only thing people would talk about after the wedding, no matter how great everything else looked or went.

That said, it’s pretty damn funny.

Darth Vader apparently makes a good groom

Turns out Darth Vader wouldn’t make too bad of a groom after all.

 
Step up to about 3:09 for some unmasking goodness. Some more pre-processional goodness here, too.

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