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Ok not sure if your FH will like these but they worth a try

Feels Like Home Chental Kreviazuk

Tell Her This -Del Amitri

Lets Stay together-Al Green

Can't get enough of your love-Barry White

Ain't No Sunshine-Boll Whithers

Thank you for loving me-Bon Jovie

Too Marvelous for words-Sinatra

When you say you love me or you're still you or to where you are by Josh Groban

Stand by my women-Lenny Kravitz

You are the best part of me-Neil Diamon ( I swear it's the pretties love song ever)

My special someone-Neil Diamond

the nearness of you-Norah Jones

At last-etta james

I'll stand by you-pretenders

 

I went to a wedding once where the first dance was When I Need You by....crap, I can't remember his name.....oh, Leo Sayer. Here are the lyrics:


When I need you
I just close my eyes and I'm with you
and all that I so want to give you
It's only a heartbeat away

CHORUS:

When I need love
I hold out my hands and I touch love
I never knew there was so much love
keeping me warm night and day

Miles and miles of empty space in between us
a telephone can't take the place of your smile
but you know I won't be travelin' forever
it's cold out, but hold out, and do I like I do

When I need you
I just close my eyes and I'm with you
and all that I so wanna give you babe
it's only a heartbeat away

It's not easy when the road is your driver
honey that's a heavy load that we bear
but you know I won't be traveling a lifetime
it's cold out but hold out and do like I do
oh, I need you

CHORUS

When I need you
I just close my eyes
and you're right here by my side
keeping me warm night and day

I just hold out my hands
I just hold out my hand
and I'm with you darlin'
yes, I'm with you darlin'
all I wanna give you
it's only a heartbeat away
oh I need you darling

I thought it was a great wedding song.
I see in addition to Leo Sayer, Rod Stewart and Celine Dion have also performed the song. Stick with Leo. It is pleasingly retro and not too sappy!!!!!

Also, I saw some pink and green striped socks today and thought of you!!

Other ideas... if you can't tell I'm drawn towards cheese.

Hold my Hand by Hootie and the Blowfish. I'm lame so I love this song but they're also from South Carolina which is appropriate.

L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole.

Follow Me by John Denver. I LOVE this song. My parents had it played on the classical guitar during their wedding.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Stevie Wonder

I Got You Babe by Sonny and Cher

If I had a Million by Pat Green

I Want You, I Need You, I Love You by Elvis

My Girl by the Temptations

Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton

 

 

i love crazy love, by van morrison (originally i think) but i have the live jackson browne one. i t hink aaron neville also does it, but i prefer a deeper voice singing it. such a beautiful song
I can hear her heartbeat
From a thousand miles
And the heavens open
Every time she smiles
And when I come to her
That's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her
Like a river song

She give me love, love,
Love, love, crazy love
She give me love, love,
Love, love, crazy love

She's got a fine sense of humor
When I'm feeling low down
And when I come to her
When the sun goes down
She takes away my trouble,
Take away my grief

Take away my heartache,
I go right to sleep

Yes I need her in the daytime
Yes I need her in the night
Yes I want to throw my arms around her
Kiss her hug her kiss her hug her tight

And when I'm returning from so far away
She gives me some sweet lovin'
Brightens up my day
Yes it makes me righteous,
Yes it makes me whole
Yes it makes me mellow
Down to my soul

She give me love, love,
Love, love, crazy love
She give me love, love,
Love, love, crazy love

also, forever by ben harper
stay with you by john legend

both of these are really beautiful songs.....

A few more...

Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
The Beatles - In My Life (sorry I know it's cheesy)
Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me
Ben Kweller - Lizzy
Beth Orton - I Love How You Love Me
Cat Stevens - The Wind (although this song doesn't explicitly mention anything about love I've always thought of it being about coming back to
the one, I don't know why)
Feist - Mushaboom
Rilo Kiley - I Never


-- Edited by Maddie at 03:24, 2005-11-29

we danced to ben folds' the luckiest for our first dance and it was very emotional. it's such a lovely song. and lots of our guests commented on how much they enjoyed hearing a new song (it's clearly not a new song, but it's not really mainstream at all so some of our guests had never heard it before) instead of the usual first song choices (at last, crazy love, the way you look tonight, etc)

other songs that were definite contenders for us were -

simply - sara hickman

tomorrow in her eyes - ron sexsmith

book of love - peter gabriel

hold on to me - cowboy junkies

if i should fall behind - bruce springsteen

my suggestion is to pick a song that you both like and that feels meaningful to you as a couple. also, if you pick a long song, make sure you feel comfortable with that. the luckiest is a pretty long song and for a while we were worried that it would seem like an eternity when we were dancing to it. friends of ours who hate dancing/being in the spotlight made sure to pick a song that was just about 3 minutes. also, whatever you pick, make sure you try dancing to it - some songs are gorgeous and meaningful, but they are really hard to find/keep a beat to or may be too slow or too fast to dance comfortably to, so just keep that in mind as well.

eta: after rereading your post about your relationship and the suggestions posted already, i think the pretenders' i'll stand by you would be really perfect. and true companions is a very appropriate first dance song as well. if you don't mind serious cheese, you could check out faithfully by journey. that's really old school and definitely high on the cheese scale. :)

also, if your fiance keeps rejecting all of your suggestions, i would put some of the pressure on him to find something... as picky as you say you are, he seems to be even pickier if he has already rejected a bunch of your suggestions.

-- Edited by smash at 08:27, 2005-11-29

 

i just wanted to throw "my" song out there.  i want it to be "my one and only love" sting sings my favorite version, but i know some other people do too.  sting's version is on the leaving las vegas soundtrack.  i get teary-eyed just day-dreaming about it. 

We're doing 'Groovy Kind of Love', played by our string quartet .  And I'm soooo printing this post for our own purposes !!!

Maddie wrote:

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Have you heard the Magnetic Fields version of this? I didn't even know it was a cover til I saw this post! Just kidding! I just looked it up and the Peter Gabriel one is this cover. Anyway, you should both check out the Magnetic Fields version, it's good though leaning towards cheesy

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i *love* the magnetic fields version of this song - they are one of my favorite bands. the reason we liked the peter gabriel version better for the wedding is that his version is really haunting (love that about peter gabriel's voice) and more romantic/less cheesy sounding than the MF version. we actually used both versions for our wedding video since we like the song, and both versions, so much.