So I’m a groomsman in a wedding and I was asked by my friend to also DJ the wedding. The thing is, I’ve never been to a wedding before :O. I’m more of a club DJ that plays mostly house music. So I thought why not create a topic that helps everyone out, you never know if you’ll be asked so why not have a step into the right direction.
First and foremost - DO NOT FOLLOW songs listed here to a T. Ask the people who are getting married what kind music they want and do not want.
As I find music and music is suggested (if you post try and post a youtube link also!) I will update this post
The types of music for certain parts of the wedding
Look up a guy on YouTube, Peter Lee Johnson. He does violin covers of popular songs. I think is appropriate for cocktails. If you donate to him he’ll send you all the covers he’s done.
I ended up doing like 8 weddings this Summer. I created a playlist on Spotify for cocktail hour/dinner music that I would play on shuffle. Feel free to subscribe and use as your own. I try to keep it updated as best as I can.
I got lots of compliments on it.
Also, when I DJ a wedding I tell the couple to download Spotify and start a collaborative playlist with me. They go through and add the songs they want and I go buy the ones I don’t have.
Exported from my last wedding…filled about 3 hours.
Forever
Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
SexyBack
Come On Over
Bad Romance
Low
I Gotta Feeling
Firework
Have I Told You Lately (slow dance)
Yeah!
Get Low
Ride wit me
Stayin’ Alive
At Last (slow dance)
Ice Ice Baby
Billie Jean
Celebration
Bust A Move
Kiss
Poison
Bangarang (mashup up with Poison, this kid wouldn’t leave me alone about it)
Motownphilly
Unchained Melody (slow)
Wonderful Tonight (slow)
The Time Of My Life
Like A Prayer
Africa
In the Club (a little mashup I do with Toto and 50 Cent!)
Teach Me How To Dougie
Rude Boy
No Diggity
Flashing Lights
Fire Burning (a trans up remix I came up with to go from 90-123 BPM)
Call Me Maybe
Dynamite
Don’t Stop Believin’ (I do a Tech House lead-in and out…it transitions well with dance music)
Sexy and I Know It
We Found Love
Sweet Caroline
Piano Man
Faithfully
funny anecdote: i played this top40 night in a big student club and at 3am (500 drunk peeps on the floor) there is this totally drunk guy coming at me demanding the mic to propose to his drunk gf. i was like: “fuck yeah! this is gonna be awsome!” so he grabs the mic and starts talking but you couldn´t hear him since the crowd was screaming to turn on the music again and whistling and stuff. after they where done. i played that tune and said to that guy: “man, i hope, tomorrow, you and your girl wont remember what happened last and night. be a bid romantic and propose to your girl like a man!”
then i played this tune.
Loads of wedding classics out there. Look up some other Mobile DJ’s websites and they often have playlists on there that may give you some ideas.
Dolly - 9-5 and Stevie - Superstition never fail.
I can also vouch for Frankie and the Four Seasons as a winner.
Just to hammer the point home, you should probably get on the mic and give a quick synopsis of Ian Curtis’ life. That is sure to get everyone in a festive mood.
No longer have to do dinner/cocktail granted I’m going to have a few songs just incase. Just trying to thing how I’m gonna transition since Its kind of weird going from a pianist to dance mode. Start off low key I guess
because I can’t always be at my table since I am partaking
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