Not-hymns at wedding

[jack]

One of the things that's traditional at weddings we'd like to include if we can, is something everyone sings. Does anyone have any suggests for _what_?

Ideally it would be:

- a tune many people know, at least a little bit, and we can get enthusiastic about singing
- not so Christian (or Jewish) we feel uncomfortable (I'm pretty relaxed about this, but some hymns will be a bit much)
- at least tangentially appropriate to the wedding, or at least, not actively opposed to romance

Does anyone have any obvious suggestions or good ideas? Or bad ideas, for that matter, they may still inspire us with some other idea :)

Comments

[seryn]

I don't have any wedding-appropriate suggestions, but my favorite non-fiction author, Alain de Botton, did a talk (the video is around somewhere online) where they all sang "Sad Songs" by Elton John. Just about everyone in the room seemed to know enough to sing along.

I think you'd be surprised at the average person's capacity for song lyrics.

Plus just about anything you pick has to be better than watching drunken people sing "Auld Lang Syne"--- I've never heard that song in its entirety. I've seen it on television or in movies and it's always clipped.... everyone else has the same experience because we all know the same parts and we all mumble-hummed the rest.