Old Soul, Young Heart

Philip and I have never had a song. He is a music person and I used to be, but his taste in music is not exactly what you would play at a wedding reception (nor would he want his taste to be what you would play at a wedding reception). So the music part in general was somewhat difficult. I have more mainstream taste than he does, but thinking of a good, classic, not overly used, and non-cheesy first dance song was a bit of a challenge. For a long time I thought our first dance song would be "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis. It's Elvis; how can you go wrong? I was a fan and Philip was too, but towards the end I felt like he wasn't as excited about it. Then I thought of the song, "The Way You Look Tonight" by Sinatra. Honestly the first time I heard this song was in the movie My Best Friend's Wedding . (A lot of songs always come back to the movies for me!) I mean, the first time I saw that movie I was probably 13, so to know of Frank Sinatra...

Missed last week's Marriage Monday... was partying it up in Vegas! Next week will sort of have two topics. Well, I'm annoyed because I can no longer figure out how to embed YouTube videos into my blog. So that's super frustrating. I wanted to have each video in this blog entry, but I guess that ain't happening. I pretty much knew what music I wanted for the ceremony for a long time. I am a lover of movie scores. I just generally love the music in films. It sets the tone, and so I knew that I wanted to include several songs from movies that I love. I didn't know it, but the musicians played one of my favorite songs from Legends of the Fall as part of the prelude, called "The Ludlows." I had also suggested "All You Need is Love" for the prelude because I love it in Love Actually . I didn't hear it get played, because I was downstairs hyperventilating. :) My brother lit the candles and the grandmas and Philip's parents walked into ...