TRULY GRAND ENTRANCES: Song Suggestions for your Grand Entrance

We LOVE music here at Wish Wonder Dream and you'll hear it blasting at our studio daily. From Pearl Jam, to Coffee House, to Country, to Indie Rock - we truly love it all. We also love to help our clients select music for their special wedding dances so we've created a list of our favorites using Spotify.

We've based our song choices from past experiences with couples who have really done it right and from our own personal favorites. Our first list "GRAND ENTRANCES" is guaranteed to get the party started right. We've broken it up by genre to make it as easy to use as possible. We love feedback and suggestions so please let us know if we missed one of your favorites.

By the way, we promise to update this about every six months to make sure our Top 40's Genre is still relevant and currently playing on the radio. Here are some of our favorites right NOW and the rest can be seen here

POP/TOP 40s

It's Always a Good Time (Owl City)

Live While We're Young (One Direction)

Anything Can Happen (Ellie Goulding)

I Can Only Imagine (Chris Brown)

You've Got the Love (Florence and the Machine)

COUNTRY:

My Kind of Party (Jason Aldean)

Here For the Party (Gretchen Wilson)

Hillbilly Bone (Blake Shelton)

UPBEAT/HIGH ENERY:

Fever (remix) (Adam Freeland remix by Sarah Vaughan)

Ready For the Floor (Hot Chip)

Intro (The XX)

L.O.V.E (V.V. Brown)

ROCK:

I Would Do Anything For You (Foster the People)

Some Nights (FUN)

How You Like Me Now (The Heavy)

Golden Years (David Bowie)

INDIE ROCK:

My Love (The Bird and the Bee)

Take a Walk (Passion Pit)

Home (Philip Philips)

MODERN SWING:

Ragtime Cat (Parov Stellar)

Booty Swing (Parov Stellar)

Jolie Coquine (Caravan Palace)

A BEAUTIFUL SONG FOR A FIRST DANCE

We turned into the sappy, teary-eyed, over-the-top romantic girls we are as soon as we heard this gorgeous song from Griffin House called "Better Than Love." We love letting couples know when we find perfect songs for first dances so we were realy excited to post this one:

SCORING YOUR WALK DOWN THE AISLE

So it's probably pretty clear by this point that we're very romantic and dramatic (and maybe even a little bit cheesy) around here at Wish Wonder Dream. Thus, this afternoon we decided to come up with a list of our all-time favorite gorgeous film scores (or "film score type songs") to play as you and your wedding party come down (and then back up) the aisle on your wedding day. In no particular order, here are our favorite songs for your processional and recessional. We definitely advise that you have a box of tissues handy and of course, if you have suggestions please send them in and we'll be happy to put them on our list.

 Processional

• "Road to Perdition Score" - Thomas Newman (Road to Perdition)
• "For the Love of a Princess" - James Horner and the London Symphony Orchestra (Braveheart)
• "Glasglow Love Theme" - Craig Newman (Love Actually)
• "Time to Say Goodbye" - Mike Strickland
• "Think of Me" - Mike Strickland (Phantom of the Opera)
• "Forrest Gump Suite" - Mike Strickland (Forrest Gump)
• "My Heart Will Go On" - Piano Strings Tribute or Warren Wills or James Horner and the Prague Orchestra (Titanic)
• "Fix You" - International Classic Rock Orchestra (Coldplay)
• "The John Dunbar Theme" - John Berry (Dances with Wolves)
• "Hymn to the Sea" - James Horner (Titanic)
• "Maestro" - Hans Zimmer (The Holiday)
• "Opening" - Craig Armstrong and A.R. Rachman (The Golden Age)
• "Finding Neverland (Piano Variation in Blue)" - Jane A. P. Kaczmarek
• "Cast Away Score" - Alan Silvestri (Cast Away)
• "Main Title" - Alan Silvestri (Father of the Bride)

Recessional

• "An American Symphony" - The London Metropolitan Symphony (Mr. Holland's Opus)
• "Think of Me" - Mike Strickland (Phantom of the Opera)
• "Fix You" - International Classic Rock Orchestra (Coldplay)
• "Concerning Hobbits" - Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings)
• "The Entertainer" - Marvin Hamlisch 
• "Gumption" - Hans Zimmer (The Holiday)
• "Follow the Flower" - Christophe Beck (Under the Tuscan Sun)
• "The Big Day" - Alan Silvestri (Father of the Bride)
• "Dragonheart Main Theme" - The City of Prague Philharmonic (Dragonheart)
• "The Wedding" - James Horner (Legends of the Fall)

A Song for Valentines

 

Happy Valentine's Day to all you love birds. Whether you're celebrating an engagement or you walked down the aisle years ago take some time today to show your honey that he/she is the best thing that's ever happened to you with this beautiful song.

Congratulations to Train on their Grammy win last night!

 

 

Songs for Family Dances