Our Wedding Songs

On Thursday, I got into the car and turned it on and the radio stated up. A little fact about me is that I only listen to Classic Fm - I despise all other radio - so that is what automatically came on. The song which had just started was the song to which I walked down the aisle on our wedding day. For the next few minutes I enjoyed every single moment as I listened to it and told Isabelle all about the day Simon and I got married.
The song I walked down the aisle to is one of the more common wedding songs - Pachelbel's Cannon in D. I knew for a long time that this was the song I would have playing in my last few minutes as an unmarried woman, as I think it is really one of the most beautiful pieces of classical music around. I hear it on Classic Fm every few months and, each time I do, it transports me right back to our wedding and it makes me smile as feel just as wonderful as I did then. I was sure that I would be terrified walking down the aisle, but when the time came it was just absolutely wonderful, and hearing Canon in D reminds me of that wonderful feeling and lets me experience it all over again. I can see so much of the detail in my mind to this day - watching the bridesmaids go first, waiting with my dad, starting up the aisle and seeing family and friends...the whole thing. I know it maybe sounds silly, but hearing the song just makes my whole mood lift and makes me feel almost as if I am back there on that day, almost 4 years later. Even though most of the chat about songs at a wedding is the song for the first dance, it is definitely Canon in D which I automatically associate with our wedding day and all those happy feelings.

However, we did have a pretty great first dance song too. It was also chosen years before we got married - a joint decision not long after we had started going out as it just seemed to be the perfect song to have at a wedding. Neither Simon nor I are great dancers, and the thought of being center stage to dance was not something we looked forward to at all. We had a good few practice sessions in the house but again, when the time came, we both really enjoyed those few special moments dancing to Jack Johnson's Better Together. The whole song is about how a couple create memories together and how each of them is better when they are with the other - how could there be a more fitting song for the start of a marriage? It's not a song I hear often but, when I do, it doesn't take me back to our wedding day. Instead, it takes me further back to the day we said in passing it would be our wedding song - all the way back to the start of our relationship when we never could have imagined being married with a beautiful daughter.

Lastly, the second dance at my wedding was my daddy and me. My sister suggested that this would be something nice to do and I am so glad she did, as it was so nice to have a few special moments with my dad on my big day, after all that he did to help us achieve it. What other song could we have danced to but My Girl? Again, it isn't a song I hear a lot but when I do it makes me think now of my dad. I think that the ultimate tear jerker would be if Isabelle decided to do the same at her wedding and dance with Simon to the same song - the mother of the bride would definitely be a sobbing wreck then!

Three very different songs, each of which had such a special part in our wedding day and which I love hearing now to have the memories of that day flood back again.