Slightly Indie Wedding iTunes Play List

So I completely abandoned this blog.  Oh well.  I think it mostly accomplished its humble purpose of keeping my family involved in the planning and documenting some of the major events.  But, I’m back for one last post.  I was dying for some examples when we were putting together the play lists so I’m posting ours here on the off chance that someone happens upon it who’s scrambling to put theirs together and looking for inspiration.  I don’t intend for anyone to copy it song-for-song, but it’s an example of what works.

Cocktail Hour

We were going for a fun, upbeat, sort of jazzy, sophisticated but approachable mood for the cocktail hour.

Dinner

We really wanted to play Iron & Wine’s album, The Shepherds Dog, on repeat.  But for the sake of variety we mixed it up a little with a hint of ’90s retro and some other laid back favorites.

*number 37 is breakfast at tiffany’s by deep blue something

Dancing

This was the trickiest for me - we’re not big dancers and we know nothing about current pop music.  We started off with stuff the older folks would like and moved into younger stuff.  We figured it was best to mostly stick with stuff people know.  Whatever we did, it worked - people danced!  I don’t remember how far we got into the play list before the night ended - we purposefully had way more music that needed (much better than not having enough).

*number 21 is coconut by harry nilsson

Hope that helps someone out there!

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9 comments

Jordan:
 1 

Great tracklist. Thanks for the inspiration!

February 8th, 2010 at 5:48 am
Rachel:
 2 

OMGGGG! I just came over from APW, and this is AMAZING! I was planning on doing an iPod reception and have been making a list of songs I hear on my Pandora and XM, but this is amazing. It’s the perfect mix of what I want and what I know will make MANY of the guests happy (rather than just the young hip guests like our friends or the older guests like our parents and extended family). THANK YOUUUUU!!! (I’m sorry for the exclamation points and capitalization. I don’t normally do this. I’m just very excited.)

February 8th, 2010 at 5:53 am
sarah:
 3 

it looks like we have a very similar taste in music! :)

February 8th, 2010 at 7:10 am
Sara A.:
 4 

I think I just might use this instead of a dj so I can have my string quartet.

February 8th, 2010 at 10:33 am
mel:
 5 

Thanks so much for posting this! We’re doing the ipod thing too and despite spending hours and hours on it I was starting to panic..particularly about the dancing! But yours looks incredibly similar to ours (yay Iron and Wine!) so *relief*. And ‘Sea of love’ is our ‘walking down the aisle song’ :)

February 8th, 2010 at 11:21 am
abby_wan_kenobi:
 6 

Thanks for posting this! I’ve had similar difficulties finding examples of homemade (or otherwise) playlists.

I think my first draft playlist has about 60% of the same bands, including the same *songs* from Feist, She & Him and Regina Spektor.

Fantastic, I’m definitely going to post my playlist (with guest response) after my wedding.

February 9th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Sam:
 7 

OMG… Thank you xx

February 10th, 2010 at 1:43 am
Autumn:
 8 

Yes! Indeed, this is helpful inspiration.

February 11th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
englyn:
 9 

Thankyou! I love most of these and it’s given me way more confidence choosing my own, knowing that people still got up and danced even without a DJ.

February 17th, 2010 at 5:09 pm

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