Mom/son wedding dance song?
 

What was the song at your wedding for the groom and his mother? I've been looking online and some are so random and make no sense. Daddy/Daughter songs are much easier to come by.

Everyone uses "Mama" by Boys II Men down here. It's a tearjerker.

Although we're not married yet, I think my fiance is going to use "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts. Of course he hasn't been too helpful in the music dept.

At my wedding, my mom and I danced to "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. I agree, though, that it was tough to figure out a good song.

There's a local group called Na Leo and they have a wonderful song called You Don't Remember that moms and sons like to dance to at weddings.

Lately, I've been seeing some awful ones around here, it's really disappointing that people ignore the standards. Stuff like "Touch My Body" by Mariah Carey should be on the short list.

Also, "Tears in Heaven" by Clapton.

For a Mother/Son dance??????
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Not everything has to be "At Last" by Etta James, Slowy McOldfashionpants. Let the kids dance it up.

We did combined mother/son father/daughter dance (so people would only have to sit through one dance) to Unforgettable. I think.

I always recommend going with something mom likes--I was at a wedding where the mom and son danced to Kenny Rogers' Through the Years because she was a huge Kenny Rogers fan.

My FI and his mom are dancing to "In My Life" by the Beatles. He asked his mom what she wanted and she just picked silly songs like, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." Google mother son wedding songs. I found a few sites that had pages of songs with links to them so you could actually hear them.

Aw that song reminds me of my grandparents 50th anniversary!

If you're Italian and your mother is Italian, you pretty much have no choice. Le Mamme by Toto Cutogno. If you know the language, it's a really pretty song. I'm pretty sure it's all about what mothers do for you and all that.

Back in the day, the common one was Three Times a Lady by Lionel Ritchie.

OTW I just clicked on that song and now I'm sobbing into my coffee. He's my firstborn and only son so I know I'm going to be a weepy mess out on the dance floor. That is a gorgeous song.

That's what we used as well. I have also seen "Wind Beneath my Wings" by Bette Midler and "The Story of My Life" by Neil Diamond.

I will have to check out OTW's suggestion when I get home since my work computer doesn't stream worth a darn.

LOL -- my thoughts exactly. I think it would be nice for my mom and me to dance to something a little faster, but Mariah? Really? No thanks.

It's only a matter of time before Bubba Sparxxx - Ms. New Booty becomes a wedding staple :rolleyes:

Guys, I'll let you in on something . . . the Mariah song is not even close to the most inappropriate for a mother/son dance in that post.

Holy crap, dudes - buy a book and read it.

Touch my body
Put me on the floor
Wrestle me around
Play with me some more
Touch my body
Throw me on the bed
I just wanna make you feel
Like you never did.
Touch my body
Let me wrap my thighs
All around your waist
Just a little taste
Touch my body
Know you love my curves
Come on and give me what I deserve
And touch my body.

Sorry...my mother and I don't have that kind of relationship.

actually, "Tears In Heaven" probably is worse, considering the circumstances which inspired its creation.

Hopefully ones on the ground floor.

SORRY EVERYONE - it had to pop out at some point.

Oh lord! :eek:

:eek::eek::eek:

but I was thinking that too...

My childhood friend danced to Mama by Boyz II Men.

It's considerably worse. Markedly worse. Hilariously worse. (also one of the worst strip club songs ever, too)

Holy shit, are we no longer teaching sarcasm in school? Everyone, punch yourself in a reproductive organ. Jesus.

I thought a law had been passed that strippers could only strip to that Buckcherry crazy bitch song. Unless the town is one in which over 50% of the guys still wear their letter jackets after graduating high school, then Motley Crue or Metallica is fine.

***waiting for Michael Stipe to pop into this thread and complain about people who have "The One I Love" as "their song."

I have that beat handily.

A buddy in high school had a song with his main squeeze . . . being both Pearl Jam fans and people who don't actually listen to lyrics (I'm sure you see where this is going), they had "Better Man" as their song. Apparently "Closer" by NIN was unavailable. Unreal.

We still fuck with him about it.

I went to college with a set of Catholic triplets who sang in their high school choir and fancied themselves as great singers. So they'd walk around singing pop and rock songs, only they'd sing them really choir-like...it was funny. Well, one day we're all hanging out and one of them starts to sing Allanis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know" and another one joins in. Well, it gets to the part about things-she'd-do-in-a-theatre and they sing it like it's the most beautiful sentiment in the world. We started to laugh and we asked them if they even knew what they were singing, since we suspected they didn't (they were VERY sheltered and naive). Well, of course they didn't, and they were horrified to find out that for several years they had been singing about...well, you know.

You'd be surprised how many people STILL have no idea what they are singing about when they sing along to "Promiscuous Girl" I can't stand things like this. LOOK IT UP! Don't just blindly sing along like idiots.

I actually prefer Ms. Bay Booty. Songs that are remixed to fit the Bay Area are my guilty pleasure :o.

You know what? If you look at those Mariah lyrics again (minus the touching bodies and looking at curves) and take all the nastiness out fo them, I totally see a 4 yo boy playing with his mom. That whole play with me on the floor and wrestle or whatever. It'd work on some level. :shrug:

That's fantastic - nothing like a song about abusive relationships to get the mood going.

If we took the lyrics and nastiness out, then we'd have a different song ;)

For the longest time I thought that song was called "Mystery Girl." lol

Yeah - then there's the whole "dreaming about KILLING HIM" thing, which is also just beautiful.

I think my fiance is using Celine Dion's "Because you loved me."

That was DH's and my exit song at our reception.

We didn't have a mother/son dance. My father (who disapproved of the marriage) refused to do any of the traditional father-of-the-bride things, including a father/daughter dance. When my MIL heard this, she ASSumed there would be no mother/son dance either, so she threw a tantrum. I'm talking complete toddler meltdown here. We would have done a mother/son dance, maybe with a FIL/DIL dance (FIL can dance!), but not after that meltdown.

I did dance with my mother at the reception... just a random number during one of the band's sets. I led.

My husband and his mom picked Unforgettable.

HAHAHA this had me cracking up!! BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY ROCK IT EVERYWHERE

ok, so i was thoroughly traumatized by what my husband wanted to dance with his mom to.

































amazing grace. :confused::eek::confused::eek::confused::eek:


the only thing that saved it was that he made a really pretty speech before they danced explaining why it was significant to them. and i was baffled by it for weeks but didn't want to be all, "YOU CAN'T DANCE TO A HYMN" when he was set on it....so there they went. and then me and my dad danced to "mack the knife"....pretty darn priceless if you ask me. :D

i came across this song while looking for a mother/son dance song at the reception. what do you think? too sappy?

it's by jim brickman - a mother's love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Z9sXqr44s

It's a bit sappy, yes. But aren't most mother/son dances? :)

Go for it if you like it!

I have no idea what the boy is going to pick for his mother/son dance. I asked and he didn't seem to be concerned about it.

Should my brother ever get married, I'm callin' it right now...he and my mom will be dancing to either "In My Life" by The Beatles or "Beautiful Boy" by John Lennon.