Going to the Chapel? A White Wedding?!!
So the Forever Fiancee is going to Vegas next month for a business trip. Earlier this week, her boss said I could go, too. Very cool.
Naturally, as we've done over the course of our illustrious four-year engagement, we started contemplating marriage. Maybe we could take a cab to the Little White Wedding Chapel's drive-thru Tunnel of Love? Or maybe we could hit the Rip Taylor show then beeline for the Wee Kirk O' the Heather wedding emporium and hitch things up? Or maybe Rip can come with us and be my best man! He could mop my brow with his toupee! Can you imagine the confetti?!!!
Or maybe we'll just scrap the marriage, get matching dragon tattoos and hit the buffet.
Could go either way...
As the FF and I keep contemplatin', here's "SD's Wedding Bell Blues Mix."
1) Get It Right the First Time -- Billy Joel
2) A Wedding in Cherokee County -- Randy Newman
3) Dead Man Walkin' -- Bruce Springsteen
4) Danke Schoen -- Wayne Newton
5) I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) -- Meat Loaf
6) How Do You Keep the Music Playing? -- James Ingram
7) I Wanna Marry You -- Bruce Springsteen
8) I Wanna Be Sedated -- the Ramones
9) I Will Not Go Quietly -- Don Henley
10) I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) -- Michael McDonald
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
I refuse to walk down that beer stained, gum-laden, threadbare Las Vegas aisle without:
White Wedding - Bill Idol
Love Me Tender - Elvis (he will be our officiant, right?)
The Chapel of Love - Dixie Cups
Wedding March - Mozart
November Rain - GnR (Okay, that wasn't really a wedding song, but who can forget that video?)
Posted by: Forever Fiancee | May 18, 2007 at 11:33 AM
I'd prefer Rip Taylor as a witness -- or at least Danny Gans -- but if we have to settle for the King, that's cool. At least he'll be sweatier than me.
Good to see us iron out the more important matters.
Posted by: Sean Daly | May 18, 2007 at 11:55 AM
My sister got married at the Little White Wedding Chapel - not an Elvis impersonator in sight, but somehow she's still hitched! (To the same guy no less.)
Posted by: Brad | May 18, 2007 at 12:15 PM
I'd love to see the success/divorce rate of Vegas marriages.
I bet it's not much different than the "normal" rate.
Or maybe that's just wishful thinking...
Posted by: Sean Daly | May 18, 2007 at 12:30 PM
What would we be without wishful thinking? Heh heh.
Posted by: Doug Carter | May 18, 2007 at 12:42 PM
well, you know what i think of your f.f. you're a lucky guy if she'll agree to marry you!
ok. what about "ready to run" by the dixie chicks (a personal fave)
and i cant think of weddings without thinking of the "november rain" video..stepanie in the short wedding dress & slash getting serious playing the guitar outside.....im gonna get teary
Posted by: t odell | May 18, 2007 at 12:59 PM
sorry......i didnt realize you posted november rain already. my bad. i guess it was worth mentioning twice
Posted by: t odell | May 18, 2007 at 01:01 PM
There's always room for plenty of "November Rain" here...
Posted by: Sean Daly | May 18, 2007 at 01:19 PM
Don't forget Van Morrison's "I Just Want To Be Your Ball and Chain."
Posted by: HJG | May 18, 2007 at 01:36 PM
White Trash Wedding? The Dixie Chicks
Posted by: Guy | May 18, 2007 at 02:17 PM
Wedding Bell Blues by the Fifth Dimension.
My Wife by The Who.
Posted by: Janet Keeler | May 18, 2007 at 02:18 PM
White Trash Wedding, indeed. If we get hitched, I'm totally wearing my sleeveless Budweiser tee. I used to say it was an "ironic" shirt. But let's be honest. I'm filling that sucker out nice.
Posted by: Sean Daly | May 18, 2007 at 02:40 PM
"Too much too young" - The Specials
"Ball and Chain" - XTC
"$1000 Wedding" - Gram Parsons
Posted by: LockBull | May 18, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Skip the Budweiser tee in favor of the Schlitz shirt worn by Slash at Velvet Revolver's DC stop, but only if it's the "wrap your hand around my can" version.
Posted by: Guy | May 18, 2007 at 08:51 PM
I met the FF, Sean, and she didn't seem to have any trace of insanity but I've been wrong before....twice, actually. Oh well, I've always liked "Big Day" by XTC. Good luck guys. I miss you all!
Posted by: Former Producer Dave | May 19, 2007 at 11:58 PM
I met the FF, Sean, and she didn't seem to have any trace of insanity but I've been wrong before....twice, actually. Oh well, I've always liked "Big Day" by XTC. Good luck guys. I miss you all!
Posted by: Former Producer Dave | May 20, 2007 at 12:04 AM
I met the FF, Sean, and she didn't seem to have ANY traces of insanity but I've been wrong before. Oh well, I've always liked "Big Day" by XTC. Good luck guys. I miss you all!
Posted by: Former Producer Dave | May 20, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Jeez, I love to see my own words in print. Sorry about the stuttering postings.
Posted by: Former Producer Dave | May 20, 2007 at 12:06 AM
Don't forget about "Troubled Times" by FOW and "We Haven't Turned Around" by Gomez as potential wedding songs (though they have nothing to do with weddings). How about "Jeopardy" by the Greg Kihn Band? Actually, Daly, if you wore that sleeveless T, you would look just like Larry the Cable Guy.
Posted by: Assless (but not Nippleless) Chaps | May 21, 2007 at 08:01 AM
"I Knew the Bride" by Dave Edmunds
Posted by: Walter Cox | May 21, 2007 at 11:26 AM
I never realized XTC had so many songs about marriage. Another good one is "Love on a Farmboy's Wages"
Posted by: GlennS. | May 21, 2007 at 05:40 PM