The Tunes: First Dance

With the invitations almost all out the door now (holding some back, since we are inviting WAY MORE than can fit...), we're finally hitting on some decisions we've had on the back burner.  Right now, it's music.

We are both crazy indecisive, though, and both want to pick the "right" music, so we're having some trouble. Our first song we tried to tackle was the FIRST DANCE...

The first dance song has to be slow enough to dance to, sound lovely, preferably be by an artist we both know and like, and have good lyrics with a positive sentiment.  This has caused us to throw out quite a few songs...

After some searching, I decided "Hold On" by Michael Buble would be perfect!  I loved it, it had a good tempo, I love his sound, and at first listen, the lyrics are nice: inspirational, talking about love, toughing through the hard times...

Actually, after listening to it again, it seems a lot more positive and happy than it did last night...  But Dino thought it was too much of a downer, with some of the lyrics.  So we dismissed that song.

This next one I stumbled on, and liked.  Dino actually likes this one, and if we don't pick another, this'll be our fall-back.  "Brighter Than Sunshine" by Aqualung.

Apparently the word "Sunshine" is happier, and a nice sentiment.  Plus we're hoping for sun on the wedding day.

Dino also didn't hate "Lucky" by Jason Mraz and Colbie Callait, but he wasn't a huge fan of She & Him's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" (even though I not so secretly want to be Zooey Deschanel's BFF or maybe just be her...).

We have a pretty big list that I've compiled to go through still, but I have a feeling most will be too fast ("Forever" by Walter Meego was dismissed for that reason, along with "Everything" by Michael Buble, even though the lyrics of the latter would have been perfect!) or just too weird for him.  I'm wondering what he'll think of "Strangers in the Wind" by Cut Copy, for example, since he loves the band, but it might be a little fast and not sentimental enough.  I'm currently going through the list to cull out the ones I know he'll hate!

Any suggestions?  It's so hard to narrow it down, when what I would consider "our song" is "Thing for Me" by Metronomy, which is not exactly slow-dance-able (except by robot or other crazy dance, and we don't want people to think we're that weird, though we totally are).