So, my beloved has been diligently buying iTunes to play at our reception. We’re now trying to arrange the songs into about an hour and a half of danceable tunes, but that is a bit of a daunting task… so, we turn to you, Dear Readers, for your suggestions:

• And No More Shall We Part, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• It’s Only Time, The Magnetic Fields
• Love Is Blindness, Sixpence None the Richer
• Extreme Ways, Moby
• Midnight Train to Georgia, Gladys Knight & The Pips
• Town Called Malice, The Jam
• Fields of Gold, Sting
• San Diego Serenade, Tom Waits
• Moonlight Cocktail, Mel Torme
• It’s Oh So Quiet, Bjork
• Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
• Gentle On My Mind, Johnny Cash
• Fade Into You, Mazzy Star
• Remember the Mountain Bed, Billy Bragg and Wilco
• 1,000 Oceans, Tori Amos
• Wonderful Tonight, Eric Clapton
• Sea of Love, Cat Power
• Make You Feel My Love, Bob Dylan
• Where Did We Go Right, Johnny and June Carter Cash
• Coney Island, Baby Tom Waits
• Tom Traubert’s Blues, Tom Waits
• Wild Horses, The Sundays
• I’ll Be Your Mirror, The Velvet Underground & Nico
• Alice, Tom Waits
• Satellite of Love, Lou Reed
• Lifelong Fling, Over the Rhine
• God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
• Time, Tom Waits
• California Stars, Billy Bragg and Wilco
• Waltz, No. 2 , Elliott Smith
• Harvest Moon, Neil Young
• Faithfully Dangerous, Over the Rhine
• Cruel and Pretty, Over the Rhine
• Sweet Baby James, James Taylor
• Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, Paul Simon
• Under a Killing Moon, Echo and the Bunnymen
• Nobody Loves Me, Portishead
• The Pearl, Emmylou Harris
• Michelangelo, Emmylou Harris
• In a Little While, U2
• One, Johnny Cash
• You Belong to Me, Patsy Cline
• Love Is Here to Stay, Harry Connick, Jr.
• Moon Dance, Van Morrison
• Mac The Knife, Bobby Darin
• It Had to Be You , Harry Connick, Jr.
• Moon River, Audrey Hepburn & Henry Mancini
• Bam Thwok, Pixies

Those are really in no particular order, except that “And No More Shall We Part” will be played for our first dance. Any comments, Dear and Gentle Musically-Inclined Readers, would be greatly appreciated.

(Thanks for your suggestions. I’ll have to look them up. More additions of my own:

• The Night, Morphine
• We Are in Love, Frank Sinatra
• What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye
• Moonlight Becomes You, Bing Crosby
• I Could Write a Book, Frank Sinatra
• At Last, Etta James
• Summertime, The Sundays
• The End of the World, The Cure
• Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing, The Magnetic Fields

Sarah.)