Yesterday while we were out at my parents’ house, my sister brought me a CD and showed me the song she and her fiance are going to have in their wedding ceremony as the recessional song. I had to laugh because this is not only the second time she’s showed me but she keeps saying how it took her to forever to find it until she found it on a compilation CD. Just ask, darling, I have to say, I already have that song. :) But that’s another story. Anyway, on the ride home, Steve and I got to talking.

Neither of us can remember a wedding we went to, before ours, that used a non-traditional recessional. Seems, at least with the people we know, we started a trend.

June 3, 2000 Our recessional was “Wonderful” by Bleach from their album “Space.”

We had to stop and think, too, about why we did that in the first place. If I remember correctly, Steve wanted the song in but we didn’t have anywhere else to put it! Of course, we kept it “top secret” until the rehearsal dinner and then freaked out our parents with it. :) We were begged to change it but it turned out really nice. So nice that our best man borrowed our CD for his wedding the following week. To think of it now, I don’t know why they’d want to do that, but whatever. :P

Then at a friend’s wedding in 2002, they used “L-O-V-E” by Nat King Cole

Two of our friends last year used “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”

My brother & sister-in-law used Less Than Jake’s “I Think I Love You”

Another of my friends used one called “You Will Go Out With Joy” but I wasn’t able to find that one. Not even sure who did it, I think it was instrumental and I just remember the title from her program. It sounded like Jewish traditional to me, though.

And the song my sister’s going to use?

“I Love You More Today Than Yesterday” by Spiral Staircase.

Fun stuff. Of course, there’s more, when considering I’ve been to about a thousand weddings in the last 7.5 years but those are just the ones that stand out in our minds.

So that was a nice little trip down memory lane. Those of you who are married (or getting married) – what song did you (or are you gonna) use for your recessional? Traditional or otherwise? I’m curious :)