Dance

While last year's pandemic upended our lives last year, one thing won’t change: people will keep getting married, and wedding day traditions will continue. As large scale weddings resume, two wedding day traditions will return to the forefront, according to a WeddingWire survey. Flower girls go all the way back…

One of the most delightful melodies ever written for theater is “All the things you are.” It is simply lovely musically and lyrically, which is why it has become something of a wedding jazz standard. The music was written by Jerome Kern in 1939 for a little known musical (Very…

What is real love? Well, for one it is the name of the last love song recorded by The Beatles years after the band broke up. For another, one of history’s great philosophers, Thomas Aquinas, said real love means to will the good of the other for the sake of…

Adele burst onto the music scene in 2009 and has never looked back. The 2009 Grammy Awards named her best new artist and best female pop vocal performance. Although she’s known for writing compelling break-up ballads, she knows her way around a love song, too. Let’s take a look at…

Broadway has produced a plethora of passionate love songs over the decades. But you’ve got to carefully review the lyrics, because not every Broadway love song works for your first dance. For example, the epic “If I Loved You” from Carousel is an endearing love song with a melody that…

This blog loves to write about the great songs you can consider for your first dance. There are so many options. We’ve written about contemporary and classic songs couples request for their first dance. Today’s blog considers some of the best Broadway songs for your wedding reception first dance. In…

Stevie Wonder released his best-selling album, “Songs in the Key of Life,” in 1976. He jammed 21 songs into the album which explored a wide variety of musical genres. One track from the album, “As,” is a popular wedding song, having appeared on The Knot's list of popular classic first…

The Knot lists John Legend’s “All of Me” as the 8th most romantic first dance song around, perfect for your first wedding dance song. (It was first on the list just a year or two.) “All of me” became Legend’s first #1 hit when it was released on 2013. He…

Katharine McPhee sings Cole Porter Cole Porter transformed music in America by writing smart, witty, and totally catchy songs for theater and popular culture. And yet he is even less known among millennials than George Gershwin, who we wrote about last week. Millennials should get to know this giant, because…

Linda Ronstadt sings a Gershwin classic George Gershwin is one of the greatest American songwriters ever. His songs are still played at weddings to this day, and yet 3 out of 10 millennials have never heard of him. Gershwin lived and died in the early part of the 20th century.…