Songs that Make Me Smile - Part 3 The last of the songs

I've given you a run down here and here about how and what we chose for our music for the ceremony, intros and first dances. Now it's time to take a listen to the songs we used towards the end of the night for the other fun traditions.

First up... the cake cutting. It's only appropriate that I used a song from the group, Cake for our cutting song. We used their rendition of Love You Madly. (PS You can also find this in our How We Met video). It was alternative and upbeat. Just what we wanted.

For the boquet toss I knew I wanted something different. We have all heard Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper and Single Ladies by Beyonce, but what about a show tune?? Oh yes... I went there. But it was the modern day show tune, from a movie I hold dear to my heart, Moulin Rouge. I choose Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, the Nicole Kidman version of course! (Sorry for the Italian version... Our song was cued up to about the 1 min mark too)

We wanted to get a little down and dirty for the garter removal, toss and return. We picked a classic from Ferris Bueller, Ohhh Yeah... A badass song by George Thorogood that we all know and love, Bad to the Bone, and finally one of my personal favorites and an ecletic song, Ooh La La by Goldfrapp.

And at the end of the night we finished slow with Josuha Radin's Today. I've included the lyrics to this song because they are beautiful. If we hadn't previously decided on "our" song, this would have been a major contender. He even played it live for Ellen and Portia after there wedding. (Foreshadow? I hope not!!)

Today by Joshua Radin
Shoelaces untied
You can dry your eyes
Perfect shadows alive
Behind us
This is the day I make you mine

The way your hair lies
sometimes unrecognized
All the way from these today
on a train
Nothing to say if theres still time

But you are the one
I've been wating for today
And here comes the sun
That's been baiting on today

Lately I've lost my tongue
Today you found the sun
I know not long has grown
Well I thank god you came along

But you are the one
I've been waitng for today
And here comes the sun
That's been baiting on today

You looked right through me
When there was no one else
I sat beside you and became myself
Today... today

You are the one
I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun t
Thats been baiting on today

And there you have it, the soundtrack to our wedding. I even have a playlist on my iPod that plays all these songs and it takes me back. So were my songs different then what you expected? What did you play? Did you get new ideas?