Playlist for Rock Music/Vintage themed Wedding

You may recall we were married back on 12 September 2015 and both of us being great lovers of all types of music, it was imperative that we got our playlist for our rock music/vintage themed wedding just right. My husband is mainly a lover of heavy metal and me, classic rock (with a little heavy metal thrown in) but we didn’t want our wedding guests having to form a mosh pit so we kept it mellow and we were very happy with the music we put together. This playlist for a rock music / vintage themed wedding has that perfect blend of rock classics, retro hits and melodic heavy metal.

Bridal Processional

I’ve always loved Fleetwood Mac and, in particular Stevie Nicks, and when I was trying to think of a song that summed up the type of relationship my husband and I had “Songbird” was just perfect. Every time I listened to it before the wedding I’d be crying my eyes out. I cried when I walked up to him on the day too.

Signing the Register

Everyone loves a retro classic. “Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon was a hit when I was just starting work and it must’ve been on the radio a few times when my husband and I were driving and we’d sing it to each other. It reminded us of how we started out as friends and then how our romance was a whirlwind and we couldn’t fight our feelings anymore.

After Signing the Register & First Kiss

It goes without saying, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours” by Stevie Wonder was the perfect classic hit to play after signing the register. It was upbeat and one of my all time favourite songs (I have many).

Reception Music

My husband is a huge fan of heavy metal and has many favourite bands. Bullet for My Valentine from the UK is one of those bands. We were surprised at just how many heavy metal bands did more quiet, slower songs and this acoustic version of their hit “Heart Burst Into Fire” fit in perfectly with our theme. There were plenty of other more classic rock hits plus a few ‘one hit wonders’ and songs from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. A few of my favourite Aussie rock songs and a couple latest pop songs that reminded me of when we first met were featured as well.

Here is a list of the other songs we had playing in the background during the ‘meet and greet’ and reception.

• Thank You – Led Zepplin
• Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
• You Make Loving Fun – Fleetwood Mac
• Say You’ll Haunt Me – Stone Sour
• Every Rose Has It’s Thorn – Poison
• End of the Innocence – Don Henley
• I Can’t Tell You Why – Eagles
• Home Sweet Home – Motley Crue
• Love Will Keep Us Alive – Eagles
• Over My Head – Fleetwood Mac
• I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith
• Peaceful Easy Feeling – Eagles
• Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley
• Flame Trees – Cold Chisel
• Always – Bon Jovi
• Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
• Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder
• Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton
• Fool to Cry – The Rolling Stones
• Little Darling (I Need You) – The Doobie Brothers
• Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow – Black Label Society
• Snuff – Slipknot
• Faraway – Apocalyptica
• Dear God – Avenged Sevenfold
• Sara – Fleetwood Mac
• Emotional Rescue – The Rolling Stones
• A Girl Like You – Edwyn Collins
• I’ll Be There – Megadeth
• Get Used To It – Roger Voudouris
• Into The Night – Benny Mardones
• My Baby – Cold Chisel
• Up On The Roof – The Drifters
• Secret Love – Doris Day
• Nightbird – Stevie Nicks
• Shake You Down – Gregory Abbott
• Wait For Me – Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Nothin’ But A Good Time – Poison
• Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
• Darling Be Home Soon – Joe Cocker
• You Make My Dreams – Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
• Super Love – Dami Im

Bridal Waltz

 

We couldn’t have chosen a better song for our bridal waltz. Both the Pennywise version and the original Ben E. King mean so much to both of us. My husband is a huge fan of Pennywise and we saw them in concert a couple weeks after our wedding. We started off dancing slow and then rocked it out. It was so memorable and really does sum up how crazy and kooky we are.

Post Reception

I wasn’t sure if there’d be a lot of dancing being a lunch time wedding but I wanted to pick the tempo up on the music selection, just in case. I thought I’d get it started with a bit of Iggy Pop and “Real Wild Child”. There wasn’t any dancing but there was some great music playing in the background. I haven’t listed the few extra ‘latest hits’ I had selected for the kids.

• Dancing in the Street – David Bowie & Mick Jagger
• Rising Sun – Cold Chisel
• Take a Long Line – The Angels
• I was Made for Lovin’ You – KISS
• Dance the Night Away – Van Halen
• Wild Thing – The Troggs
• Gimme All Your Lovin’ – ZZ Top
• All Shook Up – Elvis Presley
• Hound Dog – Elvis Presley
• Burning Love – Elvis Presley
• Blitzkrieg Bop – Ramones
• Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On – Jerry Lee Lewis
• Who Do You Love – George Thorogood & The Destroyers
• All She Wants To Do Is Dance – Don Henley
• Hang Fire – The Rolling Stones
• Rock and Roll – Led Zepplin
• Rock ‘N Me – Steve Miller Band
• Jet Airliner – Steve Miller Band
• It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Want to Rock’n’Roll) – AC/DC
• Baby, Please Don’t Go – AC/DC

DIY Vintage Rock Music themed Wedding Invitations

It was inevitable that our wedding was going to have a vintage theme of some sort if I had anything to do with it. I feel like I’m trapped in a time warp that I never lived in. I’ve always been fascinated by the 1950’s and everything relating to it like the cars, the music, the fashion and just the simplicity of life back in those days. Vintage weddings seem to be quite in vogue these days but I don’t like to go with the norm and wanted to do something a little different plus save some money in the process. We’ve set ourselves a very tight budget and so far, so good, in sticking to it. We just can’t justify the amount of money that’s spent on weddings.

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With no offence to the wonderfully talented person who made the above ensemble or the brides to be who like the above type of invitations etc, I just didn’t want to spend the money having something like this made and anything I saw really didn’t seem to fit in with what I wanted.

Without having a ‘theme’ as such we wanted to feature things we liked and what we’re all about. Me, I like all things vintage and any kind of rock music from the 1950’s to now and Damien loves all genres of music, in particular, heavy metal. I found the ‘shabby chic’ looking background by Googling an image. My fiance is a musician (a heavy metal guitarist in fact) so I used an image of one of his favourite guitars in the background. We wanted to make it feel like guests were being invited to a ‘rock concert’ so I tried to create a music event poster. Using Picmonkey, I created the document to an A4 size image, inserted it into a Microsoft Word document and had them printed at a local office supplies store. They were 88 cents each (which is a lot in my book) but I would’ve used up nearly all of the colour in my printer and for the price of printer cartridges these days, it was more cost effective.

I found this really cool, online concert ticket generator called Fake Concert Ticket Generator from which I created a “Save the Date” so guests could stick it onto the fridge or put in a place to remind them.

I picked up these small adhesive magnetic strips and stuck one on the back of the ticket.

We also didn’t want or need any gifts and would much prefer people to come and help us celebrate but if they did want to give us a gift, we would much prefer a small donation towards a honeymoon, not that we’ve really planned on going anywhere as yet. With two elderly small dogs and four children between us and work commitments, we are leaving that until a bit after the wedding to organise. I bought a pack of pretty paper from the discount store and just typed these little notices up and popped one into each invitation.

I’m not sure why I chose purple as a main colour throughout the wedding. Maybe mixed with a vintage green it looked good so I stuck with it. I picked up the envelopes and heavy card to adhere the invitation to from the local office supplies store, which was probably the most expensive part of the whole exercise. I only needed about 23 envelopes but they sold the card only in packs of 50 so I’m stuck with the remaining but they’ll always come in handy for other craft projects myself or the kids will do in the future.

I also had a supply of these oval shaped stickers so I created a sticker to close the invitation once folded, again, using the image of the guitar. (I used the Avery online sticker generator to create these and it was really easy as is the label creator in Microsoft Word.)

Time to put it all together. I did a strip of glue along the top of the card, adhered the invitation to it, folded it in thirds and cut two small slits in the bottom third of the card to insert the Save the Date. I closed it and sealed it with a sticker. I used Microsoft Excel to store all the guest’s name and address details and used the Microsoft Word ‘label feature to produce name and address labels which saved me having to hand write them all. The label wizard is really easy to use in Microsoft Word.

So there you have it. The whole lot cost about $70 to produce. We’re both really happy with them. Nothing fancy, a little bit of the things we love and we hope to be really ‘rockin’ it’ on the wedding day, which I’m sure we will.