Worst Wedding Songs

A few weeks ago, NPR did a piece on the most inappropriate wedding songs (See Top Ten Wedding Songs). The story featured such gems as "Send in the Clowns" by Judy Collins, "The Lady is a Tramp" by Frank Sinatara--and an especially inappropriate, creepy, stalker song, "Every Breath You Take" by The Police.

I had to cringe when I heard this story. You see--my missus and I made the mistake of having an inappropriate song played at our small, non-demoninational service on the Purdue University campus back in 1978. It was non-other than Feelin' Stronger Every Day (1973) by Chicago.

We both identified with the sentiment of the lyrics--at least, the part we had paid attention to. You know: "I do believe in you/ And I know you believe in me/ Oh yeah/ Oh yeah" and "Feelin stronger every day/ Feelin stronger every day."

Little did either of us realize that a good chunk of the song deals with breaking up. Sigh.

Unlike the premise of the NPR story--that the quality of marriages may be judged by the quality of the music selected, I guess we disproved that theory: this year marked our thirty-first anniversary.