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I’m starting to see a lot of web searches for wedding playlists bringing people to our site. We put a lot of effort into coming up with soundtracks for the different parts of our celebration. We started by choosing music from our collection that we wanted to share with our friends and family. Next, we divided the music into groups of songs that matched the mood of the different events we hosted that weekend. Finally, we chose a song order and burned the CD’s.

Friday night, the day before the wedding, we hosted a cookout for our local friends and anyone arriving early from out of town. This music was chosen to be fun, sometimes humorous, and lively.

Also see:

• Our wedding playlist, part 2: Saturday morning
• Our wedding playlist, part 3: Post-ceremony celebration
• Our wedding playlist, part 4: During the band’s break
• Our wedding playlist, part 5: Dancing
• Our wedding playlist, part 6: Saturday night party

Friday night cookout, disc 1

1. Chic Street Man - Everybody Be Yo’self
2. 8 1/2 Souvenirs - Off White
3. Frente - Cuscutian
4. Dire Straits - Skateaway
5. Bob Mould - Wishing Well
6. Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
7. Chris Rea - Texas
8. Afro-Cuban All Stars - Amor Verdadero
9. Afro-Cuban All Stars - Clasiqueando con Ruben
10. Lou and Peter Berryman - The Grimier the Grease
11. 8 1/2 Souvenirs - Paris
12. Solas - The Maid on the Shore
13. Cure - The Lovecats
14. Squeeze - Cool for Cats
15. Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut

Friday night cookout, disc 2

1. 8 1/2 Souvenirs - Absentee Rag
2. The Church - Under the Milky Way
3. Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
4. Loreena McKennitt - All Souls Night
5. John Lennon - Instant Karma
6. Joan Osborne - St. Theresa
7. Lou and Peter Berryman - It’s Better Than That
8. Moxy Fruvous - My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors
9. Pogues - Lorelei
10. Bare Naked Ladies - The King of Bedside Manor
11. Alanis Morrisette - You Learn
12. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy
13. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
14. Capercaillie - Hebridean Hale-Bopp
15. Dar Williams - What Do You Hear in These Sounds
16. Sarah McLaughlan - Elsewhere

Friday night cookout, disc 3

1. Paul Simon - Born at the Right Time
2. Lou and Peter Berryman - We Don’t Talk About That
3. Buena Vista - Chan Chan
4. Reptile Palace Orchestra - Little Wing
5. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
6. Reptile Palace Orchestra - Ouija Board
7. R.E.M. - Driver
8. Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E’s in Love
9. Richard Shindell - Are You Happy Now
10. Paul Simon - Can’t Run But
11. Dar Williams - Southern CA Wants to Be Western NY
12. Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better
13. Talking Heads - Stay up Late
14. Sinead O’Connor - I Want Your Hands on Me
15. Pogues - Honky Tonk Woman

Friday night cookout, disc 4

1. B52’s - Dance This Mess Around
2. Capercaillie - The Tree
3. Dave Matthews - What Would You Say
4. William Shatner - Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds
5. William Shatner - Tambourine Man
6. Lou and Peter Berryman - Pflaum Road
7. Lyle Lovett - Here I Am
8. Moxy Fruvous - Video Bargainville
9. Richard Shindell - Lazy
10. Suzanne Vega - 99.9 Degrees
11. Squeeze - Goodbye Girl
12. Talking Heads - Once In a Lifetime
13. R.E.M. - Finest Worksong
14. Pretenders - I Got You Babe
15. Peter Gabriel - Only Us
16. Paul Simon - Under African Skies

Friday night cookout, disc 5

1. Bare Naked Ladies - Grade 9
2. Crash Test Dummies - When I Go Out With Artists
3. B52’s - Rock Lobster
4. Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
5. Indigo Girls - Get Out the Map
6. Frente - Labour of Love
7. Iron Horse - The Rumbling Bridge
8. Sambathistle - Scotland the Brave / Lord Lovat’s Lamen / The Rowan Tree / Bonny Galloway / Dr. Macinne’s Fancy
9. Sambathistle - Calum Campbell’s Caprice / Turning Away
10. Lou and Peter Berryman - Why Am I Painting the Living Room
11. Mary Coughlan - I Want to Be Seduced
12. Paul Simon - Proof
13. Peter Gabriel - Love to Be Loved
14. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

Friday night cookout, disc 6

1. Alanis Morrisette - All I Really Want
2. Dar Williams - As Cool As I Am
3. Police - Synchronicity I
4. Police - Synchronicity II
5. R.E.M. - It’s the End of the World As We Know It
6. Moxy Fruvous - The Lazy Boy
7. Motown - My Guy
8. Reptile Palace Orchestra - Tin Agape
9. Richard Shindell - Money for Floods
10. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
11. Drovers - Held Your Hand Like Yesterday
12. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
13. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell
14. Talking Heads - Take Me to the River

Friday night cookout, disc 7

1. Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble
2. Crash Test Dummies - In the Days of the Caveman
3. Dave Matthews - Ants Marching
4. Drovers - Book of Songs
5. Kate Bush - Jig of Life
6. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
7. Mary Coughlan - Just a Friend
8. Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub
9. Talking Heads - Slippery People
10. Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
11. Talking Heads - What a Day That Was
12. (Music starts slowing down now) Moxy Fruvous - Fell In Love
13. Capercaillie - M’Ionam

Friday night cookout, disc 8

1. Ry Cooder - Paris Texas
2. Ali Farka Toure - Soukora
3. Loreena McKennit - Tango to Evora
4. Ali Farka Toure - Amandral
5. David Byrne - I Know Sometimes a Man Is Wrong