Wedding Songs

40s Wedding Dance Songs

It is a trend nowadays to have your wedding celebration performed in ways that are not exactly called traditional, though tradition in this sense can bear the connotation of what has been settled throughout the years of marriages as rules to follow. However, as much as the modern trend dictates you to choose a theme, that doesn’t mean that you can not include traditional elements inside the wedding unfolding. In fact, one might say that this combination, a certain medieval theme, for instance, combining its Medieval settings and staging with the traditional Unity Candle lighting and father daughter wedding dance might bring the celebration an eclectic format, but quite interesting in its displaying.




Selecting the 40s as the years that your wedding manifestation will be performed, you have to go by the patterns that have defined the features of that era. It was the era of jazz, of swing, of rhythm and blues, establishing the foundations for the later rhythms of rock and roll, and many other contemporary music styles find their roots in the music of the ‘crazy’ 40s. And how is music best felt and what is its effect on people while listening to it? Music has the gift to lift up our spirits, but our bodies as well; to lift them into the steps of dancing, that is! The moment we listen to a tune to belong to the 40s, we involuntarily feel ourselves trapped inside its melody for all of a sudden the body to start moving without listening to our conscious commands.

This is the feeling you get once you listen o the music of the 40s and imagining the couples dancing that frenetic swing which has become so diverse in its ways of being performed, that there are probably countless forms of reproducing this style of dance. One of the most popular forms of this style is known to be Lindy Hop, a dance performed in pair with steps that follow the rhythm of the tune, here and there presenting an intended delay in order to approach in a various way the timing while dancing. And for you selecting the 40s it is more than obvious that you need to have adequate attires to allow you hop in the rhythm of the swing music and dance.

In this respect the choices of the 40s wedding dance songs could be the ones to go for the soft tunes of jazz or classical rock ballads, but as well as selecting songs that might bring the blast of entertainment so specifically encountered in the jazz clubs of the 40s.

Browsing the web pages looking for the music of that era, you can find plenty of pages to open songs that could successfully be chosen as 40s wedding dance songs options. In the same spirit you can try one of the 1940′s wedding dresses available on the market. Some of them might be: Frank Sinatra’s “The way you look tonight”, Nat King Cole’s “LOVE”, Etta James’s “At last”, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald “Our love is here to stay”,  JO Staford’s “Some enchanted evening”, Bing Crosby’s “Moonlight becomes you” and many others to be found on Internet’s web pages.

One fact needs to be once again mentioned and as such thoroughly considered: do not forget to wear the specific attire which allows you to move freely on the dancing floor, especially if you have some classes taken where you have been taught how to move your bodies in the rhythms of the happy, glamorous swing of the 40s.

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