Wedding dance question

Yikes. The radio station in my hometown would play that song all the damned time and the old guy who was the DJ would always say (imagine a B-List Walter Cronkite), "And now here's The Who with The Squeezebox." Always made me laugh.

My wife and I, getting married at age 47, deliberately chose a reception facility that was too small for dancing of any kind.

 

So was mine.

Weird how it came about, too.

My mom is a HUGE Kenny Rogers fan. But I kind of forgot that through the years (bad pun intended). So we're at our DJ/wedding co-ordinator's house three days before the wedding going over some final details and he asks "Do you have a song yet?" I said no, he said "How about Through the Years?"

Sold.

My mom cried like a baby.

 

Probably wouldn't work unless a Springsteen fan provided you with a solo acoustic or solo piano version:
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/TheWish.html

 

Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

 

Jesus and Mama Always Loved Me; as performed by Confederate Railroad.

If her name happens to be Julia, then go with the Beatles' Julia off of the white album.

 

"Hey Mama" by Kanye West

 

Mr. Cougar's mother-son dance song was "Through The Years," as well. However, it was a completely unplanned selection. After the father-daughter dance (Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely"), next thing we know it's the mother-son dance. Well, we just had to roll with it.

 

There goes "Bump and Grind" by R. Kelly

 

It's his mom, not the flower girl

 

Seriously, I think you should ask your mother if she's got a song with which she'd like to commemorate the moment. I felt like it was her moment as the mother of the groom and that she should pick the song.
Of course, I didn't have (read: wasn't allowed to have) much input on the couple's first dance, either, so I don't know. My suggestion - Here, There, And Everywhere - was played while we cut the cake, so at least it received some sort of prominent attention.

 

Mother, you had me but I never had you,
I wanted you but you didn't want me,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye.

 

"Alive" by Pearl Jam
Anything by Staind