John Lennon's Beautiful Boy?

eta: here's a great list! https://junebugweddings.com/wedding-blog/these-60-mother-son-dance-songs-wont-leave-a-dry-eye-in-the-house/

My dear, dear longtime friend’s son was just recently married and they danced their Mother-Son dance to Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World”. It was beyond beautiful and incredibly touching to them and to everyone.

I'm not sure what the mother/son song is for but when my son gets married next June this will be my song to him

How about this gem (song starts at 26 seconds)?

Just kidding!! I always tell my beloved daughter in law that's the theme for all the women my son dated BEFORE he found her LOL

My son got married less than 48 hours ago! Whew can’t believe we are done. So we had a list that we put together and I left it up to him. We ended up dancing to Chicago, I’ve been searching. Which was a song I sang to him as a baby and through his childhood. Both of us and most of the guests were in tears lol. I told him I’d love to go back to the day he was born and do it all over again. Here was my list, some of them were fun memories or songs that we both loved.

Here's my list, the first song is what I used to sing to jack when he was a baby.

Wedding songs

Chicago I’ve been searching so long

Led Zeppelin Thank You

Ray Charles Shake a Tailfeather

Paul Simon Loves me like a Rock

Paul Simon Mother and child reunion

Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man

Jackson 5 I’ll be there

Jackie Wilson Higher and Higher

Beach Boys God Only Knows

The Foundations Build me up Buttercup

The Beatles Here Comes the Sun

A friend of mine danced with her son on his wedding day to Andre Boccelli’s A time to say goodbye.

oly - That's a good suggestion and thanks for the link. I looked at it and wish I could choose more than one or two or three songs for us!

lynn - What a Wonderful World really is a classic and is still a strong contender.

blfenton - Love the lyrics to that song. Where I'm a little unsure about the mother-son dance song is this -- should the song be chosen by the mom for the son or the other way around??

running - Yikes! Glad you're just kidding! It did make me chuckle tho this morning just trying to imagine the reaction to that song!

eld - All very good points!!

annette - Chicago!!! Never even thought of a Chicago song!!! Thanks for the idea and the great list!! Congratulations on your son's wedding!! I'm heading over to read your post as soon as I finish responding here.

lyban - Love that song, but I'd really be a blubbering mess with that one!!!

My sister and her son danced to Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child o' Mine". Very different and very fun!

@bac717- That's my confusion as well. Is the mom acknowledging that her son is now a man and her job, done with love, is done. Or is the son acknowledging that love and thanking her.

I looked at the Gun N' Roses song but it doesn't quite suit us. But who knows what will happen between now and then.

When my son asked to help pick a song for his wedding last year, I started off looking at more traditional mother-son songs. But they all sounded like they were written for the part and I wanted something special to the two of us. So I told him I'd like something from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory because we watched that movie together a million times (the original one). He even texted me when Gene Wilder died. My son found this version of Pure Imagination by Josh Groban and it was perfect! I was a little worried about the length but as it turns out, I talked to my son while dancing and told him what some of my most precious memories of his growing up were. It flew by and he got both teary eyed and laughed, as did I. Here is a link. It's beautiful to listen to even though probably only applicable to my son and I.

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Josh Grobin's Pure Imagination

My youngest son is getting married next year and this thread is filling me with dread! I can't remember the last time that I went to a wedding and didn't know that a mother/son dance was a thing!

Tere, you have us to lean on. Have no fear. For someone who regularly walks The Camino, you've got this!

terriks - I know exactly how you feel. I'm in the same position as you. The whole wedding thing - from picking an appropriate dress to the mother/son dance is filling me with dread.

Terezosa, i dont think the mother son dance with just the two of you in front of everyone is obligatory.

patty - I love the story behind your mother-son song! How sweet! And of course, ANYTHING sung by Josh Groban is fabulous!! The song my future DIL and her dad will dance to was chosen the same way as yours. When she was younger, they watched Toy Story a million times together, so they will dance to You've Got a Friend in Me!

tere and blfenton - I hope your dread soon turns to joyful anticipation. As the mother of the groom once before, my advice to you is to not worry too much about all the details. The focus on the day of the wedding is the bride and groom, so all the things you spend so much time agonizing over aren't that important. Hopefully, you'll have only wonderful memories to share over and over again and forget that you even worried about a dress or a song.

How about You Are The Love of My Life by Carly Simon ? She wrote it for her children.

We danced to “Can’t smile without you” by Barry Manilow, a song we used to dance to when he was a toddler. It was always “our” song, and he became frantic when the wedding deejay forgot the copy, and made him go get it.

Terezosa, i dont think the mother son dance with just the two of you in front of everyone is obligatory.

Actually, I think that my son will be just as excited as I am to have a mother/son dance. I doubt that it will be on the agenda. :-D

The Carly Simon suggestion reminded me of one my son had on his list. Nothing I Can Do by Ben Taylor, it’s a song he wrote for his mother, Carly Simon.

I also had never heard of a mother/son dance either, and the last couple of weddings I've been to didn't feature a father/daughter dance either, but I did hear a song on Sirius last night and it made me think of this thread; Long May You Run, by the Stills-Young Band.

Maybe as families become less traditional, these dances are falling away, although I do like them. Who dances with the bride — the stepfather who raised her or the bio father who maybe want there much? I know my ex gave away his girlfriend ‘s daughter even though the uninvolved father came to the wedding. I don’t know if there was a dance.

So I had a different one. My son’s best friend and his little brother have always been like my sons. Their mother was out of the picture when they were preschoolers. The step mom was there, a nice enough person, but there wasn’t much of a bond. They both refer to me as Mom and call me to check in, etc.

So older one gets married last year. Bonus son does the mother son dance with the stepmother, then halfway through the song dj announces that they would like all sons whose mother’s are there to join them on the dance floor. At which point the stepmom goes off to dance with her biological son and bonus son invites me on to the dance floor. I boo hooed for that as well!