Ladies and gentlemen, the bride and groom…

As the DJ at countless weddings, this is what I had to say as the bride and groom took to the floor for their first dance as man and wife. It was usually something awful and predictable like Unchained Melody or Lady in Red. Another old chestnut was It Must be Love. Not only predictable but so wrong because, being neither slow nor fast, the bride and groom would realise that they couldn’t actually dance to it. Or I’d be handed some obscure album and asked to play its most obscure track. This invariably dreadful song would mean something to the bride and groom but nothing to anyone else. But now and again, a couple would hit the right note with something lush, romantic and not totally obvious. One such couple chose this. I trust they’re still together and, on Valentine’s Day, are re-enacting that first slow dance.