The music of our hearts

I like doing fun lists to celebrate my wedding anniversary. For our 10th anniversary, I talked about 10 things that happened the year we got married. For our eighth anniversary, I listed some favorite dates.

In honor of our 11th wedding anniversary (on Pi Day), I'm listing 11 songs that have some sort of meaning to us, whether it is romantic or humorous.

At Navy Pier a few weeks before our wedding, March 2004

1. "Somethin' Stupid" by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman. When I was in Israel, I kept seeing Robbie Williams' Swing When You're Winning CD a lot, but didn't end up buying it. However, "Will" sent it to me close to the time I started dating my husband. "Somethin' Stupid" was a catchy tune and we'd sing it together often. When we got engaged, we asked the mini-orchestra on our cruise to play it, but they strummed a few notes and said they didn't know it.

2. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" by Robbie Williams. On one of our dates, he decided to sing it to the tune of "Fly Me to the Moon."

3. "Hey Ya" by Outkast. It played all the time on our honeymoon. It makes us think of sitting in the hot tub and drinking strawberry daiquiris or "Dirty Bananas" at Sandals in St. Lucia "Shake it like a Polaroid picture..." 

Sandals, St. Lucia

4. "You're the Inspiration" by Chicago. Our first dance at our wedding, chosen after a Peter Cetera concert we attended the previous summer.

5. "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel. We like talking about the paintings from Sears.

6. "Glory of Love" by Peter Cetera. We never saw The Karate Kid II together, but somehow we will randomly bring up this song and its relation to the movie.

7. "As Good as I Once Was" by Toby Keith. There's this part where Toby says "Oh Daa-aave" and he made that the ringtone of my phone for a while.

8. "Chandelier" by Sia. When we drive home from his brother's house at night, we pass this banquet hall with a gorgeous chandelier. So when we see it now, we sing this song.

9.  "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. He does a funny impression of the dance and he made me do one of the moves so he could take a picture in order to surprise me for my 30th birthday.

10. "I'm So Excited" by The Pointer Sisters because of that one episode of Saved by the Bell. ("I'm so...SCARED!") We both love SBTB and will bring up episodes and scenes at random time. This one definitely stands out though.

11. "I Want to Love You Tender" by Armi ja Danny. A source of laughter for both of us. The best part is when we spotted Danny in The Double (a movie I hated and he enjoyed) last year. It just brought things full circle. (The link goes to the scene where he's singing so that you're not stuck watching the whole movie.)

Exactly 11 years ago today, at our rehearsal dinner

Here's to many more years of music, romance, and laughter with the love of my life!