I ran­domly came across this song when I was brows­ing through Hi Fi wed­dings (have you heard of them? It’s a really great site. But more on that later.) This Will Be Our Year, by the Zombies is an oldie, and one of those songs that imme­di­ately felt famil­iar. Like I’ve heard it a mil­lion times before and didn’t know it. I can’t lis­ten to it with­out get­ting weepy — which prob­a­bly also has to do with the endear­ing old Super 8 fam­ily movies this ver­sion accom­pa­nies. But the lyrics just really speak to me. They’re sim­ple and sweet and uplift­ing. I thought it could def­i­nitely be a first dance song con­tender. (It’s also short, which is a good thing, as nei­ther one of us is crazy about a mil­lion eyes star­ing at us dancing.)

In the end we ended up decid­ing on another song for the first dance, but I really wanted this song to be worked in some­where. So we even­tu­ally decided that this one would be per­fect for the cer­e­mony reces­sional. We’ve only really picked out a hand­ful of songs for our music so far, but every lit­tle detail is mak­ing this whole thing feel more real and more com­plete. July can’t come soon enough!