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I have to go with my wedding song, Frank Sinatra doing “Love Is Here To Stay”. It’s perfect. You have Frankie singing a love song that isn’t sappy. The story of the song itself is sad, but triumphant. The last song George Gershwin wrote before he died, with his brother Ira writing the lyrics after George’s death. It’s a song that has been recorded over and over, and the theme has been imitated ad nauseum, but there’s no replacing the original, and there’s no matching the swagger of Frank Sinatra.

I also considered the Beach Boys “All I Want To Do”, but we decided against it mostly because of the last chorus, where Dennis sings “All I want to do-OOO, is spend my life with you-OOO” with a guttural emphasis on the OOO. Had the deluxe reissue of Pacific Ocean Blue been released prior to our wedding, we could have chosen Dennis’ solo version of the song, which doesn’t have the slightly annoying phrasing of the end chorus on the 20/20 version.