Another "please help with a dinner playlist" request!!

Post date: 2021-12-07 06:18:52

I'll try not to add too many snowflakes even though it's December!! ;) I'm in need a playlist. It's for my wedding this weekend (yes, I know...nothing like last minute, right?) so thank you for any suggestions! I've looked at previous "dinner playlist" questions and I was able to cull some ideas.

I'll try not to add too many snowflakes even though it's December!! ;)

I'm in need a playlist. It's for my wedding this weekend (yes, I know...nothing like last minute, right?) so thank you for any suggestions! I've looked at previous "dinner playlist" questions and I was able to cull some songs, so here are some clues/snowflakes/parameters...for whatever they're worth...

1. has to be from I-tunes
2. sunset wedding into night party
3. being held in our backyard and indoors/outdoors, fire pits, screened in porch, etc.
4. around 45 people, youngest 16 yrs and oldest is 90
5. for ceremony, we are having a string quartet (from a local high school - yay!) who are playing mostly well-known classical pieces
6. will switch to iPod playlist after musicians are done
7. looking for instrumental only - along the lines of jazz, dinner party-ish, cocktail hour-ish, although I don't want anything that gets screechy and will make us have to run for the volume button!!
8. looking for chilled cool music but I don't want to put guests to sleep (the music I love to listen to would put them to sleep)
9. can be anything ranging from smooth jazz (i guess that is what I'm looking for?) or ambient, chilled grooves
10. prefer instrumental over lyrics

I know these are all over the place, but here are some samples of tunes that we LOVE.

1. Khruangbin - specifically Como Me Quieres and Texas Sun - LOVE the vibe; their other songs were ok
2. Lana Del Ray - Salvatore
3. Shigeru Umebayash - In the mood for love (LOVE LOVE LOVE)
4. LOVE Emancipator, specifically older stuff and Time for Space (again, chilled groovy groove)
5. Van Morrison - Moon Dance is always a good go-to

Any suggestions, comments, ideas? Too scattered? HELP! I could be thinking about this too much..

Thank you all so much - you've really come through for recommendations for me on other stuff in the past!

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