Top Lesbian Wedding Songs

I loved watching Romy and Michelle dance to this one at their high school reunion, and I loved watching Cyndi sing it this summer on the True Colors Tour (a benefit for gay rights organizations). I sobbed the whole time; it was quite embarrassing.
Lovey Lyrics: "If you fall I will catch you — I'll be waiting / Time after time."

Off the Bridge Collection (the Bridge School benefit compilation), “When I Get Up” is one of Tegan and Sara’s few totally straightforward, not-at-all-bitter love songs.
Lovey Lyrics: "I don’t need company in the company of you / I don’t need love; your love will do / I’ve got you and you’ve got me / And that’s all we need."

I heard that this is actually a break-up song—as in, let’s remember things when they’re perfect because some day they won’t be—but that’s sad and cynical. Yet, it makes sense in the context of weddings.
Lovey Lyrics: "Let’s take a picture now / I do not want to forget / The way you look at me / When everything is perfect."

Me’Shell Ndegeocello is like the master of sex soundtracks. This one, off the album Bitter, is simple, intensely romantic and perfect for a girl-on-girl slow dance. Then when you get home, put on Comfort Woman and screw each other for hours.
Lovely Lyrics: "Such pretty hair / May I kiss you? / May I kiss you there? / So beautiful you are."

Melissa’s got a lot of good girly love songs, but I’m partial to this short and sweet one.
Lovely Lyrics: "There’s a place we’re bound / And they call it forever / It’s a simple love / Between you and me."

Alice Walker’s former lover has the sultriest voice and sweet, simple lyrics in this classic.
Lovey Lyrics: "Behold body mind and spirit / Heart and soul devoted all to you."

Released 15 years ago, this gorgeous song penned by Emily Saliers is still one of the best lesbian love anthems around.
Lovely Lyrics: "I took us for better and I took us for worse / Don’t you ever forget it / Now the steel bars between me and a promise / Suddenly bend with ease / The closer I’m bound in love to you / The closer I am to free."

Toshi delivers soulful and sexy vocals in the gorgeous confession of love.
Lovey Lyrics: "Don't you deny what you know is true / There is still time for me and you."

With an angelic voice and the most heartfelt, vulnerable lyrics, k.d. lang has a few wedding-worthy songs, but I especially adore this sparse, dreamlike one off this year’s Watershed. "Fallen" and "Simple" are some older ones that also work well, but I love how "Close Your Eyes" has a little more edge.
Lovey Lyrics: "I will never leave / I’m a dream that answers to you."

She’s not always dark, just most of the time. Not here, though: Melissa is tender, passionate and poetic in one of her very few untainted, purely love songs.
Lovey Lyrics: "Anything, anywhere / I would give everything I own away / Always I will sing / Picturing you singing right back at me."