Indie Wedding

You want your wedding to be special — a declaration of love and commitment, sure, but also a shining reflection of your unique personality as a couple. Enter Indie Wedding Essentials. From the sweet-and-simple devotion of "I'm Sticking with You" by alt-trailblazers the Velvet Underground to Rufus Wainwright's soul-gazing ballad "The Tower of Learning" to Cyndi Lauper's fresh take on the time-honored wedding fave "At Last," we have the tunes to make a statement and spread the love. Her dress isn't white; his hair isn't combed . . . and the tunes over in Next Steps are in no way run-of-the-mill.

Indie love songs come in all shades and flavours, so these Indie Wedding Essentials match that unlicensed multi-denominational "holy man" who's improvising your vows in six languages. Whether you're into the sweetheart vibe of Harry Nilsson's "Me and My Arrow," Malajube's free-lovin' "La Monogamie," or the quirky pop-electronica of Daft Punk and "Digital Love," the tongue of love will never be tied. Your Afro-Slovakian trip-hop wedding band got delayed at customs — worry not, there's loads of sonic colour in our Indie Wedding Deep Cuts.

The knot is tied, and the rings (made of recycled bamboo) are on your fingers. It's now time to make your grand entrance to the smokin' guitar riffage of Queen's rockin' take on "The Wedding March," then swoon along to the breathless beauty of "The Sweetest Eyes (When You Laugh)" by Julie Doiron, and skip a merry jig to Tegan and Sara's "Love Type Thing." Consider yourselves married — in, like, a totally non-institutional, convention-defying, indie kind of way.

There's tradition, and then there's the tradition you create yourself when you join forces for a long, loving life together. You and your beloved aren't like everybody else, and cookie-cutter tunes simply won't do for the most important day of your life. Thing is, with the mountains of planning ahead, who has time to comb through endless stacks to pick out only the best in indie love calls? None other than the folks at iTunes Essentials, that's who. Whether you want to go soul-deep with indie kings R.E.M. and "You Are the Everything," rev up the BPMs to match your beating hearts with M83's "Run Into Flowers," or launch into the atmospheric stratosphere with the Flaming Lips and "Do You Realize?," our Indie Wedding Essentials is the soundtrack for every moment, from ceremony to reception to wedding-night bliss.