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. And, hey, spread it on into our Indie Wedding Next Steps for even more standout tunes.

Indie love songs come in all shades and flavors, so let our Indie Wedding Essentials make it easy to suit your own wedding moods. We've got your musical needs covered, whether you're into the sweetheart vibe of Harry Nilsson's "Me and My Arrow," the heartfelt folk of Palace Brothers and "I Send My Love to You," or the quirky pop-electronica of Daft Punk and "Digital Love." There are so many styles and sounds, two playlists couldn't contain them all, so take your next steps into our Indie Wedding Deep Cuts.

We ask you — where else but iTunes? Where else will you find Indie Wedding songs that capture everything from ethereal beauty ("Feeling of Gaze" by Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions) to toe-tappin' alt-country ("History of Lovers" by Calexico & Iron & Wine). Heck, we even manage to cram in some smokin' guitar riffage (Queen's rockout take on "The Wedding March") and some off-the-hook covers ("I Got You Babe" by the Dictators). It's our pleasure to start you off on the right road to wedded bliss — we'll look for our invitation in the mail.

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 iTunes, 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 has the soundtrack for everything from the ceremony to the reception to wedding night bliss.