Wedding Songs | From “True Love” to “I Will Be Here”
What makes a love song become a wedding song?
For one family, the answer stretches across generations.
Paul’s parents chose Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly’s “True Love.” Years later, Paul and Kelly stepped onto the reception dance floor—after a few precautionary dance lessons—to Steven Curtis Chapman’s “I Will Be Here.”
Between them are two remarkable songs with stories of their own. Noel Paul Stookey’s “Wedding Song (There Is Love)” was written for a wedding and became an enduring expression of love as something larger than ourselves. And the Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun” had the most…
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