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When you get to my age, it seems you end up going to an awful lot of weddings. In the space of just four weeks, three of my best friends will be married. For me, this is an opportunity to wear a suit, subsequently think I look awesome, drink and eat too much, dance to daft songs with small children and start a sing song in the residents bar at 4am. Best of all, if I've consumed just the right amount of alcohol come 8pm-ish, I'll maybe get a little weepy when the newlyweds enjoy their first dance together as husband and wife.

Amberz and Ross danced to 'I Got You Babe' while Rich and Suzanne are going to dance to a song by Neil Young. I think the couple in the third wedding would appreciate it if I didn't spoil the surprise.

Anyway, I was thinking about some alternative songs for the first dance. Took ages, but here's what I've come up with. Now all I need is a wife...

10. - IT MUST BE LOVE
You'll both look a bit daft dancing to this, but who cares about looking stupid when you can say so much without words.

Tearjerking lyric: "As soon as I wake up, every night, every day, I know that it's you I need to take the blues away"

9. - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE ROOM
Most people probably won't appreciate the faint praise peppered throughout this song, but at least it's honest, especially if you've settled for someone with a 'great personality'.

Tearjerking lyric: "And when you're on the street, depending on the street, I bet you are definitely in the top three good looking girls in the street (depending on the street)"

8. - DON'T WASTE TIME... (SKIBUNNY MIX)
Hard to know whether a drunken, laddish singalong is what you want to see/hear while dancing for the first time as a married couple (why not though?!) but there's just something incredibly simple and beautiful about the refrain, which constitutes the tearjerking lyric below...

Tearjerking lyric: "I call out your name when I'm sad"

7. - CAN I BORROW A FEELING
Probably not the best idea given penning his own love song kinda backfired for old Milhouse's da, but if you've hit rock bottom and have literally exhausted every other way of regaining that lost love, this might be the song for you.

Tearjerking lyric: "Take my hand with your glove of love"

6. - TENDER
For a start, it's got the line "love's the greatest thing that we have". And a gospel chior. And Graham Coxon, the ultimate nerd, getting the girl.

Tearjerking lyric: "Oh my baby, oh my baby, Oh I, oh my"

5. THE STONE ROSES - TEN STOREY LOVE SONG
The greatest song they wrote and yes, it's on that supposedly terrible second album. Another one of those songs that makes you wonder about the girl it was written about. She must have been something a little bit special, just like (we're all assuming) the person you are set to spend your life with, eh?

Tearjerking lyric: "When you're so much in love, you don't know how much you can stand"

4. THE RONETTES - BE MY BABY
Things were just so much simpler when the Ronettes were making music. Nothing about this song sounds contrived - to the point you find the inspiration for this song, whoever he was, is actually making you pretty jealous. But the great thing is, if this is your first dance, you become that guy. Imagine that, eh?

Tearjerking lyric: "I'll make you happy baby, just wait and see, for every kiss you give me, I'll give you three"

3. - LA RITORNELLE
Strings + xylophone + piano + French dude singing + unashamdely sweet lyrics +Ìý shuffly drums = swoon. There won't be a dry eye in the house.

Tearjerking lyric: "I wanna spend my life with you..."

2. - YOU & ME SONG
The greatest, sweetest love song of all time. 'Nuff said.

Tearjerking lyric: "You and me, always...and forever"

1. - BABY I LOVE YOU
For me, this is a front runner, should I ever find that special someone. It's actually a pretty cheesy and lyric, but because it's The Ramones it's still pretty rock n' roll. Mushy, yet credible. Perfect.

Tearjerking lyric: "I can't live without you, I know everything about you"