Explicit or Clean Music at your reception?

We won’t be censoring every single song, but if we know that a song is super explicit, our DJ will use a clean version. I don’t think it’s a huge deal, but I don’t think a wedding is the time or place for profain songs and would rather not offend anyone, especially since it’s not really important to us that we hear the profanities anyway.

We played clean music. We had a mix of younger/older/ and kids at our wedding. We didn't want anyone to be offended by the music. Our DJ still played a lot of songs, but the swear words were either bleeped out or clean version.

You don't need curse words to have a good time on the dance floor.

We told our DJ we don’t need clean versions, but obviously no songs that have profanities every other word.

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I'm planning more family friendly music for the first half of the reception, and some more party type music for later on when the dancing really gets going. Nothing will be too explicit though. Mainly Oldies for the first half, and 90's hip hop for dancing.

We dont have any explicit songs on our list. After being at a wedding where the DJ played a song about banging chicks and snorting coke....well....we decided to give the DJ a list of music and say no requests.

I asked for nothing super explicit. If there's a word or two I'm not super concerned, but we do have kids and a few quite religious guests that I don't want to feel uncomfortable.

We're trying to go with censored versions of songs. We have a BUNCH of kids in our families, and my mom is very religious and sensitive to vulgarities. So out of respect for her and the parents of the many children that don't want them to hear all kinds of raunchy nonsense, we're trying to stick with edited versions.

Depends on the crowd. Ours had a lot of kids and grandmas, so we just asked our DJ to play a clean version if it was available. If there wasn't one and someone wanted to hear the song, we trusted him to use better judgment. If it was inappropriate for young ears (consistent swearing, violence, etc.) he could politely decline. But if it's a few words here and there and it's not a song where everyone is necessarily listening to the words and they're just dancing...we didn't mind. We did use Ludacris' "Move" as the bouquet toss song, and obviously THAT (since everyone is focused on the event going on and the music playing...) we used the clean version for, but other than that I don't think it was much of an issue!

We have about 22 kids (most 5 and under) on the guest list. Soooo... clean music it is for us. Lol

Clean music. Save the sleaze for something else. It's about respect in my opinion. I felt bad for my husband's 83 year old grandparents having to listen to some explicit music at a recent wedding. They turned red and tried to ignore it. It just didn't seem right for a wedding. Maybe for a bachelor/bachelorette party if that's your kind of music.

Some of the Bollywood was prob a lil spicy. The Latinx Reggaeton was definitely ratchet. But most of our guests didn’t know Spanish. We had 3 kids at our reception in Puerto Rico. Kept all the English songs clean.

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We're not planning to play anything that needs to be censored. The most questionable thing on our list is Baby Got Back. We're inviting kids and sensitive family members.

We played clean-ish music until a certain point, and then once the older people left we became a bit more open with it haha. We only had a handful of kids at the wedding and their parents didn't care.

I didn't even think of this! FH and I's nieces and nephews will be there so we'll keep it somewhat clean. Neither of us listen to music where every other song is a profanity so no big deal if there's a slip up here and there

We are having a no kids wedding and it's on New Years Eve. We will not be sensor any music.

We are also sending a card with our invites that says if you play these songs I promise I will dance. They get to name 5 songs send it back with their rsvp and the DJ will compose his list from that.

I don't want nothing with heavy language or degrade songs to women or stuff about cheating anything along those lines. However, for the most part we are just gonna let songs play out how they are. If its too much the DJ is either encourage to just not play it or use the clean version...