What are the most popular wedding songs in Polish?

catsoldier 54 | 574

21 Aug 2011 / #1

What are the most popular wedding songs in Polish?

When I was looking for the operatic version of Jesteś szalona, I found many wedding videos with this song. The operatic version was posted by somone else, I liked it but couldn't find it.

My favourite part is the waitress in the black shorts, she smiles too! :-)
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Olaf 6 | 955

22 Aug 2011 / #2

Jesteś szalona

OMG. It is a redneck song, do not think that these songs are played on every wedding.

OP catsoldier 54 | 574

22 Aug 2011 / #3

It sounds and looks like fun to me.

What other Polish songs are popular at Polish weddings?

boletus 30 | 1356

22 Aug 2011 / #4

I do not know what does the phrase "the most popular wedding songs" actually mean. Who is supposed to measure it up, according to what method and why? But all this social-cultural anthropology mumbo-jumbo aside I will say this:

There must be many folk wedding songs in Poland - very much all are regions related. For example, a quick googling points to a page "Gliwickie Metamorfozy", with all sorts of Gliwice regional songs,

gliwiczanie.pl/Biblioteka/Roger/spis.html
Chapter 9 here, gliwiczanie.pl/Biblioteka/Roger/piesniweselne.html
brings the words of nine wedding songs from counties: Rybnickiego, Lublinieckiego, Oleskiego, and Kozielskiego, such as this one:

Wyjrzyj jeno za okienko,  
Jak tam wilczek skacze;  
Znać, że jeszcze żony nie ma,
 Bo się nie kłopoce.  

Ożeń się ty, ożeń ty się,  
Ty leśna bestyja,  
A będziesz potém tak biedny
 Jako jestem i ja.  

Wilczysko się ożeniło,- 
Uszy opuściło! 
Au, au, au, au, 
Cóż mi potém było?

Google shows 12,000 entries to "pieśni weselne" - too many to analyze them of. You definitely should narrow the field somehow, otherwise you end up with too many "dance polo", redneck stuff.

Wedding toasts are another matter. And again, some are short, some long and boring, some are poetic, and some are plain stupid. But then who cares when all are drunk, anyway?