Wedding Songs For Your Ceremony, Reception and Dance Party

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The best (and easiest) way to immediately get your guests in the mood for celebrating is with a playlist of wedding songs that tug at their heartstrings and instantly create lasting memories of your day.

Start the process of compiling your wedding playlist by posting a call-out for song requests on your response cards or your wedding website — this is an easy way to make sure everyone’s favourite tunes are covered off and that you’ll have a range of wedding songs that will appeal to all of your guests. Next, it’s time to start brainstorming which wedding songs you’ll want to having playing during the most important parts of your day — the processional and recessional, your first dance, and of course during the late-night dance party when you finally get to let loose with all of your friends and family.

To help you get started on the perfect wedding playlist we compiled a list of tried and true favourites, wedding song suggestions from other couples, and new tunes you may not have heard before that are just ideal for your big day. Take a listen to the wedding music suggestions below, then start downloading and prepare to host the party of a lifetime.

You can also check out this list of wedding songs for more great tunes you may have never heard before.

For Your Walk Down The Aisle

For Signing the Papers and Your Recessional

For Your First Dance With Your New Hubby

For Your Father/Daughter Dance

To Get The Everyone On the Dance Floor

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  • Lincoln

    To my fiancee and myself a wedding song that is not a Christian song, is just noise.

  • Amy

    While I love the song of ‘Today’ by the Smashing Pumpkins (it is certainly one of my favorites), I really don’t think this is a good fit anything wedding related, unless it’s a song someone randomly requested to dance to during the reception. Billy Corgan was struggling with depression and was contemplating suicide when he wrote it. It is riddled with self-harm “pink ribbon scars that never forget – tried so hard to cleanse these regrets – my angel wings are bruised and restrained – my belly stings’, that he was tired of pretending that he wasn’t depressed or contemplating suicide: “I wanted more than life could ever grant me – bored by the chore of saving face”.

    Anyway, as you can see, with just those small examples of the song, it’s not really about love at all. Sure it seems happy and great (it really does sound like an upbeat song) but Corgan did that deliberately to make it ironic, probably tying in the whole ‘bored by the chore of saving face’ line.

    I really wouldn’t recommend this song as a symbol of love, happiness and commitment, because that is not what this song is about. The Smashing Pumpkins have several love songs that would be a better fit. Ex: Beautiful, Luna, Stand Inside Your Love etc.

    That’s my opinion anyway. Great list, otherwise!!