Top Wedding Songs
Back when I got married, in the dusty distant past of 2011, if you were picking the best wedding songs for your reception, you were probably also wrangling an iPod, and wondering if you were going to be able to make a bumpin’ reception happen without a high-priced DJ. Thank goodness, in the intervening handful of years, we’ve ditched iPods, moved to iPhones, and some pretty awesome DJ apps have been launched, making “putting together your wedding playlist” the most fun item on tons of couples’ wedding to-do lists.
GETTING READY WEDDING SONGS
Beyoncé: “Formation.“
Destiny’s Child: “Independent Women (Pt 1)”
Katy Perry: “Roar”
Beyoncé: “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Alicia Keys: “Girl on Fire”
Spice Girls: “Wannabe”
Missy Elliott: “Work It”
En Vogue: “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)”
Blondie: “Call Me”
Martina McBride: “This One’s for the Girls”
Janelle Monáe: “Electric Lady”
Nicki Minaj: “Starships”
Destiny’s Child: “Jumpin’ Jumpin'”
No Doubt: “Just a Girl”
Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya, and Pink ft. Missy Elliott: “Lady Marmalade”
Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z: “Drunk in Love”
Rihanna: “We Found Love”
Katy Perry: “Teenage Dream”
Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX: “Fancy”
Beyoncé: “Run the World (Girls)”
Aaliyah: “Are You That Somebody”
M.I.A.: “Boyz”
Jennifer Lopez: “Get Right”
Kelis: “Milkshake”
Ani DiFranco: “Face Up and Sing”
Dixie Chicks: “Not Ready to Make Nice”
Salt-N-Pepa: “None of Your Business”
Jessie J: “Do It Like a Dude”
Lesley Gore: “You Don’t Own Me”
Joan Jett: “Bad Reputation”
The Doubleclicks: “Nothing to Prove”
SECULAR PROCESSIONAL WEDDING SONGS
Velvet Underground: “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
Johnny Cash: “I Walk the Line”
Yo La Tengo: “Our Way to Fall”
The Corrs: “Haste to the Wedding”
Ennio Morricone: “Once Upon a Time in the West”
The Beach Boys: “God Only Knows”
Siobhan McDonnell: “Twa Bonnie Maidens”
Cake: “Love You Madly”
The Muppets: “Life’s a Happy Song”
Keb’ Mo’: “Every Morning”
Death Cab For Cutie: “Stay Young, Go Dancing”
José Gonazalez: “Heartbeats”
The Ramones: “Baby, I Love You”
Josh Ritter: “Baby, That’s Not All”
City of Prague Philharmonic: “The West Wing Theme”
SECULAR CEREMONY WEDDING SONGS
Sufjan Stevens: “For the Widows in Paradise”
Bob Dylan: “Forever Young”
Magnetic Fields: “The Book of Love”
The Weepies: “Somebody Loved”
Judy Collins: “How Can I Keep from Singing”
SECULAR RECESSIONAL WEDDING SONGS
Florence + The Machine: “Dog Days Are Over”
Mumford and Sons: “Sigh No More”
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes: “That’s What’s Up”
Stevie Wonder: “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours”
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
Queen: “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Wilco: “I Got You (at the End of the Century)”
Dashboard Confessional: “Stolen”
Postal Service: “Brand New Colony”
Sara Bareilles: “I Choose You”
TRADITIONAL WEDDING HYMNS
“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”
“Abide with Me”
“All Beautiful the March of Days”
“All Creatures of Our God and King”
“Amazing Grace”
“Ave Maria”
“Be Thou My Vision”
“Blessed Be the Tie That Binds”
“Canticle of the Sun”
“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”
“Earth and All Stars”
“Eternal Father Strong to Save”
“Faith of Our Fathers”
“Gather Us In”
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
“Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”
“Love Divine All Loves Excelling”
“Oh God Our Help in Ages Past”
“Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (1982 Hymnal #390)”
“Praise My Soul the Kingdom of Heaven”
MODERN WEDDING HYMNS
“All Are Welcome”
“Celtic Alleluia”
“Covenant Hymn”
“Endless Is Your Love”
“For the Beauty of the Earth”
“How Great Thou Art”
“I Have Loved You with an Everlasting Love”
“Morning Has Broken”
“O Love That Will Not Let Me Go”
“O God, Beyond All Praising”
“Prayer for Peace”
“Psalm 95”
“Set Me as a Seal”
“Spirit of Life”
“The Servant Song”
RELIGIOUS CEREMONY WEDDING SONGS
Ella Fitzgerald: “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”
Soweto Gospel Choir: “Amazing Grace”
Oranim Zabar Troupe: “Dodi Li”
Etta James: “Down by the Riverside”
Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples: “Oh Happy Day”
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
Cambridge Choir of Kings College: “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”
“You Satisfy the Hungry Heart”
“Bless the Lord, O My Soul”
Naomi Shemer: “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav”
Westminster Abbey Choir: “Ave verum corpus”
“Magnificat”
Cambridge Choir of St. John’s College: “Ubi caritas et amor”
Ribi David Kadoch: “Sheva Brachot”
“Thou Art the Vineyard”
CLASSICAL CEREMONY MUSIC
Jeremiah Clarke: “Trumpet Voluntary”
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Sinfonia from Cantata, BWV 29”
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Prelude, BWV 1007”
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: “Prelude from Te Deum”
Jacques Ibert: “Trois pièces brèves”
Henry Purcell: “Abdelazer Suite: II. Rondeau”
Händel: “Water Music, Suite no 2, in D major”
Jean-Joseph Mouret: “Rondeau from Sinfonies de fanfares“
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1068”
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major”
RECEPTION ENTRANCE WEDDING SONGS
Walk The Moon: “Shut Up and Dance”
Justin Timberlake ft. Jay-Z: “Suit and Tie”
The Beatles: “Good Day Sunshine”
Natalie Cole: “This Will Be (an Everlasting Love)”
Kanye West ft. T-Pain: “Good Life”
Elmer Bernstein: “National Geographic Theme”
Talking Heads: “Burning Down the House”
Calvin Harris: “Feel So Close”
John Williams: “Cantina Theme” from Star Wars
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars: “Uptown Funk”
Curtis Mayfield: “Superfly”
Steve Wonder: “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours”
Neon Trees: “Animal”
DJ Snake and Lil Jon: “Turn Down for What”
Dean Martin: “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head”
Nicki Minaj: “Starships”
David Bowie: “Young Americans”
Bob Marley: “Could You Be Loved”
Florence + The Machine: “Dog Days Are Over”
Pharrell Williams: “Happy”
Chaka Khan ft. Rufus: “Tell Me Something Good”
Noah and the Whale: “5 Years Time”
Survivor: “Eye of the Tiger”
Michael Franti and Spearhead: “Say Hey (I Love You)”
Robert Plant: “Rainbow”
FIRST DANCE WEDDING SONGS
Ryan Adams: “Wonderwall”
Elliot Smith: “Say Yes”
Peter Gabriel: “In Your Eyes”
Celine Dion: “Because You Loved Me”
Norah Jones: “Turn Me On”
James Ingram: “So This Is Love”
Righteous Brothers: “Unchained Melody”
Eric Clapton: “Wonderful Tonight”
Sara Bareilles: “Love Song”
Noel Gallagher: “This Guy’s in Love with You” (Herb Alpert cover)
Elvis Presley: “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
Noel Gallagher: “Idler’s Dream”
Beyoncé: “XO”
John Legend: “All of Me”
Mary Lambert: “She Keeps Me Warm”
Lorde: “400 Lux”
Bruno Mars: “Marry You”
The Vamps ft. Demi Lovato: “Somebody to You”
Alabama: “Forever’s as Far as I’ll Go”
Leonard Cohen: “Crazy to Love You”
Lil Wayne ft. Chance the Rapper: “You Song”
Kacey Musgraves: “My House”
The Alabama Shakes: “I Found You”
Ed Sheeran: “Thinking Out Loud”
Train: “Marry Me”
Tegan and Sara: “Closer”
Adele: “One and Only”
Cake: “Love You Madly”
The Avett Brothers: “I and Love and You”
Journey: “Faithfully”
Jump, Little Children: “By the Way They Dance”
Ella Fitzgerald: “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love)”
Chris Robinson: “Safe in the Arms of Love”
Chris Robinson: “Sunday Sound”
Sam Cooke: “You Send Me”
Ben Howard: “Only Love”
Van Morrison: “Crazy Love”
Death Cab for Cutie: “I’ll Follow You Into the Dark”
Chantal Kreviazuk: “Feels Like Home”
Anne Murray: “Could I Have This Dance”
Ben Harper: “Forever”
Lonestar: “Amazed”
The Beatles: “Blackbird”
Journey: “Open Arms”
Michael Bublé: “Hold On”
Louis Armstrong: “La Vie En Rose”
Nat King Cole: “That’s All”
Ella Fitzgerald: “I’m Glad There Is You”
Allison Krauss: “When You Say Nothing at All”
Vince Gill: “When Love Finds You”
MORE FIRST DANCE WEDDING SONGS
The Beatles: “When I’m Sixty-Four”
Stevie Wonder: “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”
Old Crow Medicine Show: “Wagon Wheel”
The Morning Benders: “Excuses”
Ray Charles: “Hallelujah (I Just Love Her So)”
Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx: “Gold Digger”
James Brown: “I Got You (I Feel Good)”
Beck: “Think I’m in Love”
Lauryn Hill: “I Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”
Marvin Gaye: “Let’s Get It On”
Al Green: “Let’s Stay Together”
Nina Simone: “Feeling Good”
Nat King Cole: “Let’s Face the Music and Dance”
Slade: “How Does It Feel”
Sam Cooke: “Nothing Can Change This Love”
FATHER-DAUGHTER WEDDING SONGS
The Beatles: “In My Life”
Billy Joel: “Vienna”
The Beatles: “Here Comes the Sun”
Mary Chapin Carpenter: “Why Walk When You Can Fly”
Joni Mitchell: “Both Sides, Now”
The Byrds: “Turn! Turn! Turn!”
Paul Simon: “Take Me to the Mardi Gras”
Nanci Griffith: “Turn Around”
Simon & Garfunkel: “59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)”
Nat King Cole: “Let There Be Love”
Judy Garland: “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love”
The Dixie Chicks: “Wide Open Spaces”
Aretha Franklin: “Let It Be”
Eric Clapton: “May You Never”
Paul Simon: “Father and Daughter”
Ben Folds: “Still Fighting It”
Randy Newman: “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”
Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram: “Somewhere out There”
Paul McCartney: “Little Willow”
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: “Teach Your Children”
The Muppets: “Rainbow Connection”
Carole King: “You’ve Got a Friend”
Rascal Flatts: “My Wish”
MOTHER-SON WEDDING SONGS
Scissor Sisters: “Take Your Mama”
Kanye West: “Hey Mama”
Iron & Wine: “Upward Over the Mountain”
Christina Aguilera: “Oh Mother”
2Pac: “Dear Mama”
Otis Redding: “The Glory of Love”
James Taylor: “You’ve Got a Friend”
Bruce Springsteen: “If I Should Fall Behind”
Tom Petty: “Wildflowers”
Crosby & Nash: “Carry Me”
Carole King: “Child of Mine”
Bette Midler: “Wind Beneath My Wings”
Natalie Merchant: “Kind and Generous”
Paul Simon: “Love Me Like a Rock”
John Prine: “Unwed Fathers”
Barbara Streisand: “Not While I’m Around“
Lauren Alaina: “Like My Mother Does”
PARTY WEDDING SONGS
Jackson 5: “ABC”
The Temptations: “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”
Aretha Franklin: “Chain of Fools”
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas: “Dancing in the Streets”
Jerry Lee Lewis: “Great Balls of Fire”
Elvis Presley: “Burning Love”
Four Tops: “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)”
Ritchie Valens: “La Bamba”
Wilson Picket: “Mustang Sally”
Aretha Franklin: “Respect”
The Four Seasons: “Sherry”
Isley Brothers: “Shout (Parts 1 & 2)”
The Supremes: “Stop! In the Name of Love”
Buddy Holly: “That’ll Be the Day”
Righteous Brothers: “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”
The Flaming Lips: “She Don’t Use Jelly”
Michael Jackson: “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough”
Jackson 5: “I Want You Back”
The Temptations: “My Girl”
Jackie Wilson: “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”
Sam Cooke: “Wonderful World”
Four Tops: “(Reach Out) I’ll Be There”
The Romantics: “What I Like About You”
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons: “December, 1963 (Oh What a Night)”
Kool and the Gang: “Get Down on It”
Earth, Wind & Fire: “September”
The Cars: “Just What I Needed”
The Cure: “Close to Me”
Queen: “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
The B-52s: “Love Shack”
Kool and the Gang: “Celebration”
New Order: “Love Vigilantes”
New Order: “Age of Consent”
Bruce Springsteen: “Dancing in the Dark”
Dexys Midnight Runners: “Come on Eileen”
David Bowie: “Modern Love”
Talking Heads: “Psycho Killer”
The Smiths: “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”
The Clash: “Rock the Casbah”
Stevie Wonder: “Superstition”
Simple Minds: “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”
Big Country: “In a Big Country”
Toto: “Africa”
The Proclaimers: “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
Blondie: “Heart of Glass”
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: “American Girl”
The Clash: “Train in Vain”
The Buggles: “Video Killed the Radio Star”
Traveling Wilburys: “End of the Line”
Whitney Houston: “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”
Daft Punk ft. Pharrell: “Get Lucky”
Fat Joe ft. Ashanti: “What’s Luv?”
Daft Punk: “Harder, Better, Faster”
Daft Punk: “One More Time”
Ghost Town DJs: “My Boo”
Hall & Oates: “You Make My Dreams”
The Outfield: “I Don’t Want to Lose Your Love Tonight”
Queen and David Bowie: “Under Pressure”
Beyoncé: “Countdown”
Taylor Swift: “Shake It Off”
Weezer: “El Scorcho”
Miley Cyrus: “Party in the USA”
Styx: “The Best of Times”
Arcade Fire: “Wake Up”
The Be Good Tanyas: “The Littlest Birds”
MC Hammer: “U Can’t Touch This”
Boys II Men: “Motown Philly”
Mariah Carey: “Always Be My Baby”
Carly Rae Jepsen: “Call Me Maybe”
Icona Pop: “I Love It”
Jimmy Soul: “If You Want to Be Happy”
M.I.A.: “Paper Planes”
MGMT: “Time to Pretend”
RUN-DMC: “It’s Tricky”
Salt-N-Pepa: “Shoop”
Hope we helped you in choosing your wedding songs! See you soon! Love: LDR Weddings and Events Team
