Looking for the best wedding songs to play at your wedding? This list has got you covered – we have the most popular love songs, as well as suggestions for father/son and mother/daughter dances. As a bonus, we’ve put together a Spotify playlist with all of these! 
Wedding Song Ideas
One of my favorite parts of planning our reception (arguably), was planning the songs that would be played at the reception. I have always loved music from the time I was little, and, a little-known fact is, I love dancing! Now, that doesn’t mean I’m any good at dancing (if you’ve ever gone to Zumba with me, you’d wholeheartedly agree), but I really enjoy dancing and singing! In fact, if you were a fly on the wall at our house, you’d see a lot of dancing and singing going on most of the time!
Anyways, I put a lot of time into finding the perfect songs for our wedding reception, and I was so happy when people actually danced! We didn’t have any alcohol at our reception, so even being completely aware of what they were doing, everyone really let loose a little bit. Quite a few people told me it was one of the most fun receptions they had been to in a long time, and I was happy to hear that. Sometimes I’m a little sad I don’t have more weddings to go to, because I don’t as many places to dance.
Even though we’ve been married for about three and a half year, I still love listening to “wedding” songs. I thought it would be fun to compile a list of songs that I think would be perfect for any wedding reception. I tried to include a nice variety (slow songs, fast songs, mother and son/father and daughter songs), but there was no way I could include every song out there, so it does reflect my taste a bit. I had a lot of fun putting this together though — Forrest just came in my office and said, “I love this little Karaoke session you have going on,” because, of course, I’m singing along like no one’s listening (because they aren’t, except for Forrest.)
Oh, and sorry, you won’t find any YMCA or Cha cha slide on this playlist. I really don’t like those songs! This is just a great list of cute love songs you love will to dance to!
Wedding Song Playlist
I have put together a Spotify playlist that has almost all of these songs. You can click here to check it out – feel free to use it at your wedding!
Slow Wedding Songs
All of Me by John Legend (my current favorite song)
God Gave Me You by Blake Shelton
A Thousand Years by Christina Perri
When You Love Someone by Bryan Adams
Never Stop (wedding version) by Safetysuit
Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts (the song we danced to!)
Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not by Thompson Square
I’d Rather Be With You Joshua Radin
Rest of My Life by By Bruno Mars
For You I Will by Teddy Geiger
The Way You Look Tonight by Frank Sinatra or Michael Buble
First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes
Livin’ Our Love Song by Jason Michael Carrol
If I Didn’t Have You by Thompson Square
You Can’t Hide Beautiful by Aaron Lines
Come What May from Moulin Rouge
Feels Like Home by Chantel Kreviazuk
Wedding Dress by Matt Nathanson
The Greatest Story Ever Told by Oliver James
When You Say You Love Me by Josh Groban
If I Should Fall Behind by Faith Hill
I Cross My Heart by George Straight
Lost in this Moment by Big and Rich
At The Beginning by Donna Lewis
When You Say Nothing at All by Alison Kraus
Faster Wedding Songs
Fallin’ for You by Colbie Caillat
Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars
You and I by Ingrid Michaelson
Kiss the Girl from Little Mermaid
Can’t Help Falling in Love With You by Ingrid Michaelson
Better Together by Jack Johnson (Hawaiian version is my favorite!)
You Make My Dreams by Hall & Oates
You’re the One That I Want from Grease
Rhythm of Love by Plain White T’s
Perfect by Ed Sheeran
Accidentally in Love by Counting Crows
Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Michael Buble
Carolina in my Mind by James Taylor
Make You Feel My Love by Adele
Single Ladies (for bouquet toss) by Beyonce
Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison
Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey
You and Me by Lighthouse
I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas
Today Was a Fairy Tale by Taylor Swift
Love Story by Taylor Swift
Mother and Son and Father and Daughter songs
I Loved Her First by Heartland
Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle
Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban
You’ll Be in My Heart
Stealing Cinderella by Chuck Wicks
It Won’t Be Like This for Long by Darius Rucker
You’ll Always Be My Little Girl by Steve Kirwan
Isn’t She Lovely by Stevie Wonder
I Hope You Dance by LeAnne Womack
Well, that’s it! I’m sure I missed lots (obviously — there’s hundreds of thousands of songs out there!), but these are my favorite. What songs did you play at your wedding?
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Originally posted in 2014; updated July 2023.
Carolina Yankee says
I’m a lot older than you are so I think I can give you a few titles you may not have heard of but I think you might like so perhaps they are worth looking up. My husband and I danced to a song by Barbara Mandrell and Lee Greenwood called “To Me”. I sang it to him during the ceremony and then we danced to the recorded version so everyone could know how it was ‘supposed to’ sound. Here’s a bunch of others I picked to play during our quiet dinner reception.
My Heart Belongs to You – Peabo Bryson
One in a Million – Larry Graham
Love of My Life – Michael W. Smith
(Your Love is) The Greatest Gift of All – Michelle Wright
Real Life Love, Still in Love – Larry Stewart
Wind Beneath My Wings, The Love She Found in Me, Lasso the Moon – Gary Morris
I’ll Still Be Loving You, ‘Til I Loved You – Restless Heart
If I Didn’t Have You – Billy Dean
I.O.U. – Lee Greenwood
I Will Be Here – Steven Curtis Chapman
Household of Faith – Steve Green
God Gave Me You – Bryan White
Through the Years – Kenny Rogers
This is Love, Times of Your Life – Paul Anka
There were quite a few others but these are some of my favorites. I just loved your idea so I thought I would share since we are from different generations and music is timeless. Maybe if you like a few of these, you can save them to your hard drive for an anniversary celebration with your husband, with my best wishes. Blessings to you and your family.
Katie says
Thank you so much! I love a few of these songs, but I haven’t heard of a lot of them. I will be looking them up soon. Thank you for taking the time to write them all out for me (and my readers!)
Katelyn F says
How fun! Your dad is so cute and charming. 🙂 My dad asked for “Butterfly Kisses” as the song we’d dance to. Ha ha ha. And Josh and I danced to “Such Great Heights” by Iron and Wine. We have all these corresponding freckles on our faces/hands that we thought it was cute, and totally a sign that we were met to be. And as a new married couple we’d reach such new heights together.
Katie says
My dad is pretty great 🙂 Butterfly kisses is a classic 🙂 I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Such Great Heights — I’ll have to listen to it! That freckle thing is so neat.