Choosing your Wedding Songs
Choosing the music for your wedding is often overlooked or forgotten about and left until the very last minute. There are a few key stages of your day that you may like to think about what style of music and songs that you would like played:
Walking down the Aisle
Signing your Marriage Certificates
Confetti Shoot - Exiting Ceremony
Reception Entrance
First Dance
Father and Daughter Dance
Getting the Party Started
Your Last Song of the Evening
Walking down the aisle
This will be one of the first songs your wedding party fully hears as you enter your wedding ceremony. This is usually a slow song that gives you and your bridal party enough time to walk down the aisle whilst everyone watches in awe.
Signing your Marriage Certificates
This song will be played in the background as yourself, your partner and your witnesses will sign your wedding certificates.
Confetti Shoot - Exiting Ceremony
This song is usually played as you are leaving your ceremony. In many cases where confetti will also be thrown as you walk back down the aisle as husband and wife. This is usually a happy and lively song as you have just said your vows and time to start the celebrations.
Reception Entrance
This is your time to shine as you enter your reception area for the first time. Your guests will already be at their tables as they watch you take it all in for the first time.
First Dance
Your first dance as a married couple is a very sentimental moment and can be something that shows off both your personalities, or yourselves as a couple. This could be a song you have always loved and seen as your song together. Something slow and personal or why not try out a dance routine where you can include your bridal party for a fun surprise for your guests. Whatever you choose this is your time to shine and have fun.
Father and Daughter Dance
Parent dances will usually closely follow after your first dance at your reception and gives you time to take it all in with your loved one as you dance together. This is usually another sentimental moment where you can choose from array of songs to match your relationship as father and daughter.
There are no rules, so if you would prefer to have a Mother and Daughter, Mother and Son etc etc, there are no limitations.
The Party Starter
Is there a particular song you can think of that gets everyone up and dancing?
Every reception needs a song that will have everyone excited to take to the dance floor. You could pick a song that is one of your all-time favourites or why not something that you and your friends have been dancing to for years that is sure to get the party going.
Your Last Song of the Evening
As the night draws to a close the perfect opportunity arises to get your guests up to dance one last time. It’s the time to get all those non dancers up for one last dance before you are whisked away, some couples like to choose an uplifting song as their Grande Finale dance around you both or some like to choose a slow dance to end the night filled with romance. The choice is completely up to you.
When planning my own wedding a couple of years ago I wanted to distinguish the difference from work as a wedding planner to being a bride and I spent quite a while choosing the little things that are really important to me, like my wedding songs for instance. I wanted to make it a little bit different and I have never heard any of my wedding songs at any other wedding. This made the songs so much more special and personal to me and I get even more excited every time they pop up on my playlists now.
Some inspiration - popular songs we often hear at weddings:
Ed Sheeran – Perfect
Ed Sheeran – Thinking out loud
Ellie Goulding – How long will I love you
Christina Perri – A thousand years
John Legend – All of me
Bruno Mars – Marry You
Stevie Wonder – Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Justin Timberlake – Can’t stop this feeling
Something a little different:
Dan and Shay – Speechless
Matthew Mole – The Wedding Song
Ryan Darling – I choose You
Sleeping at last – I’m gonna be (500 miles)
Sleeping at last – Every little thing she does is magic
Ed Sheeran – Tenerife Sea
Sugarland – Stuck like glue
Becky Hill – I could get used to this (Orchestral Acoustic)
The Script - Never Seen Anything "Quite Like You"
Beyoncé - 1+1
Beyoncé – Love on top
Colbie Caillat – I do
John Legend – Never Break
Lukas Graham – Love Someone
Ellie Goulding - Still Falling For You
Bruno Mars – Count on me
The Beatles – Here comes the sun