Picking songs is always overlooked when it comes to planning your wedding. There are so many things to think about and plan. Therefore, thinking of the right love songs for walking down the aisle during the ceremony, your first dance, the anniversary dance, etc. gets lost in the mix. To help, we wanted to put together a few of our favorite choices when it comes to the slower songs that get played on your wedding day. Here are our top choices based on what style of music you’re going for.
The Classics
These are the songs that everyone in your family is going to know and love! They’ve been used in weddings for years and you’re likely to run into a couple of people who tell you “that was my wedding song too”. These will age beautifully and you’ll be able to listen to these songs forever and cherish what they meant to you. When you’re picking a romantic song for your wedding you really can’t go wrong with these!
- “Endless Love” by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
- “Because You Loved Me” by Celine Dion
- “The Way You Look Tonight” by Frank Sinatra
- “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge
- “Everything” by Michael Buble
- “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper
R&B
Throwing out some R&B songs isn’t as conventional as playing some of the classics, however, it’s a great way to mix things up just a bit. Also, there are plenty of R&B songs that can totally be classified as classics! This means that along with being a bit different than playing songs people may have heard over and over, they will age just as well!
- “Here and Now” by Luther Vandross
- “If I Ever Fall in Love” (Acapella) by Shai
- “Spend My Life With You” by Eric Benet
- “By Your Side” by Sade
- “For You” by Kenny Lattimore
Modern Love Songs
These love songs will sound amazing in today’s day and age and there is no doubt that everyone will love the song. However, you do happen to risk the age-ability factor when playing these songs. Playing a more modern love song is sort of rolling the dice on how your first dance or love song at your wedding will age and if it will still sound great in years to come. At the same time, if these songs do happen to age well then you’ve sort of stricken gold! You’ll get a song that is popular and trendy and one that sounds extremely cute when you play it for your kids someday. Here are our favorite modern love songs:
- “Perfect Duet” by Ed Sheeran and Beyoncé
- “All of Me” by John Legend
- “Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran
- “Conversations in The Dark” by John Legend
- “Lucky” by Jason Mraz
Country Love Songs
Country songs make amazing love songs for your wedding and can be played whether they were released last week or 40 years ago. The couple and family certainly need to be the type of group that loves (or at least likes) country music since this type of music is certainly an acquired taste and not every couple is going to be up for it. However, country music fans LOVE country music and would be more than happy to slow dance to a few country songs on their big day. Additionally, for as much flack as country music gets for being about tractors and beer, country music love songs contain some of the most beautiful yet simple lyrics in this entire list.
- “You Make it Easy” by Jason Aldean
- “From the Ground Up” by Dan + Shay
- “Amazed” by Lonestar
- “Then” by Brad Paisley
- “Speechless” by Dan + Shay
Complete Weddings + Events Orlando
No matter what type of music you’re into, there will be a list of love songs that we would love to put together for you! It really doesn’t matter what genre you want to stick to, there are more than likely plenty of love songs that we can help provide you and go over ideas for your big day. We would love to chat about what music works for your wedding, how we can provide the right services for your wedding, and what we can do to make your big day as great as it can possibly be! Reach out to us today to learn more about our DJ services, or to put a package together with all of our services to take care of DJ, photography, videography, photo booth, and uplighting services!