CHOOSING THE SONGS FOR YOUR WEDDING
Picking the special songs for your Wedding day can be an extremely difficult task for many couples. Finding the right place to start is tough with hundreds of thousands of song choices out there, how do you find the ‘one’ song to walk down the aisle, or to have your first dance to? To make things a little easier for couples we have put together a list of the most requested Weddings songs by couples who we have DJ’ed for. This should be a great way to help get some ideas and options rolling around in your head, and maybe you will even fall in love with one of the songs on our list.
WALKING DOWN THE AISLE
This is possibly the biggest song choice of the day for brides. It is important to think about the timing required for flower girls, bridesmaids and the bride to be to make it down the aisle, this is often something you can do at an early site visit at your venue, or will do with your celebrant at the Wedding rehearsal. If you find a song that you absolutely fall in love with, but perhaps the instrumental intro needs to be longer, or you want to remove a certain verse from the song etc, remember that we offer custom edits of your walking down the aisle song with our Gold and Platinum Wedding DJ Packages.
- Ed Sheeran – How Would You Feel (Paean)
- Tori Kelly – I Was Made For Loving You
- Sam Smith – Make It To Me
- Clean Bandit – Rather Be (Vitamin String Quartet Cover)
- Ed Sheeran – Tenerife Sea
- Christina Perri – A Thousand Years
- Ellie Goulding – How Long Will I Love You
- Louis Baker – Rainbow
- Emily Hacket – Take My Hand (The Wedding Song)
- Tim Urban – I Cant Help Falling In Love
- Six60 – Forever
- Tom Walker – Just You & I
- Ellie Goulding – Still Falling for You
- Mark Knopfler – Storybook Love
SIGNING OF THE REGISTER
We recommend couples to pick two songs for the singing of the register as it can take anywhere between four and eight minutes to get all the paper work done allowing for the couples signature, your witnesses and of course the celebrant.
- Six60 – Someone To Be Around
- Sara Bareilles – I Choose You
- Beyonce – XO
- Al Green – Lets Stay Together
- John Mayer – XO
- James Arthur – Say You Won’t Let Go
- John Legend – Stay With You
- Lana Del Ray – Love
- Jack Johnson – Better Together
- KT Tunstall – Universe U
- Tom Odell – Grow Old with Me
- Ruelle – I Get To Love You
- Julia Stone – Stay With Me
WALKING UP THE AISLE
Let’s celebrate, you are officially hitched! This is usually a high energy, good feeling kind of song. You can really choose anything but here are a few of the popular ones we have used recently.
- Hootie & The Blow Fish – Only Wanna Be With You
- Stevie Wonder – Signed Sealed Delivered
- Rudimental – Feel The Love
- Clean Bandit – Rather Be
- Six60 – Forever
- Bill Withers – Lovely Day
- Chainsmokers – Something Just Like This
- Naked & Famous – Young Blood
- Ray LaMontagne – You Are The Best Thing
GRAND ENTRANCE
You have now been away for usually about 90 minutes to do your Post Ceremony Wedding Photos with your bridal party and its time to made a big entrance as the MC welcomes you all to the reception venue. Similar to the Walking Up the Aisle song this is usually high energy and good vibes to celebrate your arrival as a married couple.
- Meghan Trainor – Dear Future Husband
- Rudimental – Lay It All On Me
- Beyonce – Love On Top
- Shapeshifter – Stars
- American Authors – Best Day Of My Life
- The Weekend – I Feel It Coming
- Jason Mraz – Love Someone
- Rudimental – Feel The Love
- Galantis – Love On Me
- Sigala – Sweet Lovin
- Florence & The Machine – You’ve Got The Love
- Imagine Dragons – On Top Of The World
CUTTING OF THE CAKE
You’ve had dinner, speeches are out of the way, and its time to cut your cake together as a couple. Its common for this not to be a big deal for some couples but it helps to have a few appropriate songs in mind for when you do.
- Average White Band – Cut The Cake
- DNCE – Cake By The Ocean
- Emeli Sande – Next To Me
- The Archies – Sugar, Sugar
- David Gray – The One I Love
- James Taylor – How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
- U2 – Sweetest Thing
- Cat Stevens – The First Cut Is The Deepest
FIRST DANCE
Some couples cannot wait to share their first dance with the other half, where as others couldn’t think of anything worse than having all eyes on them as they shuffle around the room awkwardly with two left feet. Regardless of where in the scale you might sit, this is definitely one of the most important songs of the day. Remember that making custom edits of your First Dance is included in our Gold and Platinum packages. This includes editing, and mix several songs together if you are wanting to do something special, or practice a routine!
- Ed Sheeran – How Would You Feel (Paean)
- Lucy Spraggan – Butterflies
- Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
- Beyonce – One Plus One
- Pixie Lott – You To Me Are Everything
- Jason Mraz – Lucky
- John Mayor – XO
- Lonestar – Amazed
- Ed Sheeran – Perfect Duet ft Beyonce
- UB40 – Cant Help Falling In Love
- John Denver – Annies Song
- Etta James – At Last
DANCE FLOOR
That’s it, all the formalities are done and its time to blow off some steam and have a party! Every dance floor is ver different so we won’t go listing hundreds of songs for you to look through, but a part of our booking process is working together on an online music form where you tell us what genres you like, and specific requests you want to hear. We recommend that you put a ‘One song that will make me dance’ field on your guests RSVPs, this way our DJs get a great idea of the mix of music your guests will respond to, as well as the music that you do and don’t want to hear at your Wedding. We hope these suggestions have helped you along the way and we look forward to taking care of the music for your special day!