150+ Great First Dance Wedding Songs
Picking a great first dance wedding song for your special day is a vital component to help create magical memories that will remain with you for a lifetime. However, it is not always easy to find the perfect song that describes the love that you and your partner share. We have listed over 150 songs perfect for any bride and groom to have for their first dance.
Throughout our 150 songs we have included slow ballads, timeless classics, and modern masterpieces.
Why do the bride and groom have a first dance? The first dance shared between the bride and groom is a time-honoured tradition. In time gone by, the first dance was considered the official opening of the dance floor by the newly married couple. It also symbolised the love and unity between the new couple.
150+ great first dance wedding songs
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- A million love songs – Take That
- A moment like this – Kelly Clarkson
- A thousand years – Christina Perri
- All of me – John Legend
- All these things – Elvis Costello
- All you need is love – The Beatles
- Alone – Jessie Ware
- Always – Bon Jovi
- Annie’s song – John Denver
- At last – Etta James
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- Be my baby – The Ronettes
- Better – Tom Baxter
- Better together – Jack Johnson
- Black Velvet – Alannah Myles
- The book of love – Peter Gabriel
- Broken wings – Mr. Mister
- Brown eyed girl – Van Morrison
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Can you feel the love tonight – Elton John
Can’t help falling in love – Elvis Presley
Can’t fight this feeling – REO Speedwagon
Can’t take my eyes off you – Frankie Valli
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
Come what may – Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman
Crazy Love – Van Morrison
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- Dance into the dark – Canyon City
- Daydream believer – The Monkees
- Drops of Jupiter – Train
- Don’t let me down – Joy Williams
- Don’t let the sun go down on me – George Michael
- Dreamlover – Mariah Carey
- Drive – The Cars
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- Endless love – Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
- Eternal Flame – The Bangles
- Everything – Mary J. Blige
- Everything – Michael Bublé
- (Everything I do) I do it for you – Bryan Adams
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- Falling in love with you again – Imelda May
- Fast car – Tracy Chapman
- Flightless bird, American Mouth – Iron & Wine
- The first time ever I saw your face – Roberta Flack
- For once in my life – Stevie Wonder
- Fly me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
- From this moment on – Shania Twain & Bryan White
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- Get you the Moon – Kina
- Glory of love – Peter Cetera
- Greatest day – Take That
- Greatest love of all – Whitney Houston
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- Halo – Beyoncé
- Heaven – Bryan Adams
- Here comes the sun – The Beatles
- Hero – Enrique Iglesias
- Hey Jude – The Beatles
- How long will I love you – Ellie Goulding
- How sweet it is (to be loved by you) – Marvin Gaye
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- I believe in a thing called love – Lemar
- I don’t want to miss a thing – Aerosmith
- I have nothing – Whitney Houston
- I love you – Celine Dion
- I wanna grow old with you – Westlife
- I will always love you – Whitney Houston
- I won’t give up – Jason Mraz
- I’m yours – Jason Mraz
- If I aint got you – Alicia Keys
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- Just Be – Paloma Faith
- Just like heaven – The Cure
- Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars
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- Kiss from a rose – Seal
- Kiss me – Ed Sheeran
- Kiss me – Elena Monis
- Kiss me – Sixpence None the Richer
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- Lady – Kenny Rogers
- Last request – Paulo Nutini
- Let me love you – Mario
- Let’s stay together – Al Green
- Little things – One Direction
- Love Is All Around – Wet Wet Wet
- Love you more – JLS
- Loving you easy – Zac Brown Band
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- Make you feel my love – Adele
- Marry you – Bruno Mars
- Mirrors – Justin Timberlake
- Moon river – Frank Sinatra
- My heart will go on – Céline Dion
- Mystery of love – Sufjan Stevens
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- Never too much – Luther Vandross
- The night we met – Lord Huron
- No one – Alicia Keys
- Nothing compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor
- Nothing’s gonna stop us know – Tamara Perez
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- One – U2
- One and only – Adele
- One day like this – Elbow
- One great mystery – Lady Antebellum
- Only love – Ben Howard
- Our time is short – Gang of Youths
- Over and over again – Nathan Sykes
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- Perfect – Ed Sheeran
- Perfect Duet – Ed Sheeran & Beyonce
- Purple Rain – Prince
- Put your records on – Corinne Bailey Rae
- The power of love – Jennifer Rush
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- Respect – Otis Redding
- Real love – Tom Odell
- Right here waiting – Richard Marx
- Run – Leona Lewis
- Run – Stephen Fretwell
- The Reason – Hoobastank
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- Saving all my love for you – Whitney Houston
- Shallow – Lady Gaga
- She’s always a woman – Billy Joel
- Skinny Love – Birdy
- Something – The Beatles
- Somewhere over the rainbow/What a wonderful world – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
- Songbird – Eva Cassidy
- Stand by me – Ben E. King
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- Take my breath away – Berlin Tenerife sea – Ed Sheeran
- Thank you – Led Zeppelin
- Thank you for loving me – Bon Jovi
- Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
- This will be (An everlasting love) – Natalie Cole
- Truly madly deeply – Savage Garden
- Two hearts – Phil Collins
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- Un-break my heart – Sandra Molinas
- Unchained melody – The Righteous Brothers
- Unknown to you – Jacob Banks
- Up where we belong – Tamara & Diego Grande
- Us against the world – Coldplay
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- Valerie – Amy Winehouse
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- Walking on sunshine – Katrina & The Waves
- We have all the time in the world – Louis Armstrong
- When you say nothing at all – Ronan Keating
- When a man loves a woman – Percy Sledge
- Wherever you will go – Charlene Soraia
- Wind beneath my wings – Bette Midler
- With or without you – U2
- Wonderful tonight – Eric Clapton
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- Yesterday – The Beatles
- You and I – Stevie Wonder
- You are the best thing – Ray LaMontagne
- You do something to me – Paul Weller
- You give me something – James Morrison
- You to Me Are Everything – The Real Thing
- You’re still the one – Shania Twain
- You’re the first, the last, my everything – Barry White
- Your song – Elton John
We hope that you have found the inspiration needed from our list of over 150 great first dance wedding sings in order for you to find the perfect song to symbolise yours and your partner’s love.
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