How to choose a first dance song

How to choose your wedding first dance song

How do you choose your first dance song? That one song at your wedding that you will dance together to in front of all of your family and friends.

Your wedding first dance song is a personal choice, it’s unique to you as a couple and will hold meaning for both of you. You can rehearse in advance so that it is smooth and impressive. You don’t want to be tripping around the dance floor together.

Special Moment Together

The first dance together is a special moment, a moment during your wedding where you both stop, concentrate on each other and time is paused. You can create a romantic moment that you will cherish and remember forever.

Style of Music

First dance songs at weddings are usually romantic songs with meaning, beautiful words that speak to you as a couple and reflect you both as well as your relationship together. Styles of music to consider range from a slow classical song to something a little more upbeat. A good place to do some research is on spotify, spotify puts together playlists – check out their Top 50 First Dance Songs playlist. Consider both of your abilities to dance and choose something that matches your style.

Ability to dance to it

You don’t have to be an unbelievable dancer to pull off a beautiful first dance together at your wedding. With some practice and time you can perfect a beautiful routine together that looks natural without looking choreographed.

True Meaning for both of you

Think about your relationship, from the beginning right up to now. Think of special times together, concerts, birthdays, Sundays spent listening to music together outside. Run through the words of the song in your head before you choose it as you want something which reflects your relationship and has meaning. You don’t want to pick up a song about a breakup just because you love that song.

Wedding Vows

When you find a song that has real meaning for both of you, why not consider taking a line from the song and using it as part of your wedding vows. This idea creates a theme that runs through your wedding. You can capture your wedding vows in a booklet which you can cherish forever.

A Classic Wedding Song

There are some classics that are chosen over and over again. These songs are all about love, everybody knows them but are they right for you?

• Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
• At Last – Etta James
• Your Song – Elton John
• I don’t want to miss a thing – Aerosmith
• Somewhere over the Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

First Dance Song Suggestions

Here are some suggestions from classics to a little more unique. Try not to pick something that is totally obscure or something that is right on trend now. You want the song to stay with you forever so it has to have longevity.

• Perfect – Ed Sheeran
• All Of Me – John Legend
• Something – The Beatles
• A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
• I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
• Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
• Run – Leona Lewis
• You’re My Best Friend – Queen
• My Love Goes On – James Morrison and Joss Stone
• Love Story – Taylor Swift
• You Make It Real – James Morrison
• Love You ‘Till the End – The Pogues
• You’re Still the One – Shania Twain
• Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars
• Make You Feel My Love – Adele
• Falling In Love With You Again – Imelda May
• Songbird – Eva Cassidy
• Let There Be Love – Nat “King” Cole
• You Do Something to Me – Paul Weller
• Come What May – Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman
• One Day Like This – Elbow
• You’re the First, the Last, My Everything – Barry White
• A Moment Like This – Kelly Clarkson
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight – Elton John
• Marry You – Bruno Mars
• Better Together – Jack Johnson
• Hero – Enrique Iglesias
• Endless Love – Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
• It Must Be Love – Madness
• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack
• Kiss From A Rose – Seal
• You’ve Got the Love – Florence + the Machine
• Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Andy Williams
• Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
• The Reason – Hoobastank
• If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
• Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
• Everything – Michael Bublé
• We Have All The Time In The World – Louis Armstrong
• Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
• You’re All I Need to Get By – Aretha Franklin
• Romeo and Juliet – The Killers
• How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) – Marvin Gaye
• Songbird – Oasis
• The One – Kodaline
• Us Against the World – Coldplay
• You’re Beautiful – James Blunt
• Little Things – One Direction
• One Great Mystery – Lady Antebellum
• Like Teenage Gravity – Counting Crows
• Thank You – Led Zeppelin
• Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
• Next to Me – Emile Sandé
• At My Most Beautiful – R.E.M.
• Better – Tom Baxter
• Greatest Day – Take That
• Drops Of Jupiter – Train
• The Book of Love – Peter Gabriel
• Yours – Ella Henderson
• A Million Love Songs – Take That
• I Knew I Loved You – Savage Garden
• I Wanna Grow Old With You – Westlife
• Last Night On Earth – Green Day
• Accidentally In Love – Counting Crows
• I Won’t Give Up – Jason Mraz
• A Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay

I hope I have given you something to think about when it comes to your first dance song. Get some music on, listen to the words and find something that is the perfect choice for you both.