Choosing your wedding songs isn’t the task you want to leave until the last minute, no way. Ensuring that you have the best wedding dinner music is essential because apart from the fact that the music sets the theme for the wedding, you will get to hear these songs over and over whenever you watch the wedding videos. The most popular wedding music genres are usually soul music, jazz, classic, ballads, hip hop and R & B.And to the benefit of our likely readers, Jemma from Wedding Forward is sharing with us today the top and the very best wedding music to use at your upcoming wedding, nuptials, or tying of the proverbial knot; with choices for the best wedding reception music among other fun titles.
How To Choose Music For Your Wedding – In choosing the music for your wedding, the overall theme for the wedding plays an important role in the genre of music which should be chosen. For instance a country themed wedding should definitely have country wedding songs. Also the different segments of the wedding come into play here. For instance there’s a host of popular wedding reception music to choose from for a grand reception
Wedding Ceremony And Reception Music– For the ceremony there’s music which is just right for the entrance of the bride and whatever other procession there might be. And for the father – daughter dance, couple dance, or even mother – son dance, there’s quite a number of popular wedding dance music which can make for a really unforgettable experience.
As promised by Jemma of Wedding Forward, below is a list of the very best in wedding music:
Wedding entrance music:
• Johnny Cash: “I Walk the Line”
• The Corrs: “Haste to the Wedding”
• The Beach Boys: “God Only Knows”
• Cake: “Love You Madly”
• Keb’ Mo’: “Every Morning”
• José Gonazalez: “Heartbeats”
• The Ramones: “Baby, I Love You”
Best wedding reception music (the couple):
• Peter Gabriel: “In Your Eyes”
• Celine Dion: “Because You Loved Me”
• Norah Jones: “Turn Me On”
• James Ingram: “So This Is Love”
• Sara Bareilles: “Love Song”
• John Legend: “All of Me”
• Lorde: “400 Lux”
• Alabama: “Forever’s as Far as I’ll Go”
• The Alabama Shakes: “I Found You”
• Ed Sheeran: “Thinking Out Loud”
• Adele: “One and Only”
• The Avett Brothers: “I and Love and You”
• Ben Harper: “Forever”
• Michael Bublé: “Hold On”
• Nat King Cole: “That’s All”
Popular wedding dance music (father – daughter; mother –son as you wish):
• The Beatles: “Here Comes the Sun”
• Joni Mitchell: “Both Sides, Now”
• Eric Clapton: “May You Never”
• Paul Simon: “Father and Daughter”
• Paul McCartney: “Little Willow”
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: “Teach Your Children”
• Kanye West: “Hey Mama”
• Christina Aguilera: “Oh Mother”
• James Taylor: “You’ve Got a Friend”
• Bette Midler: “Wind Beneath My Wings”
• Natalie Merchant: “Kind and Generous”
• Lauren Alaina: “Like My Mother Does”
I must say that although not a lengthy list, these chosen are by far the best wedding music I have chanced upon. Music does make a wedding, so choose, and choose with your heart.