Best songs for your first dance!

 

Choosing a song to take your first foray onto the dance floor as a married couple can be tricky. Will you choose a song that is timeless, or something that’s meaningful to your relationship? Perhaps, you’ll opt for an upbeat track that will signify the celebrations have well and truly started? The options are endless and often it can be daunting

So, whether it’s Etta James, Ed Sheeran or perhaps a little Beyoncé, here are some of the best songs real couples have been inspired to use for their own first dance.

 

 

I Got You Babe – Sonny & Cher

Amen – John Adems

This Must Be The Place – The Lumineers

Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy

Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison

Latch – remix by Sam Smith

Shallow – Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper

Biblical – Calum Scott

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) – Natalie Cole

 

 

Lover Come Back  – City & Colour

Fly Me To The Moon – Frank Sinatra

Purple – Hollow Coves

Sunday Kind Of Love – Etta James

Dancing in the Moonlight – Toploader

Move on Up – Curtis Mayfield

Love on Top – Beyonce

Walking on Sunshine – Katrina & The Waves

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Frankie Valli

 

 

Stand By Me – Ben E King

Electricity – Dua Lipa

A Good Night – John Legend

Two Strong Hearts – John Farnham

Let’s Stay Together – Al Green

You Make My Dreams Come True – Hall and Oates

Always Forever – Betty Who

Something Like This – Coldplay / Chainsmokers

Drops of Jupiter Tell Me) – Train

Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles

 

 

Tennessee Whiskey – Chris Stapleton

Amen – John Adams

If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys

Days Like This – Van Morrison

Just the Two of Us – Grover Washington, Jr. Bill Withers

Love You ‘Till the End – The Pogues

I Believe in a Thing Called Love – The Darkness

Feeling Good – Nina Simone

I’d Be Waiting – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

You’re My Best Friend – Queen

 

 

This Too Shall Last – Anderson East

Coming Home – Leon Bridges

All of Me – John Legend

A Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay

Can’t Do Without You – Caribou

Sunny – Boney M

All Day and All of the Night – The Kinks 

I Love You – Lou Reed

Perfect – Ed Sheeran

Love Shack –  B52’s

 

 

Everything – Michael Bublé

I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Whitney Houston

Lovely – Billie Eilish

Praise You – Fat Boy Slim

My Girl – The Temptations

Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison

Higher Love – Kygo/ Whitney Houston

Baby I’m Yours – The Arctic Monkeys

Lover – Taylor Swift

 

 

Anyone – Justin Bieber

My Universe – Coldplay

You Are the One – Callum Scott

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell

September – Earth, Wind & Fire

Angels – The xx

Viva La Vida – Coldplay

Home – Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

You’ve got the Love – Florence and the Machine

Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac

 

 

Simply The Best – Tina Turner

You Make Loving Fun – Fleetwood Mac

Love is in the Air – John Paul Young

Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder

Beyond – Leon Bridges

December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) – Frankie Valli

Truly Madly Deeply – Jack River (cover)

God Blessed Our Love – Al Green

Clarity – Vance Joy

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – Elton John, Kiki Dee

 

Song choices can really set the stage for a magical moment, and your walk down the aisle is a major one! Take a peek at some of the best songs to walk down the aisle to, as shared by couples who have been there before.