120 wedding songs that aren't "All Of Me"
A guest post by the amazing Chris Holland of thesongnerd.com!
When choosing songs for your wedding, be it for the dance, bridal entry, whatever… my number one piece of advice is firstly: choose a song you love. Play your favourite songs, whether you think they’re “a wedding song” or not. Truth is, there are no rules when it comes to music.
There are several lists online with nice “wedding songs”, generally slow ballads that are nice, but may be impersonal, mushy, cheesy, or not you. Here are some suggestions, a couple are ballads, but some up-tempo, fun, left-of-centre choices that may just suit your personality or be suitable at one certain benchmark of your ceremony. Perhaps you want your guests to laugh and have fun, not necessarily shed a tear at your romance.
The nature of a song is that there are 3 or 4 minutes worth of lyrics – plenty of time for some words that may not be exactly appropriate for your wedding. Listen carefully, see how much they matter to you. If there’s anything that relates to cheating/fighting/anything you don’t want associated – then drop the song, or at least that part of the song. I’ve tried to choose songs that aren’t too much based on “break up, take me back”, “I went away, I missed you” or “geez I would really love to touch you inappropriately” kind of love songs.
And you already know that John Legend song. So it’s not on this list.
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Jimmy Barnes / anyone and everyone else
All Day and All of the Night – The Kinks
All I Need is You – Guy Sebastian
All of my Love – Led Zeppelin
All You Need is Love – Beatles
Are You Gonna Be My Girl – Jet
At Last – Etta James
Baby I Love Your Way – Peter Frampton / Big Mountain
Be Mine – Guy Sebastian
Beautiful To Me – Little Birdy
Because I Love You – Masters Apprentices
Best of my Love – The Emotions
Big Me – Foo Fighters
Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis
Book of Love – Magnetic Fields / Peter Gabriel
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
Bubble Toes – Jack Johnson
Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen (Have a laugh! The girls likes the guy, it’s fun!)
Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue
Can’t Help Falling in Love with You – Elvis / UB40
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Four Seasons
Cosmic Girl – Jamiroquai
Crack the Shutters – Snow Patrol
Crazy In Love – Beyonce ft. Jay-Z
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
Cruisin’ – Huey Lewis & Gwenyth Paltrow
Dance with You – Live
Do You Realize? – The Flaming Lips
Especially For You – Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan – embrace it!
Even When I’m Sleeping – Leonardo’s Bride
Everlasting Love – Gloria Estafan / U2 / anyone else
Everlong – Foo Fighters
Everybody Gonna Be Happy – The Kinks / QOTSA
Everywhere – Michelle Branch
Feeling Good – Muse / Michael Buble / anyone else
Finally – Ce Ce Peniston
Foxy Lady – Jimi Hendrix
God Only Knows – Beach Boys
Good Day Sunshine – Beatles
Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
Got My Mind Set on You – George Harrison
Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis
Groove is in the Heart – Dee-Lite
Hallelujah I Love her So – Ray Charles
Happy Together – The Turtles
Home – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
I Believe in a Thing Called Love – The Darkness
I Feel Better – Gotye
I Got You Babe – Sonny & Cher
I Wanna Hold Your Hand – Beatles
I Was Made for Lovin’ You – Kiss
I’ll be There – Jackson 5 / Mariah Carey
I’ll Make You Happy – Easybeats
I’m A Believer – Monkees / Smash Mouth
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – The Proclaimers
I’m Gonna Love You Too – Blondie
Invincible – Muse
Is This Love? – Bob Marley
It Must be Love – Madness
It’s So Quiet – Bjork
Jungle Drum – Emiliana Torrini
Like Wow Wipeout – Hoodoo Gurus
Love – John Lennon
Luv Your Life – Silverchair
Mirrors – Justin Timberlake
My Baby Just Cares for Me – Nina Simone
My Girl – Temptations
Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley (it’s a fun love song! Roll with it!)
Never Tear Us Apart – INXS
Not Afraid of Romance – Machine Gun Fellatio
One Crowded Hour – Augie March
Power of Love – Huey Lewis & the News
Praise You – Fatboy Slim
Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
Real Love – Regina Spektor
Rhythm of my Heart – Rod Stewart
See You – Foo Fighters
Show me the Way – Peter Frampton
Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Stevie Wonder
Slice of Heaven – Dave Dobbyn & the Herbs
So Glad You’re Mine – Sherbert
Something – Beatles
Stuck with You – Huey Lewis & the News
Take me by the Hand – Bobby Flynn
Tender – Blur
That Word L.O.V.E – Deni Hines & the Rockmelons
The Best – Tina Turner
The Dolphin’s Cry – Live
The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra
The Way You Make Me Feel – Michael Jackson
This Old Love – Lior
This Will Be Our Year – Zombies
Twist & Shout – Beatles
Umbrella – Rhianna ft. Jay-Z (Took an oath, I’mma stick it out ’til the end!)
Wedding Ring – Easybeats
What I Can Do for You – Sheryl Crow
What I Like About You – Romantics
When I’m With You – Best Coast
Wild Thing – The Troggs
Woman – Wolfmother
You Make Me Happy – Jimmy Hannan
You and Me Song – The Wannadies
You Give Me Something – Jamiroquai
You Got It – Roy Orbison
You Got It (The Right Stuff) – New Kids on the Block
You Really Got Me – The Kinks / Van Halen
You’re My Best Friend – Queen
You’re the One that I Want – John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
You’ve Got the Love – Florence & the Machine / Solitaire
Your Song – Elton John
Just some considerations! Go through your CD collection and find your favourite songs first, then start digging deeper in this list. There’ll be a song for your mood there I’m sure.
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