Your first dance is a beautiful moment with your newly married partner, and also a chance to set the tone for the evening, share a beautiful moment and then get the party started.
Here are 77 great first dance music options that are tried and tested. Choose a song that means something to you both, think about the style and type of music you like and the speed of dance you would like.
77 Best First Dance Songs
- Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
- You Are The Best Thing – Ray Montagne
- At Last – Etta James
- All of Me – John Legend
- A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
- Your Song – Elton John
- How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding
- Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
- I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – Aerosmith
- The Luckiest – Ben Folds
- Wherever You Will Go – Charlene Soraia
- Stand By Me – Ben E. King
- Iris – The Goo Goo Dolls
- I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
- Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
- Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden
- This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) – Natalie Cole
- I’m Kissing You – Des’ree
- Run – Leona Lewis
- You Make It Real – James Morrison
- (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – Bryan Adams
- Love You ‘Till the End – The Pogues
- You’re Still the One – Shania Twain
- From This Moment On – Shania Twain & Bryan White
- Grow Old With You – Adam Sandler
- 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
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
- Come What May – Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman
- You Are the Best Thing – Ray LaMontagne
- One Day Like This – Elbow
- All You Need Is Love – The Beatles
- 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
- Nothing’s Going to Stop Us Now – Starship
- Endless Love – Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
- It Must Be Love – Madness
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack
- The Wonder of You – Elvis Presley
- 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
- Love Never Fails – Brandon Heath
- If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
- I Get the Sweetest Feeling – Jackie Wilson
- When You Say Nothing At All – Ronan Keating
- No One – Alicia Keys
- Halo – Beyoncé
- Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
- I Found You – Alabama Shakes
- Everything – Michael Bublé
- We Have All The Time In The World – Louis Armstrong
- Everything – Mary J. Blige
- Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
- You’re All I Need to Get By – Aretha Franklin
- Angels – Robbie Williams
- I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston
- Romeo and Juliet – The Killers
- Islands In the Stream – Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
- 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
- Moon River – Frank Sinatra
- She’s The One – Robbie Williams
- You Give Me Something – James Morrison