75 Best First Dance Songs for Every Type of Couple

Sweetest lyric: “Fill my heart with song and let me sing forevermore / You are all I long for / All I worship and adore / In other words, please be true / In other words, I love you”

Sweetest lyric: “At long last, love has arrived / And I thank God I'm alive / You're just too good to be true / Can't take my eyes off you”

Sweetest lyric: “It's very clear our love is here to stay / Not for a year but ever and a day”

Sweetest lyric: “I see trees of green, red roses too / I see them bloom, for me and you / And I think to myself / What a wonderful world”

Sweetest lyric: “At last my love has come along / My lonely days are over and life is like a song”

Sweetest lyric: "Love is all that I can give to you / Love is more than just a game for two / Two in love can make it, take my heart and please don't break it / Love was made for me and you"

Sweetest lyric: "Take my hand / Take my whole life, too / For I can't help falling in love with you"

Sweetest lyric: "Sweet dreams 'til sunbeams find you / Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you / But in your dreams, whatever they be / Dream a little dream of me"

Sweetest lyric: "You're mine / And we belong together / Yes, we belong together / For eternity"

Sweetest lyric: "Maybe millions of people go by / But they all disappear from view / And I only have eyes for you"

Sweetest lyric: "I couldn't aspire / To anything higher / Than, to fill the desire / To make you my own"

Sweetest lyric: "As long as there's the two of you / You've got the world and all its charms / And when the world is through with you / You've got each other's arms"

Sweetest lyric: "And I love you so / The people ask me how / How I've lived till now /I tell them I don't know"

Sweetest lyric: "That's why, darling, it's incredible / That someone so unforgettable / Thinks that I am unforgettable too"

Sweetest lyric: "Earth angel, Earth angel, the one I adore / Love you forever, and ever more / I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you"

Sweetest lyric: “Let me be your everlasting light / Your sun when there is none / I'm a shepherd for you / And I'll guide you through / Let me be your everlasting light”

Sweetest lyric: “I can't help it, there's nothin' I want more / You know it's true / Everything I do / I do it for you”

Sweetest lyric: “You're everything I hoped for / You're everything I need / You are so beautiful to me”

Sweetest lyric: “I belong with you / You belong with me / You're my sweetheart”

Sweetest lyric: “Yeah, the heavens open every time she smiles / And when I come to her, that's where I belong / Yeah, and I run into her like a river's song”

Sweetest lyric: “I believe in a thing called love / Just listen to the rhythm of my heart / There's a chance we could make it now / We'll be rocking 'til the sun goes down / I believe in a thing called love”

Sweetest lyric: “I could spend my life in this sweet surrender / I could stay lost in this moment forever / Where a moment spent with you is a moment I treasure”

Sweetest lyric: “Well, my heart's like a river, a river that sings / Just takes me a while to realize things / I've seen the sunrise, I've seen the dawn / I'll lay down beside you when everyone's gone”

Sweetest lyric: “And I'd give up forever to touch you / 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow / You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be / And I don't wanna go home right now”

Sweetest lyric: “I would not leave you in times of trouble / We never could have come this far / I took the good times, I'll take the bad times / I'll take you just the way you are”

Sweetest lyric: “Oh, you're the best friend that I ever had / I've been with you such a long time / You're my sunshine / And I want you to know / That my feelings are true / I really love you”

Sweetest lyric: “If you're lost you can look and you will find me / Time after time / If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting / Time after time”

Sweetest lyric: “Sweet wonderful you / You make me happy with the things you do / Oh, can it be so / This feeling follows me wherever I go”

Sweetest lyric: “I feel wonderful / Because I see the love light in your eyes / And the wonder of it all / Is that you just don't realize how much I love you”

Sweetest lyric: “Somewhere in her smile she knows / That I don't need no other lover / Something in her style that shows me / I don't want to leave her now / You know I believe and how”

Sweetest lyric: “You don't have to be rich to be my girl / You don't have to be cool to rule my world / Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with / I just want your extra time and your / Kiss”

Sweetest lyric: “'Cause all of me / Loves all of you / Love your curves and all your edges / All your perfect imperfections / Give your all to me / I'll give my all to you / You're my end and my beginning / Even when I lose, I'm winning / 'Cause I give you all of me / And you give me all of you”

Sweetest lyric: “Everywhere I'm looking now / I'm surrounded by your embrace / Baby, I can see your halo / You know you're my saving grace”

Sweetest lyric: “All my life I prayed for someone like you / And I thank God that I / That I finally found you”

Sweetest lyric: “But you brighten up for me all of my days / With a love so sweet, so many ways / I wanna stop, thank you, baby”

Sweetest lyric: “Come away with me and we'll kiss / On a mountaintop / Come away with me / And I'll never stop loving you”

Sweetest lyric: "There's nothing I won't do / To spend my life with you / I'll give my all to you / I promise that I will never lie to you"

Sweetest lyric: "I have never been so much / In love before / What a difference a true love made in my life"

Sweetest lyric: "Some people want diamond rings / Some just want everything / But everything means nothing / If I ain't got you"

Sweetest lyric: "We've been too strong for too long / And I can't be without you, baby"

Sweetest lyric: "Well, happiness is when / You really feel good with somebody / But nothing wrong / With being in love with someone"

Sweetest lyric: "I told you you could always count on me, darling / From that day on, I made a vow / I'll be there when you want me / Some way, somehow"

Sweetest lyric: "You inspire me to be better / You challenge me for the better / Sit back and let me pour out my love letter"

Sweetest lyric: "'Cause you are my superstar / And as your number one fan / I'll do all that I can / To show you how super you are"

Sweetest lyric: "'I knew back then / You were that special one / I'm so in love / So deep in love / You make my life complete"

Sweetest lyric: “Sealing our love with a kiss / Waited my whole life for this / Watching all my dreams come true / Lost in this moment with you”

Sweetest lyric: "From the moment I met you / You made my life complete / This wave of pure devotion / Has swept me off my feet / And tonight when we kissed / You still took my breath away"

Sweetest lyric: "You're a needle in a haystack / You're so damn hard to find / Candy apple red Cadillac / You're one of a kind"

Sweetest lyric: "You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey / You're as sweet as strawberry wine / You're as warm as a glass of brandy / And honey, I stay stoned on your love all the time"

Sweetest lyric: "You make loving you easy / You make loving you all I wanna do / Every little smile, every little touch / Reminds me how just how much it all makes / Loving you easy"

Sweetest lyric: "I can stay right here forever in your arms / And there ain't no way / I'm lettin' you go now"

Sweetest lyric: "My love is deeper than the holler / Stronger than the river / Higher than the pine trees growin' tall upon the hill"

Sweetest lyric: "You're my sunshine, you're my rain / The sweetest thing/I've ever known / Is lovin' you"

Sweetest lyric: "Oh, baby, I'm gonna love you forever / Forever and ever amen"

Sweetest lyric: "It's your love / It just does something to me / It sends a shock right through me / I can't get enough / And if you wonder/About the spell I'm under / Oh it's your love"

Sweetest lyric: "Forever is the love that can stand the test of time / Forever I am yours, say forever you'll be mine"

Sweetest lyric: "Forever, my darling, my love will be true / Always and forever I'll love just you"

Sweetest lyric: "'Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs / God gave me you for the days of doubt / And for when I think I lost my way / There are no words here left to say, it's true / God gave me you"

Sweetest lyric: "This is my first love song / First time I felt the words / First time I sang along / Whenever it comes on / I just think of you/And everything you do / You're my one, my from now on"

Sweetest lyric: "You found me in the darkest night / You're my angel, you saved my life / I can't believe we're standin' here / What's mine is yours, and yours is mine / I'll love you 'til the end of time / I wanna spend forever with you / I do, I do, I do”

Sweetest lyric: “Listen to the music of the moment, people dance and sing / We're just one big family / And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved”

Sweetest lyric: “Pain throws your heart to the ground / Love turns the whole thing around / Fear is a friend who's misunderstood / But I know the heart of life is good”

Sweetest lyric: “And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70 / And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23”

Sweetest lyric: “Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together / Well, it's always better when we're together”

Sweetest lyric: “I hope you don't mind / That I put down in words / How wonderful life is while you're in the world”

Sweetest lyric: “How long will I love you? / As long as stars are above you / And longer, if I can”

Sweetest lyric: "You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess / It's a love story, baby, just say, 'Yes'"

Sweetest lyric: "I'm lookin' right at the other half of me / The vacancy that sat in my heart / Is a space that now you hold”

Sweetest lyric: "I'd walk through fire for you / Just let me adore you / Like it's the only thing I'll ever do”

Sweetest lyric: "Baby, you're like lightning in a bottle / I can't let you go now that I got it / And all I need is to be struck / By your electric love”

Sweetest lyric: "Could you be here with me forever, ever, ever? / Would you be here with me forever, ever, ever? / Waking up all alone ain't better, better, better / Every time I go the wrong way you turn me back around”

Sweetest lyric: "Baby, I'm yours / And I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky / Yours until the rivers all run dry / In other words, until I die”

Sweetest lyric: "I could make you happy, make your dreams come true / Nothing that I wouldn't do / Go to the ends of the earth for you / To make you feel my love”

Sweetest lyric: "We keep this love in a photograph / We made these memories for ourselves / Where our eyes are never closing / Hearts are never broken / And time's forever frozen still”

Sweetest lyric: "If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied / Illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs / If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks / Then I'll follow you into the dark”

The key to picking the right first dance song for you and your spouse boils down to two things:

1. A first dance song should be meaningful to you. So start by making a list of the songs that always make you think of your partner or that make up the soundtrack of important moments of your story.
2. Your first dance song should evoke some sort of emotional response. If you’re hoping to inspire some waterworks in your guests, consider classic love songs and ballads. If you want to get the party started and set the tone for the rest of your wedding, choose something that is more upbeat.

Once you’ve found a song that checks both of these boxes, you likely have your winner.

Most wedding planners recommend that your first dance be anywhere from 2 to 3 minutes long. This will give your photographer and videographer enough time to capture super-sweet shots of you dancing but isn’t so long that it becomes awkward for your guests. If the first dance song you’ve chosen stretches past the three-minute mark, work with your DJ to create a shorter version that works for you and your partner.

Traditionally, the first dance happens at the beginning of the wedding reception, directly after the couple makes their grand entrance. That said, it is becoming more popular for first dances to happen after dinner. If you choose to go that route, the couple will usually do their first dance after the speeches and before the father-daughter and mother-son dances.

Like so many aspects of wedding planning, it’s easy to get wrapped up in expectations and traditions when trying to pick out a first dance song. But remember that this day is about you and your partner! If the two of you love high-tempo dance anthems, don’t feel like you need to force a waltz into your big day. You can absolutely choose a song that is upbeat (and we’ve provided tons of more upbeat options on this list!).