50 Background Wedding Songs for your Daytime Reception
Background music is essential to create an atmosphere during the wedding. Music has the power to instantly bring back special memories every time you hear that song in the future. So of course, you’ll want your wedding day to be filled with the music that means the most to you.
While your daytime weddings songs may not be the most important songs you choose for your wedding (I’m sure you’ll agree that they rank below your wedding ceremony songs or your first dance song), they are still essential in creating the right atmosphere during the hours between your vows and the evening reception starting.
There are no rules for your daytime wedding music choices; the music you choose will depend heavily on your own personal taste and the vibe you are striving to achieve on your day.
I would suggest songs that blend nicely into the background, gently setting your desired mood and keeping the absolute bangers for your evening reception where you and your guests, can let loose on the dance floor. However whether you have a good idea of the sort of songs you’d like to be played during your wedding breakfast or not…take a look through my list of daytime wedding songs and you are sure to find some inspiration.
I hope you have as much fun planning your own wedding music as I had putting together these songs for you.
Here are some ideal wedding song choices that as a wedding photographers in belfast I feel works.
Ho Hey – The Lumineers
Kiss Me – Sixpence None the Richer
Cannonball – Damien Riche
Hopeless Wonderer – Mumford and Sons
Hey There Delilah – Plain White T’s
Everything Has Changed – Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran
Wild Horses – The Rolling Stones
She’s Always A Woman – Billy Joel
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
Say You Won’t Let Go – James Arthur
Do you Remember – Jack Johnson
You Are The Reason – Calum Scott and Leona Lewis
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
Leave a Light On – Tom Walker
I’m Not The Only One – Sam Smith
All of me- John Legend
Songbird – Oasis
Big Yellow Taxi – Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton
Big Parade – The Lumineers
It’s All About You – McFly
Sitting on the Dock o’ the Bay – Otis Redding
Girl Put your Records On – Corrine Bailey Rae
Star Girl – McFly
Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley
California Dreamin – The Mamas & The Papas
At Last – Etta James
Make You Feel My Love – Adele
Lovely Day – Bill Withers
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Cover Me In Sunshine - Pink
Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Amy Winehouse
First Times –Ed Sheeran
The Joker and The Queen – Ed Sheeran
Fall into Me – Forest Blakk
Let’s Go Home Together – Ella Henderson and Tom Grennan
I Do – Aloe Blacc and LeAnn Rimes
Let it Be – The Beatles
God Only Knows- The Beach Boys]
How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding
Something In The Way She Moves – James Taylor
1+1 – Beyoncé
Little Things – One Direction
Grow Old With Me – Tom Odell
That’s When I Knew – Alicia Keys
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Lauren Hill
With or Without You – U2
Shallow – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy
I Lost Myself In Loving You – Jamie Miller
