Wedding Songs

Popular Wedding Reception Songs

Selecting the songs for your wedding reception is not an easy thing to do. Unless you have hired a DJ to take over all the process of the selection, then you see yourself forced to do face the endless lists of popular wedding reception songs, trying to figure out which one fits the best in the patterns of your style and at the same time to point out the event that is displayed at that specific moment. These events are known to be constituents of a wedding reception and each one of them carries within itself a step forward into the final parts of a wedding celebration.

The first moment to begin the wedding reception, which has to be performed on a musical background is the “Grand Entrance Song” played at the moment when the couple enter the reception hall. In this matter there are a lot of options to choose from but you finally decide on “Beautiful Day” performed by U2. You have opted for this song because your first date happened to be precisely on a U2 concert where a mutual friend has invited you both. Back then you had no clue that love was going to insinuate in your senses making you experience that “love at first sight” feeling. And you both decide that your grand entrance to be made on the sounds of U2′s song.

The next moment happens to take place on the dance floor and it is called “father daughter dance song” where you have to dance to a song you choose with your daddy. Normally brides make the pick, but it can happen also for the father to have the pleasure of selecting a song that relates his feelings to the daughter he is giving away to marry the next important man in her life, the groom. But you wish to make the selection yourself as you want to surprise your father with “Dance with my father” song performed by Luther Vandross.

And for the groom not to be left aside there is also a moment for him in the wedding party which connects to music, that being “mother son dance song” moment where the groom dances with his mother. Being next to you while facing the long list of options of popular wedding reception songs, he opts for “You raise me up” by Josh Groban. He remembers that he used to listen to this song whenever his parents were throwing parties for his anniversary years and each time it brought tears in his mother’s eyes.

And finally the moment that sets the tone for starting the party is “first dance song” where the bride is dancing with the groom and you both look for something that is more than relevant, something to contain every moment that you lived together and strengthened the relationship you used to have for so long. You want with this song to show all your guests the reason why you gathered all of them there in that day that shines more than any other day.  When your husband looks at you and says that “Beautiful in my eyes” by Joshua Kadison is the song that can be played for your first dance, you agree because you understand that actually the message of the song can work for both of you and besides, the music language is so universally understood that no translation is needed to be totally comprehended.

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