DanceTime News: Top 25 First Dance Wedding Songs

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First Dance Wedding Songs

DanceTime has culled 25 of the best first dance wedding songs from across the web. These songs were selected by dancers for their great tempos and rhythms featuring an ensemble of brilliant artists. The descriptions of these first dance wedding songs include the type of wedding dance style that best fits the songs. All of these first dance wedding songs are perfect for the bride and groom's first dance.

(Title links are the lyric versions)

All Of Me by John Legend

All Of Me by John Legend has a slow tempo that is a perfect rhythm for a nightclub two step or classic slow dance. It has a contemporary, romantic sound that makes it very popular among the first dance wedding songs. Since the optimal time for a wedding first dance averages three minutes, you might want to cut this song to less than three minutes or fade it out!

Recommend: Slow dance or Nightclub Two Step

A Thousand Years by Christina Perri

A Thousand Years by Christina Perri is beautiful, romantic song that has poetic lyrics and a lilting melody filled with rises and then falls. The lyrics, " I have loved you for a thousand years...I'll love you for a thousand years," are perfect words for a bride and groom to dance to at their wedding first dance. The rhythm is a fast three beat waltz, referred to as Viennese tempo (see Waltz Dance Styles).

Recommend: Waltz (Viennese tempo)