So, the nerve-racking part is over. You and your brand new spouse have walked down the aisle, said ‘I do,’ and enjoyed taking part in your wedding photoshoot. Now, you’re about to enjoy an afternoon and evening of being wined and dined, listening to and delivering some speeches (okay, so maybe not all the nerve-racking stuff is over) and dancing the night away.
But, when the two of you arrive at your wedding breakfast or reception, what song will you choose to play as you make your official introduction as a married couple? In many ways, it’s just as important as the song you walk down the aisle to and the song you have your first dance to. It sets the tone for the entire evening and makes sure you enter with style and personality.
In this article, we’re going to give you 150 suggestions for the best wedding entrance songs, which could be anything from slow and romantic ballads to full-on dance numbers that get everyone clapping and cheering as they welcome you in.
Why is choosing an entrance song so important?
When you arrive at your wedding breakfast or reception, it’s the first time you and your other half are being introduced as an officially married couple. That means you deserve to make a big entrance when all eyes are firmly on you. To do this, loads of couples choose a specific song to accompany them. This could be something that gets everyone in the party mood, something with lyrics that are special to you or something a little bit different. It can even be silly or funny; it’s really up to you.
It’s a great way to set the tone for the rest of your wedding day and get across you and your partner’s personalities. You may well be planning a fairly formal wedding ceremony, and the reception is when you can loosen up and start to have fun. And there’s no better way to do that than with a great song to kick things off!
How long should a wedding entrance song be?
A wedding entrance song will typically play for around a minute, while you and your other half enter the venue and take your seats. That being said, if you’re having a larger wedding and therefore have a sizeable venue, it might be necessary for the song to play for a little longer than this. If so, make sure you don’t choose a song that’s too short. It might make things a little awkward if the DJ has to start the song again or scramble to find something to fill the silence!
If there’s something specific in a song that you love, you might want to start the song part way through or ask the DJ to play it a little ahead of when you want to make your entrance. That way, it’ll be perfectly timed for you to make your appearance during your favourite part.
How to make your wedding entrance memorable
It’s not just your chosen song that goes towards making your wedding entrance memorable. There are plenty of ways to make sure your official entrance goes down with a bang and is entertaining, engaging and memorable.
Here are a few ways to make sure your wedding entrance is one that your guests won’t soon forget:
- Plan a surprise element: This could be a choreographed dance routine, some unexpected guests or effects or something funny thrown in for good measure.
- Incorporate lighting effects: Don’t just coordinate with your DJ on the music – see what they can do from a lighting perspective too.
- Make things personal: Can you combine your entrance with your hobby? For example, if you’re known as a pair of movie geeks, you could walk in accompanied by your favourite film score.
- Engage your guests: Don’t just walk or dance to your seats, find a way to engage your guests and make sure everyone is included.
What are the best wedding entrance songs?
Ready to make the ultimate entrance at your wedding breakfast or reception? Here are our top 150 picks for the best wedding entrance songs to help you start your celebrations in style. We’ve also included some of the most famous lyrics from each song to help you make your selection.
50 classic choices for wedding entrance songs
For a vibe that’s catchy and quintessential with lyrics that truly hit home, here are 50 suggestions for classic wedding entrance songs.
Key lyrics: ‘At last, my love has come along / My lonely days are over, and life is like a song.’
Key lyrics: ‘Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Take my hand, take my whole life too / For I can’t help falling in love with you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Cause all of me loves all of you.’
Key lyrics: ‘I have loved you for a thousand years / I’ll love you for a thousand more.’
Key lyrics: ‘Here I am, signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours.’
Key lyrics: ‘You are the best thing that ever happened to me.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’m yours.’
Key lyrics: ‘Lucky I’m in love with my best friend.’
Key lyrics: ‘Tell the world that we finally got it all right / I choose you.’
Key lyrics: ‘How sweet it is to be loved by you.’
Key lyrics: ‘I, I’m so in love with you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Isn’t she lovely? Isn’t she wonderful?’
Key lyrics: ‘It’s always better when we’re together.’
Key lyrics: ‘My love, there’s only you in my life.’
Key lyrics: ‘I don’t want to close my eyes, I don’t want to fall asleep.’
Key lyrics: ‘Ooh, you make me live, whatever this world can give.’
Key lyrics: ‘You look wonderful tonight.’
Key lyrics: ‘Got me looking so crazy in love.’
Key lyrics: ‘You make my dreams come true.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day.’
Key lyrics: ‘You’re just too good to be true, can’t take my eyes off you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Oh, my love, my darling, I’ve hungered for your touch.’
Key lyrics: ‘You’re still the one I run to, the one that I belong to.’
Key lyrics: ‘So darling, darling, stand by me.’
Key lyrics: ‘You’re every line, you’re every word, you’re everything.’
Key lyrics: ‘Can you feel the love tonight? It is where we are.’
Key lyrics: ‘Some day, when I’m awfully low, when the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Kiss me beneath the milky twilight.’
Key lyrics: ‘My love does it good.’
Key lyrics: ‘Two in love can make it, take my heart but please don’t break it. Love was made for me and you.’
Key lyrics: ‘I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you for all my life.’
Key lyrics: ‘Here comes the sun, and I say, it’s all right.’
Key lyrics: ‘All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.’
Key lyrics: ‘I swear to God, when I come home, I’m gonna hold you so close.’
Key lyrics: ‘I got you, babe.’
Key lyrics: ‘Oh, I wanna dance with somebody, I wanna feel the heat with somebody.’
Key lyrics: ‘And I will always love you.’
Key lyrics: ‘You’re my first, you’re my last, my everything.’
Key lyrics: ‘This will be an everlasting love.’
Key lyrics: ‘For once in my life, I have someone who needs me.’
Key lyrics: ‘Baby, it’s you, you’re the one I love.’
Key lyrics: ‘I could make you happy, make your dreams come true.’
Key lyrics: ‘Love me like you do, la-la-love me like you do.’
Key lyrics: ‘Darling, I will be loving you ’til we’re 70.’
Key lyrics: ‘I can be your hero, baby.’
Key lyrics: ‘I just called to say I love you.’
Key lyrics: ‘I can feel your halo, halo, halo.’
Key lyrics: ‘My endless love.’
Key lyrics: ‘Don’t know much about history, but I do know that I love you.’
50 modern and upbeat choices for wedding entrance songs
Something with a classical feel always makes for a great choice, but why not go for something with a more modern vibe? Here are 50 suggestions for something a little more contemporary.
Key lyrics: ‘I found a love to carry more than just my secrets, to carry love, to carry children of our own.’
Key lyrics: ‘Forever can never be long enough for me, to feel like I’ve had long enough with you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Can I go where you go? / Can we always be this close forever and ever?’
Key lyrics: ‘You already know that you’re my weakness / After all this time, I’m just as nervous.’
Key lyrics: ‘Cause I’m on top of the world (hey) / I’m on top of the world (hey) / Waiting on this for a while now, paying my dues to the dirt.’
Key lyrics: ‘I like me better when I’m with you.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’d spend ten thousand hours and ten thousand more, oh, if that’s what it takes to learn that sweetheart of yours.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’d climb every mountain and swim every ocean just to be with you.’
Key lyrics: ‘I do my hair toss, check my nails, baby how you feelin’?’
Key lyrics: ‘Had to have high, high hopes for a living.’
Key lyrics: ‘I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good soul in my feet.’
Key lyrics: ‘Baby, you’re like lightning in a bottle, I can’t let you go now that I got it.’
Key lyrics: ‘This is gonna be the best day of my life.’
Key lyrics: ‘Beautiful, crazy, she can’t help but amaze me.’
Key lyrics: ‘They say nothing lasts forever, but they ain’t seen us together.’
Key lyrics: ‘You give me butterflies.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’m a sucker for you.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’m stuck with you, stuck with you, stuck with you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Cause you’re a sky full of stars.’
Key lyrics: ‘There ain’t no place, ain’t no place like you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Think about it, there must be higher love.’
Key lyrics: ‘When you love someone, you open up your heart.’
Key lyrics: ‘I choose you in a hundred lifetimes, I’d choose you.’
Key lyrics: ‘They tell me think with my head, not that thing in my chest.’
Key lyrics: ‘Just know you’re not alone, cause I’m gonna make this place your home.’
Key lyrics: ‘You take me higher, higher than I’ve ever been.’
Key lyrics: ‘I wish somebody would have told me that someday, these will be the good old days.’
Key lyrics: ‘Feels like we’re on a honeymoon, honeymoon, honeymoon.’
Key lyrics: ‘I don’t love you like I used to, it gets better every time you kiss me like this.’
Key lyrics: ‘Because I’m happy, clap along if you feel like a room without a roof.’
Key lyrics: ‘What if we rewrite the stars? / Say you were made to be mine.’
Key lyrics: ‘Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful?’
Key lyrics: ‘Ooh woo, I’m a rebel just for kicks, now.’
Key lyrics: ‘Loving you is easy.’
Key lyrics: ‘When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change.’
Key lyrics: ‘So baby, pull me closer in the back seat of your Rover.’
Key lyrics: ‘Grow old with me, let us share what we see.’
Key lyrics: ‘Like a ship without a sea, or a song without a melody, I don’t know where I’d be or what I’d do.’
Key lyrics: ‘It’s you and me, it’s always been.’
Key lyrics: ‘You look so beautiful in this light.’
Key lyrics: ‘In the darkest night, I’ll search through the crowd, your face is all that I see.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’m only one call away, I’ll be there to save the day.’
Key lyrics: ‘You’re the coffee that I need in the morning, you’re my sunshine in the rain when it’s pouring.’
Key lyrics: ‘I will follow you way down wherever you may go.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’m so in love with you, and I hope you know.’
Key lyrics: ‘You make me feel like I’m alive again.’
Key lyrics: ‘If it’s meant to be, it’ll be, it’ll be, baby, just let it be.’
Key lyrics: ‘I was made for loving you, even though we may be hopeless hearts just passing through.’
Key lyrics: ‘If I never get to see the Northern lights, I could die a happy man.’
Key lyrics: ‘Treasure, that is what you are, honey, you’re my golden star.’
15 funny choices for wedding entrance songs
If you’d like to give your guests a giggle as you and your other half walk in, there are lots of ways to do that too. Here are 15 funny wedding entrance songs to inject a little humour into your big entrance.
Key lyrics: ‘Another one bites the dust, and another one gone, and another one gone.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’m too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts.’
Key lyrics: ‘It’s the eye of the tiger, it’s the thrill of the fight.’
Key lyrics: ‘Stop! Hammer time.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’ve been really tryin’, baby, tryin’ to hold back this feeling for so long.’
Key lyrics: ‘Girl, look at that body, I work out!’
Key lyrics: ‘I believe in a thing called love, just listen to the rhythm of my heart.’
Key lyrics: ‘Oh, girls just wanna have fun.’
Key lyrics: ‘I’m walking on sunshine, whoa-oh! And don’t it feel good?’
Key lyrics: ‘Baby, it’s you, you’re the one I love, you’re the one I need.’
Key lyrics: ‘A little bit of Monica in my life / A little bit of Erica by my side.’
Key lyrics: ‘Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who?’
Key lyrics: ‘I feel good, I knew that I would now.’
Key lyrics: ‘If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends.’
Key lyrics: ‘Okay, so you’re Brad Pitt / That don’t impress me much.’
15 alternative choices for wedding entrance songs
If romantic, classic, modern or funny doesn’t quite fit with the feeling you’d like to convey when strutting your stuff in front of your guests, you could think a little further out of the box. Here are 15 suggestions for alternative choices for wedding entrance songs to be a little (or a lot) bit different.
Key lyrics: ‘Home, let me come home, home is wherever I’m with you.’
Key lyrics: ‘I belong with you, you belong with me, you’re my sweetheart.’
Key lyrics: ‘This is the first day of my life, I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you.’
Key lyrics: ‘They will see us waving from such great heights, ‘come down now,’ they’ll say.’
Key lyrics: ‘Come with me, my love, to the sea, the sea of love.’
Key lyrics: ‘One night of magic rush, the start of simple touch.’
Key lyrics: ‘To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine.’
Key lyrics: ‘Ooh, you make me live, whatever this world can give.’
Key lyrics: ‘Now I’ve got you in my space, I won’t let go of you.’
Key lyrics: ‘Take this sinking boat and point it home, we’ve still got time.’
Key lyrics: ‘The dog days are over, oh / The dog days are done / Can you hear the horses? / ‘Cause here they come.’
Key lyrics: ‘Not talkin’ ’bout a year, no, not three or four/ I don’t want that kind of forever in my life anymore.’
Key lyrics: ‘You and me and all of the people, and I don’t know why I can’t keep my eyes off of you.’
Key lyrics: ‘You suddenly complete me, you suddenly complete me.’
Key lyrics: ‘Can I be close to you?’
10 instrumental choices for wedding entrance songs
If lyrics it’s more about the emotions and feelings the music conjures up than the lyrics, you could go for an instrumental piece of music, which is often romantic and calming. Here are 10 ideas to give you some inspiration.
Timeless, elegant and whimsical, and makes for a romantic and gentle entrance.
A powerful and romantic piece which is considered a masterpiece.
Dreamy, fantastical and instantly recognisable.
A piece that tugs at the old heart strings from the infamous opening scene of Pixar’s Up.
A gentle ukelele version of the Wizard of Oz classic.
Light and bouncy, an instantly recognisable tune from The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
A touching rendition of the Beyoncé classic.
A lovely version of the John Legend favourite.
A swelling and cinematic tune that is easily recognisable.
A gentle cinematic favourite from Forrest Gump.
10 retro choices for wedding entrance songs
If you’d prefer something with a little retro flair, there are some great crowd-pleasers for you to consider. Here are 10 brilliant retro choices for wedding entrance songs.
Key lyric: ‘You make me feel brand new, I just want to be with you.’
Key lyric: ‘Come on, come on, come on, come on, now! / Touch me, baby.’
Key lyric: ‘Today’s the day we’ll say “I do” / And we’ll never be lonely anymore.’
Key lyric: ‘And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.’
Key lyric: ‘Don’t go changing to try and please me, you never let me down before.’
Key lyric: ‘Something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover.’
Key lyric: ‘You are the sunshine of my life, that’s why I’ll always be around.’
Key lyric: ‘And I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all you’ve dreamed of.’
Key lyric: ‘Ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough, ain’t no river wide enough.’
Key lyric: ‘Always and forever, each moment with you is like a dream to me.’
How far in advance should you choose your wedding entrance song?
There are several important songs you’ll choose for inclusion in your wedding, including the song you walk down the aisle to and the song you have your first dance to. But, the song you enter your breakfast or reception to is also important, so should be given plenty of consideration.
For that reason, it’s not something you’ll want to leave to the last minute. Think about it at least six months ahead of the wedding and make your final decision at least two months before the big day. And, if you’re planning something special, you might even want to give it a little longer than that to make sure you have everything in place. Make sure you loop in your wedding band or DJ (and your wedding planner, if you have one), so they can help you plan your big moment.
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