{"id":1495,"date":"2014-08-22T17:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanorrestaurant.com\/blog\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:34:17","slug":"most-popular-wedding-songs-for-your-first-dance-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/most-popular-wedding-songs-for-your-first-dance-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Popular Wedding Songs for Your First Dance 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Most-Popular-Wedding-Songs-for-Your-First-Dance-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1507\" src=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Most-Popular-Wedding-Songs-for-Your-First-Dance-2014-131x200.jpg\" alt=\"Most Popular Wedding Songs for Your First Dance 2014\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Most-Popular-Wedding-Songs-for-Your-First-Dance-2014-131x200.jpg 131w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Most-Popular-Wedding-Songs-for-Your-First-Dance-2014-251x384.jpg 251w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Most-Popular-Wedding-Songs-for-Your-First-Dance-2014.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a>No dance will ever be as special or as important to your love story as the song you choose for your First Dance at your wedding. It\u2019s sure to be meaningful, perhaps the first song you ever slow-danced to together during your earliest dating days, and the lyrics share with your wedding guests a very special message about what makes your love so strong.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, wedding entertainers blog about the most popular wedding songs for the current year, and when you see those lists, you may be inspired to choose from among them\u2026or, you might be an independent, alternative wedding couple who likes to depart from any \u2018most popular\u2019 list to choose a completely unexpected and original song for your First Dance. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whichever your preference for using \u2018top 10\u2019 wedding lists for song choices, here are the most popular songs for the First Dance, as reported by the music streaming website Spotify, from their study of over 30,000 wedding-themed playlists and 12,000 single-track playlists on their site.<\/p>\n<p>In order of ranking from this survey, here are the 2014 Top First Dance songs:<\/p>\n<p>Etta James \u2013 <i>At Last<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Jason Mraz \u2013 <i>I Won&#8217;t Give Up<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ray LaMontagne \u2013 <i>You Are the Best Thing<\/i><\/p>\n<p>John Legend \u2013 <i>All of Me<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Jack Johnson \u2013 <i>Better Together<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Christina Perri \u2013 <i>A Thousand Years<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bubl\u00e9 \u2013 <i>Everything<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Bright Eyes \u2013 <i>First Day Of My Life<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Brad Paisley \u2013 <i>Then<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Adele \u2013 <i>Make You Feel My Love<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some additional popular First Dance wedding songs:<\/p>\n<p>Sara Bareilles <i>\u2013 I Choose You<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9 \u2013 <i>XO<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Eric Clapton <i>&#8212; Wonderful Tonight<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Frank Sinatra &#8212; <i>The Way You Look Tonight<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Jason Mraz &#8212; <i>I&#8217;m Yours<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Lonestar \u2013 <i>Amazed<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When choosing your first dance song, be sure to read all of the official lyrics of the song online, and chat with your wedding band leader or wedding deejay, to be sure the love song you have in mind doesn\u2019t actually have a negative connotation, like Whitney Houston\u2019s \u2018I Will Always Love You,\u2019 which is a song about a relationship ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No dance will ever be as special or as important to your love story as the song you choose for your First Dance at your wedding. 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