Your first dance
Once the wedding meal is over, it’s time to let your wedding DJ start the party! One of the highlights of a wedding is undoubtedly the first dance. For some couples, just thinking about this makes them very nervous. For others, it’s a chance to have a lot of fun showing off some cool moves to their friends and family at the start of the party. Most guests will expect the evening party to start with a first dance. So what are the rules, and what should you choose? Should you choose an Ed Sheeran track?!
No rules
There is one thing to remember about the first dance; there are no rules! It’s YOUR wedding, so you can choose whatever you want. It doesn’t have to be a slow song where only you dance for 4 minutes! You could choose a fast dance, something with lyrics which mean a lot to you both, a slow dance, or a party track. You may even have both spent time secretly getting dance lessons in order to give everyone a brilliant performance.
If you feel nervous about your first dance, don’t worry, you are not alone. I can ask everyone at the party to join in from the start if you wish.
Wedding first dance inspiration
When we arrange to meet, I will give you a huge list of songs which can be used for your first dance. You can choose from this list, but do have a think about what YOU would both like.
What I have played in 2018, first dances
- Blue Sky Action – Above and Beyond
- I belong to you – Eros Ramatozzi and Anastacia
- I’ll always be there – Bryan Adams
- Rule the world – Take That
- All of me – John Legend
- Scent of a woman: Tango (Por una Cabeza) – John Williams, Itzhak Perlman & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
- I won’t last a day without you – The Carpenters
- Have I told you lately? – Rod Stewart
- Sing for me – Yellow Card
- Perfect Symphony – Ed Sheeran and Andrea Bocelli
- Wonderful tonight – Eric Clapton
- What a wonderful world – Louis Armstrong
- Only you – Yazoo
- Can’t take my eyes off you – Frankie Valli
- Nothing Else matters – Metallica
- Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
- Everything I do – Bryan Adams
- Angels – The XX
- Say you won’t let go – James Arthur
- This is me – Kea Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
- Be the one – Jack Penate
- Better together – Jack Johnson
- You and me song – Wannadies
- Photograph – Ed Sheeran
- Boys like girls – The Great Escape
- Dear god – Avenged Sevenfold
- Panzer – Dimension
- Tenerife sea – Ed Sheeran
- Songbird – Eva Cassidy
- Beyond the sea – Bobby Darin
- We found each other in the dark – City and Colour
- I knew I loved you – Savage Garden
- Dancing in the moonlight – Toploader
- You & I (Nobody in the world) – John Legend
- Follow you, follow me – Adaline
- The one – Kodaline
- Thinking out loud – Ed Sheeran
- Into the mystic – Van Morrison
- Stay with you – John Legend
- Rule the world – Take That
- Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac
- I’d do anything for love (But I won’t do that) – Meat Loaf
- Iris – Ronan Keating
- Romeo and Juliet – Dire Straits
- Tenerife Sea – Ed Sheeran
- Love of a lifetime – Firehouse
- Hold on Michael Buble
- At last – Etta James
- She’s the one – Robbie Williams
- Stand by me – ben E king
- Be mine – David Gray
- I wanna be your lover – Prince
- Call you home – Kelvin Jones
- All of me – John Legend
- You’ve got it – Simply Red
- Grow old with me (Nowness Session) – Tom Odell
- If I had a gun – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
2019’s first dances so far…
- Islands in the stream – Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
- The one – Kodaline
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If you need more inspiration, or if you are looking for an excellent wedding DJ for your big day, please do get in touch.