New Wedding Songs 2023: 125 Tunes To Update Your Playlist (2024)

Your wedding guests will be of different generations: from grandparents to nephews and nieces to friends of your own age. That is why both wedding planning experts and modern couples agree that today’s weddings should feature a good mix of new wedding songs (40% of your playlist) as well as the classics (60% of your wedding party playlist).

We have taken the time to come up with an extensive list of wedding songs to help you pick the right music in 2023. It includes “oldies but goodies” songs, latest hits, the most popular songs for the wedding (for the reception, first/last dance, mother-son, and father-daughter dance, etc.), and a bonus for you – “ready-to-play” playlist by wedding Dj + new wedding song that was made special for you!

Getting Ready Wedding Songs 2023

Our getting ready songs are a combination of fun and emotion to keep you high-spirited and calm at the same time. These latest songs for getting ready are a balance of everything, from the calm Best Day Of My Life by American Authors to the danceable Marry You by Bruno Mars. Check them below.

1. Lady Gaga – The Cure
2. Sam Hunt – Body Like a Back Road
3. Calvin Harris ft. Young Thug, Pharrell Williams, and Ariana Grande – Heatstroke
4. Misterwives – Outside the Lines
5. Bruno Mars – Marry You
6. BTS – DNA
7. Avicii – Wake Me Up
8. OMI (Felix Jaehn Remix) – Cheerleader
9. American Authors – Best Day of My Life
10. A$AP Rocky – Sundress
11. Shane Filan – Beautiful In White
12. Christina Perri – A Thousands Years
13. Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber – 10,000 Hours
14. Ed Sheeran – Perfect
15. Mimi Webb – Dumb Love

Best New Wedding Reception Songs 2022

You do not need go searching for fit songs for the reception anymore! New hit songs like Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran which talks about loving your partner forever is perfect.

Do you want to turn up the heat a bit? Treasure by Bruno Marsand some new pop songs below will leave the different stages of your reception popping! Which are your best choices from our favorites below?

Here we give you a list of some of the most popular new dance songs to play at various points during your wedding reception:

16. DJ Snake – Taki Taki
17. Train – Marry Me
18. Bruno Mars – Treasure
19. Jason Mraz, Colbie Caillat – Lucky
20. Jason Derulo, LAY, NCT 127 – Let’s Shut Up & Dance
21. Harry Styles – Sweet Creature
22. Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop the Feeling
23. Sweet Tea Project – Lover’s Lullaby
24. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line – Meant to Be
25. Kygo & Imagine Dragons – Born To Be Yours
26. Niall Horan – MBlack And White
27. Maroon 5 – Sugar

Beautiful Entrance Songs

After months of planning and getting ready for the big day, to the ceremony of sealed partnership, it’s time to begin your journey in style. It is time to let your hair down, gather everyone that came to celebrate you, and boogie to great music. This starts by making a grand entrance to your reception. At this point, you need a perfect playlist filled with top songs that not only tell your love story but are interesting enough to light up the whole place. We have pulled up a number of new hit songs that will not only announce your entry in style. But will keep the guests on their feet, sweating it out as they dance the night away.

29. Weezer – Take On Me
30. Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes
31. The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be
32. Train – Play That Song
33. Chantal Kreviazuk – Feels Like Home
34. Ed Sheeran ft. Beyonce – Perfect Duet
35. John Legend – All of Me
36. Edwin McCain – I’ll Be
37. Faith Evans – Love Like This
38. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell – You’re All I Need To Get By
39. Justin Bieber – CConfirmation
40. Kina Grannis – Can’t Help Falling In Love
41. Dan + Shay – Speechless
42. Lauv ft. Julia Michaels – There’s No Way
43. Tori Kelly – I Was Made For Loving You ft. Ed Sheeran

Popular First Dance Wedding Songs in 2022

You can choose one of the great love songssuch as “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston (or Dolly Parton), “For Once in My Life” by Stevie Wonder or “God Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts. However, if you are going with more traditional music and some of the latest lyrics, you can take a look at the following first dance songs:

44. Lady Gaga – Always Remember Us This Way (From A Star Is Born Soundtrack)
45. Michael Bublé – When I Fall In Love
46. Tom Odell – Grow Old With Me
47. Tamia – Deeper
48. Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper – Shallow (A Star Is Born)
49. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
50. Shawn Mendes – Fallin’ All In You
51. Ben Folds – The Luckiest
52. Brett Eldredge – Love Someone
53. Kane Brown – Heaven
54. ZAYN, Zhavia Ward – A Whole New World

Father Daughter Wedding Dance Songs

Songs like Hero by Maria Carey and The Greatest by Sia, among other current popular songs below are the best for a father-daughter dance. Below is a father-daughter wedding dance perfect playlist to make your job easier.

55. Anthony Carter – Daddy’s Angel
56. Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole – Unforgettable
57. Kat Jennings and Angela Lansbury – Not While I’m Around
58. Tim McGraw – My little girl
59. Mariah Carey – Hero
60. The Temptations – My Girl
61. Krystal Keith – Daddy Dance With Me
62. Phil Collins – You’ll Be In My Heart
63. Charlie Puth – One Call Away
64. Sia – The Greatest
65. Sia – The Greatest
66. This Dance – Scott Thomas Laughridge
67. Before You Know It (Something Borrowed) – J.B. Boone & Sofia Franco

What Songs To Choose For Mother Son Dance?

Top songs like Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion tell of the endless and unconditional love a mother has for her son. Mothers are irreplaceable jewels. The mother-son dance is a time mother and son reaffirm how much they mean to each other. We also have a bias for a song, which is the Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler. These and other new songs best tell the mother-son story at the wedding dance.

68. Calum Scott – No Matter What
69. Bette Midler – Wind Beneath My Wings
70. Carole King – Child of Mine
71. Queen Naija – Mama’s Hand
72. Rascal Flatts – My Wish
73. Boyz II Men – A Song for Mama
74. Matthew John – Everything
75. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole – Over the Rainbow
76. Rod Stewart – Forever Young
77. Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Sweet Cake Cutting Songs

We’ve put together current popular songs that best describe the strength of your relationship. They also speak of the bond you share, the mood of the moment, and what the beautiful cake represents to you. Any tempo of cake-cutting songs you favor is present, from the romantic Anywhere by Rita Ora to the passionate Unforgettable by French Montana.

78. DJ Khaled – I’m The One
79. Brian Fallon – If Your Prayers Don’t Get To Heaven
80. Rita Ora – Anywhere
81. DJ Khaled – Wild Thoughts
82. The Vamps, Matoma – All Night
83. Katy Perry – Chained to the Rhythm
84. Zara Larsson – So Good
85. Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still
86. Camila Cabello – Havana (Remix)
87. French Montana – Unforgettable
88. Skylar Grey – Stand By Me
89. James Arthur – Falling Like The Stars

The Most Emotional Wedding Songs For Last Dance

Here are some of the most popular last dance songs:

90. Cat Power – What The World Needs Now
91. Jordan Fletcher – Miles to the Moon
92. Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out
93. Morgan Davis – Dance With Me
94. The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
95. The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
96. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
97. Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes – (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life
98. Garth Brooks – The Dance
99. ‘NSync – Bye Bye Bye
100. Ed Sheeran – Best Part Of Me
101. Katy Perry – Never Worn White

The Most Popular Upbeat Love Songs 2022

Find the songs of all time that are cheery, positive, uplifting, and upbeat in order to get everyone in a good mood here:

102. Marshmello ft. Bastille – Happier
103. Kacey Musgraves – Butterflies
104. Hall & Oates – You Make My Dreams Come True
105. Maroon 5 – Girls Like You ft. Cardi B
106. Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid – Eastside
107. Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
108. Florence and the Machine – The Dog Days Are Over
109. Post Malone, Swae Lee – Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
110. P!nk – Raise Your Glass
111. Dolly Parton & Rhonda Vincent – If We Don’t (from Dumplin’)

Top Wedding Song List 2023 the Year You Were Born—Until Now

Check out more songs below.

112. Paul McCartney & Wings – Silly Love Songs
113. Donna Summer – Last Dance
114. K-Ci & JoJo – All My Life
115. The Lumineers – Ho Hey
116. Michael Bublé – Save The Last Dance For Me
117. AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
118. Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
119. Blane Howard – Promise to Love Her
120. Semisonic – Closing Time
121. Brandon Heath – Love Never Fails
122. Bebe Rexha – Meant to Be
123. B.o.B – Nothin’ On You ft. Bruno Mars
124. Lukas Graham – Love Someone
125. Niall Horan – Put A Little Love On Me

Wedding Music Mix 2023 by Dj Wedzilla

Check out top tracks for your wedding reception – “ready-to-play” playlist wedding Dj has made special for you!

New wedding song 2023 for your reception by Dj Wedzilla

We have listed many current popular songs of a different genre, which makes the job of picking songs for every stage of your wedding easier. These songs are fashionable for every type of real wedding style you would want to have. We are sure a lot of your favorites fall within our lists above.

Check them out, select your best songs of all time and compile your wedding playlist.

Fill up your wedding list with songs that tell your story the way you love it while capturing every stage of your wedding right!