50 Background Wedding Songs for your Daytime Reception

Background music is essential to create an atmosphere during the wedding breakfast.  

Music has the power to instantly bring back special memories every time you hear that song in the future. So of course, you’ll want your wedding day to be filled with the music that means the most to you.

While your daytime weddings songs may not be the most important songs you choose for your wedding (I’m sure you’ll agree that they rank below your wedding ceremony songs or your first dance song), they are still essential in creating the right atmosphere during the hours between your vows and the evening reception starting.

There are no rules for your daytime wedding music choices; the music you choose will depend heavily on your own personal taste and the vibe you are striving to achieve on your day.

I would suggest songs that blend nicely into the background, gently setting your desired mood and keeping the absolute bangers for your evening reception where you and your guests, can let loose on the dance floor. However whether you have a good idea of the sort of songs you’d like to be played during your wedding breakfast or not…take a look through my list of daytime wedding songs and you are sure to find some inspiration.

I hope you have as much fun planning your own wedding music as I had putting together these songs for you.

Here are some ideal wedding breakfast song choices.

1.      Ho Hey – The Lumineers

2.      Kiss Me – Sixpence None the Richer

3.      Cannonball – Damien Riche

4.      Hopeless Wonderer – Mumford and Sons

5.      Hey There Delilah – Plain White T’s

6.      Everything Has Changed – Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran

7.      Wild Horses – The Rolling Stones

8.      She’s Always A Woman – Billy Joel

9.      I’m Yours – Jason Mraz

10.  Say You Won’t Let Go – James Arthur

11.  Do you Remember – Jack Johnson

12.  You Are The Reason – Calum Scott and Leona Lewis

13.  Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

14.  Leave a Light On – Tom Walker

15.  I’m Not The Only One – Sam Smith

16.  All of me- John Legend

17.  Songbird – Oasis

18.  Big Yellow Taxi – Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton

19.  Big Parade – The Lumineers

20.  It’s All About You – McFly

21.  Sitting on the Dock o’ the Bay – Otis Redding

22.  Girl Put your Records On – Corrine Bailey Rae

23.  Star Girl – McFly

24.  Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley

25.  California Dreamin – The Mamas & The Papas

26.  At Last – Etta James

27.  Make You Feel My Love – Adele

28.  Lovely Day – Bill Withers

29.  Let’s Stay Together – Al Green

30.  Cover Me In Sunshine - Pink

31.  Fast Car – Tracy Chapman

32.  Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Amy Winehouse

33.  First Times –Ed Sheeran

34.  The Joker and The Queen – Ed Sheeran

35.  Fall into Me – Forest Blakk

36.  Let’s Go Home Together – Ella Henderson and Tom Grennan

37.  I Do – Aloe Blacc and LeAnn Rimes

38.  Let it Be – The Beatles

39.  God Only Knows- The Beach Boys]

40.  How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding

41.  Something In The Way She Moves – James Taylor

42.  1+1 – Beyoncé

43.  Little Things – One Direction

44.  Grow Old With Me – Tom Odell

45.  That’s When I Knew – Alicia Keys

46.  Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Lauren Hill

47.  With or Without You – U2

48.  Shallow – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

49.  Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy

50.  I Lost Myself In Loving You – Jamie Miller