Wedding reception songs?

Here is a list compiled by DJs around the world. Mainly UK & US but also from Australia, Canada, and far east.

1 YMCA - Village People

2 Hot Hot Hot - Arrow

3 Do The Conga - Black Lace

4 Dance The Night Away - The Mavericks

5 Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cindi Lauper

6 Chain Reaction - Diana Ross

7 Rivers Of Babylon - Boney M

8 Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean

9 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

10 The Only Way Is Up - Yazz

11 The Time Warp - Damion

12 Oops Upside Your Head - Gap Band

13 Night Fever - Bee Gees

14 Grease Megamix - John Travolta & ONJ

15 Runaround Sue - Dion

16 The Ketchup Song - Las Ketchup

17 Everybody Needs Somebody - Blues Brothers

18 Ride On Time - Black Box

19 Saturday Night - Wigfield

20 The Locomotion - Little Eva

21 Let's Dance - Chris Montez

22 Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker

23 Dance Yourself Dizzy - Liquid Gold

24 Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck

25 The Music Man - Black Lace

26 Its Raining Men - The Weather Girls

27 Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

28 New York New York - Frank Sinatra

29 I'm In The Mood For Dancing - The Nolans

30 You To Me Are Everything - The Real Thing

31 Celebration - Kool and the Gang

32 Macarena - Los del rio

33 Sweat - Inner Circle

34 Blame It On the Boogie - The Jacksons

35 Sex On The Beach - T Spoon

36 Who The F*** Is Alice - Smokie & Chubby Brown

37 3 Lions (Football's Coming Home) - Badiel and Skinner

38 I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston

39 Hot Stuff - Donna Summer

40 Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode

41 Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

42 Daydream Believer - The Monkees

43 Cha Cha Slide - DJ Casper

44 I Feel Good - James Brown

45 Do Wa Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann

46 Dancing Queen - Abba

47 Shoop Shoop Song - Cher

48 Red Red Wine - UB40

49 Do You Love Me - The Contours

50 Relight My Fire - Take That

I found a couple lists online of what dj's recommend:

Alley Cat

All Star - (Smash Mouth)

Beer Barrel Polka

Brick House

Brown Eyed Girl

Celebration

C'mon Ride It (The Train) - (Quad City DJ's)

Come On Eileen

Conga - (Gloria Estefan)

Da' Butt

Dancing Queen

Do The Dance

Electric Slide

Friends In Low Places

Grease Mega-Mix

Hava Nagila

Hawaii 5-0

Hot Hot Hot

I'm a Believer - (Smash mouth - Shrek Soundtrack)

I Will Survive

In Heaven There Is No Beer Polka

Jailhouse Rock

Locomotion

Love Shack

Macarena - (Los Del Rio)

Mambo #5

Mountain Music

New York, New York

Old Time Rock 'n Roll

Pardise by the Dashboard light

Play That Funky Music

Pooh Corner - (Kenny Loggins)

Redovy (Traditional $ Dance)

Shout

Stayin' Alive

Strokin'

Sweet Home Alabama

Tarantella

The Chicken Dance - (Various)

The Hokey Pockey - (Various)

The Locomotion - (Kylie Minogue)

Tootsie Roll

Twist

Twist & Shout

We Are Family

Who Let The Dogs Out

Wild Thing

Wild, Wild West

YMCA - (Village People )

Your love Amazes me

You Shook Me All Night

Top Father Daughter dance songs:

Butterfly Kisses

My Girl

Through the Years- Kenny Rogers

The Way you look tonight

Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

Good Luck!

What type of reception are you hoping to have? Fun and upbeat or romantic and relaxing?

Some nice tunes that I picked from our wedding (received many compliments, by the way) are as follows:

Dinner music:

Sting - Desert Rose

Billy Joel - Just the way you are

Anything by the Gypsy Kings

Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed

Rod Stewart - You're in my soul

Anything by Sade is also great for dinner

For the dance music, it depends on what type of reception you want to have...but a great slow dance song is Sea of Love by the Honeydrippers

I tend to like more unique songs that might not be played at every single wedding...for example - no Kool in the Gang or Electric Slide - no way!

Let me know if you like any of these choices and when I get home tonight I can give you a bigger list.

Are you hiring a DJ? If so they may have a play list on their web page. If not go to my DJ's web page www.propsproductions.com look there & you'll find a huge list or you can search by song or artist and you can listen to the music if you have speakers. Also they have it so you can click add to list if you like the song when your done print it out and give it to your DJ. They also have a list of things like most popular wedding songs and such it will help a lot. Or just listen to like MTV and right down what you like as you go. Depending what kind of musi you like. Well i wish you luck it shoudnt be that hard. =)

Pick two songs for the entrance...one for the bridal party, and then one for you and the groom. Have fun with these, like movie theme songs or something people will chuckle at.

Pick your first dance song, and songs for the father-daughter and/or mother-son dance. If you're having any other special dances, pick those songs.

Give that the DJ, and say you want him to play off of requests for the rest of the night. That's all you need to do. If you want to, you can also pick songs for the cake cutting, garter toss, and bouquet toss, but the DJ has stock songs that he can use for these.

I would start by thinking of the genre you like, then do a general search on the internet for it. Like Disco music or 80s music. Then you can go through and see what you ike. Usually by starting off generally it opens the flood gates and then you get really into remembering all the music you used to dance to in your room when you were younger.

I hav got plenty but hindi songs.Nice if u understand

1) Shaadi jo kiya(BArsaat)

2) Sajnavesajna(Chameli)

3) Mehndi ki raat aayi(album)

4)Mehndi hai sajne wali(I don't know the movie)

5) Ek kuvara(Masti)

6)Sabki baaratein aayi

7) Bole chudiyan

I think so that will b enough.Best of luck

When it's time to cut the wedding cake, "Pour some sugar on me" by Def Leppard

my wedding song was "Lets get it on" by Marvin Gaye.... i'm not married anymore but it was fun at the reception haha

Their are tons on this site, it has really helped me with my playlist, its divided up by the event happening, like first dance, cake cutting, bouquet toss, etc.... seriously go check it out, it saved my life!

www.ourweddingsongs.com