Every wedding needs a first-dance song. Music inspires and moves us every day, and your wedding should be no different.
Regardless of your wedding style, we’ve got some romantic melodies to get you in the mood for love. Here are 50 romantic first-dance songs, or just songs to add to your wedding playlist.
- Your Song – Elton John
- (Everything I Do) I Do For You – Bryan Adams
- Best Part – Daniel Caesar
- (They Long to be) Close to You – The Carpenters
- Teen Heat – Kimbra
- Dangerously in Love – Destiny’s Child
- Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
- You’re Still the One – Shania Twain
- Come What May – Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge soundtrack)
- Songbird – Eva Cassidy
- Honey – Kehlani
- Differences – Genuwine
- Make You Feel My Love – Adele
- How long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding
- While We’re Young – Jhené Aiko
- You Give Me Something – James Morrison
- You Make Me Feel Like Dancing – Leo Sayer
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
- I.F.L.Y – Bazzi
- When We Were Young – Adele
- Love on Top – Beyoncé
- You Make My Dreams – Hall & Oats
- Be my Baby – The Ronettes
- If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
- Adorn – Miguel
- Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison
- Shut Up and Dance – Walk The Moon
- Teenage Dream – Katy Perry
- Always Be My Baby – Mariah Carey
- I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
- When a Man Loves a Woman – Percy Sledge
- Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warner
- Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
- A Thousand Years – Christina Perry
- Like I’m Gonna Lose You – Meghan Trainor feat. John Legend
- All of Me – John Legend
- Love Someone – Lukas Graham
- Always Remember Us This Way – Lady Gaga
- Ho Hey – The Lumineers
- All My Life – K-Ci & JoJo
- Kiss Me – Sixpence None The Richer
- I Like Me Better – Lauv
- Beyond – Leon Bridges
- Waiting for a Girl Like You – Foreigner
- We Belong – Pat Benatar
- Sucker – The Jonas Brothers
- Stuck On You – Lionel Richie
- I Don’t Care – Ed Sheeran feat. Justin Bieber
- Speechless – Dan + Shay
- Better – Khalid
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As the first step in your wedding journey, your engagement is of paramount importance. Before you can plan anything, you have to secure an engagement ring. As jewellery that will (hopefully) be on your partner’s ring finger forever, the engagement ring needs to speak to them as a person.
That said, there are so many ring options to choose from. Princess cut, oval, cushion-cut, carats – it all becomes a blur. It’s easy to become overwhelmed with all the jargon being thrown at you.
Take a breath, and check out our quick guide to engagement ring styles.
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The four C’s:
The four C’s of diamond grading are universally used to describe the quality of diamonds. They refer to:
Cut – the shape of the diamond
Colour – the shade of the diamond
Carat – the weight of the diamond.
Clarity – the quality of the diamonds, specifically the internal appearance of the diamond and surface defects.
Cut:
The cut of your engagement ring refers to the shape of the diamond. There are seven main diamond cuts:
Round: This cut is a more classic, timeless style. It is best suited for someone who wants a traditional finish.
Princess: This cut is square in shape with four bevelled sides that creates an upside-down pyramid shape connecting to the band. It is glamorous and modern, yet utterly romantic.
Emerald: This cut details an elongated rectangular cut and step-cut faceting. It is sophisticated and eye-catching, for the glamorous bride.
Oval: The oval cut ring perfectly accentuates long, slender fingers, and is both trendy yet classic.
Cushion: Also referred to as a pillow-cut, the cushion cut ring features four square-rectangular sides with curved corners and multiple facets. It is feminine and trendy.
Pear: This teardrop-shaped diamond cut is quite unique. It beautifully elongates the fingers and is often the ring for the more adventurous bride.
Marquise: This cut is a more pronounced oval shape, featuring two pointed ends that create a boat hull-esque shape. This cut is for the daring, less traditional bride.
Metals:
The metal chosen often depends on the jewellery your partners often wears and their skin tone. Cooler skin tones are encouraged to wear metals such as platinum, silver, and white gold. Warmer toned skin tones are most suited for yellow-gold and rose-gold metals. But again, there are no rules!
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Yvonne Chaka Chaka and her husband, Dr Mhinga, recently celebrated 30 years of marriage, proving to us all that love is not dead.
The iconic South African singer took to Instagram to announce this momentous anniversary.
In a post, she writes, “God is amazing all the time. 30 years ago Dr Mhinga asked for my hand in marriage and I said Yes I DO [and] 30 years later [we’re] still together. Today is our 30th wedding anniversary. I can not stop thanking the Lord who brought us together, I was 24. Now I am 54 and we have been together for 30 years. Time flies, [on] 7th October 1989 we said Yes We Do…We Thank You Lord. We thank our families, our children and our friends. And [to] all those who have supported us and encouraged us, a big Thank you. Tiny.”
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30 years is no small feat. It is equal to 10 950 days, 262,800 hours, or 15,768,000 minutes. In the wedding world, 30 years of marriage is considered a Pearl Wedding.
Congratulations to this incredible pair!
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Charlotte Walton from England had a very close relationship with her father and she knew it was his desire to be there when she got married to the love of her life, Nick. Sadly, her father passed away earlier this year after fighting cancer.
“I was heartbroken when he lost his battle because I knew how much he wanted to see us marry. I wanted him to be there but it wasn’t meant to be,” she told Standard Digital.
Then her cousin, Kirsty had the idea to glue her dad’s ashes into her acrylic nails. “Kirsty is the queen of nails and I thought her idea was amazing,” she added. “Having the ashes attached to my nails felt like he was holding my hand, I knew it wasn’t the same as him really being there, but it was as close as we could get.”
When asked what she did with the nails after having it taken off, she answered that of course, she kept them. “Now they’re framed with decorative crystals all around my home.”
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