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24 Emotional and Memorable Father Daughter Dance Wedding Songs

One of the most emotional and memorable moments for a bride on her wedding day, is the father daughter dance!

There are always tears during this dance from both the father, daughter, and everyone else who attends the wedding.

With a wedding tradition as significant as the father daughter dance is, you want to make sure you pick the best song to describe your relationship with each other.

 If you have yet to find the perfect father daughter song that will help you and your dad to reminisce on all the loving moments that you have shared together then you have come to the right place. 

To help you pick your favorite father daughter wedding song, down below you will find twenty four of the most loving songs that will help you to decide which one you will be using for your father daughter dance!

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24 Songs for the Father Daughter Dance

Down below is the link to the playlist on Spotify so you can easily save these songs!

1. “I Loved Her First” Heartland

Favorite lyric: “I knew the love of a father runs deep and I prayed that she’d find you someday, but it’s still hard to give her away I loved her first”

2. “First Man” Camila Cabello

Favorite lyric: “You don’t even know how much it means to me now that you were the first man that really loved me”

3. “Half the Man” Jennifer Smestad

Favorite lyric: “Daddy set the bar real high, showed me what a real man looks like, it’s gonna take one to fill those shoes in his eyes, nothin’ less will do”

4. “Prettiest Girl in the World” Logan Mize

Favorite lyric: “In my wildest dreams I’d never guessed, I’d be the one holding the prettiest girl in the world”

5. “Dads and Daughters” MaRynn Taylor

Favorite lyric: “There’s nothing stronger than a lovе between dads and daughters”

6. “Daddy” Abby Anderson

Favorite lyric: “Cause daddy he loves me just like you do, he treats me like a queen just like you”

7. “My Little Girl” Tim McGraw

Favorite lyric: “Go on, take on this whole world but to me, you know you’ll always be my little girl”

8. “Promise to Love Her” Blane Howard

Favorite lyric: “She’s my everything, she’s all I’ll ever need and she loves me at my worst, sir, I give you my word I promise to love her”

9. “Daddy’s Little Girl” The Shires

Favorite lyric: “You can be anything you want to in this great big world, but I’m always gonna be daddy’s little girl, daddy’s little girl”

10. “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5

Favorite lyric: “Whenever you need me, I’ll be there, I’ll be there to protect you, with an unselfish love I respect you, just call my name and I’ll be there”

11. “Butterfly Fly Away” Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus

Favorite lyric: “You had to do it all alone, make a livin, make a home, must have been as hard as it could be”

12. “When She Grows Up” Craig Campbell

Favorite lyric: “I still want to move mountains, I still wanna change the world and show her no matter what happens she’s my little girl”

13. “My Wish” Rascal Flatts

Favorite lyric: “My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to, your dreams stay big, your worries stay small, you never need to carry more than you can hold”

14. “Dance With My Daughter” Jason Blaine

Favorite lyric: “Gonna dance with my daughter, spin her around under the lights, cause I’m just a father, making the most of this moment in time”

15. “Daddy’s Little Girl” Michael Bolton

Favorite lyric: “You’re sugar, you’re spice, you’re everything nice and you’re daddy’s little girl”

16. “Ready, Set, Don’t Go” Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus

Favorite lyric: “She’s waitin’ on my blessings before she hits that open road, baby get ready, get set don’t go”

17. “Daddy’s Hands” Holly Dunn

Favorite lyric: “There are things that I’ve forgotten that I loved about the man, but I’ll always remember the love in daddy’s hands”

18. “I Hope You Dance” Lee Ann Womack

Favorite lyric: “I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance, never settle for the path of least resistance, living might mean takin’ chances, but they’re worth taking”

19. “I Learned From You” Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus

Favorite lyric: “You taught me to stand on my own and I thank you for that, you saved me, you made me”

20. “Daddy Dance With Me” Krystal Keith

Favorite lyric: “Today I became his wife but I’ll be your baby girl for life, don’t know what to do when I look at you, words can’t say enough what you’ve done for me”

21. “Fathers and Daughters” Kristin Chenoweth

Favorite lyric: “You’re still there to catch me, I’m still learning how to fall, that’s fathers, daughters”

22. “The Man Who Loves You the Most” Zac Brown Band

Favorite lyric: “On your wedding night, I’ll raise a toast, hope he understands I’ll always be the man that loves you the most”

23. “Daughters” John Mayer

Favorite lyric: “On behalf of every man looking out for every girl, you are the guide and the weight of her world, so fathers be good to your daughters”

24. “For My Daughter” Kane Brown

Favorite lyric: “And not just say I love you, but show you what it means, yeah, I grew up without a dad, I’m gonna be the best one I can be”

Click here to view the Spotify playlist that has all of these father daughter wedding songs added to it!!

Once you have picked the song that you will use for your father daughter dance, if you also need help with picking the perfect song for your first dance, then go read my other post which will give you 87 romantic first dance songs to help you pick the one you will be using on your wedding day!!

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