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36 Best Wedding Reception Songs to Help Get the Party Started

When it comes to creating your wedding reception playlist you want to create a playlist that will keep everyone on the dance floor the remainder of your wedding night!

As you are making your wedding reception playlist remember to have a mixture of genres, tempos, and songs from all different eras because you are going to have guests from all different age groups.

Create a wedding reception playlist that not only has party songs for everyone to get up and dance to but also has some slower romantic songs throughout the night. 

Down below you will find thirty six songs that you can add to your wedding reception playlist to make sure that you and your guests are out on the dance floor all night long!

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36 Wedding Reception Songs

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

1. “Umbrella” Rihanna and Jay-Z

Favorite lyric: “When the sunshine, we shine together, told you I’ll be here forever”

2. “Single Ladies” Beyonce

Favorite lyric: “If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it, don’t be mad once you see that he want it”

3. “Sugar” Maroon 5

Favorite lyric: “I don’t wanna be needing your love, I just wanna be deep in your love and it’s killing me when you’re away,”

4. “Can’t Stop the Feeling” Justin Timberlake

Favorite lyric: “And ain’t nobody leaving soon, so keep dancing”

5. “Dj Got Us Fallin in Love” Usher

Favorite lyric: “Baby tonight the DJ got us falling in love again, so dance, dance like it’s the last, last night of your life”

6. “Cupid Shuffle” Cupid

Favorite lyric: “They got a brand new dance, you gotta move your muscle brand new dance, it’s called the Cupid shuffle”

7. “Nobody But You” Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani

Favorite lyric: “I don’t wanna live without you, I don’t wanna even breathe, I don’t wanna dream about you wanna wake up with you next to me”

8. “Crazy in Love” Beyonce and Jay-Z

Favorite lyric: “Looking so crazy, your love’s got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love, I’m looking so crazy in love’s got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love”

9. “I Love It” Icona Pop and Charlie XCX

Favorite lyric: “You’re from the ’70s, but I’m a ’90s b*tch, I love it”

10. “Party in the USA” Miley Cyrus

Favorite lyric: “So I put my hands up they’re playin’ my song, the butterflies fly away, I’m noddin’ my head like, yeah moving my hips like”

11. “Shut Up and Dance” Walk the Moon

Favorite lyric: “I said you’re holding back she said shut up and dance with me, this woman is my destiny”

12. “Worship You” Kane Brown

Favorite lyric: “And you love me like hallelujah I might have to worship you”

13. “Down” Jay Sean

Favorite lyric: “Baby don’t worry, you are my only, you won’t be lonely, even if the sky is falling down”

14. “This is How We Do It” Montell Jordan

Favorite lyric: “I’m kinda buzzed and it’s all because this is how we do it”

15. “Stuck With You” Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber

Favorite lyric: “Can’t fight this no more it’s just you and me”

16. “Wobble” V.I.C.

Favorite lyric: “Wobble baby, wobble baby, wobble baby, wobble”

17. “Shake It Off” Taylor Swift

Favorite lyric: “Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate”

18. “Handclap” Fitz and the Tantrums

Favorite lyric: “We could be screaming till the sun comes out and when we wake we’d be the only sound”

19. “Best Day of My Life” American Authors

Favorite lyric: “This is gonna be the best day of my life”

20. “Club Can’t Handle Me” Flo Rida

Favorite lyric: “You know I know how, to make ’em stop and stare as I zone out, the club can’t even handle me right now”

21. “Uptown Funk” Bruno Mars

Favorite lyric: “I’m too hot (hot d*mn), call the police and the fireman”

22. “Country Girl (Shake It for Me)” Luke Bryan

Favorite lyric: “Country girl, shake it for me”

23. “Cake by the Ocean” DNCE

Favorite lyric: “Let’s lose our minds and go crazy crazy, I keep on hoping we’ll eat cake by the ocean”

24. “RITMO” Black Eyed Peas and J Balvin

Favorite lyric: “Baby, tonight’s like fuego, we ’bout to spend the dinero, we party to the extremo”

25. “Wonder” Shawn Mendes

Favorite lyric: “I wonder what it’s like to be loved by you”

26. “Mirrors” Justin Timberlake

Favorite lyric: “Cause I don’t wanna lose you now I’m looking right at the other half of me”

27. “We Can’t Stop” Miley Cyrus

Favorite lyric: “Can’t you see it’s we who own the night, can’t you see it we who ’bout that life”

28. “If I Had You” Adam Lambert

Favorite lyric: “If I had you, life would be a party it’d be ecstasy”

29. “I Like It” Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull

Favorite lyric: “Baby, I like it the way you move on the floor, baby, I like it come on and give me some more”

30. “Closer” The Chainsmokers and Halsey

Favorite lyric: “So, baby, pull me closer in the back seat of your Rover, that I know you can’t afford”

31. “Danza Kuduro” Don Omar and Lucenzo

Favorite lyric: “La mano arriba, cintura sola, da media vuelta, Danza Kuduro”

32. “Can’t Feel My Face” The Weekend

Favorite lyric: “I can’t feel my face when I’m with you, but I love it”

33. “24k Magic” Bruno Mars

Favorite lyric: “Put your pinky rings up to the moon, girls, what y’all trying to do? Twenty four karat magic in the air”

34. “My Girl” The Temptations

Favorite lyric: “What can make me feel this way, my girl”

35. “Time of Our Lives” Ne-yo and Pitbull

Favorite lyric: “I knew my rent was gon be late about a week ago, I worked my a*s off, but I still can’t pay it though, but I got just enough to get off in this club, have me a good time”

36. “H.O.L.Y.” Florida Georgia Line

Favorite lyric: “You’re an angel, tell me you’re never leaving, cause you’re the first thing I know I can believe in”

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

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