100+ Wedding Breakfast Songs For The Perfect Romantic Playlist

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Spirits will be riding sky-high once the happy couple has tied the knot - which is a great way to work up an appetite!

Pairing food with music is no different from pairing food with a delicious wine - some things just go together so perfectly. All you need to create the perfect playlist of wedding songs is a little inspiration.

Wedding Breakfast Background Music

While your wedding reception will likely be your main musical event later on - with such iconic moments as the couple's first dance and the father and daughter dance to look forward to - your guests will also love being treated to another match made in heaven: dinner and music.

It's therefore important for you to choose the right background music for your wedding breakfast - you don't want something too distracting (especially after you've spent so much on the catering!), but you also want to create the right tone which captures you as a couple. Every song counts!

Read on to find out our top 100+ wedding breakfast songs.

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Acoustic Dinner Music

Instrumental or unplugged-style reworkings of your favourite popular songs is exactly the kind of soundtrack you want for a romantic sit-down meal with your beloved.

With all the amplifiers, drums and effects stripped away, you're left with an intimate, soul-baring performance that just makes you want to reach for your loved ones. Also, with fewer sonic distractions, you can hear the lyrics much easier. This is great news if there are plenty of love songs on the playlist - which there most certainly will be if you dip into the folk and country genres.

Wild Love - James Bay
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Ocean Eyes - Alicia Keys
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Watermelon Sugar - Zita, Jonah Baker
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Afterglow - Ed Sheeran
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To Love Somebody - Tim Dawn
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Taylor Swift 1989 Medley - Gardiner Sisters
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Power Over Me - Dermot Kennedy (Acoustic)
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Fast Car - Boyce Avenue, Kina Grannis
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Stand By Me - Tom Speight
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Somewhere Only We Know - Lily Allen
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Candle In The Wind - Amber Leigh Irish
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Leave The Door Open - Blame Jones
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Home / Dirty Paws - Gardiner Sisters
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Seven Nation Army - Zella Day
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Billie Jean - Civil Wars
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Wouldn't It Be Nice - Trousdale
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In My Life - Madison Cunningham
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Use Somebody - Lusaint
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Golden Oldies

Nothing gets you looking back on your past life through shared rose-tinted glasses like these timeless classics! Old they may be, but this type of gold never loses its glow.

When a song has stood the test of time, you know it's the real thing.

California Dreamin' - The Mamas & Papas
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When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
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For One In My Life - Stevie Wonder
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You're My Best Friend - Queen
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I Say A Little Prayer For You - Aretha Franklin
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Love Me Do - The Beatles
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Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
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Ocean Drive - Lighthouse Family
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Every Breath You Take - The Police
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Harvest Moon - Neil Young
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Ordinary People - John Legend
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When The Stars Go Blue - Ryan Adams
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The Luckiest - Ben Folds
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Indie

Big, anthemic choruses - that's what songs from the nineties and noughties were all about. If you're all about that too, treat your guests up with some trilby- and tie-wearing indie classics - we bet that you'll look good on the dance floor!

The music we grow up loving has strong ties to our youth, so make your guests feel young again with some top tunes, defiant lyrics and unadulterated joy. Be sure to save some of your dancing energy for the night to follow though - we're not as young as we used to be!

Baby I'm Yours - Arctic Monkeys
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Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
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Rooting For You - London Grammar
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Patience - The Lumineers
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Your Bones - Monsters Of Men
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Toothpaste Kisses - The Maccabees
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Harmony Hall - Vampire Weekend
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Simple Song - The Shins
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The Only Exception - Paramore
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Don't Delete The Kisses - Wolf Alice
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Slide Away - Oasis
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Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
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You & Me - The Wannadies
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Everlong - Foo Fighters
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There She Goes - The La's
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Valerie - The Zutons
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Electric Feel - MGMT
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Jazz and Swing

Although jazz and swing have their roots firmly in the glitz and glamour of the roaring 20s, the genre never really went anywhere.

A jazz trio or a jazz quartet would be perfect for a cool wedding breakfast with moody vibes - and a larger scale swing band would be ideal if you're trying to create more of a Great Gatsby-inspired atmosphere.

You might even want start out with a jazz trio playing some instrumental music for your wedding breakfast, and have them change it up into a full band, complete with jazz singer, to play wedding songs for your evening reception - some of the most romantic lyrics ever written come from the jazz genre.

Crazy Love - Michael Buble
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Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin
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Ain't That A Kick In The Head - Dean Martin
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My Way - Frank Sinatra
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That's Amore - Dean Martin
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Moon Dance - Van Morrison
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L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
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Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra
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At Last - Etta James
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The Very Thought Of You - Shirley Horn
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Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Diana Krall
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Classical

If you're a traditional couple who have planned the perfect white wedding, the classical music route is the only one to go down.

Walking down the aisle to a string quartet performing such classical music gems as Pachelbel's Canon in D or Wagner's Bridal March is the dream of brides to be world over - so if you maintain that level of elegance going into the wedding breakfast, she's bound to keep her radiant smile for the rest of your magical wedding day.

Bluebird - Alexis Ffrench
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Cello Suite - Bach
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Fur Elise - Beethoven
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Anoso from Cantata No. 156 - Bach
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Ave Maria - Bach
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Claire De Lune - Debussy
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Glasgow Love Theme - Craig Armstrong
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Dawn - Pride & Prejudice
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A Thousand Years - The Piano Guys
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Perfect - Atlys
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Fairy Fountain - Super Guitar Bros
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thank u, next - Vitamin String Quartet
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September Song - Agnes Obel
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T.V. & Film

If you're a pair of T.V. and film buffs, it's only right that you give your wedding breakfast the cinematic treatment. Nothing will make you feel more like you're living in a real-life rom-com than having your favourite movie soundtrack playing in the background!

Plenty of cult classic shows have bona fide pop songs as their theme tunes, just as plenty of films have classic scores which played a major part in your childhoods - so you can find plenty of references whether you go down the band route or the string quartet route.

Fuel To Fire - Agnes Obel
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Married Life - UP!
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I See The Light - Tangled
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Hopelessly Devoted To You - Greece
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Can You Feel The Love Tonight - The Lion King
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A Whole New World - Aladdin
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So Close - Enchanted
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City Of Stars - La La Land
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The King’s Speech - Alexandre Desplat
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Concerning Hobbits - Howard Shore
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Hedwigs Theme - John Williams
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The Feather Theme - Forrest Gump
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Contemporary / Modern

Do you love keeping up with the latest chart hits? Are you into fads and trends? There's no shame in looking out for the next big thing - but the biggest next thing for you both is, of course, your wedding day!

Remembering what was playing on everyone's radio the day you got married will be a wonderful way to look back. If all your friends are on the same page when it comes to keeping ahead of the curve, you might even have to give your list of wedding songs a weekly update!

Love Again - Dua Lipa
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Cinema - Harry Styles
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Hope - Arlo Parks
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Shivers - Ed Sheeran
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Cinerama Holy Days
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My Future - Billie Eilish
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Stay - girl in red
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How Can I Make It Ok? - Wolf Alice
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THATS WHAT I WANT - Lil Nas X
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Kiss Me More - Doja Cat, SZA
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Care For - Blossoms
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My Universe - Coldplay, BTS
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Just You & I - Tom Walker
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Skate - Silk Sonic
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Hold My Girl - George Ezra
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New Light - John Mayer
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Shallow - Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper
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Wildest Dreams - Taylor Swift
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Moonlight - Ariana Grande
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Golden - Harry Styles
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Unique / Funny

Music is a great way to showcase your individual nature as a couple - if you want to subject your guests your favourite rock or metal songs, your best floor filling Ibiza dance songs, or your most hilarious novelty songs, then so you should!

There are no rules when it comes to choosing your wedding songs - if you have a good time, your guests will have a good time too. When you choose wedding songs that are so unique, the lyrics of each song sound as though they were written especially for you - plus, you'll be giving your guests an idea of the kind of quirky first dance songs you'll be kicking off the evening reception with!

Karate - Baby Metal
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Praise You - Fat Boy Slim
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Pokemon Theme - Pokemon
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Sandstorm - Darude
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Gay Bar - Electric Six
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Through The Fire & Flames - DragonForce
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Barbara Streisand - Duck Sauce
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Tequila - The Champs
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We Like To Party (The Vengabus) - Vengaboys
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Mii Channel - Wii Sports
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El Paso - Marty Robins
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Peaches - Justin Bieber
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When your guests are in the mood for food, it's important to let them enjoy their meals at their own pace and give them a chance to take in everything you and your caterers have worked so hard to provide.

That being said, you'll want to put your personal stamp on each and every stage of your big day - it's all about you two, after all! - so we hope our lists of wedding songs has served as an inspirational entrée for the main to follow.