Your first dance with your spouse at your wedding reception is the dance you’ll remember for the rest of your life. So choosing that song is one of the most important decisions you can make for your wedding reception. The song you choose should speak to you as a couple, represent your relationship, and express how you feel about each other.

For those who love country music, it’s only appropriate that country music is the choice for that first dance. And one of the great things about country music is that it offers lots of great choices, both recent and older, for country first dance wedding songs that will make your first dance perfect.
When you’re looking for the song for your first dance, you may be overwhelmed at first by all the choices, even just within the country music genre. But before you just choose a song at random out of frustration, there are things you can do to narrow your options.
Here are some questions you can ask yourself as you’re searching for country first dance wedding songs. What song was playing when you first met? Is there a special song from a concert or movie you saw together? What song was playing the first time you danced together? Was there a song playing when you got engaged? What was playing when you shared your first kiss? What song reminds you of each other?
The answers to these questions might mean you’ve already found the song for your first dance! If not, the answers to these questions might help point you in the right direction for narrowing down your choices from country first dance wedding songs. When you look at the songs that are important in your relationship, you may find something in common in all of them that can help you decide. Is there a particular artist that shows up again and again? Or perhaps a style?
If you still need a starting point, there are lots of resources online that give lists of popular country first dance wedding songs.
Some popular titles include
- “I Do (Cherish You)” by Mark Wills,
- “When You Say Nothing at All” by Allison Krause,
- “From This Moment” by Shania Twain and Bryan White, and
- “I Love the Way You Love Me” by John Michael Montgomery
Browse through your own CD / iTunes collection, and it may help you think of other songs that are important to your relationship.
The song you choose for your first dance is a personal choice between you and your soon to be spouse. Don’t let anyone else decide or pressure you into anything. This dance will probably be the most important one of your life together, and you want to make sure the song you choose is purely you so that your first dance is a memory you’ll cherish for the rest of your life.
For more tips on choosing your wedding songs, make sure to check out The Wedding Reception Kit.
All the best with your Wedding Day,
SecretWeddingSongs.com
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I suggest the beautiful love song by Nikki Hornsby “Just Lovin’ You” from her Album JUST WAIT … to be found on Youtube and iTunes, etc….
regards, Renate