Background music is essential to create an atmosphere during the wedding breakfast🥂. Music has the power to instantly bring back special memories every time you hear that song in the future. So of course, you’ll want your wedding day to be filled with the music that means the most to you.
While your daytime weddings songs may not be the most important songs you choose for your wedding (I’m sure you’ll agree that they rank below your wedding ceremony songs or your first dance song), they are still essential in creating the right atmosphere during the hours between your vows and the evening reception starting.
There are no rules for your daytime wedding music choices; the music you choose will depend heavily on your own personal taste and the vibe you are striving to achieve on your day.
I’m Schuggie, and I run Schuggies-Ceilidhs (it’s pronounced ShUUg- eee s – Kay-Laes btw🎉). I’ve been hosting wedding ceilidhs for over ten years, and that means the experience of well over 120 weddings in all sorts of themes and venues from cosy wee village halls to majestic castles over that time. Don’t just take my word for it; check out these reviews over on my Pinterest📌Board, you can find them as well on Google My Business and on Facebook (Wedding Ceilidhs).
However whether you have a good idea of the sort of songs you’d like to be played during your wedding breakfast or not…take a look through my list of daytime wedding songs and you are sure to find some inspiration.
I hope you have as much fun planning your own wedding music as I had putting together these songs for you.
Here are some ideal wedding breakfast song choices.
11. Africa – Toto 12. Maggie May – Rod Stewart🎵 13. A Good Heart – Feargal Sharkey 14. Mo Chuachag Lachach (My Kindly Sweetheart) – Silly Wizard 15. The Joker – Steve Miller Band 16. The Ones That You Love -Skerryvore✨ 17. Aquarius – Within Temptation 18. Kiss Me – Sixpence None The Richer 19. I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing- Aerosmith 20. Don’t Stop me Now – Queen🎉
21. Here I Go Again – Whitesnake🎵 22. Watermelon Sugar – Harry Styles 23. Come As You Are – Nirvana 24. Abracadabra – Steve Miller Band🎉 25. Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen 26. Pride – Amy Macdonald 27. I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) – Meat Loaf 28. Take My Hand – Skerryvore 29. Closer – Nine Inch Nails 30. Simple Man (Acoustic) – Shinedown✨
31. Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard 32. Best Day Of My Life – American Authors 33. Love Walks In- Van Halen✨ 34. Nothing Else Matters- Apocalyptica 35. Accidentally In Love – Counting Crows🎵 36. A Thousand Years (Acoustic) – Jonah Baker 37. Lift Me Up – Geri Halliwell 38. Mamma Mia – ABBA🎉 39. Jump – Van Halen 40. Mr Brightside (Acoustic) – Matt Johnson
41. Viva La Vida – Coldplay 42. Summer Sunshine – Corrs🎵 43. Better Together – Jack Johnson 44. White Wedding – Billy Idol✨ 45. All The Small Things – blink-182 46. Summer of ’69 (Acoustic) – Steve Acho 47. Livin’ On a prayer (Acoustic) – Matt Johnson🎉 48. Let’s Get Married – Proclaimers 49. More Than Words- Extreme 50. I Found You – Andy Grammer
As well as providing foot stompin’ ceilidh entertainment for your party, you can book my (and my PA kit) so you have the equipment to play these background songs and make use of it to mic up 🎤 your speeches so all your guests can hear what is being said.
I’m the perfect solution! An award-winning Ceilidh-Caller based in the East Midlands. I specialise in providing high-quality authentic Scottish style (well I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland) ceilidhs with a contemporary twist. With over 10 years of experience, that’s well over 250 birthdays, anniversaries, retirement parties, Burns Night, St Andrew & Paddys celebrations one Wake and shed loads of weddings. I know how to make sure everyone has a great time.
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