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Choosing a last dance song for your wedding is a great way to round off and finalize the perfect evening. Many venues have curfews on how late your reception can carry on for and often they have very high overtime fees. If you are having your wedding at a private residence you must also consider your neighbours, so it is often a neccesity to formally end the evening at some point and a last dance song is a great way to do so. Even if this is not the case with your wedding it is always a good idea to decide on a good time to call it a night. Weddings should be happy, funfilled occasions, but they should also be classy and sophisticated no matter how informal. It is after all a celebration of love and of your union and not a frat party.
By setting a time to leave with your new spouse and choosing a last dance song you can decide to end your night in a way that best suits your personalities instead of having it fizzle out to a few die hard (and probably very intoxicated) party goers.
The last dance song to end off your wedding night can be something like the music played at the end credits to a movie. Do you want your last dance song to depict the romance of an ever after, strolling into the sunset kind of love. Or should your last dance song rather be an up beat sing along finale or perhaps you want to end your movie with funny song kind of like wathcing the bloopers of the evening?
Listen to the last dance songs below and find the perfect one to end off your special evening with:
(I've Had) the Time of My Life Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes 
After Midnight - Eric Clapton
Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the sun comes up) - Garth Brooks
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross and The Supremes
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead
All Night Long - Lionel Richie
Always & Forever - Heatwave
Angel of Mine - Monica
As time goes by - Jimmy Durante
At Last - Etta James
Avalon - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Buona Sera - Louis Prima
Bye Bye Baby - Marilyn Monroe
Can You Feel The Love Tonight - Elton John
Closing Time - Semisonic
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra
Could I Have This Dance - Anne Murray
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Day O - Harry Belafonte
Don't Happen Twice - Kenny Chesney
Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Family Reunion - The O'Jays
Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra
For Once In My Life - Frank Sinatra
From This Moment - Shania Twain & Brian White
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Goodbye - The Spice Girls
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day
Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight - The Spaniels
Goodnight Tonight - Wings
Grow Old With You - Stephen Lynch
Happy Trails - Van Halen or Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Hawaiian Wedding Song - Elvis Presley
Home To You - John Michael Montgomery
How Do You Keep The Music Playing - Frank Sinatra
How Your Love Makes Me Feel - Diamond Rio
I Could Not Ask For More - Edwin McCain
I Cross My Heart - George Strait
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
I Just Fall In Love Again - Anne Murray
I Love The Way You Love Me - John Michael Montgomery
I Love You - Faith Evans
If I Could - Regina Belle
I'll Be Seeing You - Frank Sinatra
I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts (from Friends)
I'll Never Let You Go - Steelheart
Inseparable - Natalie Cole
It's The End Of The World - R.E.M.
Kiss - Prince
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
Last Dance - Frank Sinatra
Last Dance - Donna Summer
Late In The Evening - Paul Simon
Leaving On A Jet Plane - Chantal Kreviazuk or John Denver
Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love - Cole Porter
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Let's Get Lost - Frank Sinatra
Let's Go Crazy - Prince
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet
My Way - Frank Sinatra
Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
On My Way Home - Enya
One Love - Bob Marley
One More Time - Daft Punk
Paradise City - Guns & Roses
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Ann-Margret or Louis Armstrong
Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ribbon In The Sky - Stevie Wonder
Save The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams
Save The Last Dance For Me Michael Buble or The Drifters
See You Later Alligator - Bill Hailey & His Comets
Send Me On My Way - Rusted Root
Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World Israel Kamakawiwo Óle
Sunday Morning After - Amanda Marshall
Surfin' USA - The Beach Boys
Swept Away - Christopher Cross
Taking You Home - Don Henley
Thank You - Dido
That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick
The Best Is Yet To Come - Tony Bennett
The Dance - Garth Brooks
The End - The Doors
The Loveliest Night of the Year - Mario Lanza
The Party's Over - Willie Nelson
The Way You Love Me - Faith Hill
This Is The Time - Billy Joel
Waiting For Tonight - Jennifer Lopez
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
Wedding Day - Bee Gees
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
What I Like About You - The Romantics
When I Said I Do - Clint Black & Lisa Hartman-Black
When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees
Where Everybody Knows Your Name - Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo (The Cheers Theme)
With A Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles
With A Song In My Heart - Ella Fitzgerald
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Wonderful, Wonderful - Johnny Mathis
You Gotta Be - Des'ree
You're My Best Friend - Queen
You're Still The One - Shania Twain
Last Dance Alternatives and Ideas:
If you want to break from the traditional last dance song a little or you are looking for that cherry on the top to individualize your wedding, then try one of the following suggestions:
1. Ask your MC or DJ to ask your guests to create a circle of love around you as you dance your last dance to your chosen song.
2. Your MC or DJ can announce that you will instead of a last dance like to have a tunnel. Your guests form a tunnel with their hands and you and your new husband/wife will either run through the tunnel or take your time saying goodbye to friends and loved ones.
3.
Prepare a Wedding Slideshow
of you and your fiance growing up and then about your life together,
and have it projected onto a wall or screen by the dance floor as
you two dance your last dance together.
4. Use your First Dance Song as your Last Dance Song as well. This is a great way to bring your reception to a full circle and reminds your guests why they are really there.
Link
from Last Dance Song back to back to An Introduction To Wedding
music home page.
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