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Introduction
Do you want to sing at weddings? Do you need help developing your repertoire? A wedding is a special time for a couple because it’s the beginning of building a life together. If you do your job right, you help build memories that will last for the rest of their lives. Keep reading to learn the top 5 best songs for professional wedding singers and learn about the resources for learning even more songs.
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Top 5 Best Songs for Professional Wedding Singers: Building Your Repertoire
If you want to be a professional wedding singer, you’ll need to build up a list of songs you’re ready to perform.
- Wedding couples will make specific requests.
- While you can always learn a number for a specific event, it’s still a good idea to have a lot of them memorized and ready to go.
- The five videos below will show you the type of songs that are a good fit for a wedding, and the recommended wedding songbooks below that will continue the process of building up your repertoire.
Top 5 Best Songs for Professional Wedding Singers: Examples of Good Wedding Songs
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Video: Perfect
Perfect by Ed Sheeran is the embodiment of romance and love within a committed relationship. Because it’s such a wildly popular tune, it makes a good song for the couple’s first dance.
Video: Can't Help Falling in Love
Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling in Love is a timeless classic. It’s featured in the movie Blue Hawaii and is Elvis’s biggest hit. With a memorable melody and lyrics filled with vivid imagery, it’s easy to see why this one has stood the test of time.
Video: A Thousand Years
Christina Perri’s A Thousand Years appears in the Twilight franchise – movies which young women passionately debated the question of whether Bella should pick Edward or Jacob. Therefore, it should surprise no one that this song has become a romantic classic. Notice that this is another set of lyrics that features relationship commitment.
Video: My Girl
My Girl by The Temptations is another classic romance song. It’s endured through the years because of its infectious tune and lighthearted lyrics that describe the joys that love brings.
Video: Thinking Out Loud
Ed Sheeran makes the list a second time with this romantic hit. Like Perfect, Thinking Out Loud emphasizes commitment, but the line, “And darling I will be loving you ’til we’re 70” ups it to long term commitment. Therefore, it’s pretty clear that lyrics that feature commitment make for good wedding songs.
Top 5 Best Songs for Professional Wedding Singers: Resources
Here are some great wedding songbooks.
These songbooks contain many of the songs from the videos above plus a whole lot more. Any of these songbooks will be a valuable addition to your wedding song library.
These posts will help you learn how to sing with good diction.
- Learn the Secret of How to Sing Consonants
- An Easy How to Guide for Singing Diphthongs
- How to Sing R-Controlled Vowels in English
- How to Sing Powerful Vowels and Consonants
- Understanding Basic Diction
- Singing Schwa Vowels
- Singing Tongue Vowels
- Singing Lips Vowels
If you’re going to be a professional singer, you’ll need to have good diction. If you don’t have good diction, no one will be able to understand what you’re singing.
Final Thoughts
Takeaway points:
- If you want to be a professional wedding singer, you’ll need to build up a list of songs you’re ready to perform.
- The five videos above will show you the type of songs that are a good fit for weddings, and the recommended wedding songbooks below that will continue the process of building up your repertoire.
- If you’re going to be a professional singer, you’ll need to have good diction. If you don’t have good diction, no one will be able to understand what you’re singing.
Have fun singing!
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- How to Write Passionate Romance Songs
- 10 Elements that Impact Singing in Tune
- How to Write Powerful Love Song Lyrics
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