Your cocktail hour is a time for you and your guests to loosen up and enjoy some drinks, that includes having an amazing wedding cocktail hour playlist. This is the perfect time to play some feel good music because it’s a wonderful little break between your wedding ceremony and the reception dinner. Music will help create an atmosphere perfect for celebrating with family and friends while they enjoy delicious signature cocktails as well savory hors d’oeuvres.
Be sure to choose between 13 and 15 songs per hour and add a few of your other favorite songs as backup. Here are some songs across different genres to inspire your perfect wedding cocktail hour playlist.
- I Choose You – by Sara Bareilles
- #Beautiful – by Mariah Carey feat. Miguel
- Love Like This – by Natasha Bedingfield
- Feel This Moment – by Pitbull ft. Christina Aguilera
- Dancing in the Moonlight – by King Harvest
- Sweetest Thing – by U2
- Message in a Bottle (Taylor’s Version) – by Taylor Swift
- Come Away With Me – by Norah Jones
- Thinking Out Loud – by Ed Sheeran
- A Thousand Years – by Christina Perri
- Love Me Now – by John Legend
- Stay With Me – by Sam Smith
- At Last – by Etta James
- Come Fly With Me – by Frank Sinatra
- Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – by Andy Williams
- Fever – by Peggy Lee
- Pennies From Heaven – by Paul Anka with Michael Buble
- The Way You Do the Things You Do – by The Temptations
- I Got You Babe – Sonny & Cher
- I Got You (I Feel Good) – by James Brown
- Brick House – by The Commodores
- ABC – by The Jackson 5
- Do You Love Me – by The Contours
- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) – by Marvin Gaye
- I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) – by Four Tops
- Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing – by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
- Baby Love – by The Supremes
- The Way You Look Tonight – by Michael Buble
- Beast of Burden – by The Rolling Stones
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – by The Police
The cocktail hour is the fun break just before your wedding reception, it’s the time to amp up to the big party. Have the snacks coming, the drinks start to flow, and the great cocktail hour playlist going for the ultimate good time.
