How to Incorporate Pop Punk & Emo Vibes into Your Wedding
Emo could even be considered a style of pop-punk and alternative rock music. Popular artists of the Emo/Pop-Punk genre include My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, Brand New, and Paramore.
As an experienced wedding DJ, I’ve assembled a list of popular indie songs to get people on the dance floor and for romance at your wedding! The list is grouped by moments and vibes to match your wedding experience.
Song Ideas by Moment & Vibe
Entrance Songs
Songs to play as the newlyweds or wedding party enter the wedding venue.
- I Write Sins Not Tragedies – Panic! At The Disco
- The Anthem – Good Charlotte
- The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
- Welcome To The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
Background Songs (Cocktail Hour, Dinner)
Song ideas for when guests arrive at the reception, enjoying appetizers and throughout the meal.
- Complicated – Avril Lavigne
- If It Means A Lot To You – A Day To Remember
- Island In The Sun – Weezer
- Perfect – Simple Plan
- Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day
- Your Guardian Angel – The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Last Dance Songs
Song suggestions to close our your big day.
- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day
- My Friends Over You – New Found Glory
- The Great Escape – Boys Like Girls
- Thnks fr th Mmrs – Fall Out Boy
Party Dance Songs
These songs are tried-and-true party hits to get everyone dancing.
- 1985 – Bowling For Soup
- All the Small Things – blink-182
- Are You Gonna Be My Girl – Jet
- Basket Case – Green Day
- Be My Escape – Relient K
- Beverly Hills – Weezer
- Check Yes, Juliet – We the Kings
- Dear Maria, Count Me In – All Time Low
- Dirty Little Secret – The All-American Rejects
- Face Down – The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Fat Lip – Sum 41
- First Date – blink-182
- Flavor Of The Weak – American Hi-Fi
- Gives You Hell – The All-American Rejects
- Holiday – Green Day
- I’d Do Anything – Simple Plan
- I’m Just A Kid – Simple Plan
- Last Resort – Papa Roach
- Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous – Good Charlotte
- Misery Business – Paramore
- Mr. Brightside – The Killers
- My Own Worst Enemy – Lit
- Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard
- Shake It – Metro Station
- Sk8er Boi – Avril Lavigne
- Smooth Criminal – Alien Ant Farm
- Somebody Told Me – The Killers
- Stacy’s Mom – Fountains of Wayne
- Sugar, We’re Goin Down – Fall Out Boy
- Teenagers – My Chemical Romance
- The Boys of Summer – The Ataris
- The Kids Aren’t Alright – The Offspring
- The Taste of Ink – The Used
- What’s My Age Again? – blink-182
Die-hard pop-punk fans could enjoy these too later in the night.
- 5 Seconds of Summer – She Looks So Perfect
- Black Veil Brides – In The End
- Black Veil Brides – Knives and Pens
- Brand New – The Quiet Things No One Knows
- Breaking Benjamin – The Diary of Jane
- Bring Me The Horizon – Can You Feel My Heart
- Escape The Fate – Situations
- Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
- Falling in Reverse – The Drug in Me Is You
- Green Day – American Idiot
- Hawthorne Heights – Ohio Is for Lovers
- Linkin Park – In the End
- Linkin Park – Numb
- Midtown – Give It Up
- Motion City Soundtrack – Everything Is Alright
- My Chemical Romance – Helena
- Papa Roach – Scars
- Paramore – Still Into You
- Paramore – That’s What You Get
- Pierce The Veil – King for a Day featuring Kellin Quinn
- Plain White T’s – Our Time Now
- Rise Against – Savior
- Simple Plan – Welcome to My Life
- Sleeping With Sirens featuring MGK – Alone
- Sleeping With Sirens – Do It Now Remember It Later
- Slipknot – Duality
- System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
- Taking Back Sunday – MakeDamnSure
- The All-American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret
- The All-American Rejects – Move Along
- The Used – All That I’ve Got
- Thirty Seconds to Mars – The Kill
- We The Kings – Check Yes Juliet
- Weezer – El Scorcho
- Yellowcard – Only One
A few slow dance songs too!
- Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Hinder – Lips of an Angel
- Secondhand Serenade – Fall For You
Do you have a favorite Emo or Pop-Punk song? Please share your song below in the comments!
