Modern Upbeat Love Songs For Fun Weddings

Love songs don’t have to be all lovey-dovey. You can have upbeat love songs during your wedding reception. In fact, we actually recommend upbeat love songs! No more snoozefests during cocktail hours or while the meal is served to guests.

You can have a more lively-themed reception with a happy tone. Select one of our modern upbeat love songs for your wedding day.

Don’t only think about tempo when selecting love songs for your wedding. Also, consider the lyrics of the song. Break-up songs and songs about bad relationships are also considered love songs. Select love songs that are about being in love or loving another!

Popular Upbeat Love Songs for Weddings

My list of upbeat songs is not party songs or party starters per se. If you want party songs or dance songs for your reception, see our list of party songs. These are more mid-tempo songs to have as a background song or mood setter.

Late Night Talking – Harry Styles

Released in 2022 on the album Harry’s House

A song about a guy who can’t stop thinking about a girl he is talking to and wants to be with his lady when she is down to make her happy.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

‘Bout anythin’ you want until the mornin’
Now you’re in my life
I can’t get you off my mind

Dancin’ In The Moonlight – Chris Lane & Lauren Alaina

Released in 2022 on the single Dancin’ In The Moonlight

A cover of the song made famous by King Harvest. A song about dancing under the stars with your lover and thinking you are in heaven.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

And girl, I’m just feeling pretty damn lucky
Just watching you sway, yeah, I love the way you’re
Dancin’ in the moonlight

All 4 Nothing (I’m So In Love) – Lauv

Released in 2022 on the album All 4 Nothing

A song about being deeply in love and never wanting to let them get away or stop loving them.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Eh, did you know that I never stop? No
Giving you everything I got ’cause I’m so
I’m so in love, I’m so in love

sun and moon – Anees

Released in 2022 on the album sun and moon

A song about a guy letting his lover know that she is his whole world and how lucky he feels to have her.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Girl, you’re everything between
A lot of pretty faces could waste my time
But you’re my dream girl

I Like You (A Happier Song) – Post Malone & Doja Cat

Released in 2022 on the album Twelve Carat Toothache

A song about a boy who announces that he likes a girl and wants to show her how much he likes her.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I just got a feelin’ that we might be friends for a long, long time
Your mine, and you know I like you for that

My Universe – Coldplay x BTS

Released in 2021 on the album Music Of The Spheres

A song about a guy who lights up every time he looks at her and how she is his whole world.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

And I (I) just want (just want) to put you first
And you (you), you are (you are) my universe
And you make my world light up inside

Ghost – Justin Bieber

Released in 2021 on the album Justice

A song about wanting to be an angel on your shoulder should I die just so that I could be with you.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

And if you can’t be next to me
Your memory is ecstasy
I miss you more than life

Skyline – Khalid

Released in 2022 on the album Skyline

A song about traveling through life while being high on love and happiness.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

But I swear it feels real
When you take my hand
In my passenger side

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Butterflies – MAX & Ali Gatie

Released in 2021 on the album Butterflies

This song is a love dedication after many years of being together and how he still gets goosebumps every time he looks at his lover.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You won’t stop running through my mind
For the rest of both our lives
You give me butterflies

Steal My Love – Dan + Shay

Released in 2021 on the album Good Things

A song about holding on to your lover and making them feel safe while thinking they are your heaven.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You kiss me and there ain’t a doubt (oh-oh, oh-oh)
No changing my mind, I’m in it for life

Shivers – Ed Sheeran

Released in 2021 on the album =

A song about a girl who gives her guy goosebumps of love and how she stole his heart.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I wanna be that guy, I wanna kiss your eyes
I wanna drink that smile, I wanna feel like I’m
Like my soul’s on fire, I wanna stay up all day and all night

Message In A Bottle (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift

Released in 2021 on the album Red (Taylor’s Version)

A song about a girl who is scared by a boy loving her but may have let him get away.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

‘Cause you could be the one that I love
I could be the one that you dream of
Message in a bottle is all I can do

Missing Piece – Vance Joy

Released in 2021 on the album In Our Own Sweet Time

A song about lovers being separated by space but he knows that she makes him feel complete.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I get lost in the crowd (oh)
Because when I’m in a room with you
That missing piece is found

Soul – Lee Brice

Released in 2020 on the album Hey World

A song about a woman who gets her man excited to be with her and he wants to spend forever with her in love.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I like your soul, baby
You’ve got that heart made of gold, baby
I’m gonna love you ’til I’m old

Hold onto Me – Music Travel Love

Released in 2020 on the album Originals

A song about a guy telling his lover that when she feels lost or down hold on and he will be by her side.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Hold on to me
A place to lay your troubles down
That’s what I’ll be

Black and White – Niall Horan

Released in 2020 on the album Heartbreak Weather

A song about only seeing love in your lover and promising to love them for the rest of your life.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Swear in front of all our friends
There’ll never be another
I promise that I’ll love you for the rest of my life

Love Somebody – Rotimi

Released in 2020 on the album All or Nothing

This is a song about letting your lover know to trust in you and follow you as you love her and you will have a beautiful life together.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Until you love somebody
Like one, two, three
Trust me you haven’t lived
Until you love somebody

Happy Anywhere – Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani

Released in 2020 on the album Happy Anywhere

A song about a traveling man who will be happy anywhere as long as he is with his lover.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I could be happy anywhere
Any mapped out location
You’re always my destination

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Me & You Together Song – The 1975

Released in 2020 on the album Notes on a Conditional Form

A song about being in love with your best friend and trying to take the relationship from friends to lovers.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

There’s been no way for me to say
That I’ve felt a certain way for ages
Oh I think our story needs more pages
‘Cause I’ve been in love with her for ages

Head & Heart – Joel Corry feat. MNEK

Released in 2020 on the album Head & Heart (Remixes Pt.2)

A song about what you think and feel when falling in love.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

My heart is certain
It’s more than a crush
‘Cause I’m frozen in motion

‘Til I Found You – Jeremy Loops

Released in 2020 on the album ‘Til I Found You

A song about being on a lonely and difficult road in life and not being happy until you find your true love.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

So take these things away from me
They’re useless bits I’ll never need
Stop my breath, so I’ll be free
I won’t, I won’t stop
‘Til I found you

One I Got – Charlie Wilson

Released in 2020 on the album One I Got

A song about a guy who glows while watching his lady and she can feel safe with him as others can have all the grand possessions of the world but nothing beats the woman he has.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

You can have models, hit the lotto but
You can have everything you’ve ever seen but
Ain’t no woman like the one I got

I Got You – Michael Franti & Spearhead

Released in 2020 on the album I Got You

A song about lovers who can trust each other to be by each other’s side and can get through life’s struggles together.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Yea we can swim oceans
Climb mouttains
Dance like nobody’s watching
Live life like we never did before
And through the highs and low

love nwantiti (ah ah ah) – CKay

Released in 2019 on the album CKay The First

A song about a guy being in love with his girl and that if she were to ever leave he would die inside.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

Baba God e finish work, ah ah ah ah, ha
Without you, I go fit lose my mind
Without you, I go fit fall and die

Sucker – Jonas Brothers

Released in 2019 on the album Happiness Begins

This is a song about a guy expressing his love for his lady and how he will do anything for her.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I’m a sucker for you
You say the word and I’ll go anywhere blindly
I’m a sucker for you, yeah

Just the Way – Parmalee & Blanco Brown

Released in 2019 on the album Just the Way

The song is about a girl who doesn’t have to change a bit as her lover loves her just the way God made her.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

So let my eyes be your mirror
And you’re bound to see it too
‘Cause I was made for loving
Just the way God made you

Best of You – Andy Grammer, Elle King

Released in 2019 on the album Naive

A song about lovers needing to trust each other and how they were meant to be with each other.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

‘Cause the best of me loves the best of you
And all the rest, I can see right through
You trust in me and I’ll trust you too

Keep the mood up until it’s time to dance. Then, play party songs to pack the dance floor.

Find Someone Like You – Snoh Aalegra

Released in 2019 on the album Ugh, those feels again

A song about finding your forever love and wanting to spend your whole life with them.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

And bein’ asleep, you’re a dream, I need you
Though we got a past, I want you, yeah
And even when it’s bad, I love you

Love You For A Long Time – Maggie Rogers

Released in 2019 on the album Love You For A Long Time

A song about not being able to stop thinking about your lover and that you will love them for a very, very long time.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

I found the reason I’m not giving up
I felt the fever and I knew he was mine
Oh I, I’m gonna love you for a long time

Higher Love – Kygo & Whitney Houston

Released in 2019 on the album Higher Love

A song about feeling downtrodden and wanting a lover to come to sweep you away.

Most Meaningful Lyrics:

We walk the line and try to see
Falling behind in what could be, oh
Bring me a higher love

Do you have a favorite modern uptempo love song? Share your song below and tell us why it is a fav of yours.