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Create unforgettable wedding playlists that resonate with every moment!

Craft the perfect soundtrack for your "I do!" My Wedding Songs offers everything you need to create an unforgettable musical experience on your wedding day.

*One-on-One Masterminds - Work with our experts to design an epic playlist that reflects your love story.

**Read the Wedding MusicLetter to stay ahead of new trends and discover trending wedding songs.

***The Wedding Songs Podcast offers insights and expert tips from industry leaders through insightful interviews and wedding music planning discussions.

****Purchase our 2 wedding music guides: "Wedding Music Planner" (for engaged couples) and the "Wedding DJ Songs Planner" (for wedding pros).

*****Browse our website by genre, era, and wedding moment to find the perfect songs for your ceremony, reception, and everything in between.

I opened with "September" for years.First dance, parent dances, then "September" to fill the floor fast. It worked. By p...
09/23/2026

I opened with "September" for years.

First dance, parent dances, then "September" to fill the floor fast. It worked. By peak dance hour, I'd already burned through my mega-hits and wished I had them back.

That's the thing about a reception. Every song has a job. The opener has to make a floor full. The peak assumes it already is. Same energy, different job, and mixing them up costs you the back half of the night.

This week's Wedding MusicLetter is The Job List: all 33 jobs a reception song can do. From the bridge out of dinner to the send-off, with how many answers you need ready for each. If your Wedding Set Score came back low on a layer, this is where you find out why.

Most crates answer about a third. See which ones you are missing.

Yesterday was the official release day of The Wedding Music Canon.Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered and ordered the ...
09/16/2026

Yesterday was the official release day of The Wedding Music Canon.

Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered and ordered the book. I am so blessed by you.

Books have started shipping. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

https://weddingmusicletter.com/p/the-wedding-music-canon

A DJ replied to my Permission Track issue a few weeks back and called me out, politely. I had named three other kinds of...
09/09/2026

A DJ replied to my Permission Track issue a few weeks back and called me out, politely. I had named three other kinds of dance songs near the bottom of that issue and then just moved on. Fair question: where are the lists?

This week's Wedding MusicLetter is the answer, and it turned into the framework I wish I'd had in 1993.

Here's the whole idea in one line. Every song on a dance floor asks the guest for something.

-Permission asks for nothing. Nobody makes a statement by dancing to it.
-Declaration asks for identity. Going out for "Friends in Low Places" says something about who you are.
-Demand asks for competence. You have to know the steps.
-Commitment asks for energy. You cannot do "Jump Around" at fifty percent.

A cold room will dance to the first class and none of the others. A warm room will dance to all four. That one sentence is the running order of a wedding. It's why the same song dies at 8:15 and becomes the best thing you played all night at 10:05.

The issue has song lists for all four classes, plus the ladder for songs one through ten, where the demand song goes when the floor thins, and why stacking two guarantees back-to-back is the most common mistake of the second half of the night.

New episode of the Wedding Songs Podcast. I sat down with Brian Lawrence, who has spent his whole career in the wedding ...
09/03/2026

New episode of the Wedding Songs Podcast. I sat down with Brian Lawrence, who has spent his whole career in the wedding industry and now builds websites and does SEO for wedding pros, to talk about what AI is changing on the website side.

A few things from the conversation that I keep coming back to:

Reviews are a gold mine, and not only on Google. Brian's point is that AI trusts your couples more than it trusts you, so the words in your reviews are worth more than your own sales copy. He also made a case I had not considered: reviews from other vendors. A photographer saying you were easy to work with on a wedding day carries a kind of context a couple cannot give.

FAQs belong on every main page, not on one page nobody visits. Questions couples actually ask an AI assistant: what do you charge, how far will you travel, what happens if the DJ gets sick. Answer them using your business name so the answer stays attached to you.

Venue pages work when they are real. The photos, the couple's names, the review from that wedding. What does not work is cloning one page and changing the venue name. I have seen the pattern get sites removed from Google, and I would rather you hear it from me now than find out the hard way.

Schema, press releases, and why AI crawlers and couples both stop reading before the bottom of the page. Whatever you need them to do has to be near the top.

Brian's closing point, which is not about AI at all: the biggest win is still getting the person who landed on your site to contact you. Fewer form fields, a phone number that is optional or explained as a text number, and a call to action that does not create friction.

Listen on your favorite podcast platform.

I've been writing the MusicLetter for a while now. This is the one I'm proudest of.It started with a DJ who emailed me s...
09/02/2026

I've been writing the MusicLetter for a while now. This is the one I'm proudest of.

It started with a DJ who emailed me scared. He was afraid the certainty crate would turn him into the guy playing the same forty songs at every wedding. Afraid of getting cliché. Afraid of being interchangeable.

I sat with that for a week, because I remember being him. Somewhere in the late 90s I stopped playing "September" for a whole season. Not because it stopped working. Because I was sick of it. I told myself the rooms were dead. The rooms weren't dead. I answered a question nobody asked.

So this issue is my whole case in one sentence: cliché isn't a song. It's a decision you made without looking at the room.

Your boredom is an occupational hazard. It is not information about the room. The bride's aunt has never once hit her "September" limit.

I also lay out where the originality actually goes, and it's not where most DJs think. Full floor. Sandwiched between two certainties. One chorus to prove itself. Write it down. That's how a crate grows out of your own rooms instead of somebody else's list.

If you've ever been afraid of becoming the jukebox, this one's for you.

Four of this month's new releases are built on songs your guests already know.Galantis rebuilt "Can't Take My Eyes Off Y...
08/31/2026

Four of this month's new releases are built on songs your guests already know.

Galantis rebuilt "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." LP Giobbi turned Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do for Love" into house. Brent Faiyaz sampled Spandau Ballet's "True." Meshell Ndegeocello took on "Don't Look Any Further."

That is not a coincidence. Producers have figured out what good wedding DJs have known for years. Familiarity is the fastest route to happy guests.

The August Wedding MusicLetter is out. 24 new songs, 100 trending, and every one of them sorted by wedding moment instead of chart position. Ceremony, cocktail, dinner, dance, after-party.

Free stickers this month too. Reply with your address, and I'll mail one.

The scariest part of being a wedding DJ isn't the microphone. It isn't the drunk uncle.It's 9:40, the floor is thinning,...
08/26/2026

The scariest part of being a wedding DJ isn't the microphone. It isn't the drunk uncle.

It's 9:40, the floor is thinning, and you've got about fifteen seconds before the room decides the night peaked.

A DJ wrote in about that fear last month. He's been in music his whole life. He's not short on songs. He's short on confidence that he can produce the right one at the moment it's needed.

Almost every DJ under fifty weddings describes it the same way. Almost every one of them thinks it's a catalog problem. It isn't. It never has been.

The DJ who makes it look easy is playing from a smaller pool than you think. He's just faster at it.

Here's the part nobody says out loud: your library is organized by genre and decade because that's how the software does it. Not because it's useful. Open your 2000s pop rock folder. "Mr. Brightside" is in there. So is "Bad Day". Same genre, same decade, filed side by side. One packs a floor. One sends everyone to the bar. The folder can't tell you which is which.

Only the job can.

At 9:40 your brain doesn't need a category. It needs an answer to a question, and the questions are always the same handful. What gets the parents up. What holds a floor that's starting to thin. What resets the energy after a slow song. What do I play when I've completely misread this crowd.

Those are jobs. Songs do jobs. Genre tells you nothing about the job.

This week's Wedding MusicLetter is the whole argument. The diagnostic that tells you whether you have a filing problem or a real knowledge gap, and how to build a Certainty Crate out of your own rooms instead of somebody's list on the internet (mine).

You don't need a bigger library. You need a smaller one you can trust.

A DJ hit reply on a recent issue and told me the truth about how he works.A couple sends a Spotify playlist. He plays of...
08/19/2026

A DJ hit reply on a recent issue and told me the truth about how he works.

A couple sends a Spotify playlist. He plays off it. He reads the room from there. He said he doesn't have patterns yet.

That's the most honest description of DJing a wedding I've read in a long time. Almost nobody says it out loud.

So this week's issue is about what to actually do with a handed playlist.

The short version: a playlist has no clock. Position 4 doesn't mean it comes before position 31. A reception is nothing but clock. The couple gave you taste. They can't give you the arc.

I break down how to read the playlist three separate times (for coverage, for intent, for vibe) and the two questions to send back that turn sixty songs into a real brief.

Free to read.

Most of us pick the first song of the night based on energy. I think that's the wrong criteria.The first record isn't th...
08/13/2026

Most of us pick the first song of the night based on energy. I think that's the wrong criteria.

The first record isn't there to be great. It's there to make it socially safe to be the first person on the floor.

I ran 26 openers through a three-part test in this week's issue:

-Recognized inside eight bars
-No script required (no move to know, no lyric to shout)
-Nobody makes a statement by dancing to it

Test three is the one that knocks out the obvious picks. September, Don't Stop Believin', Sweet Caroline, Livin' on a Prayer. Those are declaration records. People go out for them to announce something. You can't ask a cold room to announce anything.

Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, Wobble fail test two. They fill a floor with compliance and then hand you a hundred people standing still.

All great wedding records. None of them is a first record.

Full list is 26 tracks by decade, 1960s through 2010s, with the chart context on each one. Link in comments.

What's your permission record? The one that reliably starts a floor that nobody ever talks about?

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