If you’re looking for Grateful Dead wedding songs, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ve compiled their best love songs for your first dance, parent dances, and so much more!
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Grateful Dead Wedding Songs
Grateful Dead First Dance Songs
The best Grateful Dead love songs for your first dance. Our top picks are: The Stranger, Shining Star, and Sugar Magnolia.
The Stranger (1972)
Best Lyrics: “What is the secret of this tie that binds/Two souls in communion, both body and mind/Is it special magic or just the nature of things?”
Shining Star (1991)
Best Lyrics: “So many have tried, tried to find/A love like yours and mine, oh baby/Don’t you realize how you hypnotize me/Make me love you more each time, oh baby”
Sugar Magnolia (1970)
Best Lyrics: “She’s a summer love in the spring, fall, and winter/She can make happy any man alive”
How Sweet It Is (1978)
Best Lyrics: “But you brighten up all of my days/With a love so sweet in so many ways/I want to stop and thank you baby”
It Must Have Been The Roses (1976)
Best Lyrics: “I don’t know, it must have been the roses/The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair/I don’t know, maybe it was the roses/All I know was I could not leave her there”
If I Had The World To Give (1978)
Best Lyrics: “If I had a star to give/I’d give it to you long as you live/Would you have the time to watch it shine, watch it shine/Or ask for the moon and heaven too?/I’d give it to you”
Standing On The Moon (1989)
Don’t Let Go (2001)
Best Lyrics: “Ah shucks, I wouldn’t stop for a million bucks/I love you so, Just hold me tight/Don’t let go!”
Grateful Dead Father Daughter & Mother Son Dance Songs
The best Grateful Dead songs for your father daughter and mother son dances. Our top picks are: Built To Last, Forever Young, and I Will Take You Home.
Built To Last (1989)
Best Lyrics: “Three blue stars rise on the hill/Say no more, now, just be still/All these trials, soon be past/Look for something built to last”
Forever Young (1987)
Best Lyrics: “May you grow up to be righteous/May you grow up to be true/May you always know the truth/And see the lights surrounding you”
I Will Take You Home (1989)
Cassidy (1981)
Grateful Dead Songs To Walk Down The Aisle To
Ripple (1970)
They Love Each Other (1973)
Good Lovin’ (1971)
Reuben And Cherise (1978)
Peggy-O (1973)
Grateful Dead Dance Songs (For Your Reception)
The best Grateful Dead songs for your reception. Our top picks are: Rosalie McFall, Not Fade Away, and Second That Emotion.
Rosalie McFall (1981)
Best Lyrics: “Her eyes were bright and shining and her voice was sweet to me/Knew that I would always love her and I hoped that she loved me”
Not Fade Away (1970)
Best Lyrics: “I want to tell you how it’s going to be/You’re going to give your love to me/I want to love you night and day/You know our love will not fade away”
Second That Emotion (2000)
Best Lyrics: “Well, if you feel like giving me a lifetime of devotion/I second that emotion”
Stir It Up (1973)
Best Lyrics: “Come on and/Stir it up, little darling/Stir it up”
Jack-A-Roe (1981)
Best Lyrics: “This couple they got married/So well, they did agree/This couple they got married/So why not you and me?”
Easy To Love You (1980)
Best Lyrics: “You don’t know how easy it is/You don’t know how easy it is to love you”
Lazy River Road (1993)
Best Lyrics: “All the others I let pass by/I only wanted you/Never cared for careless love/But how your bright eyes glowed/Way down down along Lazy River Road”
The Music Never Stopped (1975)
Best Lyrics: “Sun went down in honey/And the moon came up in wine/You know stars were spinning dizzy, Lord/The band kept us too busy we forgot about the time”
Man Smart, Women Smarter (1981)
Best Lyrics: “I say, it’s the women today, smarter than the men in every way/That’s right the women are smarter, the women are smarted that’s right”
Scarlet Begonias (1974)
Best Lyrics: “She wore scarlet begonias/Tucked into her curls/I knew right away/She was not like other girls/Other girls”
That’s What Love Will Make You Do (1997)
Best Lyrics: “When I hear your name/I start to shake inside/When I see you stroll/I lose control”
When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game (1974)
Best Lyrics: “Secretly, I’ve been trailing you/Like the fox that preys on the rabbit/I had to get you, that’s all I knew/I had to learn your ways and habits”
