30 Best Songs For Engagement

Planning the perfect and exceptional engagement can be challenging, especially if you seek something different from the ‘usual.’ Be it easy, lavish, or somewhere in between, we have a list of the perfect songs that could help to make your show worthwhile. Our list comprises songs with a perfect blend of instrumentation, lyrics, and vocals that describe the moment and speak to the best future you hope to experience with your partner. Grab your headphones and get set for a fantastic ride.

The Finest Engagement Songs of All Time

1. Perfect

• Artist: Ed Sheeran
• Year of Release: 2017
• Songwriter: Ed Sheeran
• Genre:  Pop

Lyrics

I found a love, for me
Darling, just dive right in and follow my lead
Well, I found a girl, beautiful and sweet
Oh, I never knew you were the someone waiting for me

2. All of Me

• Artist:  John Legend
• Year of Release: 2013
• Songwriter: John Stephens; ‎Toby Gad
• Genre: R&B; soul‎; ‎pop

Lyrics

What would I do without your smart mouth?
Drawing me in, and you kicking me out
You’ve got my head spinning, no kidding, I can’t pin you down
What’s going on in that beautiful mind?
I’m on your magical mystery ride
And I’m so dizzy, don’t know what hit me, but I’ll be alright

3. Baby, I’m Yours

• Artist:  Isabel LaRosa
• Year of Release: 2022
• Songwriter: Isabel LaRosa
• Genre: Alternative/Indie, Pop

4. Dreaming of You

• Artist:  Selena
• Year of Release: 1995
• Songwriter: Franne Golde, Tom Snow
• Genre: Pop music, Pop, Regional Mexican

Lyrics

Late at night when all the world is sleeping
I stay up and think of you
And I wish on a star
That somewhere you are thinking of me too

5. I Was Made for Loving You

• Artist: Torri Kelly
• Featured Artist(s): Ed Sheeran
• Year of Release: 2015
• Songwriter(s): Tori Kelly; ‎Ed Sheeran
• Genre: Pop; R&B‎

Lyrics

I was made for loving you
Even though we may be hopeless hearts just passing through
Every bone screaming, I don’t know what we should do
All I know is, darling, I was made for loving you

6. Anyone

• Artist: Justin Bieber
• Year of Release: 2017
• Songwriter(s): Jonathan Bellion, Justin Bieber, Andrew Wotman, Alexander Izquierdo, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Michael Pollack, Raul Cubina

Lyrics

Dance with me under the diamonds
See me like breath in the cold
Sleep with me here in the silence
Come kiss me, silver and gold

7. Marry Me

• Artist: Jason Derulo
• Year of Release: 2014
• Songwriter(s): Jason Derulo, Jonas Jeberg, “Hookman” Marlin Bonds, Andy Marvel
• Genre(s): R&B, Pop

Lyrics

Uhh-uhh-uhh, ohh-yeah, hmmm
A hundred and five is the number that comes to my head
When I think of all the years I wanna be with you
Wake up every morning with you in my bed
That’s precisely what I plan to do

8. You Give Good Love 

• Artist: Whitney Houston
• Year of Release: 1985
• Songwriter: La Forrest ‘La La’ Cope
• Genres: R&B/Soul, Pop

9. Is This Love

• Artist: Bob Marley
• Year of Release: 1978
• Songwriter: Bob Marley
• Genre:  Reggae

10. I knew I Loved You

• Artist: Savage Garden
• Year of Release: 1999
• Songwriter(s): Daniel Jones, ‎Darren Hayes‎
• Genres: Children’s Music, Pop

I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life

11. Everything

• Artist: Michael Bublé
• Year of Release: 1998
• Songwriter: Michael Bublé
• Genre: Traditional pop, ‎jazz‎, ‎easy listening

Lyrics

You’re a falling star, you’re the getaway car
You’re the line in the sand when I go too far
You’re the swimming pool, on an August day
And you’re the perfect thing to say

12. Wild Love

• Artist: James Bay
• Year of Release: 2018
• Songwriter: James Bay
• Genre: Electropop, ‎Electronic rock‎;

Lyrics

I wanna give you wild love
The kind that never slows down
I wanna take you high up
Let our hearts be the only sound
I wanna go where the lights burn low and you’re only mine
I wanna give you wild love

13. Make You Feel My Love

• Artist: Adele
• Year of Release: 2008
• Songwriter: Bob Dylan
• Genres: Folk rock, Pop

Lyrics

When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love

14. Can’t help falling in Love

• Artist: Haley Reinhart
• Year of Release: 2016
• Songwriter: Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss
• Genres: Pop, Seasonal

Lyrics

Take my hand
Take my whole life too
Oh, for I can’t help
Fallin’ in love with you

15. God gave me You

• Artist: Blake Shelton
• Year of Release: 2011
• Songwriter: Blake Shelton
• Genre: Country

Lyrics

There’s more here than what we’re seein’, a divine conspiracy
That you, an angel lovely, could somehow fall for me
You’ll always be love’s great martyr, and I’ll be the flattered fool
And I need you, yeah

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16. Lover

• Artist: Taylor Swift
• Year of Release: 2019
• Songwriter: Taylor Swift
• Genre: Pop

Lyrics

Can I go where you go?
Can we always be this close forever and ever?
And ah, take me out, and take me home
You’re my, my, my, my
Lover

17. Adore You                           

• Artist(s): Miley Cyrus, Cedric Gervais
• Year of Release: 2013
• Songwriter: Stacy Barthe; ‎Oren Yoel

Lyrics

When you say you love me
Know I love you more
When you say you need me
Know I need you more
Boy I adore you
I adore you

18. All My Life

• Artist(s): K-Ci & JoJo lyrics
• Year of Release: 1998
• Songwriter: Joel Hailey; Rory Bennett
• Genre: R&B

Lyrics

All my life (ohhhh, baby, baby)
I prayed for someone like you
And I thank God
That I
That I finally found you
All my life
I prayed for someone like you
And I hope that you feel the same way too
Yes, I pray that you do love me too

19. One Life

• Artist(s): Ed Sheeran
• Year of Release: 2021
• Songwriter: Ed Sheeran
• Genre(s): Dance/Electronic, Pop, German Pop, UK R&B, French Rap

Lyrics

It’s such a beautiful night to make a change in our lives
East Anglian sky, empty bottle of wine
I got you by my side, talkin’ ’bout love and life
Oh, how lucky am I when I look in your eyes
What a wonderful way to spend a moment or two
To be lyin’ awake and be here talkin’ to you
I got somethin’ to say, I know what I gotta do
To be makin’ a change, now the moment of truth

20. Best of Me

• Artist(s):Tyrese Gibson
• Year of Release: 2011
• Songwriter(s):  Tyrese Gibson and Kenneth Karlin
• Genre: Classic Soul

Lyrics

What a joy it is to be loved by you
My most precious gift, my guardian angel
I believe god sent you here to slow me down
And so whatever it takes, I’mma keep you around baby.

21. I Will Stay With You 

• Artist(s): John Legend
• Year of Release: 2004
• Songwriter(s): John Legend and Dave Tozer
• Genre: R&B

Lyrics

… We’ve been together for a while now
We’re growing stronger everyday now
It feels so good and there’s no doubt
I will stay with you as each morning brings the sunrise
And the flowers bloom in springtime
On my love you can rely
And I’ll stay with you

22. Kiss Me

• Artist(s): Ed Sheeran
• Year of Release: 2004
• Songwriter(s): Ed Sheeran, Justin Franks,  and Julie Frost
• Genres: Alternative/Indie, Pop, German Pop

Lyrics

Settle down with me
Cover me up
Cuddle me in
Lie down with me, yeah
And hold me in your arms

23. Love You Forever 

• Artist(s): Ryan Huston
• Year of Release: 2009
• Songwriter(s): Ed Sheeran, Justin Franks,  and Julie Frost
• Genre: Pop

Lyrics

If ever you needed to talk
You could talk to me
Oh, could you talk to me?
If ever you feel like you’re lost
You can count on me
I?ll find you a way
When the lights go out
In the Universe
I?ll be next to you
I?ll be next to you
And I surrender myself
To you
I?ll love you forever
I?ll like you for always

24. My Girl

• Artist(s): The Temptation
• Year of Release: 1965
• Songwriter(s): Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
• Genres: R&B/Soul, Vocal/Easy Listening

25. A Thousand Year

• Artist(s): Christina Perri
• Year of Release: 2011
• Songwriter(s):  Christina Perri, David Hodges (Part 1), and  Steve Kazee (Part 2)
• Genre: Pop