100 Best Folk Wedding Songs Classic & Modern + Lyric Quotes

Updated on September 28, 2022 | Written by Matthew Campbell

Some of our favorite songs to play at weddings are folk songs.

They contain so much emotion in their performances which makes your wedding memorable.

We have compiled a list of our favorite folk songs perfect for weddings.

You will enjoy a list of the most popular and unique folk wedding songs for your wedding day.

Every couple’s folk music tastes are different. Thus, we selected wedding songs from modern songs to instant classic hits.

 

 
Let’s start with the most popular right now.

Top 10 Folk Songs Streamed

(compiled by Amazon)

1. “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver
2. “Bloom” by The Paper Kites
3. “In Spite of Ourselves” by John Prine feat. Iris DeMent
4. “If You Could Read My Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot
5. “Game Show” by Amos Lee
6. “Hell’s Comin’ with Me” by Poor Mans Poison
7. “Good Morning Coffee” by Seth Avett
8. “Vincent” by Don McLean
9. “So Long It’s Been Good to Know You” by Pete Seeger
10. “Colours” by Donovan

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Best Folk Songs For Weddings

We have curated a list of our favorite folk songs perfect for weddings.

If you have a folk wedding song not on our list that you think SHOULD be on our list, be sure to comment on the song below.

2020s Folk Wedding Songs

Love Is – Zach Winters
2021, Other Side (A)

You’re the dream I keep every day
Even when I’m away
I’ve found you

Belong with You – The Light the Heat
2022, Fool for Your Love

We make sense
Darlin we just make sense
Ever since the day we met

When You Love Someone (Live) – Gretchen Peters
2022, The Matador (Live)

When you love someone
You’ll sacrifice
Give it everything you got
And you won’t think twice

I Hope You Dance – The Hound + the Fox
2022, I Hope You Dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin’ might mean takin’ chances but they’re worth takin’

No One Has What We Have – Levi Parham
2022, Sure, Okay, Great.

I wish I could encourage them to find
A love as strong as yours and mine

You Mean the World to Me – James Walsh
2022, You Mean the World to Me

In this mean old world
Hanging on a thread
Where the ups and downs
Are ever infinite
You mean the world to me

Understand My Love – Brandon Mills
2022, Understand My Love

I’ve been dreaming of you before I was born
I’ll be loving you long after I am gone

If I Say That I Love You – Foster
2022, The One

There’s a place
Deep in our hearts where it matters
We can stay there forever and after

One For Me – Mary Hopkin
2022, Pieces

The sun comes shining through
With starlit nights like diamonds
That shine for me and you

One and Only – Garrett Kato
2022, One and Only

I’ll never go and let you down
No matter what, I’ll stick around
Please know I’ll be
Your one and only

I’d Be Your Man – Parker Twomey
2022, I’d Be Your Man

I’d watch you dream all night
And by the morning light
I’d be your man

Hold You – Amos Lee
2022, Dreamland

Beauty beneath me
Beauty above me
I want you to reach me
I want you to teach me how I can love you

If I Didn’t Love You – Ben Abraham
2022, Friendly Fire

Would I be drifting
With nowhere to land?
I don’t know what I’d do
If I didn’t love you

Sing Me a Song – William Prince, Serena Ryder
2022, Sing Me a Song

So sing me a song babe
What kind of song, babe?
The one you hear when you look into my soul

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Ron Pope, The National Parks
2022, Good Riddance

It’s something unpredictable
But in the end, it’s right
I hope you had the time of your life

Valentine’s Day (Acoustic) – David Tribble
2022, Valentine’s Day (Acoustic)

It’s a 24/7 365 days a year kind of love
It’s not just on Valentine’s Day

Simply The Best – Billianne
2022, Simply The Best

You’re simply the best
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
Anyone I ever met

Until You – AHI
2021, Until You

I was empty, lost without a clue
Until now
Until you

She Is My Everything – Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy
2021, She Is My Everything

When I hear her voice
I’ll tell you boys, I forget everything
She is my everything

Faithfully – Clem Snide & Eef Barzelay
2021, Faithfully

Oh Girl
You stand by me
I’m forever yours
Faithfully

Soul Mate – flora cash
2021, Soul Mate

When night finally comes and the leaves have fallen from the tree
Baby, you’ll have me
Soul mate

Love You – Jasmine Chadwick
2021, Love You

I’m gonna love you
Gonna love you
And I always will

Anything – JJ Heller
2021, Anything

I’d give up anything for you
But I would not give you up for anything

Home – Josh Beeman
2021, Home

I know you won’t leave me behind, even in my darkest times
You’re the one that always stays close
You are home

Someone Like Me – Julia Westlin
2021, Someone Like Me

Just like a fairytale
Someone like you and someone like me

 

Colors – Langhorne Slim
2021, Strawberry Mansion

Without each other I’d stay asleep
There’s so many colors but only one girl of my dreams

Sunshine – Leucadia
2021, Sunshine

You’re like the sun coming up
You make my world come alive

Till Death Do Us Part – Lily Hormel
2021, Till Death Do Us Part

Till death do us part is for quitters
You and I found a love that’ll never die
We’ll be ghosts who makeout down by the river
Holding hands till we’re in another life

You’re the One (Acoustic) – Luca Fogale
2021, You’re the One (Acoustic)

So bend the rules
Or break them all
You and I
The same old cloth
You’re the one

I’ll Be with You – Matt + Abi
2021, I’ll Be with You

Adventure is in you and I got in me too
I’ll be with you

I Just Love You – Roo Panes
2021, I Just Love You

When you walk into a room
It’s the birthday card you drew
That make me love you

What a Wonderful World – Sawyer Fredericks
2021, What a Wonderful World

I see friends shaking hands, saying: How do you do?
They’re really saying: I love you!

Headlights – The National Parks
2021, Headlights

Hold me close, let’s drive away to some place far
And dance real slow in the headlight shine of our car

Steal My Heart Away – The Paper Kites, Ainslie Wills
2021, Roses

‘Cause you
Steal my heart away
Every time
Right down the line

Marry Me – The Wicks
2021, Winds of Change

Would you still walk 500 miles
to marry me in the morning
marry me in the day
marry me in the nighttime
when the stars all fall away

All The Gold – Alivan Blu
2020, All The Gold

Honey, haven’t felt this for so long
Wouldn’t change it for all the gold
On the ocean floor
Darling, you’re the only one

Forever & Back – Anders Sohn
2020, Fly Away With Me

I’d follow you anywhere that
This world takes you
To wherever you’re at

I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You – Bob Dylan
2020, Rough and Rowdy Ways

I’d preach the gospel, the gospel of love
A love so real, a love so true
I’ve made up my mind to give myself to you

Mairi’s Wedding – Caroline McCaskey
2020, Altstrings Fiddle Method for Viola, Book 2 (Second Edition)

That’s The Way Love Goes – Hayes Carll & Allison Moorer
2020, That’s The Way Love Goes

Yet you ran with me
Chasing my rainbows
Honey, I love you too
And that’s the way love goes

Helplessly I Fell – Jim Lord
2020, Little Star

Never said it all, had no reason to tell
Then I heard you call, helplessly I fell

Not Enough – JJ Heller
2020, Not Enough

There’s so much to learn when it comes to love
A lifetime with you
A lifetime with you is not enough

Simple Thing – Jonathan Wilson
2020, Dixie Blur

It’s a little simple thing
It goes, “Baby, be mine, baby, be mine, baby, be mine
All mine, come on, baby, be mine”

Over the Moon – Julian Taylor
2020, The Ridge

No matter what we’ve been through
I could always count on you
Yes, it’s true
I’m over the moon for you

I Got You – Michael Franti & Spearhead
2020, Work Hard and Be Nice

Dance like nobody’s watching
Live life like we never did before
And through the highs and lows
Baby I got you yeah

Rest of Our Lives – The Light the Heat
2020, Wide Awake

Dance with me beneath the stars
Moonlight crashing on our wild hearts
With your hand in mine

I Want To Make You Mine – The Suddenlys
2020, I Want to Make You Mine

You and me, it’s all we’ll ever need
Even if the sun refused to shine
As long as you are mine

No Matter Where You Are (Wedding Version) – Us The Duo
2020, No Matter Where You Are

And I won’t let you fall
I won’t let you go
No matter where you are
No matter where you are, I’ll be there

2010s Folk Wedding Songs

As Time Goes By – Anna Nalick
2019, The Blackest Crow

A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

You Have Stolen My Heart – Brian Fallon
2019, Local Honey

And now if you need me, you know where to find me
I’ll be always falling under your spell

I Chose You – Caleb Edens
2019, I Chose You

I Chose You
Cause I love the way you dance & twirl
I Chose You
Cause you only need one pair of shoes
I Chose You
You chose me, too

Make These Colors Real – Hush Kids
2019, Make These Colors Real

Ooooh, if I could hold you
I’d warm the cold you feel
I’d make these colors real

L O V E L O V E – Jeremy Lister
2019, Sign Language

There’s nothing to doubt here
So I spell it out here
The word to tell you how I really feel,
I really feel
L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E

To Whatever Comes After – Jon Danforth
2019, Departure

We have left on this ride
I know where I want to stay
In your mouth, in your heart

No Place Like You – Joy Williams
2019, Front Porch

Honey, it’s true
There ain’t nothing I can do
Cause there ain’t no place, no place like you

Not Just Any Old Love Song – Luke Cerny
2019, Not Just Any Old Love Song

I’m crazy about you
Well, I’m crazy about you
Yes, I’m crazy about you
Darling you’re crazy about me too

Forever From Now – Sheffield
2019, Lucky

I will love you forever from now
And I will hold you like no one’s around
Forever from now

When We Grow Old – Stace & Cassie
2019, When We Grow Old

I’ll be there when we grow old
we grow old

Latch – The Hound + the Fox
2019, Latch

Could I lock in your love?
Now I’ve got you in my space
I won’t let go of you

All Your’n – Tyler Childers
2019, Country Squire

So I’ll love ya ’til my lungs give out
I ain’t lying
I’m all your’n and you’re all mine

Bride – Aria & Oaken
2018, Belonging

Build you a new home just you and me
Please take my hand you waited so patiently

Earthquake – The Black Lillies
2018, Stranger to Me

You’re the rock in my roll, you shake me down to my soul
You take my breath away, you know just what to say
You shake me down to my soul, you’re my earthquake

Before You – Fortunate Ones
2018, Hold Fast

I really don’t know much but there is one thing
That I do
I can’t remember my life before you

Welcome Home – Fox and Bones
2018, Better Land

I have a tough time giving compliments
But you truly soothe my rough and ragged soul
Yeah you, Yeah you do

Yeah You – Freedom Fry
2018, Yeah You

Out of the faces in the crowd
You won me over, you won me over
Yeah, you

End of the Street – Jacob Humber
2018, End of the Street

Cuz we could take off our shoes and feel the world beneath our feet
For a while hand in hand we’ll keep on going
Past the end of the street

Give All – Jon Danforth
2018, Time and Vision

I will give all till I draw my final breath
You have my love until my soul has nothing in it

Hugging You – Tom Rosenthal
2018, Hugging You

There’s no funnier duo in this town
Just wanna say I’m better now and shout it loud
I just wanna be hugging you tonight

If I’m the Sun and You’re the Moon – Aaron Espe
2017, Passages

I was made to fall
But till the end I’ll always try
To fix our fates till one day collide

You and I, Here and Now – Evan Nachimson
2017, Questions

Because when we’re together
It’s you and I, here and now

Chances – Fox and Bones
2017, The Remarkable Adventures Of

In this life we’re only given so many chances
And I like my chances with you

I Will Spend My Whole Life Loving You – Imaginary Future & Kina Grannis
2017, I Will Spend My Whole Life Loving You

Oh believe me
I’ve been counting my stars
Cause I will spend my whole life
Loving you

As Long as I Have You I’m Home – Imaginary Future
2017, As Long as I Have You I’m Home

I can live in the great unknown
As long as I have you
As long as I have you I’m home

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Imaginary Future
2017, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

I love you baby
And if it’s quite all right
I need you baby
To warm the lonely nights
I love you baby

Places We’ll Go – Nate Michael
2017, Places We’ll Go

The places we’ll go, the places we’ll stand
I’ll keep you real close, be holding your hand
If life gets too tough girl, stay by my side
This is my promise to you as my bride

Dance With Me – Phillip Phillips
2017, Collateral

So will you dance with me?
I will lead you
Give every moment that I have
Just to be near you

Lover’s Lullaby – Sweet Tea Project
2017, Alder Lane Farm

All my hopes and dreams
The heaven has sent you to me after all this time
So I’m singing to you this lover’s lullabye

Touching Heaven – JOHNNYSWIM
2016, Georgica Pond

I’m not just waiting for skies to part
You’ve been my glimpse of Kingdom right from the start
And you got me touching heaven

Take The World – JOHNNYSWIM
2016, Diamonds

Though you make it hard not to spill my heart
Every time I see you swaying
Darling You and Me
We can take the world

For You To Be Here – Tom Rosenthal
2015, The Pleasant Trees (Volume 2)

Thinking of the times that forever are ours
I am ready, I am ready for you to be here
For you, for you, to be here

Heart’s On Fire – Passenger
2014, Whispers

‘Cause I know those eyes and I know that touch
I don’t have many and I don’t have much
But oh darlin’, my heart’s on fire

Bloom – The Paper Kites
2013, Woodland

When the evening pulls the sun down,
And the day is almost through,
Oh, the whole world it is sleeping,
But my world is you

Forever – Ben Harper
2012, By My Side (Retrospective)

So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do
From you

Only Love – Ben Howard
2012, Every Kingdom

Darling, you’re with me, always around me
Only love, only love
Darling, I feel you, under my body
Only love, only love

Hey Ho – The Lumineers
2012, The Lumineers

I belong with you, you belong with me
You’re my sweetheart

Higher Love – James Vincent McMorrow
2010, Early in the Morning

We walk blind, we try to see
Falling behind in what could be
Bring me a higher love

2000s Folk Wedding Songs

I And Love And You – The Avett Brothers
2009, I and Love and You

Three words that became hard to say
I and Love and You
What you were than I am today
Look at the things I do

January Wedding – The Avett Brothers
2009, I And Love And You

But I know what she’s sayin’
I understand because my heart and hers are the same
And in January we’re gettin’ married

All I Want Is You – Barry Louis Polisar
2008, Juno Soundtrack

All I want is you, will you stay with me
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea?

Let It Be Me – Ray LaMontagne
2008, Gossip In The Grain

That’s when you need someone
Someone that you, you can call
When all your faith is gone
It feels like you cant go on
Let it be me

Boats & Birds – Gregory & the Hawk
2006, The Boats&birds

If you be my boat
I’ll be your sea
A depth of pure blue just to probe curiosity
Ebbing and flowing and pushed by a breeze
I live to make you free

Better Together – Jack Johnson
2005, In Between Dreams

Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We’ll sit beneath the mango tree now
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together

1990s Folk Wedding Songs

In Spite Of Ourselves – John Prine and Iris DeMent
1999, In Spite of Ourselves

In spite of ourselves
We’ll end up a’sittin’ on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we’re the big door prize

When You Say Nothing At All – Alison Krauss and Union Station
1994, A Tribute Album

The touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall
You say it best when you say nothing at all

1980s Folk Wedding Songs

Touch of Grey – Grateful Dead
1987, In the Dark

The only thing there is to say
Every silver lining’s got a
Touch of grey
I will get by

1970s Folk Wedding Songs

How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) – James Taylor
1975, Gorilla

How sweet it is to be loved by you
Feels so fine
How sweet it is to be loved by you

Watching the River Run – Loggins & Messina
1973, Full Sail

If you’ve been thinkin’ you were all that you’ve got
Then don’t feel alone anymore
‘Cause when we’re together then you’ve got a lot

Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
1970, Ladies of the Canyon

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

Wild World – Yusef/Cat Stevens
1970, Tea for the Tillerman

It’s hard to get by just just upon a smile
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
And I’ll always remember you like a child girl oh yeah

1960s Folk Wedding Songs

Wedding Song (There Is Love) – Noel Paul Stookey
1969, Wedding Song (There Is Love)

Oh the marriage of your spirits here has caused Him to remain
For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name
There is Love, there is Love

 

If you have a folk wedding song not on our list that you think SHOULD be on our list, be sure to comment on the song below. We read and respond to every comment.

Reader suggested song!

Tom Rosenthal – For You To Be Here
2015, The Pleasant Trees (Volume 2)

Why Would I Want Folk Music at My Wedding?

If Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and James Taylor speak to you, then that singer-songwriters feel that brings teardrops to everyone’s eyes, is your jam. Folk music is emotional. Folk music captures our stories as people. it’s part of our tradition and how we tell stories. You could say that country and western stems from folk. American folk music has its roots in Ireland.

Because of this, many of our most beloved songs are from the folk genre. We could also include indie and singer-songwriters in this genre as well.

Sweet, low-key weddings outdoors with a solo guitarist is the ideal wedding for folk music. Imagine walking down the aisle to “Something in the Way She Moves” by James Taylor. You could even include an instrumental version of “You Look Wonderful Tonight” in this category. Wow. Beautiful, just beautiful.

Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers or music performed as a customer over a long period of time.

Folk music is storytelling. It’s simple in its instrumentation but complex in its harmonies. It’s known for beautiful, haunting melodies with choruses that everyone can join.

Similar song lists for further reading:

• Indie First Dance Songs
• Country Wedding Songs

If you love Folk music, be sure to attend the Montana Folk Festival. It is held in Butte, Montana in the month of July.

Who Are Popular Folk Artists?

Folk isn’t for the old folks. According to Ranker, the top 3 folk artists in 2020 include Leon Bridges, Caamp, and Nathaniel Ratliff. We also like The Avett Brothers, The Milk Carton Kids, and Chris Thile.

The all-time popular folk artists include:

• Ben Harper
• Bob Dylan
• Cat Stevens
• Emmylou Harris
• The Grateful Dead
• Harry Belafonte
• James Taylor
• Joan Baez
• Johnny Cash
• Joni Mitchell

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