If you and your partner are in search of rock wedding songs to play on your big day, then you’ve come to the right place! We’ve scoured the internet and compiled a huge list of over 300 wedding rock songs that can be played throughout your special day.
Maybe you’re in search of a romantic rock wedding song for your first dance, or to play while you’re walking down the aisle. Rock songs come in all shapes and sizes and there’s nothing better than a heartfelt rock ballad to really get the tears flowing during the more romantic parts of your special day.
If you’re looking for head-bangers to get your guests totally pumped on the dance floor, there are plenty of hard rock wedding songs. You’ll definitely want to add to them your reception playlist!
We’ve also included classic rock, pop-punk and indie to help you curate an eclectic and energetic setlist that all your friends and family will enjoy. So what are you waiting for? Scroll through, choose your favourites and make sure your wedding songs rock!
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(Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
(I Just) Died in Your Arms – Cutting Crew
(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) – Beastie Boys
2-4-6-8 Motorway – Tom Robinson Band
A-Punk – Vampire Weekend
Ace Of Spades – Motorhead
Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer
Africa – Toto
Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked – Cage The Elephant
All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
All I Want Is You – U2
All My Life – Foo Fighters
All Right Now – Free Band
All Star – Smash Mouth
All Summer Long – Kid Rock
All The Small Things – Blink 182
All These Thing That I’ve Done – The Killers
Alright – Supergrass
Always – Bon Jovi
American Girl – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
American Pie – Don McClean
American Woman – The Guess Who
Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
Any Way You Want It – Journey
Are You Gonna Be My Girl – Jet
Are You Gonna Go My Way – Lenny Kravitz
Baba O’Riley – The Who
Back In Black – AC/DC
Bad Case of Loving You – Robert Palmer
Banquet – Bloc Party
Barracuda – Heart
Basket Case – Green Day
Beautiful Day – U2
Before I Fall To Pieces – Razorlight
Best Of You – Foo Fighters
Beverly Hills – Weezer
Black Betty – Ram Jam
Bleed American – Jimmy Eat World
Bless This Acid House – Kasabian
Blue Monday – New Order
Bodies – Drowning Pool
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Born in the USA – Bruce Springsteen
Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
Bubbles – Biffy Clyro
Buck Rogers – Feeder
Buddy Holly – Weezer
Butterfly – Crazy Town
C’mon Everybody – The Sex Pistols
Call Me – Blondie
Can’t Stand Me Now – The Libertines
Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Carry On Wayward Son – Kansas
Chelsea Dagger – The Fratellis
Cherry Pie – Warrant
Chop Suey! – System Of A Down
Cigarettes & Alcohol – Oasis
Club Foot – Kasabian
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
Cum On Feel The Noize – Slade
Dance, Dance – Fall Out Boy
Dancing In The Dark – Bruce Springsteen
Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
Dare – Gorillaz
Dirty Harry – Gorillaz
Disco 2000 – Pulp
Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey
Don’t Fight It – Kenny Loggins and Steve Perry
Dude (Looks Like A Lady) – Aerosmith
End of the Line – Traveling Wilburys
Enter Sandman – Metallica
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The Police
Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor
Faithfully – Journey
Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen
Fat Lip – Sum 41
Fell In Love With A Girl – The White Stripes
Fluorescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys
Fly Away – Lenny Kravitz
Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty
Gimme All Your Lovin’ – ZZ Top
Girl All The Bad Guys Want – Bowling For Soup
Girl From Mars – Ash
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Girls & Boys – Blur
Girls & Boys – Good Charlotte
Give It Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Golden Touch – Razorlight
Good Lovin’ – The Rascals
Hard Times – Paramore
Hard to Handle – The Black Crowes
Hash Pipe – Weezer
Hate To Say I Told You So – The Hives
Heads Will Roll – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Heart Of Glass – Blondie
Heaven – Bryan Adams
Hella Good – No Doubt
Here I Go Again – Whitesnake
High Hopes – Panic! At The Disco
Higher Ground – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Highway To Hell – AC/DC
Hit Me With Your Best Shot – Pat Benatar
Hold on Loosely – 38 Special
Holiday – Green Day
Honky Tonk Woman – Rolling Stones
Hot Blooded – Foreigner
How You Remind Me – Nickelback
Howlin’ For You – The Black Keys
I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – Aerosmith
Got My Mind Set on You – George Harrison
I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll – Joan Jett
I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
I Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles
I Wanna Be Sedated – Ramones
I Wanna Rock – Twisted Sister
I Want to Break Free – Queen
I Want to Hold Your Hand – The Beatles
I Want You To Want Me – Cheap Trick
I Was Made For Lovin’ You – Kiss
I Write Sins Not Tragedies – Panic! At The Disco
I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You – Black Kids
Ill Ray (The King) – Kasabian
Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
In The End – Linkin’ Park
In Too Deep – Sum 41
Iris – Goo Goo Dolls
Iron Man – Black Sabbath
Is This Love – Whitesnake
It’s My Life – Bon Jovi
Jerk It Out – Caesars
Jessie’s Girl – Rick Springfield
Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry
Joker And The Thief – Wolfmother
Juke Box Hero – Foreigner
Jump – Van Halen
Just A Girl – No Doubt
Just What I Needed – The Cars
Keep On Loving You – REO Speedwagon
Keep Your Hands to Yourself – Georgia Satellites
Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine
Last Nite – The Strokes
Last Resort – Papa Roach
Layla – Derek and the Dominoes
Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
Let’s Dance To Joy Division – The Wombats
Life Is A Highway – Rascal Flats
Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous – Good Charlotte
Listen to the Music – The Doobie Brothers
Livin’ On A Prayer – Bon Jovi
Loaded – Primal Scream
Lonely Boy – The Black Keys
Long Train Runnin’ – The Doobie Brothers
Love Shack – The B-52s
Love Walks In – Van Halen
Love Will Keep Us Alive – Eagles
Lucky You – The Lightning Seeds
Magic Carpet Ride – Steppenwolf
Misery Business – Paramore
Mississippi Queen – Mountain
Modern Love – David Bowie
Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
Mony Mony – Billy Idol
More Than A Feeling – Boston
Movin’ On Up – Primal Scream
Mr. Brightside – The Killers
Mutt – Blink 182
My Generation – The Who
My Sharona – The Knack
Naïve – The Kooks
No Matter What – Papa Roach
No Sleep Till Brooklyn – Beastie Boys
No Tomorrow – Orson
Nothin’ But A Good Time – Poison
Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now – Starship
Not Nineteen Forever – The Courteeners
November Rain – Guns N’ Roses
Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard
Old Time Rock and Roll – Bob Seger
One Way Or Another – Blondie
Our Velocity – Maximo Park
Panama – Van Halen
Paradise by the Dashboard Light – Meatloaf
Paradise City – Guns N’Roses
Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
Plug In Baby – Muse
Poison – Alice Cooper
Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard
Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) – The Offspring
Proud Mary – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster The People
Ramblin’ Man – Allman Brothers Band
Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
Rebellion – Arcade Fire
Reptilia – The Strokes
Rock and Roll – Led Zeppelin
Rock And Roll All Nite – Kiss
Rock and Roll Girls – John Fogerty
Rock The Casbah – The Clash
Rock This Town – Stray Cats
Rock You Like A Hurricane – Scorpions
Rockin All Over The World – Status Quo
Rocks – Primal Scream
Rockstar – Nickelback
Rollin’ – Limp Bizkit
Roxanne – The Police
Ruby – Kaiser Chiefs
Runaway – Bon Jovi
Runnin’ With The Devil – Van Halen
Sad But True – Metallica
Semi-Charmed Life – Third Eye Blind
Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes
Sex on Fire – King Of Leon
Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top
She Drives Me Crazy – Fine Young Cannibals
She Moves In Her Own Way – The Kooks
Should I Stay Or Should I Go – The Clash
Shut Up And Dance – Walk the Moon
Since You’ve Been Gone – Rainbow
Sk8er Boi – Avril Lavigne
Slow Ride – Foghat
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple
Smooth – Santana ft. Rob Thomas
Smooth Criminal – Alien Ant Farm
Some Kind Of Wonderful – Grand Funk Railroad
Song 2 – Blur
Stacy’s Mom – Fountains Of Wayne
Start Me Up – The Rolling Stones
Steady As She Goes – The Raconteurs
Step On – Happy Mondays
Sugar, We’re Goin Down – Fall Out Boy
Sultans of Swing – Dire Straights
Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams
Super Freak – Rick James
Supermassive Black Hole – Muse
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns And Roses
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – Eurythmics
Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynard Skynard
Sweetness – Jimmy Eat World
Sympathy For The Devil – The Rolling Stones
T.N.T. – AC/DC
Take It Easy – Eagles
Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
Taking Care Of Business – Bachman Turner Overdrive
Teenagers – My Chemical Romance
Thank You – Led Zeppelin
The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie – Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Anthem – Good Charlotte
The Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzy
The Final Countdown – Europe
The Look – Roxette
The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
The Only One I Know – The Charlatans
The Passenger – Iggy Pop
The Rock Show – Blink 182
The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats
This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race – Fall Out Boy
This Charming Man – The Smiths
Thnks fr th Mmrs – Fall Out Boy
Thunderstruck – AC/DC
Time To Pretend – MGMT
Town Called Malice – The Jam
Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
Tush – ZZ Top
Twist & Shout – The Beatles
Two Princes – Spin Doctors
Under Pressure – Queen
Underdog – Kasabian
Uprising – Muse
Walk of Life – Dire Straits
Walk This Way – Run DMC feat. Aerosmith
Wanted Dead Or Alive – Bon Jovi
We Built this City – Starship
We Will Rock You – Queen
We’re Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister
Welcome To Paradise – Greenday
Welcome To The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
Welcome To The Jungle – Guns N’ Roses
What I Like About You – The Romantics
What’s My Age Again? – Blink 182
When You Love A Woman – Journey
When You Were Young – The Killers
White Wedding – Billy Idol
Who Are You – The Who
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
Wonderwall – Oasis
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – Bachman Turner Overdrive
You Give Love A Bad Name – Bon Jovi
You Really Got Me – The Kinks
You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
Having these songs played live at your reception will undoubtedly engage your crowd more than a playlist of songs, so why not check out our awesome selection of pop and rock bands or indie and Britpop bands?
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