Taylor Swift's 13 Best 1st Dance Songs Ahead of Her Wedding to Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift has been the soundtrack of many fans' lives, with her songs being able to encapsulate their highest and lowest moments. While there's no doubt that Swift has been able to help fans through their heartbreaks with songs such as "All Too Well," the singer has also released several romantic songs that celebrate love.

Ahead of Swift's highly-anticipated wedding to Travis Kelce, Us breaks down the "Fate of Ophelia" singer's most romantic songs that would make great first dance songs for her fans.

"Lover"

The title track of Swift's 2019 album Lover would make a great first dance song for fans, and the bridge even includes vows to her partner.

"Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? / With every guitar string scar on my hand / I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover," she sings. "My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue / All's well that ends well to end up with you / Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover."

Swift even released a slowed down version called "Lover (First Dance Remix)" for those who want to have a slower first dance.

"Call It What You Want"

Featured on her 2017 Reputation album, "Call It What You Want" features Swift detailing the joy of finding love when it felt like the rest of her life was falling apart.

The track includes several sweet lyrics about how stable she felt in the relationship, including, "I want to wear his initial on a chain 'round my neck / Chain 'round my neck / Not because he owns me / But 'cause he really knows me."

"Paper Rings"

For those who want to forgo a traditional slow dance, Swift's "Paper Rings" from her Lover album is a fun, upbeat song that is about wanting to marry her partner so badly that she would be happy to have a paper ring instead of a diamond.

"I like shiny things, but I'd marry you with paper rings / Uh huh, that's right / Darling, you're the one I want, and / I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this / Uh huh, that's right / Darling, you're the one I want," she sings in the chorus.

"Crazier"

Swift's song "Crazier" was featured in a pivotal moment in 2009's Hannah Montana: The Movie. In the film, Swift sings the song at an open-mic event as Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) and her love interest, Travis Brody (Lucas Till), share a romantic moment while dancing outside together.

The track would be a perfect first dance song for country fans who want to slowly sway together. "You lift my feet off the ground / You spin me around / You make me crazier, crazier," Swift sings. "Feels like I'm falling and I / I'm lost in your eyes / You make me crazier, crazier, crazier."

"Sweet Nothing"

Swift sings about the comfort in knowing her partner simply loves her for her and doesn't care about her fame in "Sweet Nothing," which was featured on her 2022 album, Midnights.

"They said the end is comin', everyone's up to somethin' / I find myself runnin' home to your sweet nothings," she sings. "Outside, they're push and shovin', you're in the kitchen hummin' / All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothin'."

"Daylight"

Swift pulls inspiration from her 2012 song "Red" in Lover's "Daylight" by admitting her views of love have changed. While she said she once thought "love would be burning red" and passionate, she later learned that it could be simple, comfortable and "golden."

"I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you / I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you," she sings in the chorus. "I've been sleeping so long in a 20-year dark night / And now I see daylight, I only see daylight."

"Enchanted"

Featured on her Speak Now album, "Enchanted" has become one of the singer's most beloved songs. The track features Swift reflecting on meeting someone new and the magical, hopeful feeling that he could be a new love interest.

While the song is about meeting someone for the first time, the romantic lyrics express a giddiness that could perfectly encapsulate how a couple is feeling on their wedding day.

"This night is sparkling, don't you let it go / I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home," she sings. "I'll spend forever wondering if you knew / I was enchanted to meet you."

"Everything Has Changed" Featuring Ed Sheeran

Swift's first collaboration with Ed Sheeran was featured on her 2012 Red album. In "Everything Has Changed," the singer-songwriters sing about the realization that their lives may change after meeting someone new.

"'Cause all I know is we said, ‘Hello' / And your eyes look like comin' home / All I know is a simple name / And everything has changed," she sings. "All I know is you held the door / You'll be mine and I'll be yours / All I know since yesterday / Is everything has changed."

"Invisible String"

In Folklore's "Invisible String," Swift sings about how she was always connected to her partner even before they met. The song, which was written about her relationship with ex Joe Alwyn, shares how he heard her song "Bad Blood" on the radio during his first trip to Los Angeles, as well as how he ate at her favorite spot for dinner during that same trip. Despite not knowing each other at the time, Swift said that those revelations made her believe they were always connected.

"Time, mystical time / Cuttin' me open, then healin' me fine / Were there clues I didn't see? / And isn't it just so pretty to think," she sings. "All along there was some / Invisible string / Tying you to me?"

"New Year's Day"

While many people believe New Year's Eve is one of the most romantic days of the year, Swift sings about how "New Year's Day" can be just as special when spending it with the person you love. In fact, Swift promises in the song to still show up for her partner even when the excitement of the festivities wear off.

"Don't read the last page / But I stay when it's hard or it's wrong or we're makin' mistakes," she sings. "I want your midnights / But I'll be cleanin' up bottles with you on New Year's Day."

"Mary's Song (Oh My My My)"

One of Swift's most beloved love songs is also one of her oldest. "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)," featured on her 2006 self-titled debut album, shares the story of a childhood romance that lasts into adulthood.

Swift wrote the song about her former neighbors, whose romance blossomed when they were childhood sweethearts and continued into their 60s when the song was written.

The song begins with Swift as the narrator singing about their childhoods. "Take me back to the house in the backyard tree / Said you'd beat me up, you were bigger than me / You never did, you never did," she sings. "Take me back when our world was one block wide / I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried / Just two kids, you and I."

By the end of the song, Swift is looking forward to the future of their romance as she sings, "I'll be 87, you'll be 89 / I'll still look at you like the stars that shine / In the sky, oh my my my."

"You Are in Love"

Featured on her 1989 album, "You Are in Love" has Swift singing about an uncomplicated love in which the couple is able to thrive in the quiet, everyday moments of a relationship.

Swift wrote the song about longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff and his then-girlfriend, Lena Dunham, after Antonoff sent her the backing track.

"Immediately I knew the song it needed to be," Swift said of the song, per American Songwriter. "I wrote it as a kind of commentary on what their relationship has been like. So it's actually me looking and going and ‘This happened and that happened then that happened' and that's how you knew, ‘You are in love.'"

The song features several romantic lyrics about the relationship, including, "You two are dancing in a snow globe, 'round and 'round / And he keeps the picture of you in his office downtown / And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars / And why I've spent my whole life tryin' to put it into words."

"Love Story"

"Love Story" catapulted Swift's career and has remained one of her most popular songs despite being released in 2008. The song is a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet if the main characters had never died and were able to pursue their romance.

The track even features an engagement, making it the perfect song to play at a wedding.

"Romeo, save me, I've been feeling so alone / I keep waiting for you, but you never come / Is this in my head? I don't know what to think / He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring," she sings. "And said, ‘Marry me, Juliet / You'll never have to be alone / I love you and that's all I really know / I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress / It's a love story, baby, just say, ‘Yes.'"

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This story was originally published July 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM.