What's the best wedding song from the 2010s?
By the AmourPrint editorial team · Last updated May 28, 2026
What's the best wedding song from the 2010s?
The defining wedding song of the 2010s is A Thousand Years (Christina Perri, 2011) — with Marry Me (Train, 2010) close behind. They became the two most-printed first-dance lyrics at AmourPrint for the entire decade and still account for a meaningful share of canvas orders in 2026.
The 2010s broke the wedding-song template open. Streaming flattened the chart, indie acoustic broke into mainstream, and the modern-country first-dance wave that started in the mid-2000s peaked. Couples married in the 2010s pulled their first dance from a much wider range than couples married in any prior decade, which is why "best 2010s wedding song" lists are longer and messier than 90s or 2000s lists.
But two songs sit at the top of the actual canvas-order data: A Thousand Years and Marry Me. The chart trends moved every year; those two songs stayed.
Why did A Thousand Years become the song of the decade?
Christina Perri released A Thousand Years for the Twilight soundtrack in November 2011 and the song spent the next eight years as one of the most-requested first dances at venues across the country. The reasons are structural. The opening piano line is instantly recognizable, the tempo (around 92 BPM) sits exactly where a real slow dance lives, the lyric is plainly readable without irony or inside jokes, and the song builds without exploding — the bridge lifts the room without pulling the couple out of the moment.
It also translates exceptionally well to canvas. The lyric is short enough to fit at a readable typography size on a 24x36 canvas without compression. The line breaks fall naturally. The chorus repeats just enough that the canvas reads as the song without requiring the whole lyric. It's one of the most-printed song lyrics at AmourPrint and has been since 2014.
What other 2010s wedding songs are still being printed?
After A Thousand Years and Marry Me, the most-ordered 2010s wedding-song canvases at AmourPrint are: Bless the Broken Road (Rascal Flatts — the song carried into the 2010s from the late 2000s and stayed in the rotation for the entire decade), classic love ballad theme picks (the 2010s saw a revival of slow-dance classics being chosen for first dances even when the couple was young — Unchained Melody, At Last, Stand By Me all surged), and the modern country first dance category broadly (singer-songwriter and acoustic country lyrics that mirrored the Bless the Broken Road template).
What didn't show up in canvas orders: most of the 2010s pop-chart hits. The chart was flooded with great wedding-ceremony songs that turned out not to make great canvases — the production was the song, the lyric on its own felt thin. Lyric-forward songs (acoustic, country, ballad) make great canvases; production-forward songs rarely do.
How do I turn a 2010s wedding song into a canvas?
Standard song lyric canvas — full lyrics or your favorite verse, song title, artist, wedding date. For a 2010s wedding, the year ("2014", "June 2017") in the typography is what anchors the canvas to your decade.
Most-shipped size for an anniversary gift celebrating a 2010s wedding is 24x36" — sized to read above a primary-bedroom headboard, above a couch, or in a hallway. For couples now hitting their 10th anniversary in 2026 (married 2016), the 24x36 above-the-bed installation is the most-common placement.
Personalization is included in the canvas price — no add-on for date, lyric, or artist credit.
What customers say
"Absolutely beautiful. The quality blew us away — this is going above our bed."
"Made for our 10th anniversary. My husband cried. Worth every penny."
"Fast turnaround, gorgeous canvas, our wedding song looks incredible on the wall."
Real questions people are asking
Q: What are some favourite songs played at weddings?
A: A Thousand Years dominates the 2010s first-dance answer threads and remains the most-printed song lyric at AmourPrint a decade later.
Q: What is the most thoughtful anniversary gift?
A: For couples now hitting 10 years married (2016 weddings), the canvas of their wedding song with the year set in the header is the most-cited 10th-anniversary gift.