Love Story

Taylor Swift was eighteen when Love Story arrived in 2008 as the lead single from her second album Fearless, and it was the song that took her from Nashville radio to a global audience. She wrote it alone in about twenty minutes, inspired by a boy her family and friends disliked, borrowing Romeo and Juliet and then changing the ending so the couple get engaged. That proposal in the final chorus is why couples choose it, often as the first dance or as a walk in song. It is the brightest, fastest song on this list, so it suits couples who want their guests to join in early. The re recorded Taylor's Version from 2021 is almost identical.