Italian wedding songs bring a kind of romance and warmth that very few musical traditions can replicate.
From timeless Neapolitan love songs and cinematic orchestral pieces to Italian-American standards, elegant dinner music, and classic reception favorites, Italian wedding music creates an atmosphere that feels deeply emotional, family-centered, and unmistakably beautiful.
This guide covers the best Italian wedding songs for every wedding moment — including romantic first dances, ceremony processionals, cocktail hour music, Italian-American reception classics, family dance songs, and the traditional tracks that continue to define Italian weddings across generations.
Why Italian Music Works So Well at Weddings
Italian music has a specific relationship with the wedding that goes back centuries. The bel canto tradition — beautiful singing as its own art form — was built around the conviction that the human voice expressing emotion is the most powerful thing in any room. That conviction has never been wrong at a wedding. The moment Andrea Bocelli’s voice fills a ceremony space, or the opening notes of “Volare” land at a cocktail hour, something in the atmosphere changes. The room becomes warmer. More Italian, even when it is not.
There are three reasons Italian music performs particularly well at American weddings.
The language adds romance without requiring translation. Italian is one of the few languages that sounds inherently romantic to English-speaking ears — the vowel-heavy construction, the melodic phrasing, the way the language seems to be singing even when spoken. Guests who do not understand a word of Italian still feel the emotional content of an Italian love song, because the music carries it. A song like “Con Te Partirò” does not need a subtitle to move people.
The repertoire is designed for long gatherings. Italian musical culture developed in the context of multi-hour meals with extended family — the Sunday dinner, the village festa, the wedding feast that lasted all day. The songs were built to create a warm, convivial atmosphere that sustains over hours rather than peaking at a single moment. This is exactly what the cocktail hour and dinner service at a reception require.
Italian-American culture wove these songs into American life. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Perry Como — the Italian-American artists who dominated American popular music for three decades brought Italian song structure, warmth, and elegance into the mainstream. American audiences have an emotional relationship with this music that goes beyond heritage. “That’s Amore” plays at Italian-American receptions because it belongs there. But it also plays because Dean Martin made it belong to everyone who ever heard it.
Classic Italian Love Songs for Weddings
Classic Italian love songs are the foundation of Italian wedding music — the songs that have been played at weddings, dinners, and celebrations for generations, that carry the weight of the entire Italian romantic tradition, and that create an atmosphere of warmth and elegance that no modern production can fully replicate. These are the songs that guests recognize and respond to viscerally, often before they can name exactly why.
| Song | Artist / Origin | Why It Works at a Wedding |
|---|---|---|
| Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu) | Domenico Modugno · 1958 | The most universally recognized Italian song at American weddings. The original Modugno recording is celebratory and passionate. Dean Martin’s version is warmer and more accessible to American crowds. Either works — but know your audience. The word “volare” (to fly) has a natural association with liberation and joy that suits the wedding moment. |
| O Sole Mio | Eduardo di Capua · 1898 | The most iconic Neapolitan song in existence. The melody is one of the most recognized in the world — Elvis Presley used it for “It’s Now or Never,” Il Volo has recorded it multiple times, Pavarotti’s version remains definitive. Works at any point in the wedding where you want to announce that Italian beauty is present. |
| Torna a Surriento | Ernesto De Curtis · 1894 | A Neapolitan classic about returning to the place you love — adapted in emotional terms to the wedding as a song about love that calls you back. Caruso’s original recording is historically significant. More recent recordings by Bocelli and Il Volo bring it to contemporary ears. |
| Core ‘ngrato (Catari) | Salvatore Cardillo · 1911 | One of the great Neapolitan romantic songs. Intensely emotional — better suited to the ceremony or the dinner than to an upbeat reception moment. For guests who understand Italian or appreciate opera, this song carries enormous emotional weight. |
| Non dimenticar (T’ho Voluto Bene) | P.G. Redi · 1952 | Do not forget — the title and the lyric are a love song about permanence and memory. Works beautifully as background music during the dinner service, where the lyric’s meaning deepens without requiring attention. |
| Mamma | Various · Bixio 1940 | A song of deep devotion to the mother — used at Italian-American weddings for the mother-son dance, the mother’s entrance, or as a dinner song that acknowledges the family gathered. Dean Martin’s recording is the American standard. Pavarotti’s is the classical standard. Both are devastating. |
| Malafemmena | Totò · 1951 | Written by the Neapolitan comedian and poet Antonio de Curtis — known as Totò — as a lament about a woman who broke his heart. Used at Italian weddings with full awareness of the irony, usually during cocktail hour. A song about heartbreak that sounds so beautiful that it becomes a celebration anyway. |
| Quando Quando Quando | Tony Renis · 1962 | When, when, when — a song of romantic impatience and desire. One of the most effective Italian cocktail hour songs at American weddings. The Michael Bublé and Nelly Furtado version brought it to a new generation. Both the original and the modern recording work well depending on the reception’s atmosphere. |
Traditional Italian Wedding Songs
Traditional Italian wedding songs are distinct from classic Italian love songs: they are songs that were played specifically at Italian weddings, often regional in origin, connected to the rituals of the Italian wedding celebration rather than the broader repertoire of Italian romantic music. Many of them come from southern Italy — Sicily, Campania, Calabria — the regions that produced the largest waves of Italian immigration to the United States and whose musical traditions became the foundation of Italian-American wedding culture.
“Tarantella Napoletana.” The tarantella is the traditional Italian wedding dance — a fast, spinning southern Italian folk dance in 6/8 time that has been part of wedding celebrations in Italy for centuries. At Italian and Italian-American weddings in the United States, the tarantella typically appears late in the reception, when energy is high and older relatives are ready to demonstrate that they still know how it is done. The Neapolitan version is the most common. Many families have a specific version their family has used for generations — that version is always the right one to use.
“La Tarantella” (various arrangements). Multiple arrangements exist for American reception settings — some orchestral, some band-friendly, some designed for a DJ. The core structure is the same: a driving, spinning rhythm that forces participation. A dance floor that had 30 people on it for the slow songs will have 80 people on it for the tarantella, because no one can watch it without eventually joining.
“Brucia la Terra.” The Sicilian song from The Godfather Part II — used during the Vito Corleone flashback sequence set in Sicily. A traditional-sounding piece with a minor-key melancholy that is distinctly Sicilian. Used at Italian-American weddings as both a cultural reference and a genuinely beautiful piece of music.
“Funiculi Funicula.” Written in 1880 to celebrate the opening of the funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius. The cheerful melody has become one of the most recognizable Italian folk songs in the world. At weddings, it works as an upbeat cocktail hour piece or as an introduction to the tarantella set. Every Italian grandmother in the room will know it.
“Santa Lucia.” A Neapolitan folk song about the waterfront district of Naples — used at Italian and Italian-American weddings as a piece of heritage, not romance. Best during the ceremony as processional music or during dinner as a reminder of where the family came from.
“O’Marenariello.” Another classic Neapolitan song — joyful and warm, about a fisherman and the sea. Used at Italian-American weddings from families with Neapolitan roots. Less well-known outside that community, which makes it feel more specifically personal when it is the right choice.
Italian Songs for Cocktail Hour and Dinner
Italian music is at its most naturally at home during cocktail hour and the dinner service. This is not a coincidence. The Italian musical tradition developed in exactly this setting — long meals with extended family, background music that created warmth without demanding attention, songs that rewarded listening but did not punish conversation. The cocktail hour and dinner at an American wedding are the closest equivalent to that setting, and Italian music fills them better than almost any alternative.
The goal during these moments is ambient warmth, not emotional peaks. Save the peaks for the ceremony, the first dance, and the late-reception high-energy moments. The dinner service should feel like being transported somewhere warm — and Italian music does that without effort.
| Song | Artist | Why It Works for This Moment |
|---|---|---|
| Azzurro | Adriano Celentano · 1968 | One of the most beloved Italian pop songs ever recorded. The word “azzurro” — sky blue — is the color of a perfect Italian summer day. The song is nostalgic, warm, and effortlessly beautiful as a cocktail hour backdrop. Guests who know it will smile. Guests who do not know it will ask what it is. |
| L’italiano | Toto Cutugno · 1983 | A celebration of Italian identity — “lasciatemi cantare con la chitarra in mano” (let me sing with a guitar in hand). One of the songs most closely associated with Italian national identity in popular music. At Italian-American weddings, it connects guests to something larger than the room they are in. |
| Quando Quando Quando | Tony Renis · 1962 | The ideal cocktail hour song — upbeat enough to create energy, warm enough to feel Italian, and familiar enough through the Bublé recording to reach guests without Italian heritage. |
| Volare | Dean Martin version | The most universally accessible version for an American crowd at cocktail hour. Dean Martin’s warmth and relaxed delivery make it feel like a celebration rather than a performance. |
| Bella Notte | From Lady and the Tramp · 1955 | The song that plays during the spaghetti scene — “this is the night, it’s a beautiful night.” Cinematic, romantic, and surprisingly moving as dinner music. Guests who know where it comes from will love it. Guests who do not will still feel the warmth. |
| That’s Amore | Dean Martin · 1953 | “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie — that’s amore.” The most cheerful Italian-American wedding song in the catalog. Works at any point in the cocktail hour. Guests will sing along from the first bar. |
| O Sole Mio | Pavarotti or Il Volo | Works better during the dinner service than the cocktail hour — the formality and grandeur of the melody suits a seated, quieter moment. Pavarotti’s version creates a sense of occasion. Il Volo’s harmonized version is warmer and more accessible. |
| Non ti scordar di me | Various · Ernesto De Curtis 1935 | “Do not forget me” — a classic Italian love standard. Works beautifully as dinner music, where the sentiment lingers without requiring the guests to pay full attention. Mario Lanza’s recording is the American standard. |
| La Vie en Rose (Italian arrangement) | Various artists | Not Italian in origin — the Piaf original is French — but Italian vocal arrangements of this song work exceptionally well at Italian wedding dinners. The warmth of Italian vocal production combined with one of the most romantic melodies ever written creates an ideal dinner atmosphere. |
A practical note on the dinner service: brief your DJ or live musician to keep Italian music at a consistent volume — present enough to feel, quiet enough to allow conversation across the table. The goal is an atmosphere, not a concert. Italian music played too loud becomes an obstacle; played at the right level, it transforms the room.
Modern Italian Wedding Songs
Modern Italian wedding songs bridge the classical tradition and a contemporary American audience. Andrea Bocelli and Il Volo have done more to bring Italian music to American wedding receptions in the past 25 years than any other artists — they carry the bel canto tradition into a production quality that works on modern sound systems and reaches audiences who have never heard the original recordings.
| Song | Artist | Best Moment |
|---|---|---|
| Con Te Partirò (Time to Say Goodbye) | Andrea Bocelli · 1995 | The most emotionally powerful modern Italian wedding song in the catalog. The Italian title means “I will leave with you” — a declaration of togetherness. Bocelli’s solo version works for the ceremony processional or a quiet dinner moment. The duet version with Sarah Brightman is more dramatic and cinematic. The lyric is about leaving the world behind together — which maps onto the wedding day with unusual precision. |
| Vivo per Lei (I Live for Her) | Andrea Bocelli · 1995 | A duet about living entirely for the person you love — the object of devotion in the song is actually music itself, but the lyric translates beautifully to the wedding context. Works as a first dance for couples who want something operatic and Italian without full-scale classical music. |
| Caruso | Lucio Dalla · 1986 / Bocelli | Written by Lucio Dalla, named for the great tenor Enrico Caruso. One of the most celebrated Italian songs of the modern era. The melody is extraordinary and the lyric is about love and death and beauty in a way that is distinctly Italian — passionate, specific, and unafraid of mortality. Bocelli’s recording is the most widely used at American weddings. |
| Grande Amore | Il Volo · 2015 | Il Volo’s Eurovision-winning song — a soaring three-part harmony about the greatest love. Works for the first dance, the ceremony, or the dinner service. The three young tenors bring an energy and contemporaneity to the Italian tradition that older recordings cannot always reach. |
| O Sole Mio (Il Volo version) | Il Volo · 2011 | The most accessible modern recording of the classic. Three-part harmony, contemporary production, the full emotional weight of the original. Works for guests who might be moved by the Pavarotti version but might be too young to recognize it immediately. |
| Più bella cosa | Eros Ramazzotti · 1996 | “The most beautiful thing” — the title says exactly what a first dance is supposed to convey. Ramazzotti’s pop-rock Italian style works well at receptions that want Italian warmth with contemporary energy rather than classical formality. |
| È la vita | Eros Ramazzotti · 1993 | An Italian pop ballad that works at the reception for couples who want something specifically Italian but more contemporary than the classical catalog. Less well-known than “Più bella cosa” which makes it feel more personally chosen. |
Songs Played at Italian-American Weddings
The Italian-American wedding has its own distinct musical tradition — and it is not simply Italian music. It is Italian music filtered through three generations of American life, mixed with the American standards sung by Italian-American artists who dominated popular music from the 1940s through the 1970s, and anchored by a handful of songs that have become as much a part of the Italian-American cultural identity as Sunday gravy and the feast of San Gennaro.
These songs appear at Italian-American receptions in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia with a consistency that borders on ceremony. They are not chosen from a list. They are inherited.
| Song | Artist | Why It Belongs |
|---|---|---|
| That’s Amore | Dean Martin · 1953 | The most recognizable Italian-American wedding song in existence. “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie” — every person at the reception knows this line, regardless of heritage. Dean Martin’s warmth and ease make it the ideal cocktail hour or reception song. The crowd will sing along from the first note. |
| Volare | Dean Martin version · 1958 | Dean Martin’s version of the Modugno classic became the definitive Italian-American interpretation. Warm, celebratory, and effortless in the way that only Dean Martin songs are effortless. A staple at Italian-American wedding receptions for decades. |
| Fly Me to the Moon | Frank Sinatra · 1964 | Not an Italian song — but Frank Sinatra is Italian-American, and his recording of this song is the soundtrack of Italian-American elegance. At an Italian-American reception, Sinatra belongs as naturally as the antipasto. |
| New York, New York | Frank Sinatra · 1980 | At Italian-American weddings in the New York metropolitan area, this song has a near-ceremonial status. It plays at the end of the reception — or sometimes the beginning — as a declaration of where this family lives and who they are. |
| Mambo Italiano | Rosemary Clooney · 1954 | The most explicitly celebratory Italian-American song in the catalog. Upbeat, funny, and full of the cheerful pride that Italian-American family culture carries. Used during the reception dance sets to bring older guests onto the floor. |
| Bella Notte | Lady and the Tramp · 1955 | A Disney song about an Italian restaurant dinner that has become genuinely beloved at Italian-American wedding dinners. The irony — that one of the most used Italian dinner songs comes from a cartoon — is not lost on families who use it. They use it anyway, because it is beautiful and it works. |
| The Godfather Waltz (Speak Softly Love) | Nino Rota · 1972 | The most cinematic Italian-American wedding song in the repertoire. Used as a first dance, a processional, or cocktail hour music. The connection to the film is deliberate — Italian-American families have always had a specific relationship with The Godfather as a portrayal of their culture, complicated and affectionate at the same time. |
| Come Back to Sorrento | Dean Martin / various | The English adaptation of “Torna a Surriento” — used at Italian-American weddings where the family wants the Neapolitan connection but guests may not follow the Italian. Dean Martin’s version is the American standard. |
A note on the tarantella at Italian-American weddings: the tarantella is not optional. It is a tradition, not a suggestion. At Italian-American receptions, the tarantella typically appears in the final hour of the reception — the moment when the older relatives who have been patiently waiting finally get their song. Clear the floor. Make the circle. The family will know what to do.
Italian Father-Daughter Wedding Songs
The father-daughter dance at an Italian or Italian-American wedding carries particular weight. Italian culture places the family — and specifically the father-daughter relationship — at the center of the wedding celebration in a way that many other cultures do not. The father who walks his daughter down the aisle at an Italian wedding is doing something that has meaning far beyond the ceremony: he is passing the family’s love and history forward into a new family. The song for that moment should acknowledge what is actually happening.
| Song | Artist / Origin | Why It Works |
|---|---|---|
| O Mio Babbino Caro | Puccini — Gianni Schicchi · 1918 | The most on-theme Italian song in the classical repertoire for the father-daughter moment. “O mio babbino caro” translates literally to “Oh my dear papa.” The aria is sung by a daughter pleading with her father for his blessing — it is, in the most direct sense, the perfect Italian father-daughter wedding song. Maria Callas’s recording is the definitive version. Angela Gheorghiu’s and Renée Fleming’s are equally powerful. |
| Mamma | Dean Martin / Pavarotti | Used at Italian-American weddings for both the mother-son and the father-daughter dance — the emotional content of absolute parental devotion translates across both relationships. Dean Martin’s version is warmer and more accessible. Pavarotti’s is classical and devastating. |
| Con Te Partirò | Andrea Bocelli · 1995 | “I will leave with you” — used at father-daughter dances as the daughter’s declaration that she carries her father with her into her new life. Bocelli’s voice gives the song a gravity that most pop father-daughter songs cannot approach. |
| Volare (slow arrangement) | Dean Martin / Modugno | The standard version is upbeat — but a slow live arrangement of Volare works well for a father-daughter dance at Italian-American weddings where the song has been part of the family’s musical life for generations. The association is the point. |
| My Way | Frank Sinatra · 1969 | Not Italian in origin — but at Italian-American weddings, Sinatra’s “My Way” is used for the father-daughter dance as a statement about how the father raised his daughter: with strength, independence, and the full force of his love. The lyric “I did it my way” resonates at Italian-American weddings in a specific and genuine way. |
| Bella Figlia dell’Amore | Verdi — Rigoletto · 1851 | From Rigoletto’s famous quartet — the word “figlia” means daughter, and Rigoletto himself is one of opera’s great father figures. For couples who want the father-daughter dance to feel operatic in the fullest sense: a father who loves his daughter above everything else in the world. |
Italian First Dance Wedding Songs
The Italian first dance works best when the song has a specific grandeur — something that turns the moment into a scene rather than simply a dance. Italian musical tradition is not understated. It does not whisper. It presents love as something worth the full room’s attention. That quality, applied to the first dance, creates something that guests remember differently than a standard pop first dance.
| Song | Artist | The Atmosphere It Creates |
|---|---|---|
| The Godfather Waltz (Speak Softly Love) | Nino Rota · 1972 | The most cinematic first dance choice in the Italian repertoire. The waltz tempo works elegantly for a slow dance. The melody is immediately recognizable to nearly every guest in the room. The association with the opening wedding scene of The Godfather gives it a specific Italian-American cultural weight that no other song in this list carries in exactly the same way. |
| Con Te Partirò | Andrea Bocelli · 1995 | The most emotionally powerful modern Italian first dance. The building arrangement — starting intimate and expanding to full orchestral grandeur — mirrors what the best first dances do physically: beginning quiet and becoming something the whole room is part of by the end. |
| Vivo per Lei | Andrea Bocelli · 1995 | A duet — which makes it especially effective for a first dance between two people who want the song to feel like a conversation. The lyric about living for another person translates to the wedding moment with complete accuracy. |
| Grande Amore | Il Volo · 2015 | Three-part harmony, full orchestration, and a lyric that announces itself as the greatest love. For couples who want the first dance to feel like a declaration to the whole room rather than a private moment. |
| Quando Quando Quando | Michael Bublé & Nelly Furtado version | The duet version is warmer and more contemporary than the original. Works for a first dance that wants Italian warmth without classical formality — accessible to guests of all ages and backgrounds. |
| Volare | Dean Martin | For an Italian-American first dance that leans joyful rather than formal. The song is upbeat enough that the couple is genuinely dancing rather than swaying, which creates a different kind of energy in the room — celebratory and warm rather than reverent. |
The Godfather Songs at Italian Weddings
The Godfather occupies a specific place in Italian-American wedding culture that is worth understanding directly. The film opens at a wedding. The Corleone family is celebrating Connie’s marriage in the summer of 1945 — a lavish, chaotic, joyful, complicated Italian-American reception in the backyard of a Long Island estate. The music playing at that wedding has become, for three generations of Italian-American families, the sound of what a wedding should feel like.
Using Godfather music at an Italian-American wedding is not ironic. It is not edgy. It is a family acknowledging that this film, whatever its subject matter, captured something true about the way Italian-American families celebrate — and choosing to honor that recognition.
The Godfather Waltz — “Speak Softly Love” / “Parla più piano.” Composed by Nino Rota, with Italian lyrics by Suso Cecchi d’Amico and English lyrics by Larry Kusik. The main theme of the film — the most recognized piece of music in Nino Rota’s career. Works as a first dance (the waltz tempo is natural for dancing), a processional, a cocktail hour piece, or simply as background music that the family recognizes immediately. The Italian version “Parla più piano” (speak more softly) is used at Italian weddings where the family wants the original language.
“Brucia la Terra” (The Godfather Part II). The Sicilian folk song from the flashback sequence in Part II — used during the feast of San Rocco in Sicily as young Vito Corleone watches. A minor-key, driving Sicilian tarantella-style song that works at receptions as an upbeat Italian folk piece. Italian families with Sicilian roots will recognize it immediately.
“The Immigrant” (The Godfather Part II). A quieter, more melancholic piece from the Part II score — works at Italian-American weddings as a dinner or ceremony piece that honors the immigration experience the family’s presence in America represents.
Fun Italian Songs for the Reception
Italian wedding music is not only elegant and emotional — the tradition also includes an entire repertoire of joyful, celebratory, and occasionally chaotic songs that are designed specifically to get people on their feet and keep them there. These are the songs that play when the tarantella is announced, when the older relatives start pulling younger guests into the circle, when the night shifts from dinner into full celebration.
- “Tarantella Napoletana” — The traditional wedding dance. Mandatory. No Italian or Italian-American wedding is complete without it. Clear the floor when it starts — the family will handle the rest.
- “Funiculi Funicula” — Written to celebrate a volcanic railway. Used at Italian wedding receptions for well over a century. Upbeat, cheerful, and universally recognized. Every Italian grandmother at the reception will start moving when it plays.
- “Mambo Italiano” — Rosemary Clooney’s cheerful ode to Italian-American identity. High energy and immediately fun. Works to bring guests onto the floor between slow sets.
- “Volare” — The upbeat original Modugno version (not Dean Martin’s slower interpretation) works well as a reception dance song. The energy is infectious and the melody is so well-known that guests respond immediately.
- “That’s Amore” — Dean Martin. It has to be on this list twice because it works both as a warm cocktail hour song and as a joyful mid-reception crowd moment. The group sing on the chorus is one of the most reliable crowd-participation moments in the Italian-American wedding repertoire.
- “L’italiano” — Toto Cutugno’s celebration of Italian identity crosses from the dinner playlist into the dance floor when the energy is right. Italian guests over 50 will lose themselves in it.
- “Azzurro” — Adriano Celentano. The Italian pop song that captures the nostalgic warmth of an Italian summer better than anything else in the catalog. Works at any point in the evening when the room needs warmth without formality.
Italian Wedding Songs Playlist
Listen to the full playlist of Italian wedding songs below, featuring timeless Italian love songs, romantic boleros, Italian-American classics, elegant ceremony music, cocktail hour favorites, cinematic first dance songs, and traditional reception tracks that continue to define Italian weddings across generations.
Final thoughts
The best Italian wedding songs do more than create atmosphere.
They bring warmth, romance, family history, and cultural memory into the room all at once — which is why Italian wedding music continues to feel timeless even decades after the songs were first recorded.
Whether the wedding is deeply traditional, Italian-American, modern, formal, or simply inspired by Italian culture, the right songs create a celebration that feels intimate, elegant, and deeply alive.
And when those songs are chosen well, guests do not just remember the music — they remember how the entire wedding felt because of it.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
What are the most popular Italian wedding songs?
Popular choices include “Volare,” “That’s Amore,” “Con Te Partirò,” “O Sole Mio,” and “The Godfather Waltz.” These songs remain wedding favorites because they combine romance, elegance, and Italian cultural tradition.
What Italian song from The Godfather is played at weddings?
The most famous song is “Speak Softly Love,” also known as “The Godfather Waltz” or “Parla più piano.” It became associated with Italian-American weddings because of the iconic wedding scene in The Godfather.
What are good Italian songs for a wedding first dance?
Popular first dance choices include “Con Te Partirò,” “Grande Amore,” “Volare,” and “Quando Quando Quando.” These songs work because they feel romantic, timeless, and emotionally expressive.
What songs are commonly played at Italian-American weddings?
Italian-American weddings often include Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Andrea Bocelli, “Volare,” “That’s Amore,” tarantella music, and songs from The Godfather soundtrack.
What is the tarantella at an Italian wedding?
The tarantella is a traditional Italian folk dance often performed during the reception. Guests form circles and dance together, creating one of the most joyful and energetic moments of the wedding.