There are as many different ways to plan a wedding playlist as there are musical tastes, so when matching your nuptials to the type of tunes that get you going, here's a guide to some of the sonic routes you can take.

Metal Wedding

If you've got a rock & roll heart, these tunes will turbo-charge your wedding. From power ballads to headbangers, here's a jolt of hard-rockin' romance, tailor-made for a black-leather tux and a Harley-Davidson ride down the aisle.

• Scorpions – No One Like You
• Van Halen – Oh Pretty Woman
• Guns N' Roses – Sweet Child O' Mine
• Poison – Nothin' But a Good Time
• Deep Purple – Woman From Tokyo
• Ratt – You're In Love
• Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
• Ozzy Osbourne/Lita Ford – If I Close My Eyes Forever
• AC/DC – You Shook Me
• Queensryche – Jet City Woman
• Y&T – Forever
• Motley Crue - Tonight
• Helix – Heavy Metal Love
• Tesla – Love Song
• Motorhead – Stand By Your Man

Country Wedding
Whether you're a downhome type of couple or you just like to kick up your heels honky-tonk-style, this big batch of twang will give you just the right mix of barn-burners and slow dances. Trade that limo for a bucking bronco, and let the country love flow.

• Faith Hill – This Kiss
• Carrie Underwood – Some Hearts
• Dolly Parton – I Will Always Love you
• Gretchen Wilson – Here For the Party
• Vince Gill – Look at Us
• Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings – Good Hearted Woman
• Toby Keith – Crash Here Tonight
• Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
• Hank Williams – Baby, We're Really In Love
• Buck Owens – Love's Gonna Live Here
• Tim McGraw – When The Stars Go Blue
• Tammy Wynette – Stand By Your Man
• Sugarland – Want To
• Dixie Chicks – Cowboy Take Me Away
• Keith Urban – You're My Better Half

R&B Wedding

For the lucky couple who are all about soul, there's no better soundtrack for your big day than this collection of crooners wearing their hearts on their sleeves. The perfect marriage of get-down grooves and passionate pronouncements will put your party on a nonstop love train.

• Luther Vandross – Never Too Much
• Al Green – Let's Stay Together
• Mary J. Blige & John Legend – King & Queen
• Lauryn Hill – Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
• Mariah Carey – We Belong Together
• Alicia Keys – No One
• Beyonce – Crazy In Love
• Ginuwine – I'm In Love
• Marvin Gaye – Let's Get It On
• Jagged Edge – Let's Get Married
• Aretha Franklin – Freeway of Love
• Bill Withers – Lovely Day
• Gladys Knight & the Pips – Best Thing That Ever Happened To
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• Regina Belle – Baby Come to Me
• Earth Wind & Fire – Got To Get You Into My Life

Beach Wedding

When you kick off your shoes and go walking through the sand to the altar, you'll want the right mix of summertime sounds. These tracks will make you want to ditch your wedding duds for a bathing suit as you get your seaside celebration off to a sunny start.

• Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
• Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime
• Sly & the Family Stone – Hot Fun in the Summertime
• Justin Timberlake – Summer Love
• Katrina & the Waves – Walking on Sunshine
• Sheryl Crow – Soak Up the Sun
• The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon
• Paul Simon – Was a Sunny Day
• The Ramones – Rockaway Beach
• Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes – On the Beach
• Frank Sinatra – The Summer Wind
• Bobby Darin – Beyond The Sea
• Phil Phillips – Sea of Love
• Stevie Wonder – You are the Sunshine of My Life
• Wyclef Jean – Party By the Sea