Romantic
Funeral Songs

Explore 17 funeral songs tagged as "romantic". Each song has been carefully curated to help you create a meaningful memorial service.

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All Romantic Songs

1.

Unchained Melody

The Righteous Brothers

A timeless ballad about enduring love and longing that spans generations.

Why it's meaningful: Speaks to the eternal nature of true love, even beyond death.

Best moment: Beautiful for services celebrating long marriages.

2.

The Prayer

Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli

A beautiful duet prayer for guidance and protection in multiple languages.

Why it's meaningful: Combines English and Italian to create a universal prayer for peace and guidance.

Best moment: Creates a transcendent moment during the service.

3.

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

Al Green's silky soul classic about eternal commitment and standing by your love.

Why it's meaningful: The promise to stay together through good and bad times honors marriages that endured all seasons.

Best moment: Perfect for long-term marriages built on commitment and devotion.

4.

If You Don't Know Me by Now

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

Classic Philadelphia soul about the depth of long-term love and understanding, with Teddy Pendergrass's passionate vocals.

Why it's meaningful: Honors long marriages where partners truly knew each other, celebrating decades of intimate knowledge and understanding.

Best moment: Beautiful for long-term spouses who deeply understood each other.

5.

I'll Be Seeing You

Billie Holiday

Tender wartime ballad about remembering loved ones in familiar places.

Why it's meaningful: Expresses how memories of the departed remain vivid in everyday moments.

Best moment: Beautiful for reflection during viewing or memorial slideshow.

6.

I Will Always Love You

Whitney Houston

A powerful declaration of eternal love despite parting.

Why it's meaningful: Expresses that love transcends physical separation.

Best moment: Deeply moving for spouses or life partners.

7.

Fields of Gold

Sting

A nostalgic reflection on love and memories set in golden fields.

Why it's meaningful: Celebrates beautiful memories and enduring love that transcends physical separation.

Best moment: Perfect for celebrating long, happy relationships.

8.

In a Sentimental Mood

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Ellington and Coltrane's sublime collaboration, a tender jazz waltz of romantic nostalgia.

Why it's meaningful: The romantic, nostalgic mood honors relationships built on tenderness, sophistication, and shared aesthetic appreciation.

Best moment: Beautiful for jazz-loving couples or sophisticated romantic relationships.

9.

My Funny Valentine

Chet Baker

Chet Baker's intimate vocal interpretation of the Rodgers and Hart standard about loving imperfection.

Why it's meaningful: The vulnerability in loving someone for their imperfections honors relationships that embraced all of who someone was.

Best moment: Touching for honoring imperfect but deeply loved spouses.

10.

Misty

Johnny Mathis

Erroll Garner composition made famous by Johnny Mathis, with dreamy jazz romance and tender vocals.

Why it's meaningful: The misty, dreamlike quality of romance honors relationships that felt magical and otherworldly.

Best moment: Beautiful for romantic spouses who shared tender, dreamy love.

11.

The Very Thought of You

Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole's velvet-voiced romantic standard about the overwhelming power of love.

Why it's meaningful: Celebrates how the thought alone of someone can fill us with warmth, honoring enduring romantic presence.

Best moment: Tender choice for honoring romantic love that fills the heart.

12.

Moonlight Serenade

Glenn Miller

Dreamy big band ballad that epitomizes 1940s elegance and romance.

Why it's meaningful: Evokes the grace and beauty of a bygone era.

Best moment: Elegant choice for reflection or as background during viewing.

13.

Liebesträume No. 3

Franz Liszt

Dreams of Love - a romantic piano masterpiece that captures love's tenderness and passion.

Why it's meaningful: For spouses and life partners, this piece honors the depth of romantic love while acknowledging the heart-wrenching pain of that bond being severed.

Best moment: Beautiful for honoring deep romantic partnerships and marriages.

14.

Me and Mrs. Jones

Billy Paul

Billy Paul's sultry ballad about a forbidden love affair, dripping with Philadelphia soul sophistication.

Why it's meaningful: While about an affair, it honors complicated love stories and relationships that existed outside conventional boundaries.

Best moment: For honoring complex, unconventional, or private relationships.

15.

Black Is the Color

Traditional Appalachian

Appalachian love song with minor key and haunting melody, about deep romantic longing.

Why it's meaningful: The dark beauty of mountain love songs honors profound, earthly romantic connection.

Best moment: Beautiful for honoring deep romantic love with folk sensibility.

16.

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Vera Lynn

Romantic 1940s ballad capturing the magic of love and special moments.

Why it's meaningful: Honors the beauty and romance of a treasured relationship.

Best moment: Perfect for honoring a spouse or romantic partner.

17.

Erev Shel Shoshanim

Traditional Israeli Folk Song

Romantic Hebrew song meaning 'Evening of Roses,' celebrating love and beauty.

Why it's meaningful: Honors the beauty and romance of a cherished relationship.

Best moment: Perfect for honoring a spouse in a Jewish memorial service.