Would you care to share your setlist? I'm trying to accumulate a list of songs to learn to potentially make myself available to bands like that.
Honestly, there was a catalog of 150-200 songs we would play.....about 100 of them were regulars for us and then you end up accumulating new material as Brides will usually have specific "asks" for the Father/Daughter dance, the entrance of the wedding party, the First Dance etc. and in many cases those will be real one off tunes that have special meaning to them but might not be mainstream.
The reality of the common wedding scene for us was that we needed to play everything from the 50s/60s stuff straight on through modern tunes to literally get everyone on the dance floor from Grandma to the teenagers.
Some things off the top of my head:
Elvis (Jailhouse etc.)
Beatles (any and all of their up beat tunes, USSR etc.)
Motown......lots of it
Stevie Wonder (Sir Duke, Superstition, etc.)
Hall & Oates (yes Hall & Oates)
Train (their popular hits)
Maroon 5 (some popular hits and swap Adam for a woman vocalist if need be)
Huey Lewis & the News (again hits)
Billy Joel (yes someone will request Piano Man if you have keys)
Commodores
YMCA
Friggin ABBA (Dancing Queen)
Come on Eileen
Escape by Rupert Jones (Pina Colada Song)
Some more rocking tunes for the head bobbing crowd or drunk uncles like.....Lawyers Guns and Money, Peace Love and Understanding
No AC/DC
You get the picture.....everyone will dance to classic tunes like Motown standards, 80s pop hits etc.
Some smooth to light jazz standards for cocktail hours as it was common to be asked to play "light background music during cocktail and appetizer times" and/or through dinner then kick it up for post dinner dancing and drunken goofiness
It really takes a skilled group of musicians to pull that all off. I just had to have my collective crap together and know the tunes and styles everything from jazz to disco to straight rock.......I always felt like the rockin' tunes were my reward for playing the Electric Slide 3x's for the kids.....