Just like a good book or movie, I believe a song works well when there is an internal or external conflict of some sort. Think of She Loves You. It's written as a guy who's telling his mate to chin up because even though you had a tiff with your girlfriend, I saw her yesterday and she told me she still loves you and you know you should be glad (whoo!)
What a simple idea and yet so elegantly told--with an awesome chorus to boot.
Though there are still some very successful songs that just talk about how everything's fine and dandy and love is grand, even the most banal love song has some line about 'I don't care what anybody else says baby, you're the one for me'.
So what is my point? I guess if there isn't something going wrong in your song, you should probably make something up? Maybe an asteroid comes crashing through the stained glass window on your wedding day. Love always causes pain of varying degrees, and if things are going too smoothly, maybe it's time to turn up the temperature a few notches for dramatic effect.
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