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Wedding Music

Weddings are an important church function to support this rite of passage!

 

Many people planning for weddings need help in choosing musical selections.

 

The sound-bytes listed below are designed to help you select at least two pieces
    - first, for the arrival of the bride, and

    - second, for the recessional at the close of the service, when you leave the chapel as husband and wife! 

Other pieces are commonly selected for other passages, such as signing the register or lighting the candles.

 

This list is not intended to be exhaustive. It is, however, tried and tested - the pieces you will hear are the most appropriate repertoire for the occasion, tuneful and suitable for walking down the aisle.

 

To help prepare, please make your selections known to the attending musicians ASAP!

If you print this for reference, please be sure to notate the reference to our website.  Thanks!

 
Wedding (Exit) or Bridal (Entrance) Marches     
1 Trumpet Voluntary Jeremiah Clarke
2 Trumpet Tune Henry Purcell
3 Trumpet Voluntary John Stanley
4 Prelude to Te Deum Charpentier
5 Music from Royal Fireworks Suite GF Handel
6 Processional Water Music Suite GF Handel
7 A Wedding Fanfare Arthur Bliss
8 March in C Henry Purcell
9 Music from Abdelzar Henry Purcell
Bridal Marches - Entrance Only
10 Music from Berenice GF Handel
11 Serenade Jerimiah Clarke
12 Bridal March from Lohengrin Wagner
Signing of Register
13 Canon in D Johann Pachelbel
14 Jesu, joy of man's desiring JS Bach
14 Air from Suite No. 3 (Air on G String) JS Bach
16 Ave Maria Bach-Gounod
17 Ave Maria Franz Schubert
18 Air from Water Music Suite GF Handel
Wedding Marches - Exit Only
19 Arrival of the Queen of Sheba GF Handel
20 Hornpipe from Water Music Suite GF Handel
21 Toccata Theodore Dubois
22 Symphonia to Cantata 29 JS Bach
23 Toccata from 5th Sumphony Widor
24 Sound of Music Wedding Processional NM transcription(*)
 
For more info on selection 25 (the music published for Sound of Music notates a different song than on the movie soundtrack), please call Nick Mamich at (207) 837-2196 or email nmamich@localnet.com
 

 

Wedding Prelude Selections

The prelude is the period of time before the bride arrives for the ceremony and generally last thirty to forty-five minutes. Many couples choose wedding songs and music that is joyous but unobtrusive, allowing the guests to be seated and relaxed before the ceremony officially begins. Selections from the following traditional and non-traditional songs may be considered:
 

Oldies but goodies

  1. All You Need is Love - Beatles 
  2. Colour my World - Chicago
  3. Daisy - Bicycle Built for two (Wife's lyrics also available)
  4. Everlasting Love - Natalie Cole
  5. If - Bread
  6. Let me call you sweetheart - Whitson
  7. L-O-V-E - Gabler
  8. My Melody of love - Bobby Vinton
  9. Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder 
  10. The Rose - Bette Midler
  11. This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) - Natalie Cole 
  12. Top of the World - Carpenters
  13. We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters
  14. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
  15. When I'm sixty four - Beatles
  16. World On A String - Frank Sinatra 
     

Broadway

  1. A time for us - Romeo and Juliet
  2. Hello young lovers - King & I 
  3. Married - Cabaret
  4. Matchmaker - Fiddler on the roof
  5. More - Mondo Cane
  6. My Heart will go on - Titanic
  7. Sunrise, Sunset - Fiddler on the Roof
  8. Some Enchanged Evening - South Pacific
  9. Till there was you - The Music Man
  10. The Way We Were - Streisand / Bergman
  11. Wedding Processional - Sound of Music
     

Contemporary

  1. Always - Atlantic starr  
  2. Amazed - Green
  3. At the Beginning - Anastasia Soundtrack  
  4. Beautiful Day - U2 
  5. Book of Days - Enya 
  6. Breathless - Kenny G
  7. Cowboy Take Me Away - Dixie Chicks 
  8. Destiny - Jim Brickman
  9. Everything I Do - I Do it for You - Bryan Adams
  10. Forever in Love - Kenny G 
  11. Forever Young - Bob Dylan
  12. Gift of Love - Bette Midler
  13. Groovy kind of love - Phil Collins - Wini
  14. Have You Forgotten - David Benoit 
  15. Hawaiian Wedding Song - Elvis Presley 
  16. He Is - Brandy
  17. Hero - Enrique Iglesias
  18. Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede
  19. How Beautiful - Paris
  20. How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You - James Taylor
  21. I Deserve It - Madonna
  22. I Do - Cherish You - 98 degrees
  23. I Got You, Babe - Sonny & Cher 
  24. I'm a Believer - The Monkees 
  25. I'm Kissing You - Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Des'Ree
  26. Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer
  27. Love of My Life - Jim Brickman
  28. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship
  29. Ray of Light - Madonna
  30. So this is Love Instrumental Cinderella - David, Hoffman, Livingston
  31. Star Wars Main Title - John Williams
  32. Strawberry Wine - Deanna Carter
  33. The Call from Five Mystical Songs - Vaughan Williams 
  34. Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals
  35. This Very Moment - Kci & JoJo
  36. Three times a lady - Lionel Richie
  37. Tonight, I Celebrate My Love - Peabo Bryson/Roberta Flack
  38. Wrapped Up In You - Garth Brooks 
  39. You and I - Stevie Wonder
  40. Your Love Amazes Me - John Berry
     

Traditional - Classical

  1. Ave Maria  - J.S. Bach(A)
  2. Canon in D Major - Pachelbel (B)
  3. Ode to Joy - Beethoven
  4. Air for the G String - J.S. Bach (B)
  5. Matrimonial Benediction - Camille Saint - Saens - F Major (A)
  6. Pathetique - Beethoven - Pinao Sonata #8 in C Minor - Op 13 2nd 
  7. Wedding March - Peter Tchaikovsky - Mazurka op 20a (A)
  8. Champagne Polka - Johann Strauss - The bat - op 211 (A)
  9. Neunuett in A major - Luigi Boccherini - String quartet Op. 13 (A)
  10. Radetzky March - Johann Strauss - op. 228 (A) 
  11. Menuett in D Major - Walfgang Amadeus Mozart  (A)
  12. Emperor Waltz - Johann Strauss - Op 437 (A)
  13. Emperor - Beethoven - Piano Concerto #5 Eb Major (B)
  14. Andante con moto - Schubert - Symphony #5 Bb Major (B)
  15. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart - K 525
  16. Andante Elvira Madigan - Mozart - Paino Concerto #21 C Major
  17. Largo from the New World - Dvorak - Symphony #9 E minor op 95
  18. Summon the Heroes - John Williams
  19. Wedding Chorus - Richard Wagner - Lohengrin (A/B)
  20. Wedding march  Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream (A)
  21. Trumpet tune - Henry Purcell
  22. Trumpet Voluntary - Jeremiah Clarke
  23. La Rejouissance - Royal Fireworks Music - George Frideric Handel Classical
  24. Magnificat in D, BWV 243 - Opening Chorus - Johann Sebastian Bach Classical
  25. Rondeau -- Masterpiece Theater Theme - Mouret Classical
  26. Crown Imperial March - Walton
  27. Brandenburg Concerto No.3 - Johann Sebastian Bach Classical
  28. "Entrance Of The Queen Of Sheba" from Solomon - George Frideric Handel Classical
  29. Toccata from Organ Symphony # 5 - Widor Classical
  30. Adagio from Sonata in E-Flat - Mozart
  31. Air from Water Music - Handel  J.S. Bach
  32. Amen! Praise and Glory - Peacock
  33. The Four Seasons- "Spring" - Vivaldi 
  34. London Trio #3 - Adante - Haydn
  35. Nocturne In E flat, Op.9 No.2 - Chopin
  36. O God of Life - Panus Angelicus - Franck
  37. Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun - Debussy
  38. Quando Men' Vo" (Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme) - Puccini
  39. Waltz (from Sleeping Beauty Act 1) - Tchaikovsky
 

 

 

 

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