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 All You Need is Love - Beatles  Colour my World - Chicago Daisy - Bicycle Built for two (Wife's lyrics also available) Everlasting Love - Natalie Cole If - Bread Let me call you sweetheart - Whitson L-O-V-E - Gabler My Melody of love - Bobby Vinton Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder  The Rose - Bette Midler This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) - Natalie Cole  Top of the World - Carpenters We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong When I'm sixty four - Beatles World On A String - Frank Sinatra    Broadway A time for us - Romeo and Juliet Hello young lovers - King & I  Married - Cabaret Matchmaker - Fiddler on the roof More - Mondo Cane My Heart will go on - Titanic Sunrise, Sunset - Fiddler on the Roof Some Enchanged Evening - South Pacific Till there was you - The Music Man The Way We Were - Streisand / Bergman Wedding Processional - Sound of Music   Contemporary Always - Atlantic starr   Amazed - Green At the Beginning - Anastasia Soundtrack   Beautiful Day - U2  Book of Days - Enya  Breathless - Kenny G Cowboy Take Me Away - Dixie Chicks  Destiny - Jim Brickman Everything I Do - I Do it for You - Bryan Adams Forever in Love - Kenny G  Forever Young - Bob Dylan Gift of Love - Bette Midler Groovy kind of love - Phil Collins - Wini Have You Forgotten - David Benoit  Hawaiian Wedding Song - Elvis Presley  He Is - Brandy Hero - Enrique Iglesias Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede How Beautiful - Paris How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You - James Taylor I Deserve It - Madonna I Do - Cherish You - 98 degrees I Got You, Babe - Sonny & Cher  I'm a Believer - The Monkees  I'm Kissing You - Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Des'Ree Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer Love of My Life - Jim Brickman Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship Ray of Light - Madonna So this is Love Instrumental Cinderella - David, Hoffman, Livingston Star Wars Main Title - John Williams Strawberry Wine - Deanna Carter The Call from Five Mystical Songs - Vaughan Williams  Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals This Very Moment - Kci & JoJo Three times a lady - Lionel Richie Tonight, I Celebrate My Love - Peabo Bryson/Roberta Flack Wrapped Up In You - Garth Brooks  You and I - Stevie Wonder Your Love Amazes Me - John Berry   Traditional - Classical Ave Maria  - J.S. Bach(A) Canon in D Major - Pachelbel (B) Ode to Joy - Beethoven Air for the G String - J.S. Bach (B) Matrimonial Benediction - Camille Saint - Saens - F Major (A) Pathetique - Beethoven - Pinao Sonata #8 in C Minor - Op 13 2nd  Wedding March - Peter Tchaikovsky - Mazurka op 20a (A) Champagne Polka - Johann Strauss - The bat - op 211 (A) Neunuett in A major - Luigi Boccherini - String quartet Op. 13 (A) Radetzky March - Johann Strauss - op. 228 (A)  Menuett in D Major - Walfgang Amadeus Mozart  (A) Emperor Waltz - Johann Strauss - Op 437 (A) Emperor - Beethoven - Piano Concerto #5 Eb Major (B) Andante con moto - Schubert - Symphony #5 Bb Major (B) Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart - K 525 Andante Elvira Madigan - Mozart - Paino Concerto #21 C Major Largo from the New World - Dvorak - Symphony #9 E minor op 95 Summon the Heroes - John Williams Wedding Chorus - Richard Wagner - Lohengrin (A/B) Wedding march  Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream (A) Trumpet tune - Henry Purcell Trumpet Voluntary - Jeremiah Clarke La Rejouissance - Royal Fireworks Music - George Frideric Handel Classical Magnificat in D, BWV 243 - Opening Chorus - Johann Sebastian Bach Classical Rondeau -- Masterpiece Theater Theme - Mouret Classical Crown Imperial March - Walton Brandenburg Concerto No.3 - Johann Sebastian Bach Classical "Entrance Of The Queen Of Sheba" from Solomon - George Frideric Handel Classical Toccata from Organ Symphony # 5 - Widor Classical Adagio from Sonata in E-Flat - Mozart Air from Water Music - Handel  J.S. Bach Amen! Praise and Glory - Peacock The Four Seasons- "Spring" - Vivaldi  London Trio #3 - Adante - Haydn Nocturne In E flat, Op.9 No.2 - Chopin O God of Life - Panus Angelicus - Franck Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun - Debussy Quando Men' Vo" (Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme) - Puccini Waltz (from Sleeping Beauty Act 1) - Tchaikovsky