Traditional and Contemporary Music Selections for Your Wedding Ceremony
Ceremony Selections
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Prelude
This is the time when the guests are beginning to arrive and are being seated. The air seems to be alive with the anticipation of witnessing the marriage of two friends. Reinforce this with music that hints at what is to happen next.
Traditional Selections
Song
Composer
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Johann S. Bach
Sleepers Awake
Johann S. Bach
Air - Orchestral Suite in D Major
Johann S. Bach
Pastoral Symphony from Messiah
George Frederick Handel
Adagio for Organ Sonata No. 2, Opus 65
Felix Mendelssohn
Canon
Johann Pachelbel
Perfect Love
Sir Joseph Barnby
Ave Verum Corpus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Contemporary Selections
Song
Artist
Angel Eyes
Jim Brickman
If
Bread
Annie’s Song
John Denver
Only Time
Enya
Truly
Lionel Richie
Evergreen
Barbra Streisand
At Last
Etta James
Processional
This is the big moment! Your parents and attendants will process up the aisle ahead of you. Here are a few suggestions that will reflect both your style and the love you share as you prepare to become man and wife.
Traditional Selections
Song
Composer
Allegro Maestoso from Water Music
George Frederick Handel
Elvira Madigan Theme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Four Seasons
Vivaldi
Welcome Welcome Glorious Morn
Henry Purcell
Canon in D
Johann Pachelbel
Contemporary Selections
Song
Artist
From This Moment
Shania Twain
Only Time
Enya
Storybook Love (Theme from Princess Bride)
Mark Knofler
Right Here Waiting
Richard Marx
Come Away With Me
Nora Jones
This Is The Night
Clay Aiken
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Kenny G
I Believe I Can Fly
R. Kelly
In My Life
Beatles
Interlude /Unity Candle
This is a selection of music (instrumental or vocal) during the wedding ceremony to signify that something special is about to happen. A perfect time for this might be as you light the unity candle, signifying two families joining and becoming one.
Traditional Selections
Song
Composer
Amazing Grace
Lari White
Ave Maria
Beethoven
What Wondrous Love Is This
Traditional Hymn
Greensleeves
Traditional
Contemporary Selections
Song
Artist
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Roberta Flack
Forever
Kenny Lattimore
All I Ask of You
(Phantom of the Opera)
Andrew Lloyd Weber
When I Said I Do
Clint Black and Lisa Hartman
Your Everything
Keith Urban
Grow Old With Me
Mary Chapin Carpenter
The Wedding Song
Noel Paul Stookey
Recessional
Congratulations! You are married! This music should be the most joyous of all! It should be something that tells the world how happy you are as you make your first trip together as husband and wife.
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