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Ceremony music

Couples normally spent a long time discussing their first dance song. Do not undermind the importance of ceremony music!

For your wedding ceremony songs, you’ll need to make at least two choices: Your processional and recessional songs.

 

Below are are few ideas of songs you could choose:

 

Traditional/Classic

 

  • Air - (from Water Music Suite), (George F. Handel)

  • Arrival of the queen of Sheba - Handel

  • Wedding March - Mendelssohn

  • Bridal Chorus - (from Lohengrin), (Richard Wagner)

  • Canon in D - (Johann Pachelbel)

  • Procession of Joy - (Hal Hopson)

  • Rigaudon - (Andre Campra)

  • Spring - (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)

  • Te Deum - (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)

  • The Prince of Denmark's March - (Jeremiah Clarke)

  • Trumpet Tune - (Henry Purcell)

  • Trumpet Voluntary - (Jeremiah Clarke)

  • Trumpet Voluntary - (John Stanley)

  • Wedding March - (from The Marriage of Figaro), (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

 

Traditional Alternatives

 

  • Canzon V" (Giovanni Gabrieli)

  • Coronation March for Czar Alexander III" (Peter I. Tchaikovsky)

  • Overture" (from Royal Fireworks Music), (George Frederic Handel)

  • Promenade" (from Pictures at an Exhibition), (Modest Mussorgsky)

  • Romeo and Juliet Love Theme" (Tchaikovsky)

  • Sinfonia" (from Cantata No. 156), (Johann S. Bach)

  • Toccata" (from L'Orfeo), (Claudio Monteverdi)

  • Trumpet Tune in A-Major" (David N. Johnson)

  • Sonatas for Organ, Op. 65, No. 3 (con moto maestoso)," (Felix Mendelssohn)

  • Winter," Largo, (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)

 

Contemporary

 

  • Appalachia Waltz - (Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor)

  • Sunrise, Sunset - (from Fiddler on the Roof), (Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock)

  • The Look of Love - (Dionne Warwick/Burt Bacharach)

  • The Vow - (Jeremy Lubbock)

  • To A Wild Rose - (Edward MacDowell)

  • Flatbush Waltz - (Andy Statman)

  • Wedding Processional - (from The Sound of Music), (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein)

  • Don't Stop Believing - Stevie Wonder

  • First day of my live - Bright Eyes

  • Glasgow Love theme

  • La vie en Rose - Andrea Bocelli

  • Magic - Colbie Caillat

  • Wedding Song - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  • Somewhere only we know -Liley Allen

  • Turning page - Sleeping at last

  • Somewhere over the rainbow

  • A thousand years - Christina Perri

  • Marry me - Train

 

Religious/Sacred

 

  • All People That On Earth Do Dwell - ("Old 100th" hymn)

  • Dona Nobis Pacem - (16th century hymn)

  • Hanava Babanot - (A Love Song), (Neeman)

  • St. Anthony's Chorale - (Franz Joseph Haydn)

  • Hymn Fanfare from The Triumphant - (Francois Couperin)

  • Scalero de Oro - (traditional Sephardic)

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