Wedding Music
Choose live music for your wedding
Why should you choose live music for your wedding? Because live musicians can make sure that everything works just right on the day, such as timing the music to perfectly match your procession up the aisle. Live music also creates a wonderful atmosphere and sense of occasion. You can consult with your professional musicians to create your own unique day, customised to your own musical tastes.
Music at Your Ceremony
You’ll need to choose:
- Processional - the bridal party walking into the church
- Hymns - optional - for the congregation to sing
- Signing of the register - usually something quiet
- Recessional - walking back out of the church, usually more triumphant than the processional
Wedding Music Suggestions
Gentle music: for the Processional or Signing the Register
- Pachelbel: Canon in D
- Wagner: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
- Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
- Delibes: The Flower Duet from Lakme (for piano)
- Bach: Air on the G String (also known as Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3)
- Handel: Largo from Xerxes
- Handel: Air from Water Music
Gentle music: contemporary options (for piano)
- Christina Perri: A Thousand Years
- John Legend: All of Me
- Ed Sheeran: Thinking Out Loud
- Nat King Cole: When I Fall in Love
- Van Morrison: Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
- Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World
Triumphant music: for the Processional or Recessional
- Mendelssohn: Wedding March
- Beethoven: Ode to Joy (or Song of Joy, theme from Choral Symphony No. 9)
- Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary (sometimes called “Prince of Denmark”)
- Charpentier: Prelude from Te Deum
- Handel: La Rejouissance from Fireworks Music
- Purcell: Trumpet Tune
- Mouret: Rondo
- Handel: Hornpipe from Water Music
Hymns
- Amazing Grace
- The Lord’s My Shepherd
- Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee
- Praise My Soul the King of Heaven
- Love Divine All Loves Excelling
- Morning Has Broken
- Be Thou My Vision
- How Great Thou Art