Wedding Ceremony Music Suggestions
Wedding Ceremony Music – Ideas to help you select your entrance music
We often get asked by bride’s what songs work best for wedding ceremony music. Here are some suggestions based on popular choices. If you don’t know these pieces of music, YouTube is a great source inspiration and you can specify whether you search for a song played by a string quartet, harpist or any other instrument!
There are 3 key moments in the proceedings when wedding ceremony music is used:
1. The Bridal Entrance
2. The Signing of the Register
3. The Recessional (couple’s exit)
As well as choosing specific wedding ceremony music we always suggest that our musicians arrive early enough to be play as guests arrive. This is usually for 20-30 minutes as guests take their seats in the church or civil ceremony room and wil set the tone you want to create as everyone arrives.
Having wedding ceremony music before the ceremony starts is also a great way of calming the groom’s nerves as he waits for his bride to arrive!
Wedding Ceremony Music: The Bridal Entrance
Bach: Air on a G String (guitar, harp, string quartet/trio, piano/organ)
Bach: Prelude from Lute Suite in D (guitar)
Pachelbel: Canon in D (string quartet, guitar, harp)
Wagner: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin (guitar, harp, string quartet, piano/organ)
Mendelssohn: Wedding March (guitar, harp, string quartet, piano/organ)
Anon: Spanish Romance (guitar, harp)
George Harrison: Here Comes the Sun (guitar, harp, string quartet/trio)
Christina Perri: 1000 Years (string quartet/trio, piano, harp)
Wedding Ceremony Music: The Bridal Entrance
Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (guitar, harp, string quartet/trio, piano)
Franck: Panis Angelicus (harp, string quartet/trio)
Schubert: Ave Maria (guitar, harp, string quartet/trio, singer)
Tarrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra (guitar)
Purcell: Trumpet Tune (harp, string quartet/trio)
Myers: Cavatina (guitar, harp)
Pachelbel: Canon in D (harp, string quartet/trio)
Delibes : Flower Duet from Lakme (harp, string quartet/trio)
Wedding Ceremony Music: The Recessional (as the couple exit the ceremony)
Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary (harp, string quartet/trio)
Handel: Hornpipe from Water Music Suite No. 2 (string quartet/trio)
Vivaldi: Spring Allegro from The Four Seasons (string quartet/trio)
Pernambuco: Sounds of Bells (guitar)
Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (harp, string quartet/trio)
Remember that under UK law, religious music is not allowed in civil ceremonies.
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