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Wedding Music Ideas

Dreaming of a traditional wedding walking down the aisle to the same tunes that your mother did? Perhaps you love the classic sounds of the Baroque including the music of Bach, Vivaldi, Pachelbel and Handel. Or are you looking for something a bit off the beaten path that few couples have used before you? Whatever your perference, we have put together a series of programs for you to use during your wedding including Parents’ seating, Bridal party and Bride processional and recessional. Remember, just because you hear a piece for an orchestra, doesn’t mean it cannot be performed by a string quartet or a flute and harp duo.
Please note as you are putting together your program, remember, that you can feel free to move selections from one section of the service to another. Just because this package lists one piece as a processional, doesn’t mean it wouldn’t make a terrific postlude. Also, preludes, interludes and postludes are nearly always interchangeable. These are only suggestions based on our experience of where pieces can be place in the order of the ceremony.


“Traditional”

By traditional wedding music, we mean these songs below are safe choices for any church wedding and approved music for catholic ceremonies.
These are true standard wedding ceremony music choices that evoke the timeless elegance of weddings from across the generations.

Prelude

20 minutes of beautiful assorted classical music to greet your guests properly and invite them to sit down. Something really meaningful is about to take place…

The Bridal Chorus and The Wedding March are quickly fading from the scene in Catholic weddings but it is still available upon request. It has been replaced usually with Canon in D.

1. Seating of the parents

      Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)

2. Bridal Party Processional

      Flower Song (Delibes)

3. Bride Processional

      Canon in D (Pachelbel)

4. Recessional

      Trumpet Voluntary (J.Clarke)

5. Guest exit music

      Brandenburg Concerto #2 (J.S. Bach)

“Regal”

Today is the one day in your life you get to wear a crown and you want the music to reflect the joyousness and grandiosity of your wedding day. These tunes are sure to impress your guests and get your blood stirring.

Prelude

20 minutes of beautiful assorted classical music and other love songs – usually we make the selections based on our guests’ response to our music. You may let us know if you are more of a classical music fan, or you lean more toward contemporary love songs as entertainment and we choose the prelude songs for you accordingly.

1. Seating of the parents

      Spring (Vivaldi)

2. Bridal Party Processional

      Rondeau (Mauret)

3. Bride Processional

      Hallelujah

4. Recessional

      A Thousand Years (Twilight Saga)

5. Guest exit music

      All you need is love

 

“Off the Beaten Path”

We offer the most beautiful contemporary love songs ever written. We picked the best songs that sound exceptionally pretty on strings. You love the timeless standards but you would like to hear music that wasn’t composed hundreds of years ago, but it is up to date. You’ll be pleased with how appropriate these pieces are for your modern wedding ceremony and a nice mix of genres and styles they reflect.

Prelude

20 minutes of beautiful contemporary wedding songs to greet your guests properly and to set the mood.

1. Seating of the parents

      Stand by me (The Beatles)

2. Bridal Party Processional

      Perfect (Ed Sheeran)

3. Bride Processional

      I can't help falling in love with you

4. Recessional

      Marry you (Bruno Mars)

5. Guest exit music

      Love and Marriage (Sinatra)

“for VideoGame Lovers and Geeks”

This selection speaks for itself. We have string quartet sheet music from famous Japanese animations and some awesome video game music. We write these arrangements ourselves (just like the other 80% of our non-classical repertoire) to make sure they are either sugarsweet and lovely or very powerful and energetic.

 

1. Seating of the parents

      The River Flows in You (Yiruma)

2. Bridal Party Processional

      Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X)

3. Bride Processional

      The Legend of Zelda (main Theme)

4. Recessional

      Game of Thrones (main Theme)

5. Guest exit music

Pokemon (main Theme)