Here are some tips when choosing ceremony music:
•Processional music can mark a formal start to the ceremony with a stately sound or create a flowing feeling as you, your friends and family walk toward your guests.
•Selections during the ceremony are often brief, quiet, and meaningful.
•Recessionals are celebrations! The music should feel uplifting and quicker paced to lead everyone upwards and onwards to cocktails, dinner, and dancing!
We hope you enjoy choosing your ceremony music, but we know that you have many, many decisions to make before your big day. We are very well-experienced in choosing music for ceremonies, so remember: you can leave as much of the music selection process up to us as you'd like!
Good prelude music should stay in the background but reflect the mood you would like to set for your ceremony. Once you've settled on a mood we can put together music to reflect your tastes.
Air on the G String-- Bach
"Winter" from the Four Seasons-- Vivaldi
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring-- Bach
"Air" from the Water Music-- Handel
Canon in D-- Pachelbel
Bridal Chorus ("Here Comes the Bride")
"What a Wonderful World"-- Louis Armstrong
Edelweiss-- Rodgers and Hammerstein
Bittersweet Sympony—The Verve (quartet only)
Arioso—- Bach
"Winter" from the Four Seasons—- Vivaldi
"Meditation" from Thais—- Massenet
The Lord's Prayer-- Malotte
Panis Angelicus—- Franck
Ave Maria—- Bach-Gounod or Schubert
What a Wonderful World—- Louis Armstrong
Norwegian Wood—- Beatles
All I Ask of You—- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Wedding March—Mendelssohn
Hallelujah Chorus—Handel
"Spring" from the Four Seasons—Vivaldi
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba—Handel
Hornpipe—Handel
Wedding March and "All You Need is Love"—from the movie "Love, Actually"
Beautiful Day—U2 (quartet only)
Here Comes the Sun-- Beatles