Traditional ceremony song suggestions
Traditional Ceremonies feature familiar classical pieces – songs you’ve heard in films and on TV and associated with weddings all your life. If you’d like your wedding to musically resemble your parents’ or grandparents’ wedding, you can’t go wrong choosing from the list at right.
Need an example? Here are three sample agendas to get you started:
PROCESSIONALS FOR THE BRIDE, GROOM OR WEDDING PARTY:
- “Canon in D” – Pachelbel
- “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” – Bach
- “Air on the G String” – Bach
- “Arioso” – J.S. Bach
- “Sheep May Safely Graze” – Bach
- “Air” from Water Music in F – Handel
- “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” – Handel
- “Largo” from the Four Seasons – Vivaldi
- “Bridal Chorus” from Lohengrin (“Here Comes the Bride”) – Wagner
INTERLUDES:
- “Wachtet auf” – Bach
- “Ave Maria” – Bach-Gounod
- “Ave Maria” – Schubert
- “Amazing Grace” – English Hymn
- “Be Thou My Vision” – Irish Hymn
- “Meditation” from Thais – Massenet
- “Simple Gifts” – Shaker Hymn
RECESSIONALS:
- “Ode to Joy” – Beethoven
- “Prelude from Te Deum” – Charpentier
- “Trumpet Voluntary” – Clarke
- “Bouree” from Water Music in F – Handel
- “Hornpipe” from Water Music in F – Handel
- “Hornpipe” from Water Music in D – Handel
- “La Rejouissance” from The Fireworks Music – Handel
- “Wedding March” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Mendelssohn
- “Rondeau” – Mouret
- “Trumpet Tune” – Purcell