Wedding Music: Melodies to Enrich Your Wedding Ceremony
To quote the Huffington Post, "Your wedding is a special day, maybe the most special day in your life, and there is nothing more ceremonious or celebratory than live music."
Wedding couples in the twenty-first century choose from many different musical genres. Your wedding music should reflect your tastes and personalities.
Music for a wedding ceremony is usually divided into sections:
- Prelude
- Background music for the guests to be seated.
- Quiet enough for the guests to have conversations.
- Honored guests, such as grandparents and parents, are seated last.
- Processional — Bridesmaids
- An obvious change from the preceding background music.
- Loud enough to discourage conversation.
- Processional — Bride
- Usually the bride has her own music.
- Recessional
- Usually lively and upbeat.
- Postlude
- Background music for the guests to exit.
- Quiet enough for the guests to have conversations.
If you like classical and traditional music, you might like
- Prelude
- Clair de Lune
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- Gymnopedie (1 through 3)
- Air on the G String
- Processional — Bridesmaids
- Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
- Processional — Bride
- Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin ("Here Comes the Bride")
- Recessional
- Wedding March incidental music from A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Postlude
- Suites from Water Music
- Brandenburg Concerti (1 through 6)
- Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
- The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
Is 20th and 21st music for your wedding more to your taste?
- Prelude
- Unforgettable
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- Stand by Me
- We've Only Just Begun
- Processional — Bridesmaids
- In My Life
- Processional — Bride
- Thinking Out Loud
- Recessional
- Just the Way You Are
- Postlude
- Uptown Funk
- Fly Me to the Moon
- A Sky Full of Stars
- Shut Up and Dance
Whether you are having live musicians or a DJ, please tell them what kinds of music you like and ask for suggestions.
Any wedding music professional will be able to recommend songs that will help make your wedding uniquely yours.
For a professional wedding officiant, you can reach Pastor Ernest at 860-543-2334.
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