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Guide to Wedding Ceremony Music

  • Prelude: Music played before the official start of the ceremony, as guests arrive and are seated. Usually 30 minutes.
  • ​Bridal Party Processional: Entrance of the wedding/bridal party. This may include bridesmaids, groomsmen, attendants, flower girls/boys, the ring bearer, etc. Important family members (grandparents, parents, etc.) may precede the bridal party.
  • Processional: Entrance of the bride (or groom).
  • Music during the ceremony (optional): Background music during a candle-lighting ceremony, sand ceremony, etc.
  • Recessional: Exit of the couple and wedding party.
  • Postlude: Exit of the guests. (Sometimes combined with the recessional, particularly at shorter ceremonies.)
  • Cocktail hour: Background music.

Sample Wedding Song Selections
​Harp Music for Your Wedding Ceremony

The following selections are examples of wedding songs, but your imagination is the only limit to what you choose!

Prelude

  • All I Ask of You, by Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Automne, by Marcel Grandjany​
  • First Arabesque, by Claude Debussy​
  • Für Elise, by Ludwig van Beethoven​​
  • Just the Way You Are, by Bruno Mars
  • Little Fountain, by Samuel O. Pratt
  • River Flows in You, by Yiruma​
  • To a Wild Rose, by Edward MacDowell
  • Theme and Variations, by Josef Haydn
Many other selections, including (but not limited to!) pop, Classical, and Broadway, available by request.

Processionals

Traditional/Classical
  • Air on the G String
  • Aria in Classic Style, by Marcel Grandjany​​
  • Meditation from "Thais," by J. Massanet ​
Religious
  • Ave Maria, by Franz Schubert
  • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, by J. S. Bach
  • Sheep May Safely Graze, by J. S. Bach
Popular
  • All of Me, by John Legend
  • A Thousand Years, from "Twilight"
  • Flightless Bird, American Mouth, by Iron & Wine
  • Here Comes the Sun, by The Beatles
  • I Choose You, by Sara Bareilles
  • Make You Feel My Love, by Adele
  • Marry You, by Bruno Mars
  • Perfect, by Ed Sheeran
  • Rose's Theme, from "Titanic"
  • Somewhere Only We Know, by Lily Allen
  • Turning Page, from "Breaking Dawn" (Edward and Bella's wedding song)​
Meditative
  • Watermark, by Enya
  • Only Time, by Enya

Recessional/Postlude

Traditional
  • Ode to Joy, by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Trumpet Tune, by Henry Purcell
  • Trumpet Voluntary, by Jeremiah Clarke​
  • Wedding March (from Midsummer Night's Dream), by Felix Mendelssohn
Popular
  • Can't Help Falling in Love, originally sung by Elvis Presley
  • "Game of Thrones" Theme
  • God Only Knows, by The Beach Boys
  • I'm Gonna Be, by The Proclaimers
  • I'm Yours, by Jason Mraz
  • Love Story, by Taylor Swift
  • Marry You, by Bruno Mars
  • Sky Full of Stars, by Coldplay
  • The Way I Am, by Ingrid Michaelson

Cocktail Hour

*These wedding song selections are also lovely for prelude.
  • Ballade pour Adeline, by Paul de Senneville
  • ​Candle on the Water, from “Pete’s Dragon”
  • Edelweiss, from “The Sound of Music”
  • Fireflies, by Owl City
  • ​”Game of Thrones” theme
  • A Groovy Kind of Love, by Phil Collins
  • Married Life, from “Up”
  • Seguidilla, by Carlos Salzedo
  • Time After Time, by Cyndi Lauper
  • ​What a Wonderful World
  • ​A Whole New World, from “Aladdin”
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