Wedding Ceremony Music Suggestions

Processional/Recessional Suggestions (most of the pieces will work equally well at the beginning or end of your ceremony)

• Bridal Chorus - Wagner (Here Comes the Bride)
• Wedding March - Mendelssohn (diddly dee..diddly dee..)
• Entrance of the Queen of Sheba - Handel (fun with a sense of occasion…Recessional only)
• Prelude - Charpentier (simple, classic with lovely harmony line)
• Canon in D - Pachelbel (a great favourite as a beautiful, slow processional)
• Allegro from Lute Concerto in D - Vivaldi (grand yet bright)
• Canticorum Jubilo - Handel (rousing, joyous recessional)
• Trumpet Voluntary - Purcell (majestic, with some trills)
• Trumpet Tune - Purcell (majestic and up-beat)
• Tambourin - Gossec (a bit of body tapping on the guitar)
• Alla Danza - Handel (grand yet up-beat)
• Finale from the Royal Fireworks - Handel (rousing and up-beat)

The following few suggestions illustrate that an up-beat, non-traditional option can make a good, fun recessional at the end of the ceremony….lots more available.

• All You Need is Love - Lennon and McCartney 
• Crazy Little Thing called Love - Queen
• You're my Best Friend - Queen
• Raiders March - From Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Bring me Sunshine - Morecambe and Wise Theme
• You’ve Got a Friend in Me - From Toy Story II
• Say a Little Prayer - Bacharach and David
• Walking on Sunshine - Kimberley Rew
• I’m Yours - Jason Mraz

Signing of the Register (choose two, ideally…lots more available)

• O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini
• Canon in D - Pachelbel (if you haven't chosen this for your Processional)
• Nella Fantasia - Ennio Morricone
• Make you feel my Love - Adele (Bob Dylan)
• Songbird - Chrisie McVie
• Somewhere over the Rainbow - Harold Arlen
• Fields of Gold - Sting
• Concerto Aranjuez, 2nd Movement - Rodrigo
• In the arms of an Angel - McLaughlin
• Ave Maria (Ellen’s Song) - Schubert
• Casta Diva - Bellini
• Cavatina - Stanley Myers
• Music of the Night - Lloyd Webber
• I’m Kisiing You - Des’ree and Atack
• You Raise Me Up - Rolf Lovland
• You'll never Walk Alone - Richard Rodgers
• Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong - Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Jennings
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight - Elton John
• Nessun Dorma - Puccini

The Drinks Reception

• Blue Moon - Richard Rodgers
• Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen
• Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours - Stevie Wonder
• Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and The Waves
• I’m Yours - Jason Mraz
• Tuxedo Junction- Hawkins, Johnson and Dash
• He’s a Tramp - Peggy Lee
• Smooth - Carlos Santana
• These Foolish Things - Strachey and Link
• Rock Around The Clock - Freedman and Myers
• One Day Like This - Elbow
• Wouldn’t It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
• This Old Heart of Mine - Holland, Dozier, Holland
• Say a Little Prayer - Bacharach and David
• Angels - Robbie Williams
• At Last - Harry Warren
• Killing Me Softly - Fox and Gimbel
• Summertime - George Gershwin
• She - Charles Azanavour
• Killer Queen - Queen
• Makin’ Whoopee - Gus Khan
• I Heard it through the Grapevine - Whitfield and Strong
• The Locomotion - Goffin and Queen
• The Look of Love - Bacharach and David
• Songbird - Chrisie McVie 
• The Way You Look Tonight - Jerome Kern
• Singing in the Rain - Nacio Herb Brown
• Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Bacharach and David
• What a Difference a Day Makes - Maria Grever
• They Can’t Take That Away From Me - George Gershwin
• This Guy’s in Love - Bacherach and David
• Wade in the Water - traditional
• I’ve Got You Under My Skin - Cole Porter
• Mas Que Nada - Jorge Ben
• Over The Rainbow - Harold Arlen
• Fly Me To The Moon - Bart Howard
• Cry Me A River - Arthur Hamilton
• Anything Goes - Cole Porter
• As Time Goes By - Herman Hupfeld
• I got rhythm - George Gershwin
• What a Wonderful World - Thiele and Weiss
• Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man -Oscar Hammerstein 
• I Know You By Heart - Eve Nelson and Diane Scanlon
• Misty - Erroll Garner
• Baby Love - Holland, Dozier and Holland
• Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Contemporary

• Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and The Waves
• I’m Yours - Jason Mraz
• From This Moment - Shania Twain
• One Day Like This - Elbow
• Angels - Robbie Williams
• Viva La Vida - Coldplay
• Amazed - Lonestar
• Whatever - Oasis
• I’m Kissing You - Des’ree
• Smooth - Santana
• At Last - Beyonce
• I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
• Make You Feel My Love - Adele
• Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
• Skyfall - Adele
• 17 Again - Eurhythmics
• Your Song - Ellie Goulding
• A Moment Like This - Leona Lewis
• Uptown Girl - Westlife
• Alright - Supergrass
• Halo - Beyonce
• Runaway - The Corrs
• Take My Hand - Dido
• Times Like These - Foo Fighters
• Don’t Know Why - Norah Jones
• Wonderwall - Oasis
• It Must be Love - Madness
• You Raise Me Up - Westlife
• American Pie - Madonna
• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Leona Lewis
• Cry Me a River - Justin Timberlake
• The Locomotion - Kylie Minogue
• The Power of Love - Gabrielle Aplin
• Walking on a Dream - Empire of the Sun
• Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars
• A Thousand Years - Christina Perri
• The Long and Winding Road - Will Young
• Come Away With me - Norah Jones
• Paradise - Coldplay

Wedding Breakfast

• Nella Fantasia - Ennio Morricone
• From this Moment - Twain and Lange
• Swan Lake - P I Tchaikovsky
• La Donna è Mobile - Giuseppe Verdi
• Heure Exquise - Franz Lehar
• When You Wish Upon A Star - Harline and Washington
• Come Away with Me - Norah Jones
• O Sole Mio - Di Capua
• Casta Diva - Bellini
• The Music of the Night - Lloyd Webber
• Can You Feel The Love tonight - Elton John
• Valse de l’Empereur - Johann Strauss
• Bonnie Jean O’Aberdeen- traditional
• Polovtsian Dance - Alexander Borodin
• I Just Called To Say I Love You- Stevie Wonder
• Le Cygne - Saint-Saens
• Over The Rainbow - Harold Arlen
• Nessun Dorma - Giacomo Puccini
• Lullaby- J Brahms
• Berceuse - Gabriel Faure
• Habanera - Bizet
• I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing - Diane Warren
• Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana - Jules Mascagni
• La Valse des Patineurs - Emil Waldteufel 
• All I Ask of You - Lloyd Webber
• Barcarolle - J Offenbach
• Moon River - Johnny Mercer
• La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin - Claude Debussy
• What The World Needs Now - Bacharach and David 
• O Mio Babbino Caro - Giacomo Puccini
• Concerto Aranuez, 2nd Movement - Rodrigo
• Valse des Fleurs - P I Tchaikovsky
• Some Day My Prince Will Come - Frank Churchill
• Siciliènne - Gabriel Fauré
• Scheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakov
• Artist’s Life Waltz - Johann Strauss 
• You Raise Me Up - Lovland
• Meditation - Jules Massenet
• Chanson de Matin - Edward Elgar
• The Saucy Arethusa - O’Carolan
• Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Francisco Tarrega 
• To a Wild Rose - Edward MacDowell
• Liebestraum - Franz Liszt
• I’m Kissing You- Des’ree