Music Selection Ideas For Event Planning
Here are music ideas for the parts of a standard wedding ceremony. Choose from these or from anything on our extensive playlist.
1. Wedding Party Processional/Entrance:
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Bach
Air On The G String, Bach
Wedding Song-Traditional
(based on the song ‘There Is Love’ by Paul Stookey)
Canon in D, Pachelbel
Winter from The Four Seasons, Vivaldi
2. Bridal Entrance Standards:
Bridal Chorus, Wagner
Trumpet Voluntary, Jeremiah Clarke (Prince of Denmark March)
Canon in D, Pachelbel
3. During Ceremony ideas (as background to a Sand Ceremony,
Unity Candle, Rose Presentation to family, etc. . . )
Winter from The Four Seasons, Vivaldi
Ave Maria, Schubert
One Hand One Heart from Westside Story, Bernstein
When You Wish Upon A Star, from Pinocchio
All I Ask of You, Phantom of the Opera
Flower Song from Lakme, Delibes
4. Recessional (Exit) Suggestions:
Wedding March, Mendelssohn
Hornpipe from Water Music, Handel
Spring from The Four Seasons, Vivaldi
Entrance of The Queen of Sheba, Bach
All You Need Is Love, The Beatles
Happy Together, The Turtles
I Gotta Feeling, Black Eyed Peas
Traditional Jewish Wedding Examples:
Hava Nagila
Dodi Li
Simon Tov
Erev Shel Shoshanim