Wedding Music

Music is evocative, romantic, nostalgic and it plays an important role on your Wedding day. Whether you are having a religious or civil service there are certain times during the day that music will help to set the scene, entertain or simply make the guests go ‘Awwwww’.

This blog post is dedicated to top ten lists for each of the key parts of the day that music is used. Whilst it made me feel like a cheesy DJ to write I am hoping it will help give you some inspiration if required.

So, pop pickers, without further ado (*facepalm* really showing my age now!!)…

Processional (or walking down the aisle to get married)

1. Pachelbel’s Cannon
2. Wedding March – Wagner
3. Kissing You – Des’ree
4. Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark’s March)
5. Air on a G String – Bach
6. Somewhere over the Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwo
7. Ave Maria
8. A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
9. Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley
10. She – Elvis Costello

Signing the Register/Interlude

1. From this Moment Ron – Shania Twain and Bryan White
2. Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
3. Teardrop – Newton Faulkner
4. A Moment like this – Kelly Clarkson
5. Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours – Stevie Wonder
6. Four Seasons – Summer III Presto – Vivaldi
7. Amazing Grace
8. The Best of Me – Cliff Richard
9. We’ve only just Begun – The Carpenters
10. The Prayer – Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion

Recessional (or walking back down the aisle once married)

1. All you Need is Love – The Beatles
2. This Magic Moment – The Drifters
3. Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba from “Solomon”
4. It Had to Be You – Harry Connick, Jr.
5. You Make my Dreams – Hall and Oates
6. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher – Jackie Wilson
7. Beautiful Day – U2
8. Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 in D minor – Beethoven
9. Hakuna Matata
10. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do – Abba

First Dance

1. Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
2. At Last – Etta James
3. You are the Best Thing – Ray LaMontagne
4. All of Me – John Legend
5. Make you Feel my Love – Adele
6. I won’t Give up – Jason Mraz
7. Everything – Michael Buble
8. Better Together – Jack Johnson
9. Amazed – Lonestar
10. Come Away with Me – Norah Jones

Father Daughter Dance

1. My Girl – The Temptations
2. Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder
3. Unforgettable – Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole
4. You are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder
5. Dance with my Father – Luther Vandross
6. Father and Daughter – Paul Simon
7. Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House
8. What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
9. It’s for my Dad – Nancy Sinatra
10. I Wish you Love – Frank Sinatra

As Shakespeare said,

“If music be the food of love, play on”.

Happy Planning.