Choosing your Ceremony Music
Our classical wedding repertoire provides both a perfect backdrop and a beautiful highlight for all the special moments of the occasion. We can also perform arrangements of popular wedding songs for a specific processional request, etc.
Wedding services include a 30-minute prelude, seating of the mothers, bridesmaids’ and bride’s processional, mid-ceremony special music, recessional, and up to a 15-minute postlude while guests exit. The prelude and postlude are selections from our core classical repertoire, and the specific ceremony pieces may be chosen from our classical list or our numerous arrangements of popular wedding songs. Some selections are listed here for examples.
The typical music program order is as follows:
Prelude
Classical strings music (mix of lyrical and upbeat pieces), 30 minutes
Ceremony Music
Pieces as selected
- Seating of the Mothers
- examples: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Passacaglia in G; Largo from Winter
- Bridesmaids’ and Bride’s Procession (may be same or different pieces)
- examples: Canon in D; Bridal Chorus; other special requests
- Mid-ceremony special music as desired
- example, One Hand, One Heart; other special request
- Recession
- examples: Wedding March; Prelude from Te Deum
Postlude
Classical repertoire (upbeat/celebratory pieces), up to 15 minutes
Repertoire Selections (partial list of available pieces):
Bach: Air from Orchestra Suite no. 3
Bach: Arioso from Cantata 156
Bach: Bist du bei mir
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins
Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze
Bach: Wachet Auf
Beethoven: Ode to Joy
Bernstein: One Hand, One Heart
Brahms: Waltz in A Major
Charpentier: Prelude from Te Deum
Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary
Handel: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
Handel: Hornpipe from The Water Music
Handel: Passacaglia in G Major
Kreisler: Liebesleid
Massenet: Meditation from Thais
Mendelssohn: Wedding March
Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe
Pachelbel: Canon in D
Purcell: Rondeau from Abdelazer
Purcell: Trumpet Tune
Purcell: Suite from The Fairy Queen
trad.: Be Thou My Vision
Vivaldi: Largo from Winter
Wagner: Bridal Chorus