Feeling overwhelmed by your wedding planning?
In planning your wedding day, you are surrounded by decisions to make. For every big and little detail of your day there are often many choices. Trying to piece it all together can be overwhelming.
Your wedding ceremony music is no exception.
Here are the music listings from some sample wedding ceremonies. Look them over and see if examples will help you get past feeling overwhelmed by your many choices.
Ideas and inspiration
Example church wedding ceremony music listings can give you some ideas about how the multitude of choices can come together to make a nice-sounding ceremony. The examples will help you to remain focused on the end result rather than the vast number of different pieces of music you can choose from. Staying focused on the end goal can lead to inspiration when you see how it can all come together.
These wedding ceremony samples are all from real-world weddings. It doesn’t matter whose wedding they were for, how much (or how little) planning went into them, or what criteria were used for selecting the pieces.
I offer them not as perfect examples but as couples’ best attempts to select memorable music that reflects them. They may have involved compromises, choices made to be practical or even choices made out of desperation. It’s their real-world nature that can be the source of inspiration.
Don’t copy…seek inspiration
Don’t just copy the wedding ceremony samples for your own ceremonies. That would defeat the entire purpose.
Instead, look them over, study them and seek inspiration from them. Only when you make intentional choices based on your feelings and reactions to your choices will you get ceremony music that truly reflects you!
Example Ceremony 1
- Prelude: Mozart: Concerto No. 20 in D Minor
- Seating of Mothers: Bach: “Sheep May Safely Graze”
- Attendant’s Processional: Handel: Largo from Xerxes
- Bride’s Processional: Pachelbel: Canon in D
- Hymn: “O Father All Creating”
- Recessional: Handel: “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba”
- Postlude: Purcell: Trumpet Tune and Bell Symphony
Example Ceremony 2
- Pre-Service Music: Bach: “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
- Processional: Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary in D
- Hymn: “O Perfect Love”
- Solo: The Lord’s Prayer
- Recessional: Handel: Hornpipe (from Water Music)
Example Ceremony 3
- Prelude:
- Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major (“St Anne”)
- Bach: Fugue in G Major (“Gigue”)
- Processional: Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary in D
- Hymns:
- “O Gladsome Light, O Grace”
- “Lord, When You Came as Welcome Guest”
- Recessional: Dubois: Toccata
Example Ceremony 4
- Processional: Debussy: Claire de lune
- Hymn: “O Father, All Creating”
- Recessional: Bach: “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
Example Ceremony 5
- Prelude: Purifoy: Hyfrydol
- Processional: Handel: Largo from Xerxes
- Hymns:
- “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”
- “Lord, When You Came as Welcome Guest”
- Recessional: Purcell: Trumpet Voluntary
Example Ceremony 6
- Prelude: Telemann: The Heroic Music
- Processional:
- Bach: Liebster Jesu, Wir Sind Hier (“Dearest Jesus, We Are Here”)
- Reger: Nun Danket alle Gott (“Now Thank We All Our God”)
- Hymns:
- “The Church’s One Foundation”
- “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”
- Recessional: Handel: “The Trumpet Shall Sound”
Wedding Music Unveiled’s Guide to Selecting Memorable Church Wedding Music includes over 30 pages of sample wedding ceremonies as a bonus document. Check it out!
Tell us what you think
Do you have any wedding ceremony samples of your own to add? Give fellow readers some inspiration and leave the music listings in a comment—which are always welcome and appreciated!
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