The wedding ceremony music tends to be softer, usually classical wedding music or ballads. There should be about five songs played as a prelude when the guests are seated, then a special song when the mothers of the bride and groom are seated. If you’re looking for classic wedding music, this is the post for you.
Classical Wedding Music
- Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke
- Sinfonia from Cantata 29, BWV 29 by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G major: Prelude, BWV 1007 by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Prelude to Te Deum by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Allegro from Trois pièces brèves for Wind Quintet by Jacques Ibert
- Rondeau from Abdelazer by Henry Purcell
- Alla Hornpipe from Water Music, Suite in D Major by George Frideric Handel
- Rondeau from Sinfonies de fanfares by Jean-Joseph Mouret
- Air On the G String, from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, “St. Anne,” BWV 552 by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Variations on a Shaker Melody from Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copeland
- Nocturne from a Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn
- Movement Nos. 3 & 4 from Excursions by Samuel Barber
- Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy
- Chorale from Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst
- “St. Columba’s Tune,” Traditional
- Vltava from Má Vlast by Bedřich Smetana
- The Flower Duet from Lakmé by Léo Delibes
- Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major by Franz Schubert
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