Wedding Music Suggestions
The music you choose for your wedding ceremony depends on you as a couple and your personal music styles. Below are examples of songs and music you can use as a guide or for ideas.
Entrance:
A Thousand Years
Bridal March (Here Comes The Bride)
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Perfect by Ed Sheeran:
Wedding Version instrumental with Pachelbel’s Canon
This I Promise You
A Standalone Song:
Feels Like Home
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Sanctuary
Songbird
This I Promise You
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Lighting of the Candles:
Falling Slowly
For The Love of a Princess
Photograph
Sky Full of Stars
Portuguese Love Theme
The River Flows In You
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Remembrance Candle:
The River Flows In You
Sky Full of Stars
Signing of the Register:
Always Remember Us This Way
Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Feels Like Home
From This Moment
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) Sleeping At Last version♪
Songbird
The Voyage
This I Promise You
Your Song (Ellie Goulding)
Your Song (Elton John)
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Recessional:
A Million Dreams
All About You (McFly)
Better Place (Rachel Platten)
Grow Old With Me (Tom Odell)
Higher & Higher
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
I’m A Believer
Marry You (Bruno Mars)
Stand By Me
Take My Hand (Picture This)
You Make My Dreams Come True (Hall & Oates)
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Other Music Examples
Classical Wedding Processional Songs:
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Ave Verum Corpus - Mozart
Bridal Chorus - Wagner
Pie Jesu - adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Nella Fantasia (or Gabriel's Oboe) - Ennio Morricone
Jesu, Joy of Man Desiring - Bach
The Swan (Le Cygne) - Saint Saens
The Flower Duet from Lakmé (Viens Mallika Sous le Dome) - Léo Delibes
Romance Classical Guitar - folk piece
The Four Seasons: Spring 1 - Vivaldi, Recomposed by Max Richter
Cello suite No. 1 - Bach
Una Furtiva Lagrima - Gaetano Donizetti
A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 61: IX. Wedding March - Felix Mendelssohn
Ave Maria - Bach/Gounod
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Irish Processional Songs:
My Lagan Love
Carolan's Concerto
She Moves Through the Fair
Midnight Walker - Uilleann Pipes
The Parting Glass
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Alternative Processional Songs:
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Higher Love - James Vincent McMorrow
The Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice
Work Song - Hozier
Growing Up Beside You - Paolo Nutini
Skinny Love - Bon Ivor
Ho Hey - The Lumineers
First Day Of My Life - Bright Eyes
To Be Alone With You - Sufijan Stevens
'Cello Song - Nick Drake
Wicked Game (Instrumental) - Chris Isaak
All This Love - Angus & Julia Stone
Wedding Song - Bob Dylan
Sweet Disposition (Acoustic) - Temper Trap
Wedding Song (Acoustic) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
Sea of Love - Cat Power
Angels - The XX
Feelin' Good - Nina Simone
Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer
Quelqu'un m'a dit - Carla Bruni
Good Riddance (Time of your Life) - Greenday
Riptide - Vance Joy
When I Go - Slow Club
Another Love - Tom Odell
A Waltz for a Night - Julie Delpy
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Upbeat Processional Songs:
Here There and Everywhere - The Beatles
Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
Everyday - Buddy Holly
In My Life - The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun - Nina Simone
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Fly Me To The Moon - Julie London
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow
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Romantic Processional Songs:
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
She - Elvis Costello
At Last - Etta James
Your Song - Elton John
I'm Kissing You - Des'ree
I've Got A Crush On You - Ella Fitzgerald
Can't Help Falling In Love With You - Elvis Presley
Not About Angels - Birdy
Blackbird - The Beatles
She's Always a Woman - Fyfe Dangerfield
La Vie En Rose - Louis Armstrong
One Day Like This – Elbow
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