You may already know specific music you want for your wedding, or you may be at a total loss about what a musician should play. This wedding music song list will give you some ideas. An experienced celebrant or wedding planner can suggest good places for music in your ceremony. Alice Freeman offers a one-hour free consultation at her studio to hear and select music for your wedding day. If personal consulting together in Laramie is not convenient she also offers video consulting sessions using Skype on the Internet.

Suggested Processionals

• Angelus- Renié * - Sound Sample
• Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin - Wagner - Sound Sample
• Canon in D - Pachelbel - Sound Sample
• Carolan's Dowry/Captain Sudley - O'Carolan - Sound Sample
• Celtic Processional/Fannuidh de Paor - O'Carolan - Sound Sample
• The Gentle Maiden (Irish)
• Give Me Your Hand - O'Cathain - Sound Sample
• The Irish Wedding Song (Irish) - Sound Sample
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring - Bach
• Mist Covered Mountains of Home (Scottish) - Sound Sample
• Morning Has Broken/Bunessan (Scottish) - Sound Sample

Suggested Music for Meditation, Candle Lighting and other parts of the Ceremony

• Air - Bochsa
• Annie’s Song – Denver
• Celtic Meditation/Eleanor Plunkett (Irish) - O'Carolan - Sound Sample
• Conte de Noël/Meditation - Renié - Sound Sample
• From This Moment On - Twain and Lange
• O Perfect Love – Barnby
• Pavanne - Fauré
• Prayer - Delmas *
• Recueillement/Meditation - Renié *
• Searching for Lambs (English) - Sound Sample
• Star of the County Down (Irish)
• A Time for Us from Romeo and Juliet -Rota
• To a Wild Rose - MacDowell * - Sound Sample
  

Suggested Recessionals

• Andiam, Mio Tesoro/Let's Go, My Treasure (Anonymous 16th Century Italian) - Sound Sample
• Lewis Bridal Song/Mairi's Wedding (Scottish) - Sound Sample
• Processional - Wood
• The Royal Dream (Welsh) - Sound Sample
  
• Trumpet Tune – Purcell

Other Suggested Music

• Banish Misfortune – Irish
• For Baby/For Bobbie – Denver
• My Wild Irish Rose - Olcott
• Oh Promise Me - DeKoven
• Prelude I for the Well-Tempered Clavier - Bach
• Rondo: "Le Garçon Volage/The Tipsy Boy" - Bochsa
• Simple Gifts - Joseph
• Skye Boat Song (Scottish)
• Once Upon a Time...Storybook Love from The Princess Bride - Knopfler - Sound Sample
• Theme from The Pearl Fishers - Bizet
• Unchained Melody - North
• When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - Olcott, Graff, and Ball
• The Wind Beneath My Wings – Henley and Silbar

Other Traditional Music

• Air on the G String - Bach *
• Largo from Xerxes– Handel
• Theme from Jupiter – Holst
• Trumpet Voluntary/Prince of Denmark's March – Clarke
• Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Mendelssohn *

* Please Note: Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are playable only on the pedal harp.