What Are Some Good Wedding Songs Besides "Canon in D" by Pachebel?

Question

canon in d is played too much in weddings. What are some other good wedding songs? give a list.

Answer 1

Disregard number 3. The rest are ok.

Traditional/Classic

1. "Air" (from Water Music Suite), (George F. Handel)
2. "Bridal Chorus" (from Lohengrin), (Richard Wagner)
3. "Canon in D" (Johann Pachelbel)
4. "Procession of Joy" (Hal Hopson)
5. "Rigaudon" (Andre Campra)
6. "Spring" (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)
7. "Te Deum" (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
8. "The Prince of Denmark's March" (Jeremiah Clarke)
9. "Trumpet Tune" (Henry Purcell)
10. "Trumpet Voluntary" (Jeremiah Clarke)
11. "Trumpet Voluntary" (John Stanley)
12. "Wedding March" (from The Marriage of Figaro), (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

Traditional Alternatives

13. "Canzon V" (Giovanni Gabrieli)
14. "Coronation March for Czar Alexander III" (Peter I. Tchaikovsky)
15. "Overture" (from Royal Fireworks Music), (George Frederic Handel)
16. "Promenade" (from Pictures at an Exhibition), (Modest Mussorgsky)
17. "Romeo and Juliet Love Theme" (Tchaikovsky)
18. "Sinfonia" (from Cantata No. 156), (Johann S. Bach)
19. "Toccata" (from L'Orfeo), (Claudio Monteverdi)
20. "Trumpet Tune in A-Major" (David N. Johnson)
21. "Sonatas for Organ, Op. 65, No. 3 (con moto maestoso)," (Felix Mendelssohn)
22. "Winter," Largo, (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)

Contemporary

23. "Appalachia Waltz" (Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor)
24. "Sunrise, Sunset" (from Fiddler on the Roof), (Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock)
25. "The Look of Love" (Dionne Warwick/Burt Bacharach)
26. "The Vow" (Jeremy Lubbock)
27. "To A Wild Rose" (Edward MacDowell)
28. "Flatbush Waltz" (Andy Statman)
29. "Wedding Processional" (from The Sound of Music), (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein)
Religious/Sacred

30. "All People That On Earth Do Dwell" ("Old 100th" hymn)
31. "Dona Nobis Pacem" (16th century hymn)
32. "Hanava Babanot" (A Love Song), (Neeman)
33. "St. Anthony's Chorale" (Franz Joseph Haydn)
34. "Hymn Fanfare from The Triumphant" (Francois Couperin)
35. "Scalero de Oro" (traditional Sephardic)

If you need more songs visit: www.theknot.com their music section is full of suggestions.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Back when I was in high school, in brass choir (an all brass ensemble) we played a song. I think it was called Trumpet Voluntary or something like that (it's been about 8 years, so I don't remember for sure). I know I've heard it at weddings before. It's really cool if you can get a small brass ensemble to play it. at the very least a soloist. I know I heard a trombone soloist play it once and it was great.

Answer 3

Do the two of you have "a song" together? Something that was playing during an important moment together, i.e first kiss, etc? I would use that, totally. If noone else gets it at the ceremony it can be a private thing between the two of you when you walk down the aisle and make your wedding that much more special and romantic!

Answer 4

I walked down the aisle to Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke. It was a duet between organ and trumpet. It was absolutely beautiful. This is the same song Princess Diana came down the aisle to back in the day, and I always wanted to have it in my wedding too.

Answer 5

Ave Maria

Answer 6

Well I am using more up to date music at my ceremony....take a look

1) Mothers- Enya "Only time"
2) Bridal Party- Boyz II Men "Color of Love"
3) Bride (traditional bridal march)

You can mix and match and just have LOADS of fun with it!! Congrats!!

Answer 7

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Answer 8

The Four Seasons by Vivaldi .. I think 'winter' and 'spring' are great for weddings . . .

Answer 9

Everything, by Lifehouse. Its a beautiful, slow song with very touching lyrics...there wasn't a dry eye in the building. People came up to us afterwards and told us that they've been to 20 weddings before and never shed a tear, and they wept during our entire ceremony.

I did it for my wedding march...here is a copy of the timing I did. You can adjust it as needed.

‘Everything’ by Lifehouse

Intro(0secs-21secs) 21 seconds total (first bridesmaid)

(22secs-1min12secs) 50 seconds total (second bridesmaid)
Find me here, speak to me
I want to feel you, I need to hear you
You are the light that's leading me
To the place where I find peace again.

(1min13secs-1min55secs) 42 seconds total (third bridesmaid)
You are the strength, that keeps me walking.
You are the hope, that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose...you're everything.

(1min56secs-2min30secs) 34 seconds total (fourth bridesmaid)
How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

(2min31secs-3min12secs) 41 seconds total (fifth bridesmaid)
You calm the storms, and you give me rest.
You hold me in your hands, you won't let me fall.
You steal my heart, and you take my breath away.
Would you take me in? Take me deeper now?

(3min13secs-3min55secs) 42 seconds total (maid of honor)
How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

(3min56secs-4min29secs) 33 seconds total (meee)
Cause you're all I want, you're all I need
You're everything, everything
You're all I want, you’re all I need
You're everything, everything.
You're all I want, you're all I need.
You're everything, everything
You're all I want, you're all I need,
You're everything, everything.

(4min30secs-5mins51secs) 81 seconds total (at the alter)
And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this? Any better? Any better?
And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

(FADE OUT)

(5mins52secs-6mins7secs) 15 seconds total
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

Answer 10

Wild Thing