Church Music Repertoire
Entrance:· Bridal March (Wagner)
· Gabriel's Oboe (Morricone) (sung or played)
· The Secret Wedding (from Braveheart)
· Canon in D (Pachelbel)
· Footprints in the Sand
· By My Side – The Wedding Song (Micansky)
· Spring (from Vivaldi's Four Seasons)
· You By My Side
Lighting of Baptismal/Marriage Candles:
(Please choose two pieces, one both of the candle ceremonies - only 30-60 seconds of music is required) – generally instrumental
· She Moved Through the Fair (Traditional)
· One Hand, One Heart (from West Side Story)
· Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
· Air on a G String (Bach)
· The Coolin (Trad)
· The Water is Wide
· Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
· Morning Has Broken
· Greensleeves
Responsorial Psalm:
· On Eagle's Wings
· The Lord's My Shepherd/‘Sé an Tiarna m’Aoire
· Be Not Afraid
· May The Road Rise to Meet You
· Here I Am Lord
· You Are Mine
· The Hiding Place (Lawton)
· Song of Ruth (Wherever You Go)
· Only in God
Offertory:
· Ave Maria (Schubert)
· Down in the River to Pray
· One Bread, One Body
· Eat This Bread
· I Am The Bread of Life
· Ag Críost an Síol
· As I Kneel Before You
· In Bread We Bring You Lord
The Sign of Peace:
· Tabhair Dom do Lámh
· Dona Nobis Pacem
· Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
· World in Union
· Shalom
*Alleluia/Holy Holy/Acclamation/Our Father if required*
*When choosing your music, YouTube is a great online resource for identifying any songs you may not know*
*Don’t forget to consider Christmas hymns if your wedding is in December!* / Communion: (choose two songs for Communion)
· Panis Angelicus (Franck)
· You Raise Me Up
· Nella Fantasia (Gabriel's Oboe - sung)
· May It Be (Lord of the Rings)
· Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber)
· To Make You Feel My Love
· Amazing Grace
· Will You Dance With Me?
· The Rose
· The Cloud's Veil (Lawton)
· Soul of my Saviour
· How Great Thou Art
· I Watch the Sunrise
· Be Thou My Vision
Signing of the Register: (choose two songs here)
· Perhaps Love (John Denver/Luciano Pavarotti)
· The Prayer (Celine Dion/Andrea Bocelli)
· Songbird (Eva Cassidy)
· Fields of Gold (Eva Cassidy)
· Longer (Dan Fogelberg)
· All I Ask Of You (from Phantom of the Opera)
· In My Life (The Beatles)
· Home (Gabrielle Aplin)
· Next To Me (Emelie Sande)
· Better (Tom Baxter)
· All I Want is You (U2)
· Falling Slowly (Glen Hansard)
· No Frontiers (Mary Black)
· Everytime You Look at Me (Carrie Underwood)
· From This Moment On (Shania Twain)
· A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)
· First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
· Feels Like Home
· Rule The World (English or Italian)
· How Long Will I Love You (Ellie Goulding)
· At Last
· The Voyage (Christy Moore)
*Communion & Register songs can generally be interchanged
Recessional:
· Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
· Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
· 9th Symphony (Beethoven)
· Water Music (Handel)
· Te Deum (Charpentier)
· Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
· All You Need is Love (Beatles)
· One Day Like This (Elbow)
· Everything (Michael Buble)
· We’ve Only Just Begun (Carpenters)
· Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
· Oh Happy Day
*Songs in red indicate songs that probably won’t be appropriate if your priest requires a liturgical-only programme. Classical instrumentals are usually fine*
If there is a song you like not on this list, I’m happy to learn it once I have sufficient notice.
I would generally learn only one new song per wedding.
Civil Ceremony Music Repertoire
· A Thousand Years
· All I Ask Of You
· All I Want is You
· All Of Me
· All You Need Is Love
· Amazing Grace
· At Last
· Better
· Black Is The Colour
· By Your Side
· By My Side (The Wedding Song)
· Come What May
· Come Away With Me
· Down in the River To Pray
· Every Time You Look at Me (Carrie Underwood)
· Everything
· Falling Slowly
· Feels Like Home
· Fields of Gold
· Flying Without Wings
· Footprints in the Sand
· From This Moment On
· God Only Knows
· Heaven
· Here Comes The Sun
· How Long Will I Love You
· I Can't Help Falling in Love With You
· I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls
· If You Love Me
· In My Life
· Into My Arms
· Longer
· Make You Feel My Love
· May It Be
· Nella Fantasia
· Next To Me
· No Frontiers
· Oh Happy Day
· One Day like This (Elbow)
· Perhaps Love
· Rule The World
· She Moved Through The Fair
· Somewhere Over The Rainbow
· SomewherefromWest Side Story
· Somewhere Only We Know
· Songbird
· The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
· The Climb
· The Prayer
· The Rose
· The Voyage
· The Water Is Wide
· We’ve Only Just Begun
· What A Wonderful World
· Wind Beneath My Wings
· You Raise Me Up
· Your Song / INSTRUMENTALS
· Bridal March - Wagner
· Wedding March - Mendelssohn
· Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)
· The Secret Wedding (Braveheart)
· Air on a G String
· Canon in D - Pachelbel
· Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
· Trumpet Voluntary
· Te Deum
When choosing your music, YouTube is a great online resource for identifying any songs you may not be sure of!
Selecting Music for a Civil Ceremony:
A rough guideline of where we can include music would be as follows. However, you will have greater leeway in the structure of the ceremony, and hence where you would like music to be included. Some celebrants prefer not to include liturgical music, and also may suggest you consider a sand, wine or handfasting ceremony. Have a chat with your celebrant and they will advise you on what structure they like to include!
SAMPLE OUTLINE
- Music - Entrance
- Opening Greeting by Registrar
- Music - Lighting of 2 candles
- Reading no 1
- Music
- Reading no 2
- Declaration
- Music
- Ring Ceremony
- Music - Lighting of unity candle
- Closing Greeting by Registrar
- Music - Signing of the Register (2 songs)
- Music - Exit
If there is a song you like not on this list, I’m happy to learn it once I have sufficient notice. I would generally learn only one new song per wedding!
Selecting Music for a Church Ceremony:
Do bear in mind that if you are getting married in a church, you should check the final music repertoire with your priest or celebrant, as occasionally non-liturgical music (and on rare occasions, instrumental music) is considered inappropriate. If you have a particular favourite song or piece of music you'd like me to include, I'd be delighted to oblige, once you give me plenty of notice to learn it properly, and as long as it's appropriate to the ceremony. In addition, you may also wish to have some parts of the Mass such as Alleluia, Holy Holy, Acclamation, Our Father etc sung, or Christmas hymns for December weddings.
For a church ceremony, music will be required in the following places:
- Entrance
- Lighting of Baptismal Candles - short piece of music, usually instrumental
- Responsorial Psalm - if you wish this to be sung, be sure you don’t have someone saying a psalm too
- Gospel Acclamation (Alleluia) – can be either spoken by priest or sung by me
- Lighting of the Marriage Candle - short piece of music, usually instrumental
- Offertory
- Memorial Acclamation (He is Lord/Christ Has Died) – can be either spoken by priest or sung by me
- The Sign of Peace
- Communion (2 songs)
- Signing of the Register (2 songs)
- Recessional
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