• We've compiled a short list of popular music selections for each segment of your ceremony* (a few titles are repeated) 
• Additional titles are listed on our Wedding and Jewish Wedding music pages
• See sample programs from weddings we've played here
• Need ideas for wedding music themes?
• For a wealth of sound clips, visit Wed Alert

 *be sure to check with the music director of your church or synagogue for any music restrictions

PRELUDE

• Arioso (Bach)
• Brandenburg Concerto #5 (Bach)
• Pastorale (Corelli)
• Simple Gifts (traditional Shaker hymn)
• Water Music Suite (Handel)

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SEATING OF THE MOTHERS/GRANDMOTHERS

• Arioso (Bach)
• Largo from Concerto for Two Violins in D minor (Bach)
• Wachet Auf from Cantata No. 140 (Bach)
• The Four Seasons: Winter's Largo (Vivaldi)

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BRIDAL PARTY PROCESSIONAL

• Air on the G String (Bach)
• Air from Water Music Suite (Handel)
• Arioso (Bach)
• Canon (Pachelbel)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
• Wachet Auf from Cantata No. 140 (Bach)

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• Air from Water Music Suite (Handel)
• Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin (Wagner)
• Canon (Pachelbel)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
• Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
• Wachet Auf (Bach)
• Yedid Nefesh (Jewish traditional)
  

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• Ave Maria (Schubert)
• The Four Seasons: Winter's Largo (Vivaldi)
  
• The Lord's Prayer (Malotte)
• One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story (Bernstein)

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RECESSIONAL

•  Brandenburg Concerto #3 (Bach)
•  The Four Seasons: Spring's Allegro (Vivaldi)
•  Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah (Handel)
•  Hornpipe from Water Music Suite (Handel)
•  La Rejouissance (Handel)
•  Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
•  Od Yeshoma (Jewish traditional)
•  Palladio (DeBeers Diamond Song)
•  Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
•  Wedding March (Mendelssohn)

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• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
• The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
• Ode to Joy (Beethoven)

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• Beatles songs
• Broadway hits
• George Gershwin and Cole Porter classics
• Light classical
• Opera favorites
• Pop songs (Enya, Nora Jones, Sting, etc.)
• Scott Joplin Rags
• String quartets by Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart
• Tangos
• Waltzes by Strauss 

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     "When words leave off, music begins" 

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