There is so much choice when you’re looking for wedding ceremony music ideas but we’re here to help and make suggestions that will work well and be personal to you as a couple. So, let’s get started…
The Wedding Ceremony
You will need to choose three pieces of piano music for your wedding pianist to play at a Civil Ceremony: the entrance of the Bride (Processional), the Signing of the Register and the Bride and Groom’s exit (Recessional). It is probably worth bearing in mind that the Processional and Recessional pieces of music will be very short so you may wish to save your favourite song or songs for the Signing of the Register. Although you are not allowed to choose any religious music there is still a huge choice available to you.
We have listed below some wedding songs which are acceptable to the Registrars for a Civil Ceremony. Of course, you are welcome to choose a song which is not on the list, just let us know and we will advise you whether it will be permissible to the Registrars and whether it will sound good played on the piano.
If you do not wish to choose the wedding piano music yourself, we will be most happy to do it for you.
Popular Wedding Ceremony Songs
Canon In D – Johann Pachelbel
Bridal March from ‘Lohengrin’ – Richard Wagner
Air From Suite No. 3 – J S Bach
Prelude In C Major – J S Bach
Trumpet Voluntary – Jeremiah Clarke
Wedding March from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ – Felix Mendelssohn
Gymnopedie No. 1 – Erik Satie
All You Need Is Love – The Beatles
Amazed – Lonestar
Ballade Pour Adeline – Richard Clayderman (De Senneville)
Cavatina – Stanley Myers
Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison
I Swear – All-4-One (Myers/Baker)
I Giorni – Ludovico Einaudi
It Had To Be You – Harry Connick Jr. (Jones/Kahn)
Let There Be Love – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Rand/Grant)
Make You Feel My Love – Adele (Bob Dylan)
Moon River – Danny Williams (Henry Mancini)
River Flows In You – (Yiruma)
Sleepy Shores – (Johnny Pearson)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow – (Harold Arlen)
The Way You Look Tonight – (Jerome Kern)
They Can’t Take That Away From Me – (Gershwin)
This Will Be An Everlasting Love – Natalie Cole
Thousand Years – Christina Perri
We’ve Only Just Begun – The Carpenters (Williams/Nichols)
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong (Weiss/Thiele)
When I Fall In Love – Nat ‘King’ Cole (Heyman/Young)
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder
Unsuitable Civil Ceremony Music
Jupiter – Holst (I Vow To Thee My Country)
Ave Maria
Ode To Joy (Beethoven)
Amazing Grace
Chapel Of Love
Londonderry Air (aka Danny Boy)
Jesus Christ Superstar musical
