Wedding Music Guidelines

A Church wedding is a sacramental rite when administered according to the solemn form of word and ceremony given to the Book of Common Prayer, and it follows that any music used in connection with it should be suitable for a church service, as distinguished from a social gathering. As in all services of the Church, it should be an aid to worship. Secular music usually does not fit the serious nature of the ceremony and is far better used at the wedding reception.
    from the Joint Music Commission on Church Music of the Episcopal Church

Recommended music:
Processionals
It is not necessary that the music for a procession
be in march tempo; it is enough that it have a feeling
of movement and a mood of dignity and joy.

Rigaudon, Campra
Sleepers Awake, Bach
Rhosymedre, Vaughn Williams
Agincourt Hymn
Canon in D, Pachelbel
Rondeau from Symphonie de Fanfares, Mouret
Grave from Fantasy in G, Bach
Selections from Water Music, Handel
Prelude in E-Flat, Bach
Allebreve, Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man?s Desiring, Bach
Trumpet Tunes by Clarke, Purcell, Stanley, Telemann


Vocal Solos
Simple Song, Bernstein
Wedding Song, Flor Peters
The Lord is my Shepherd, Dvorak
Prepare Thyself, Zion, Bach
Blessing, Sleeth
Brother James Air
Recessionals
Psalm XIX, Marcello
Rigaudon, Campra
Finale Jubilante, Willan
Allegro, Boellmann
Sonatas, Mendelssohn
Toccata from Symphony V, Widor
Carillon Sortie, Mulet
Prelude in G Major, Bach
Fugue in G Minor, Bach
Ode to Joy, Beethoven


Hymns (from Hymnal 1982)
376     Joyful, joyful, we adore thee
379     God is love, let heaven adore him
396/7    Now thank we all our God
350     O God of love, to thee we bow
351     May the grace of Christ our Savior
352     O God, to those who here profess
353     Your love, O God, has called us here
400     All creature of our God and King
410     Praise, my soul, the King of heaven
516     Come down, O Love divine
576/7    God is love, and where true love is
581     Where charity and love prevail
645/7    The King of Love my shepherd is
657     Love divine, all loves excelling
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