Musical performances
The Ceremony – musical ideas
15 – 20 minutes of music as your guests arrive
Entrance of wedding party: Opening Prayer and music
First Reading
Music – a short extract
Second Reading
Evangile
Sermon
Music – a short extract
Marriage Vows
Giving of the rings
Music – a short extract
Prayers
Offertory Music
Lord’s Prayer
Communion Music
Prayer to Sainte Marie: Music: Ave Maria
Signatures: Music
Final Blessing
Recessional: Music
Ideas for the ceremony
Albinoni Adagio Handel Air (Water Music)
Bach Aria Handel Alleluia Chorus (Messiah)
Bach Arioso Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Bach Bist du bei mir Handel Hornpipe (Water Music)
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3 Handel La Réjouissance
Bach Concerto for 2 Violins Handel Lascia ch’io piangia
Bach Jesu joy of man’s desiring Handel Ombra mai fu (Largo)
Bach/Gounod Ave Maria Handel Sheep may safely graze
Caccini Ave Maria Handel Where’er You Walk
Charpentier Prelude Massenet Meditation (Thais)
Clarke Trumpet Voluntary Mendelssohn Wedding March
Cohen Alleluia. Morricone Gabriel’s Oboe
Debussy Clair de lune Fauré Pavane
Franck Panis Angelicus. Mouret Rondeau
Gluck Che faro senza Eurydice Mozart Allelujah (Exultate Jubilate
Mozart Ave Verum Pachelbel Canon Purcell Trumpet Tune Schubert Ave Maria
Tartini Cantabile Telemann Sonata in A
Vangelis Hymn Vivaldi 4 Saisons - Spring
Wagner Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin)
Entrance
· Pachelbel: Canon
· Bach: Aria
· Bach Arioso
· Bach : 2nd mouvt Concerto for 2 Violins
· Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary
· Purcell: Trumpet Tune
· Charpentier: Prelude
· Mouret: Rondeau
· Handel: Hornpipe (Water Music)
· Mendelssohn: Wedding March
· Wagner: Bridal Chorus
Between Readings, after Sermon, during Communion etc.
· Albinoni: Adagio
· Bach: Jesu joy of man’s desiring
· Handel: Air (Water Music)
· Handel: Lascia ch’io piangia
· Handel: Ombre mai fu (Largo)
· Handel: La Réjouissance
· Mozart: Allelujah (Exultate Jubilate)
· Mozart: Ave Verum
· Fauré: Pavane
· Massenet: Meditation (Thais)
· Cohen: Alleluia
Ave Maria: Schubert, Bach, Caccini
During the Signatures
· Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3
· Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins
· Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
· Vivaldi: Four Seasons: Spring (1st mov’t)
Recessional
· Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3
· Bach : Concerto for 2 Violins (1st mov’t)
· Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
· Handel: Alleluia Chorus (Messiah)
· Vivaldi: Four Seasons : Spring (1st mov’t)
· Mendelssohn: Wedding March
· Wagner: Bridal Chorus