Music Selection Possibilities

Below are music and song titles that are suitable for various portions of a wedding ceremony or reception. Let these stimulate your imagination in planning your wedding music.

 AT THE CHURCH

• PRELUDE (before the ceremony) 
  Adagio/Bach - Adagio in E/Handel - Bouree/Handel - Clair de Lune/Debussy - Evening Star/Mendelssohn - Evening Star/Wagner - Four Seasons/Vivaldi - Legende/Wiemski - Orange Blossoms/Friml - Prelude #2/Mendelssohn - Romance/Debussy - Salut D'Amour/Elgar - Sheep May Safely Graze/Bach - Sleepers Awake/Bach - Sunrise, Sunset (while parents and grandparents are seated) - The Swan/Saint-Saens 
   

• PROCESSIONAL (down the aisle) 
  Apothesis/Tchaikovsky - Bridal Chorus/Wagner - Canon in D/Pachebel - Doxology - Hymn Fanfare from The  Triumphant/Couperin - Fanfares/Sir Arthur Bliss - Fantasie in C/Franck - La Cinquantaine (for the flower girl) - March from AIDA/Verdi - March Nuptiale/Allan Caron - Prince of Denmark/Clarke - Sarabande from Suite #11/Handal - Sinfonia  (Wedding Cantata)/Bach - Theme from Fifth Symphony/Tschaikovsky - To A Wild Rose/Macdowell (for the ushers) - Voluntary/Purcell - Wedding March/Guilmant - Wedding March/Mendelssohn - Wedding Processional/(The Sound of Music) - Wedding Processional/K. Davies

• JEWISH PROCESSIONAL 
  Mahtovu (traditional) - Dodi Li - Erev Shel Shoshanim - V'erastitch - Castelnuovo /Tedesco

 RECITAL (for a formal service)
 

• Vocal SOLO 
  Ave Maria/Bach,Gounoud - Ave Maria/Schubert -  Because/Teschmacher/d'Harddot - I Love You Truly/Bond - Ich Leib Dich/Greig - O Promise Me/DeKoven - Oh Perfect Love/Blomfield - The Lord's Prayer/Ken Davies - A Wedding Prayer/Williams - Always/Irving Berlin - Heart Full Of Love/from Les Miserables - How Great Thou Art/Boberg,Hine - I  Believe/Drake,Graham,Shirl,Stillman - If We Only Have  Love/Jacques Brel - Mary Stone's Prayer/from The Devil and  Daniel Webster - One Hand, One Heart/from West Side Story - There Is Love/Stookey - Truly/Lionel Richie - Ave Verum/Mozart  - Panis Angelis/Frank

• Instrumental SOLO 
  Ave Maria /Bach/Gounoud - First Organ Sonata /Mendelssohn -  Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring /Bach - Suite for Lute / Bach (played on classical guitar) - Feels So Good/Chuck Mangione -  Morning Dance/Spyro Gyra 

• JEWISH SERVICE 
  Mi Adir - (opening blessing) Sheva Bracht - (The Seven Blessings) Priestly Benediction - from the Book of Numbers  6:25 - 27 Simon Tov Mazeltov - Recessional 

• RECESSIONAL 
  Air in D/Handel - Allegro Maestoso in D/Handel - Bell Symphony/Purcell - Hornpipe (Water Music)/Handel -  Processional/from Xerces /Handel - Trumpet Voluntary/Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary in D/Purcell - Wedding March/Mendelssohn

AT THE RECEPTION

ENTRANCE OF THE WEDDING PARTY

• GRANDPARENTS and PARENTS Moonlight and Roses - Night and Day - September Song - Yesterday - You Stepped Out of a Dream - Young at Heart 

• USHERS AND BRIDESMAIDS A Man and a Woman - Hey, Look Me Over - Say It With Music 

• MAID OF HONOR and BEST MAN A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody - A Man and a Woman 

• RING BEARER Baby Face - A Walk in the Black Forest - Jesus Loves the Little Children - The Lonely Goatherd (Sound of Music) 

• FLOWER GIRL You Make Me Feel So Young - Thank Heaven for Little Girls - Baby Face 

• BRIDE AND GROOM Here Comes the Bride (Majestic or Swing Style) Mendelssohn's Wedding March - Simon Tov Mazel Tov (Jewish) 

• BLESSING  Amen - Blest be the Tie That Binds - Doxology - Bir Chat Hamazon - (Jewish blessing after the meal) 

• TOAST For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

THE FIRST DANCE

• SLOW FOXTROT As Time Goes By - Because of You - Embraceable You - Love Me Tender - Someone to Watch Over Me - Somewhere (There's a Place for Us) - When You Wish Upon a Star - You Made Me Love You 

• WALTZ Always - Anniversary Song (also known as Anniversary Waltz) - Could I Have This Dance for the Rest of my Life? - Let Me Call You Sweetheart - My Cup Runneth Over - One Hand, One Heart - The Girl that I Marry - Time in a Bottle - True Love - Wunderbar - You Light Up My Life 

• SLOW ROCK And I Love You So - Endless Love - Evergreen - Feel Like Making Love - I'm Saving All My Love for You - Just the Way You Are - Looking Through the Eyes of Love - Memory - The Closer I Get to You - The Hawaiian Wedding Song - Tonight I Celebrate My Love - We've Only Just Begun - What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? - When a Man Loves a Woman - You and Me Against the World

• MEDIUM ROCK How Deep is Your Love? - Stand By Me - You Are the Sunshine of My Life 

• FAST FOXTROT (SOCIETY TEMPO) Cheek to Cheek - Easy to Love - I Love You - Our Love is Here To Stay 

• COUNTRY Forever and Ever, Amen - L - O - V - E - Take Me Home, Country Road - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - You Decorated My Life 

• CUTTING THE CAKE The Bride Cuts the Cake - Soft Background Music 

• BRIDE'S DANCE WITH HER FATHER Daddy's Little Girl - My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Papa, Won't You Dance with Me - Soliloquy from Carousel - Thank Heaven for Little Girls 

• GROOM'S DANCE WITH HIS MOTHER Boy of Mine - Mister Wonderful - Sunrise, Sunset 

• The GARTER A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody - The Stripper - You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 

• The BOUQUET Stout Hearted Men - Onward, Christian Soldiers - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Battle Hymn of the Republic

MUSIC FOR DANCING

• FOXTROT All of You - All the Things You Are - Anything Goes - Cheek to Cheek - The Continental - Dance in an Old - Fashioned Way - Dancing in the Dark - Mame - Its DeLovely - Just in Time - Mame - Memory - Night and Day - One - Put On a Happy Face - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Some Enchanted Evening - A Sunday Kind of Love - The Sweetest Sounds - Tomorrow - Younger Than Springtime 

• AMERICAN WALTZ Alice Blue Gown - Girl of my Dreams - Greensleeves - I Love You Truly - If You Were the Only Girl in the World - Lara's Theme - from Dr. Zhivago - Let Me Call You Sweetheart - Liebestraum - Love Makes the World Go Round - Moon River - True Love Wait Till You See Her - When I Grow Too Old to Dream 

• VIENNESE WALTZ Belle of the Ball - Blue Danube - Emperor Waltz - Merry Widow - Skater's Waltz - Tales from the Vienna Woods - The Waltz from Maxim's (Gigi) 

• LINDY (Swing) Begin the Beguine - Cherokee - Don't Be that Way - In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town - In the Mood - Little Brown Jug - Pennsylvania 6 - 5000 - Satin Doll - Sing Sing Sing - A String of Pearls - Take the 'A' Train - Tuxedo Junction - Woodchopper's Ball 

• POLKA Beer Barrel Polka - Clarinet Polka - Hoop-de-Doo - My Melody of Love - Pennsylvania Polka - Whistle While You Work * PEABODY Avalon - Heartaches - Mister Sandman - Whispering 

• RAGTIMEand DIXIELAND Ain't Misbehavin' - Alexander's Ragtime Band - Bill Bailey - South Rampart Street Parade - Sweet Georgia Brown - Tiger Rag - When My Sugar Walks Down the Street - When the Saints go Marching In 

• COUNTRY Country Roads - On the Road Again - San Antonio Rose - Southern Nights - Tie a Yellow Ribbon - Walking the Floor Over - You You are my Sunshine 

• CHA CHA Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Guantanamera - La Pachanga - Never on Sunday Patricia - Poco Pelo - Tea for Two 

• RUMBA Amor - Ballerina - Besame Mucho - Green Eyes - Miami Beach Rumba - More (Theme from MONDO CANE) - Spanish Eyes 

• TANGO Jalousie - La Cumpresita - Tango of Roses * SAMBA Brazil - Cumana - Tico Tico - Mambo - Mambo #5 - Mambo Jambo 

• MERENGUE Black Orpheus - Compadre Pedro Juan - Quando Quando Quando - Universal Merengue - What a Diff'rence a Day Made 

• BOSSA NOVA Girl from Ipanema - Meditation - How Insensitive - Wave - Paso Doble - El Relicario - Espana Cani - Lady of Spain 

• JEWISH (HORA/FREILACH) Artsa Alinu - Deyainu - Havah Negelah - Sholom Alaichem - To Life - Tzena Tzena - Ketsad M'Rakdim Odyishoma - Simon Tov - Vay Hi B'Sholom Melech * JEWISH (other & special) Bei Mir Bist du Shoen - Belz Mein Shtele Belz - Eishes Chayil - Fiddler on the Roof Matchmaker - Mezinka (parents of last daughter) - Miserlou - Mitzvah Tanz - (All dance with bride and groom) 

• ITALIAN (TARRENTELLA/MAZURKA) Al-Di-La - Arrivederci Roma - Come Back to Sorrento - Mala Femana - Non Dimenticar - Tarrentella - Volare 

• IRISH (IRISH JIG) Danny Boy - Irish Washerwoman - My Wild Irish Rose - Stack of Barley - That's an Irish Lullaby (Too-ra-loo-ra-loo- ral) - When Irish Eyes are Smiling 

• FRENCH Allez - Vous - April in Paris - I Love Paris - Je Vous Aime - Mam'selle - Paris in the Spring - The Last Time I Saw Paris 

• SCOTCH (REEL) Blue Bells of Scotland - Bring Back my Bonnie to Me - Loch Lommond 

• GREEK Kalamatiano - Mustafa - Samiotisa Stamiko - Theme from Zorba The Greek - Vialo 

• MEXICAN Cieto Linda - Estrelita - La Cucuracha - Las Chapanecas - Vaya con Dios - Que Sera Sera 

• RUSSIAN Dark Eyes - Karapet Korobushka Troika - Two Guitars * POLISH (POLKA) Husia, Siuskia Przepioreczka 

• GERMAN Ach de Lieber Augustine - Lili Marlene - Trink, Trink, Brudevlein Trink - Wilkommen (from CABARET) - Wo Die Nordsee Wellen 

• CARRIBEAN All Night Long - Calypso Melody - Con Razon o Sin Razon - Caribbean Queen - Jamaica Farewell - Kokomo - La Bamba - Saint Thomas 

• 1920s (and earlier) 
  Ain't She Sweet - Alice Blue Gown - Bye Bye Blackbird - Five Foot Two - For Me and my Girl - I Want a Girl - If You Knew Susie - Margie - My Melancholy Baby - Goody Goody - I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover - It Had to be You - Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey - Shine On, Harvest Moon - Sugar Blues - Sweet Adeline - That Old Gang of Mine - There'll Be Some Changes Made - Why Do I Love You? - Yes Sir, That's my Baby - You Made Me Love You 

• 1930s Anything Goes - Blue Moon - Body and Soul - Enjoy Yourself - Cocktails for Two - The Continental - Dancing on the Ceiling - Georgia on my Mind - How Deep is the Ocean - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You - It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing - It's a Sin to Tell a Lie - Just a Gigilo - Moonglow - On the Sunny Side of the Street - Over the Rainbow - Pennies from Heaven - That Old Gang of Mine - Too Marvelous for Words - Up a Lazy River - The Way You Look Tonight 

• 1940s Bewitched Beyond the Sea (La Mer) - Forty - Second Street - I Can't Get Started - I Can't Give You Anything But Love - I Don't Want to Walk Without You - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You - June Night - Moonlight Serenade - Oh What A Beautiful Morning - Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Some Enchanted Evening Sentimental Journey - Serenade in Blue Stardust - Tangerine - Tenderly - Till the End of Time - When You Wish Upon a Star 

• 1950s and Rock and Roll All I Have To Do Is Dream - Be My Love - Baby Love - Dance to the Music - Eight Days a Week - Hey There - The Hucklebuck - I'm Walkin' - It's Impossible - Johnny B. Goode - June Night - Kansas City - Mister Lee - Old Time Rock and Roll - Only You - Peggy Sue - Rock and Roll to Satisfy my Soul - Rock Around the Clock - Roll Over Beethoven - Save the Last Dance for Me - Shake Rattle and Roll - Silhouettes - Tammy - That'll Be the Day - Twist and Shout - Unchained Melody - Wake Up, Little Susie - Wipe Out 

• 1960s Angel of the Morning Baby Love - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - For Once in my Life - Hey Jude - I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Its Now or Never - The Loco - Motion - Our Day will Come Stay - The Second Time Around - Strangers in the Night - Tossin' and Turnin' - The Twist 

• 1970s After the Lovin' - The Air That I Breathe - Alone Again - Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Come In From the Rain - Easy - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Honestly Love You - Its Not for Me to Say - I Won't Last a Day Without You - Joy to the World - Love Will Keep Us Together - Night Fever - Nobody Does It Better - On the Street Where You Live - See You Later, Alligator - Shadow Dancing - Venus - You Are the Sunshine of My Life 

• 1980s 1-2-3/Miami Sound Machine - Big Love/Fleetwood Mac - Break Out/Swing Out Sister - Can't Stay Away/Gloria Estefan - Celebration/Kool and the Gang - Chains of Love/Erasure - Dance Little Sister/Terence T. D'Arby - Dancing on the Ceiling/Lionel Richie - Dreamin'/Vanessa Williams - Emotion in Motion /Rick Ocasek - Everybody Have Fun Tonight/Wang Chung - Faith/George Michael - Girlfriend/Pebbles - Giving You the Best/Anita Baker - Greatest Love of All /Whitney Houston - Hold in my Heart/Cyndi Lauper - Holiday/Madonna - Hot Hot Hot/Buster Poindexter - I Found Somebody/Cher - I Want to be Your Man - Kenny Rogers - I Want to Dance/Whitney Houston - 'll Always Love You/Taylor Dane - Jump/Pointer Sisters - Like a Prayer/Madonna - Living in a Prayer/ Bon Jovie - Lost in You/Rod Stewart - Lost in Your Eyes/Debbie Gibson - Love of a Lifetime/Chaka Kahn - Love Will Save the Day/Whitney Houston - One Moment in Time/Whitney Houston - The Power of Love/Huey Lewis - Real Love/Jody Whatley - The Real Thing/Jellybean - The Rose/Bette Midler - Saving All My Love for You/Whitney Houston - Say You Say Me/Lionel Richie - Sweet Love/Anita Baker - The Time of my Life - True Love/ Glen Frey - Under the Boardwalk/Bette Midler - We'll be Together/Sting - Wind Beneath My Wings/Bette Midler 

• FOR THE FOOD Supper March - The Night They Invented Champagne - Song of the Flame 

• NOVELTY DANCES The Alley Cat - Boomps a Daisey - The Bunny Hop - The Charleston - The Chicken Dance - The Conga (1 - 2 - 3 Kick) - Dollar Dance - Handkerchief Dance (Greek) - The Hokey Pokey - Mexican Hat Dance - Mummer's Reel (in Philadelphia) - Square Dances (various) Trough Dance (in the Farm Belt) - Virginia Reel 

• REGIONAL (and for the HONEYMOON) Aloha Oe - Autumn in Rome - Blue Bayou - Blue Hawaii - California, Here I Come - Chicago - Do You Know What it Means to miss New Orleans? - A Foggy Day (in London Town) - Manhattan - Moon Over Miami - My Kind of Town (Chicago Is) - New York, New York Saint Louis Blues - Tennessee Waltz - The Yellow Rose of Texas 

• SPECIAL OCCASIONS AND HOLIDAYS Anniversary Song - Happy Birthday - The Christmas Song - God Bless America - Easter Parade - My Funny Valentine - White Christmas 

• LOCATIONS, seasons and weather Autumn in New York - Blue Skies - Cruising Down the River - Hot Hot Hot - Its a Lovely Day Today - Its So Peaceful in the Country - Oh, What a Beautiful Morning! - Small Hotel - Spring is Here - Summertime - Stormy Weather 

• RELIGIOUS (Christian) All You Need is Love - Bless this House - Everything is Beautiful - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing - My Sweet Lord - Put Your Hand in the Hand 

• MUSIC FOR SINGING (Christian) Amazing Grace - Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit - In the Garden - Little Brown Church - Old Rugged Cross - Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus - The Bible Tells Me So - What a Friend We Have in Jesus

CLOSING MUSIC
Auf Wiedersehen - Auld Lang Syne - God Be With You 'till We Meet Again - Goodnight, My Love - Goodnight, Sweetheart - I'll See You in My Dreams - May You Always - On the Road Again - The Party's Over