Wedding Music
Music plays an integral part of setting the atmosphere for your special day. The entertainment you select will be a major factor in creating the mood.
Once you have decided on the style of your wedding start thinking of what music best compliments your choices. It is important to choose a vocalist who is willing to sit down and spend plenty of time with you in person before your wedding to discuss specifics such as musical styles, where the musicians will be positioned and songs that are special to you.
If you have extra requirements, I will do my best to accommodate. If you wish, a harmony singer is available and, in certain areas, a harpist and/or violinist is also available.
Hint
After you have decided on a programme of music for the ceremony, it is recommended that you check it with your priest. In certain churches, secular songs are not allowed so it's best to be sure.
Repertoire
Below is a list of music in Carol-Ann's repertoire. This list is just to give you some ideas of what you may choose; however any specific music you wish can be performed at the ceremony.
Processional music (played as the bride walks up the aisle)
- Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
- Canon in D (Pachelbel)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
- Trumpet Voluntary (Purcell)
- Bridal chorus (Richard Wagner)
- Air (from Handel's Water Music)
- Air on a G String (from Orchestral Suite No.3, Bach)
Ceremony songs (played during the sections of the service)
- Ave Maria (Bach)
- Ave Maria (Rossini)
- Ave Maria (Schubert)
- Ave Verum (Mozart)
- Hiding Place (Liam Lawton)
- Dona Nobis Pacem (Mary Lynn-Lightfoot)
- Gabriel's Oboe (Ennio Moriconne)
- You Raise me Up (Secret garden)
- The Lord Bless You And Keep You
- I will be the Vine
- On Eagles Wings
- Set me like a Seal on your Heart
- Ag Críost an Síol
- You are Mine
- Set Your Heart on the Higher Gifts
- We Come to your Feast
- Bí a Iosa Ím Chroíse
- Panis Angelicus (Cesar Franck)
Recessionals (music played as bride & groom leave the church)
- Hornpipe (from Water Music Suite, Handel))
- Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
- Spring (from Vivaldi's Four Seasons)
- Wedding March (From a Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn)
