Church Music Repertoire
Entrance:
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Bridal March (Wagner)
Gabriel's Oboe (Morricone) (sung or played)
The Secret Wedding (from Braveheart)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Footprints in the Sand
By My Side – The Wedding Song (Micansky)
Spring (from Vivaldi's Four Seasons)
You By My Side
Lighting of Baptismal/Marriage Candles:
(Please choose two pieces, one both of the candle ceremonies - only 30-60
generally instrumental
She Moved Through the Fair (Traditional)
One Hand, One Heart (from West Side Story)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
Air on a G String (Bach)
The Coolin (Trad)
The Water is Wide
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)
Morning Has Broken
Greensleeves
seconds of music is required) –
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Responsorial Psalm:
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On Eagle's Wings
The Lord's My Shepherd/‘Sé an Tiarna m’Aoire
Be Not Afraid
May The Road Rise to Meet You
Here I Am Lord
You Are Mine
The Hiding Place (Lawton)
Song of Ruth (Wherever You Go)
Only in God
Offertory:
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Ave Maria (Schubert)
Down in the River to Pray
One Bread, One Body
Eat This Bread
I Am The Bread of Life
Ag Críost an Síol
As I Kneel Before You
In Bread We Bring You Lord
The Sign of Peace:
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Tabhair Dom do Lámh
Dona Nobis Pacem
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
World in Union
Shalom
*Alleluia/Holy Holy/Acclamation/Our Father if required*
*When choosing your music, YouTube is a great online
resource for identifying any songs you may not know*
*Don’t forget to consider Christmas hymns if your
wedding is in December!*
Communion:
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(choose two songs for Communion)
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
You Raise Me Up
Nella Fantasia (Gabriel's Oboe - sung)
May It Be (Lord of the Rings)
Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber)
To Make You Feel My Love
Amazing Grace
Will You Dance With Me?
The Rose
The Cloud's Veil (Lawton)
Soul of my Saviour
How Great Thou Art
I Watch the Sunrise
Be Thou My Vision
Signing of the Register: (choose two songs here)
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Perhaps Love (John Denver/Luciano Pavarotti)
The Prayer (Celine Dion/Andrea Bocelli)
Songbird (Eva Cassidy)
Fields of Gold (Eva Cassidy)
Longer (Dan Fogelberg)
All I Ask Of You (from Phantom of the Opera)
In My Life (The Beatles)
Home (Gabrielle Aplin)
Next To Me (Emelie Sande)
Better (Tom Baxter)
All I Want is You (U2)
Falling Slowly (Glen Hansard)
No Frontiers (Mary Black)
Everytime You Look at Me (Carrie Underwood)
From This Moment On (Shania Twain)
A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Feels Like Home
Rule The World (English or Italian)
How Long Will I Love You (Ellie Goulding)
At Last
The Voyage (Christy Moore)
*Communion & Register songs can generally be interchanged
Recessional:
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Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
9th Symphony (Beethoven)
Water Music (Handel)
Te Deum (Charpentier)
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
All You Need is Love (Beatles)
One Day Like This (Elbow)
Everything (Michael Buble)
We’ve Only Just Begun (Carpenters)
Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
Oh Happy Day
*Songs in red indicate songs that probably won’t be
appropriate if your priest requires a liturgical-only
programme. Classical instrumentals are usually fine*
If there is a song you like not on this list, I’m happy to learn it once I have sufficient notice.
I would generally learn only one new song per wedding.
Civil Ceremony Music Repertoire
SONGS
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A Thousand Years
All I Ask Of You
All I Want is You
All Of Me
All You Need Is Love
Amazing Grace
At Last
Better
Black Is The Colour
By Your Side
By My Side (The Wedding Song)
Come What May
Come Away With Me
Down in the River To Pray
Every Time You Look at Me (Carrie Underwood)
Everything
Falling Slowly
Feels Like Home
Fields of Gold
Flying Without Wings
Footprints in the Sand
From This Moment On
God Only Knows
Heaven
Here Comes The Sun
How Long Will I Love You
I Can't Help Falling in Love With You
I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls
If You Love Me
In My Life
Into My Arms
Longer
Make You Feel My Love
May It Be
Nella Fantasia
Next To Me
No Frontiers
Oh Happy Day
One Day like This (Elbow)
Perhaps Love
Rule The World
She Moved Through The Fair
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Somewhere from West Side Story
Somewhere Only We Know
Songbird
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
The Climb
The Prayer
The Rose
The Voyage
The Water Is Wide
We’ve Only Just Begun
What A Wonderful World
Wind Beneath My Wings
You Raise Me Up
Your Song
INSTRUMENTALS
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Bridal March - Wagner
Wedding March - Mendelssohn
Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)
The Secret Wedding (Braveheart)
Air on a G String
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Trumpet Voluntary
Te Deum
When choosing your music, YouTube is a great online
resource for identifying any songs you may not be sure of!
Selecting Music for a Civil Ceremony:
A rough guideline of where we can include music would
be as follows. However, you will have greater leeway in
the structure of the ceremony, and hence where you
would like music to be included. Some celebrants
prefer not to include liturgical music, and also may
suggest you consider a sand, wine or handfasting
ceremony. Have a chat with your celebrant and they
will advise you on what structure they like to include!
SAMPLE OUTLINE
- Music - Entrance
- Opening Greeting by Registrar
- Music - Lighting of 2 candles
- Reading no 1
- Music
- Reading no 2
- Declaration
- Music
- Ring Ceremony
- Music - Lighting of unity candle
- Closing Greeting by Registrar
- Music - Signing of the Register (2 songs)
- Music - Exit
If there is a song you like not on this list, I’m
happy to learn it once I have sufficient notice. I
would generally learn only one new song per
wedding!
Selecting Music for a Church Ceremony:
Do bear in mind that if you are getting married in a church, you should check the final music repertoire with
your priest or celebrant, as occasionally non-liturgical music (and on rare occasions, instrumental music) is
considered inappropriate. If you have a particular favourite song or piece of music you'd like me to include, I'd
be delighted to oblige, once you give me plenty of notice to learn it properly, and as long as it's appropriate to
the ceremony. In addition, you may also wish to have some parts of the Mass such as Alleluia, Holy Holy,
Acclamation, Our Father etc sung, or Christmas hymns for December weddings.
For a church ceremony, music will be required in the following places:
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Entrance
Lighting of Baptismal Candles - short piece of music, usually instrumental
Responsorial Psalm - if you wish this to be sung, be sure you don’t have someone saying a psalm too
Gospel Acclamation (Alleluia) – can be either spoken by priest or sung by me
Lighting of the Marriage Candle - short piece of music, usually instrumental
Offertory
Memorial Acclamation (He is Lord/Christ Has Died) – can be either spoken by priest or sung by me
The Sign of Peace
Communion (2 songs)
Signing of the Register (2 songs)
Recessional
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