Wedding Songs

Bagpipe Songs for Your Wedding

If you are to marry a Scotsman, than you need to find some traditional bagpipe music for your wedding in order to surprise your future spouse to be and your guests.




Today, bagpipe wedding music is more popular than ever. The reason: pipers have been entertaining guests at weddings for centuries and always made a nice figure. The romantic tunes of the bagpipes add a special and memorable touch to any wedding, whether inside a church or outside in a park or garden.

You don’t have to be Scottish or Irish in order to have bagpipe music at your wedding, because this is music for all. You can hire a piper to sing at your wedding ceremony, to announce the arrival of the bride and the groom at the reception or to welcome your guests in the parking place. They will be more than thrilled to be welcomed in such a nice way.

If you are in love with Scotland or Ireland and want to show it by having a Scottish or Irish-themed wedding, here are some of the most popular bagpipe tunes often played at weddings:

Glendaruel Highlanders – a jolly tune to welcome the bride and the groom on their way to church. Did you know that according to Scottish tradition, if a bagpiper greets the bride first, she is to have a long and successful marriage? So, pipers are also thought to bring good luck.

Ode to Joy is a nice tune for the wedding processional while the bride walks down the aisle.

Amazing Grace, Bluebells of Scotland or For the Love of a Prince – are three nice hymns to be sung as background during the wedding ceremony service or during the signing of the marriage register.

Highland Wedding – is a nice happy tune for the recessional moment when the happy newlyweds exit the church on their way to the wedding reception hall. It’s also a nice alternative to the Bridal March.

Scotland the Brave or Mairi’s Wedding– this are good choices for piping the young couple as they enter the wedding reception hall while everybody is clapping along.

Flower of Scotland is one of Scotland’s national songs that can be played anytime during your wedding reception.

Other Scottish and Irish bagpipe tunes for your wedding reception may be:

Tiree Love Song

Sweet Maid of Glendaruel

Lord of the Dance – a very joyful tune that will raise all your guests up.

Old Rustic Bridge

Irish Medley

The Water Is Wide

Danny Boy

Jenny’s Bawbee

Yankee Doodle

The Gypsy’s Warning

Green Hills of Tyrol

The Jolly Beggarman

Last Rose of Summer

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

When Johnny comes Marching Home

A piper can add much more to your wedding than a few specific bagpipe tunes. The tunes can vary from traditional to contemporary. If you have a specific tune in mind, speak to your bagpiper before the wedding to see if it’s possible for him to sing it. Remember, the bagpipe has only nine notes and this limits its performing capacities.

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