Wedding Songs

Church Wedding Songs

When my friend first approached me with the matter of selecting the music for her wedding celebration, I had no idea that this would give me and my boyfriend a lot of headache. I initially agreed since my boyfriend is a DJ in a club and had many contracts as a wedding DJ as well. Most of our friends asked him to arrange the music atmosphere of their birthday parties and even wedding celebrations and to tell you for real, there wasn’t ever time for us to enjoy these parties as long as he was supposed to attend them from his professional perspective.




I joined him all the time in these occasions, partly because I needed to be sure that he would have a glass of drink and something to eat, as I knew from previous experiences that when he is up there at the desk nothing else matters to him. Anyway, the fact is that my friend wanted the music detail to be arranged both for the ceremonial and the reception. With the reception part it was OK for my boyfriend, but when I told him that the music assistant of my friend’s priest was sick and therefore he would miss the rehearsal and the church wedding songs inside the ceremonial, he started fidgeting around the idea that with the classical music he had no precedents.

This was the moment when we both began to search through the music web pages and see what was there suitable for the ceremony of a wedding. Everybody is familiar to the classical pieces of “Here comes the bride” and “Trumpet voluntary” but my friend told me that she had previously talked with the priest and got his approval to display other alternative songs to the classical ones. And here we were looking for the church wedding songs that my boyfriend was designated to have them displayed in the decent atmosphere of a ceremonial.

We had to look also for the events that normally take place inside this part of a wedding celebration and in this way we found out that the prelude is the moment when guests arrive and take their seats followed by the introduction of the groom and the priest. For this moment my boyfriend came with “Falling in love” by the O’Neil Brothers and “One man’s dream” performed by Yanni. My friend specifically asked us to prepare a list with at least two versions of songs to have the list presented to the priest and decide with him which one he agrees upon.

For the processional moment when the bride makes her entrance and starts walking down the aisle we came with “Hymn” – by Vangelis and “Because you loved me” performed by Celine Dion. The other songs were meant to fill the moments of Unity Candle lighting “Save the best for last” – by Vanessa Williams and “A whole new world” – the theme from Aladdin movie, and the recessional when the married couple leaves the scene of the ceremonial. For this last part my boyfriend thought of “Thank God I found you” – by Mariah Carey and “Tonight I celebrate my love” – by P. Bryson and R. Flack.

The songs were the ones that my boyfriend and I had found on several web sites and we made this compilation hoping that my friend would get the Father’s approval, otherwise our entire research would have been futile and as such not suitable to be performed as wedding music for worship places.

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