Wedding Songs

Contemporary Songs for Your Ceremony

You decided to unite your destinies and you are not the traditional wedding ceremony type. It means that you are looking for some modern, non-traditional music for your wedding ceremony. That’s not too difficult to find. Until several years ago, wedding ceremony music was limited to church hymns and religious music.

Nowadays, couples are choosing for their wedding ceremonies songs that fit their personalities and styles. Religious music is perfectly appropriate if your wedding location asks it. If not, you may consider adding some contemporary flair to your playlist.

Let’s see some wedding ceremony music for the seating of the guests. In order to get good seats, guests use to come to church about 30 minutes before the ceremony begins. While they are waiting for your grand entrance you may entertain them with some funny tunes about love and marriage.

The Chapel of Love by the Dixie Cups is a classic song which also has several good covers by other artists including the Bette Midler.

Don’t Falter at the Alter by Cab Calloway is a funny song about giving strength to a nervous groom waiting for his bride.
Love and Marriage by Frank Sinatra and L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole are two nice songs with offbeat melodies that describe the essence of marriage.

You also need two or three songs for your wedding processional. It depends on the length of the wedding ceremony. Here you have some contemporary suggestions:
La Valse d’Amelie This is the soundtrack from the famous Amelie French movie, which has a high sense of magical whimsy.

Heavenly Day by Patty Griffin is a song that evokes exactly the mood and feelings of a wedding ceremony.
Seems I’m Never Tired of Lovin’ You by Nina Simone is a perfect song for a spectacular bride’s entrance.
The Luckiest by Ben Folds Five is a touching song that reminds everybody of the way they feel about their sweetheart.
There She Goes by the La’s is also a nice funny song for the bride’s great entrance.

Let’s see some music for the mid-ceremony special moments such as the unity candle lighting or the registry signing. You can consider the following ones:

Ashokan Farewell is a beautiful instrumental song appropriate for strings or piano if you decide to hire an ensemble.

At Last by Ella Fitzgerald is a great love song appropriate for the wedding ceremony. This is the most popular song of the artist. Many couples choose it for processional music.

Time After Time is a song that had a lot of versions, but the one made famous by Chet Baker is the one for you. As the wedding ceremony is ending you need some celebratory and upbeat songs that will set the mood for dancing at your wedding reception. Here are some suggestions:

Sh-boom by the American doo wop group The Chords, Happy Together by the Turtles and I Feel Good by James Brown are to be taken into consideration.

Make a rehearsal to be sure that the songs you choose synchronize perfectly with the length of your special moments in order for everything to turn perfect.

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