Wedding Songs

Songs For Jewish Wedding Ceremonies

Jewish weddings are have rituals full of meanings and symbols. Each song plays an important part in the wedding ceremony and they are all respected. If you thought that Jewish people have boring wedding ceremonies and that they don’t have any idea how to party, I am here to contradict this theory! Actually, Jewish people have a great deal of fun, because Jewish wedding ceremonies involve lots of dancing and partying. Everything is done for the successful marriage of the bride and the groom. The celebration is full of life, like a wedding ceremony should be: happiness and joy!




Being curious how exactly these songs sound, I looked up some websites and I found some titles of the costumary songs for Jewish wedding ceremonies, with or without performing artists. Not bad at all! These are titles of some traditional ones, which are played at each Jewish wedding for a good time and celebration. And did I mention that the bride and the groom dance along with their guests all night long? That really means a fun wedding!

- Chosen Kallah Mazel Tov – Shilakowsky String Quartet
- Hava Nagila – Frankie Yankovic
- Hevenu Shalom Aleichem – Shilakowsky String Quartet
- K’shoshana Ben Hachochim – Shilakowsky String Quartet
- Shir Ha’Keshet – Alabina
- Sheyn Vi Di L’vone – Ken Ulansey
- Erev Ba (Evening Comes)
- Od Y’shama (The Voice of Gladness Shall be Heard Again)
- Y’did Nefesh (Beloved of my Soul)
- Mezinka Dance
- El Kabir (Almighty God)
- Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening of Roses)
- Erev Ba (Evening Comes)
- Ki Le Olam Chas Do (His Love is Everlasting)
- Dodi Li (My Beloved is Mine, and I am His)
- Hana’ava Babanot (The Fairest of Maidens)
- Ani Le Dodi (I Am My Beloved’s)
- S’u Sh’orim (Look up to the Gates)
- Od Yishama Be’Arei Yehuda
- Hodu L’Adonai Ki Tov (Give Thanks to the Lord)

CDs with songs for Jewish wedding ceremonies you can find here and here. If you thought that you won’t find any traditional Jewish wedding songs, don’t worry, so actually do, they are not rare at all.

So it is easy if you want to have a Jewish wedding. You can find the music easily on the internet or on shops, whatever is easier for you. Also, you might want to search for the Jewish rituals, to understand better the meanings and the whole process, because everything has a certain role and is put in a certain order. And Jewish people do respect their rituals in a very serious way.

If you want more proof of how nice a Jewish wedding ceremony is, you can enter Youtube and see for yourself. The dances and songs are very vivid and a real feeling of celebration is being spread to every guest at the wedding! And that is the best, because a marriage is a very big motif of celebration and partying, isn’t it?

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