Wedding Songs

The Bride’s Guide To Wedding Music

Continuing our discussion about wedding books and other items issued to ease a couple’s challenging task of selecting their wedding music, we will focus in this article on another important instrument: The Bride’s Guide to Wedding Music: A Complete Resource (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook), as composed by various artists and published by Hal Leonard.




This work is more than a songbook. It is in fact a great guide and a complete instrument for planning wedding ceremony and reception music. The guide includes all the traditional as well as the newer standards for weddings, included in nine categories as follows: Preludes, Processionals, Recessionals, Traditional Sacred Songs, Popular Songs, Country Songs, Contemporary Christian Songs, Broadway Songs and New Age Piano Music.

The first 6 pages of the book are an introduction where Elaine Schmidt is giving tips and advices on choosing the wedding music. The rest of the songbook is dedicated to piano parts, lyrics and guitar chords for special tunes such as: You Raise Me Up, From This Moment On, Ave Maria, The Lord’s Prayer and instrumental pieces such as: Sheep May Safely Graze, Canon in D and Trumpet Voluntary.

The book includes a total of 65 songs in many different styles with the purpose of satisfying many different musical tastes. In a phrase, this is an essential tool for all brides-to-be. The titles of the 65 songs in the book are as follows:

A Place Called Home

Air

Air On The G Strings

All I Ask Of You

Allegro Maestoso

Ave Maria

Back At One

Bist Du Bei Mir (You Are With Me)

The Bridal Chorus

Butterfly Kisses

Can’t Live A Day

Canon In D

Cherish The Treasure

Commitment Song

Could I Have This Dance
Endless Love

Entreat Me Not To Leave Thee

From This Moment On

God Causes All Things To Grow

Grow Old With Me

Heartsounds

Here And Now

Here, There And Everywhere

Household Of Faith

How Beautiful

I Will Be There

In My Life

It’s Your Love

Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring

Just The Way You Are

Largo

Longer

Love Will Be Our Home

Meditation

My Heart Ever Faithful

Nobody Loves Me Like You Do

Ode To Joy

Only God Could Love You More

Panis Angelicus (O Lord Most Holy)

Parent’s Prayer (Let Go Of Two)

Part Of My Heart

Seasons Of Love

Sheep May Safely Graze

Someone Like You

Tender Ritual

The Irish Wedding Song

The Keeper Of The Stars

The Lord’s Prayer

The Velocity Of Love

This Is The Day (A Wedding Song)
Till There Was You

The Trumpet Tune

Trumpet Voluntary

Unexpected Song

Valentine

We’ve Only Just Began

The Wedding March

The Wedding Prayer

The Wedding Processional

When Love Is All There Is (A Wedding Story)

When You Say Nothing At All
You And I

You Raise Me Up

You’ll Accompany Me

I hope this helped you make an idea about the utility of consulting The Bride’s Guide to Wedding Music: A Complete Resource if you are dealing with the complexity of planning your wedding celebration.

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