Wedding Songs

Wedding Recessional Songs

Choosing to have your wedding event performed in a traditional way, then the traditional parts of the wedding will become your main events renowned to belong to a wedding ceremony and reception. And as such you are compelled to think of every traditional way to emphasize the elements included in the wedding displaying expressing them with touches of your personal notes as well. If we consider traditionally the ceremonial of the wedding celebration then its displaying should take place in the spaces of a church, chapel, cathedral or specific places of worship for various religions.




The ceremony in its traditional unfolding contains the processional – when the bride is supposed to come walking down the aisle in the role of the excited woman pretty soon to commit for life to her husband, next will follow the priest’s welcoming words towards the guests and the couple, for afterwards the exchanges of vows and wedding rings to be presented. Then the priest pronounces the couple as husband and wife, this news being accompanied by the lighting of the Unity Candle.

Then, the ceremony ends with the married couple walking back the same aisle, this moment being known as the recessional. In case you don’t wish to have the traditional way of a wedding ceremony performed, then you can still have the processional and the recessional as part of your marriage pronunciation including in your celebration wedding processional songs as well as wedding recessional songs to underline the significance of these events.

The thing is that the processional is sometimes seen as an event that is loaded with deep, heavy emotions, most of them being transmitted by the excitement of the bride walking towards her groom, this is the reason why these songs belong to  heavy notes displaying of music, or a little bit colored by some optimistic notes as well; anyway you look toward this part – the processional – you can not elude its importance and its deep emotional feelings that impress every body present in the atmosphere.

But it is not the same with the recessional part, as this event takes place as if the heavy emotional processional never took place – in light, happy, jolly notes of wedding recessional songs, specially selected to reflect the relieving breathe of a gathering and of a couple that got rid of the depth of those emotions and now getting ready to throw the party.

However, no matter the way you take these two perspectives of a wedding ceremony you still have to come with selection of songs to emphasize the feeling of joy once you step out of the church or you walk back the aisle holding your husband’s arm. Some of these songs can as well be included in the list of options, you being the one to decide which one represents your perspective of recessional part of a wedding ceremony: Clark – “Trumpet Voluntary”,  Wagner – “Wedding March”, Beethoven – “Ode of joy”, these to be counted as the classical ones.

As to the contemporary tunes to be contained on your recessional songs options: Katrina and the Waves – “Walking on sunshine”, Bob Marley – “One love”, U2 – “Beautiful day”, George Strait – ” I cross my heart”, Andy Williams – “Can’t take my eyes off you”, STraship – “Nothing’s gonna stop us now”, The Darkness – “I believe in a thing called love” and many others could be as well options on your list of songs that underline your first steps taken into a brand new life.

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