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Ideas for Your Vows & Wedding Music
About Your Wedding Vows:
This is your wedding, and your vows should represent the sentiments that follow your beliefs and feelings about the life together that you have chosen. Below are some suggested texts that you may wish to use "as is," or that you may wish to edit.
Some Suggested Readings
Ceremony Music
Searching for ideas & sites where you can sample some music? The Classical Music Archives is the largest classical music website on the Internet. You can also get some ideas from the University of Virginia's guide to music.
Prelude Music
"Adagio" (from Sonata in E-Flat), by Mozart
"Air", from Handel's "Water Music"
"Air on the G String", from J. S. Bach's "Orchestral Suite No.3"
"Allegro", from J. S. Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G"
"Courante from Three Lute Dances"
"Nocturne In E flat, Op.9 No.2", by Chopin
"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", by Debussy
"So this is Love" (Instrumental "Cinderella"), by David, Hoffman, Livingston
"Waltz", from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty
Processional Music
Traditional Wedding March from Lohengrin ("Here Comes the Bride"), by Wagner
Processional to "Te Deum", by Charpentier
'Trumpet Tune", by Purcell
"Trumpet Voluntary" ("Prince of Denmark's March"), by Clarke
"Canon in D", by Pachelbe
"Arioso", by J. S. Bach
Heroic Marches, by Telemann
"Romance from String Quartet", by Mozart
"Elvira Madigan Theme", by Bach
"Dodi Li", by Steven Sher
"Erev Ba", by Shoshana Damari
"Rondeau" ("Masterpiece Theater Theme"), by Shoshana Damari
Interlude Music
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by J. S. Bach
Air - "Sheep May Safely Graze" by Bach
"Air On The G String" by J. S. Bach
"Amen! Praise and Glory" by Peacock
"Ave Maria" by Schubert
"Ave Maria" by Gounod
'The Call from Five Mystical Songs", by Vaughan Williams
"Greensleeves" (Traditional)
"Finlandia" ("Ode to Joy")
"Let There Be Peace on Earth"
London Trio #3 - Adante, by Haydn
"O Mio Babbino Caro" by Puccini
"Quando Men' Vo" (Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme), by Puccini
Recessional Music
Traditional "Wedding March", from Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
"Ode to Joy", by Beethoven
"Spring", from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"
"Autumn", from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"
"Arrival of the Queen of Sheba", from Handel's "Solomon"
"Hornpipe", from Handel's "Water Music"
"La Rejouissance", from Handel's Royal Fireworks Music
"Toccata", from Widor's Organ Symphony #5