Most popular wedding music

For civil ceremonies

We arrange the music for hundreds of civil wedding ceremonies annually, and so tend to see rather more ceremony papers than most!

Here's a list of the music that our clients have chosen most frequently over the years. For each section we've given six top choices.

For the entrance of the bride:

• Canon in D - J Pachelbel
• The Prince of Denmark's March - J Clarke (trumpet and strings)
• Air, from The Water Music - GF Handel
• Eternal source of light divine - GF Handel (soprano, trumpet and strings)
• Air on the G String - JS Bach
• Morning - E Grieg

During the signing of the register:

• Dôme épais - L Delibes
• Chanson de matin – E Elgar
• Nella fantasia – E Morricone
• O mio babbino caro - G Puccini
• Largo ma non tanto, from Concerto in D minor for Two Violins – JS Bach
• Minuet - L Boccherini

The recessional:

• Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream – F Mendelssohn
• Arrival of the Queen of Sheba – GF Handel
• Trumpet Tune in D – H Purcell (trumpet and strings)
• Allegro, from Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G – JS Bach
• Trumpet Voluntary Op.6 No.5 - J Stanley (trumpet and strings)
• Radetsky March – J Strauss

If you need some suggestions for readings, why not download our pdf of popular choices?