Classic music suggestions

Struggling for inspiration? Here are some popular choices for the wedding music at your ceremony -- many you can listen to right now!

Listening to MIDI files

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Suggestions for when your guests arrive:

Water Music -- Handel
Canon in D -- Pachelbel
Prelude, Air and Gavotte -- Wesley
Nimrod from Enigma Variations -- Elgar
Sheep May Safely Graze -- Bach
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring -- Bach

Tunes for a stately, processional, entrance:

Here Comes the Bride, Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin -- Wagner
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba -- Handel - [Listen to MIDI file]
Trumpet Tune and Air -- Purcell Entree Pontificale -- Bossi
Pomp and Circumstance March -- Elgar Carillon Murril
Trumpet Tune -- Stanley
Trumpet Voluntary -- Clarke - [Listen to MIDI file]
I Was Glad -- Parry

Music during the signing of the register:

Ave Maria -- Schubert
Ave Maria -- Gounod
Air on a G string -- Bach
The Lord Bless You and Keep You -- Rutter
Panis Angelicus -- Franck
Adagio in G minor -- Albinoni
Choral Prelude -- Bach
Nocturne from String Quartet -- Borodin
Largo from Symphony No 9 -- Dvorak

Music for celebratory and triumphant exits:

Music for the Royal Fireworks -- Handel
Wedding March from a Midsummer Night's Dream -- Mendelssohn - [Listen to MIDI file]
Toccata (Symphony no 5) or March Pontificale -- Widor
Prelude and Fugue in A -- Bach
Trumpet Voluntary -- Clarke - [Listen to MIDI file]
Triumphal March Opus 53 no 3 -- Greig
Grand March from Aida -- Verdi
The Ride of the Valkyrie -- Wagner
Ode to Joy -- Beethoven
Fantasia in G minor