Wedding Music Suggestions
Below are music and song titles that are suitable for various portions of a wedding ceremony or reception. Let these stimulate your imagination in planning your wedding music. At the Denver Musicians Association, we have hundreds of music professionals qualified to provide wedding music.
Before the Ceremony
Prelude
- Adagio/Bach
- Adagio in E/Handel
- Bouree/Handel
- Clair de Lune/Debussy
- Evening Star/Mendelssohn
- Evening Star/Wagner
- Four Seasons/Vivaldi
- Legende/Wiemski
- Orange Blossoms/Friml
- Prelude #2/Mendelssohn
- Romance/Debussy
- Salut D'Amour/Elgar
- Sheep May Safely Graze/Bach
- Sleepers Awake/Bach
- Sunrise, Sunset (while parents and grandparents are seated)
- The Swan/Saint-Saens
Processional (down the aisle)
- Apothesis/Tchaikovsky
- Bridal Chorus/Wagner
- Canon in D/Pachebel
- Doxology
- Hymn Fanfare from The Triumphant/Couperin
- Fanfares/Sir Arthur Bliss
- Fantasie in C/Franck
- La Cinquantaine (for the flower girl)
- March from AIDA/Verdi
- March Nuptiale/Allan Caron
- Prince of Denmark/Clarke
- Sarabande from Suite #11/Handal
- Sinfonia (Wedding Cantata)/Bach
- Theme from Fifth Symphony/Tschaikovsky
- To A Wild Rose/Macdowell (for the ushers)
- Voluntary/Purcell
- Wedding March/Guilmant
- Wedding March/Mendelssohn
- Wedding Processional/(The Sound of Music)
Jewish Processional
- Mahtovu (traditional)
- Dodi Li
- Erev Shel Shoshanim
- V'erastitch
- Castelnuovo /Tedesco
Wedding Ceremony / Service
Vocal Solo
- Ave Maria/Bach,Gounoud
- Ave Maria/Schubert
- Because/Teschmacher/d'Harddot
- I Love You Truly/Bond
- Ich Leib Dich/Greig
- O Promise Me/DeKoven
- Oh Perfect Love/Blomfield
- The Lord's Prayer/Ken Davies
- A Wedding Prayer/Williams
- Always/Irving Berlin
- Heart Full Of Love/from Les Miserables
- How Great Thou Art/Boberg,Hine
- I Believe/Drake,Graham,Shirl,Stillman
- If We Only Have Love/Jacques Brel
- Mary Stone's Prayer/from The Devil and Daniel Webster
- One Hand, One Heart/from West Side Story
- There Is Love/Stookey
- Truly/Lionel Richie
- Ave Verum/Mozart
- Panis Angelis/Frank
Instrumental Solo
- Ave Maria /Bach/Gounoud
- First Organ Sonata /Mendelssohn
- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring /Bach
- Suite for Lute / Bach (played on classical guitar)
- Feels So Good/Chuck Mangione
- Morning Dance/Spyro Gyra
Jewish Service
- Mi Adir
- (opening blessing) Sheva Bracht
- (The Seven Blessings) Priestly Benediction
- from the Book of Numbers 6:25
- 27 Simon Tov Mazeltov
- Recessional
Recessional
- Air in D/Handel
- Allegro Maestoso in D/Handel
- Bell Symphony/Purcell
- Hornpipe (Water Music)/Handel
- Processional/from Xerces /Handel
- Trumpet Voluntary/Clarke
- Trumpet Voluntary in D/Purcell
- Wedding March/Mendelssohn
At the Reception
Entrance of the Wedding Party
GRANDPARENTS and PARENTS
- Moonlight and Roses
- Night and Day
- September Song
- Yesterday
- You Stepped Out of a Dream
- Young at Heart
USHERS AND BRIDESMAIDS
- A Man and a Woman
- Hey, Look Me Over
- Say It With Music
MAID OF HONOR and BEST MAN
- A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
- A Man and a Woman
RING BEARER
- Baby Face
- A Walk in the Black Forest
- Jesus Loves the Little Children
- The Lonely Goatherd (Sound of Music)
FLOWER GIRL
- You Make Me Feel So Young
- Thank Heaven for Little Girls
- Baby Face
BRIDE AND GROOM
- Here Comes the Bride (Majestic or Swing Style) Mendelssohn's Wedding March
- Simon Tov Mazel Tov (Jewish)
BLESSING
- Amen
- Blest be the Tie That Binds
- Doxology
- Bir Chat Hamazon
- (Jewish blessing after the meal)
TOAST
- For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
The First Dance
SLOW FOXTROT
- As Time Goes By
- Because of You
- Embraceable You
- Love Me Tender
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)
- When You Wish Upon a Star
- You Made Me Love You
WALTZ
- Always
- Anniversary Song (also known as Anniversary Waltz)
- Could I Have This Dance for the Rest of my Life?
- Let Me Call You Sweetheart
- My Cup Runneth Over
- One Hand, One Heart
- The Girl that I Marry
- Time in a Bottle
- True Love
- Wunderbar
- You Light Up My Life
SLOW ROCK
- And I Love You So
- Endless Love
- Evergreen
- Feel Like Making Love
- I'm Saving All My Love for You
- Just the Way You Are
- Looking Through the Eyes of Love
- Memory
- The Closer I Get to You
- The Hawaiian Wedding Song
- Tonight I Celebrate My Love
- We've Only Just Begun
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- You and Me Against the World
MEDIUM ROCK
- How Deep is Your Love?
- Stand By Me
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life
FAST FOXTROT (SOCIETY TEMPO)
- Cheek to Cheek
- Easy to Love
- I Love You
- Our Love is Here To Stay
COUNTRY
- Forever and Ever, Amen
- L-O-V-E
- Take Me Home, Country Road
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
- You Decorated My Life
CUTTING THE CAKE
- The Bride Cuts the Cake
- Soft Background Music
BRIDE'S DANCE WITH HER FATHER
- Daddy's Little Girl
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Papa, Won't You Dance with Me
- Soliloquy from Carousel
- Thank Heaven for Little Girls
GROOM'S DANCE WITH HIS MOTHER
- Boy of Mine
- Mister Wonderful
- Sunrise, Sunset
The GARTER
- A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
- The Stripper
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
The BOUQUET
- Stout Hearted Men
- Onward, Christian Soldiers
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
Music for Dancing
FOXTROT
- All of You
- All the Things You Are
- Anything Goes
- Cheek to Cheek
- The Continental
- Dance in an Old
- Fashioned Way
- Dancing in the Dark
- Mame
- Its DeLovely
- Just in Time
- Mame
- Memory
- Night and Day
- One
- Put On a Happy Face
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Some Enchanted Evening
- A Sunday Kind of Love
- The Sweetest Sounds
- Tomorrow
- Younger Than Springtime
AMERICAN WALTZ
- Alice Blue Gown
- Girl of my Dreams
- Greensleeves
- I Love You Truly
- If You Were the Only Girl in the World
- Lara's Theme
- from Dr. Zhivago
- Let Me Call You Sweetheart
- Liebestraum
- Love Makes the World Go Round
- Moon River
- True Love Wait Till You See Her
- When I Grow Too Old to Dream
VIENNESE WALTZ
- Belle of the Ball
- Blue Danube
- Emperor Waltz
- Merry Widow
- Skater's Waltz
- Tales from the Vienna Woods
- The Waltz from Maxim's (Gigi)
LINDY (Swing)
- Begin the Beguine
- Cherokee
- Don't Be that Way
- In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town
- In the Mood
- Little Brown Jug
- Pennsylvania 6
- 5000
- Satin Doll
- Sing Sing Sing
- A String of Pearls
- Take the 'A' Train
- Tuxedo Junction
- Woodchopper's Ball
POLKA
- Beer Barrel Polka
- Clarinet Polka
- Hoop-de-Doo
- My Melody of Love
- Pennsylvania Polka
- Whistle While You Work * PEABODY Avalon
- Heartaches
- Mister Sandman
- Whispering
RAGTIMEand DIXIELAND
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Bill Bailey
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Tiger Rag
- When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
- When the Saints go Marching In
COUNTRY
- Country Roads
- On the Road Again
- San Antonio Rose
- Southern Nights
- Tie a Yellow Ribbon
- Walking the Floor Over
- You You are my Sunshine
CHA CHA
- Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
- Guantanamera
- La Pachanga
- Never on Sunday Patricia
- Poco Pelo
- Tea for Two
RUMBA Amor
- Ballerina
- Besame Mucho
- Green Eyes
- Miami Beach Rumba
- More (Theme from MONDO CANE)
- Spanish Eyes
TANGO Jalousie
- La Cumpresita
- Tango of Roses * SAMBA Brazil
- Cumana
- Tico Tico
- Mambo
- Mambo #5
- Mambo Jambo
MERENGUE
- Black Orpheus
- Compadre Pedro Juan
- Quando Quando Quando
- Universal Merengue
- What a Diff'rence a Day Made
BOSSA NOVA
- Girl from Ipanema
- Meditation
- How Insensitive
- Wave
- Paso Doble
- El Relicario
- Espana Cani
- Lady of Spain
JEWISH (HORA/FREILACH)
- Artsa Alinu
- Deyainu
- Havah Negelah
- Sholom Alaichem
- To Life
- Tzena Tzena
- Ketsad M'Rakdim Odyishoma
- Simon Tov
- Vay Hi B'Sholom Melech * JEWISH (other & special) Bei Mir Bist du Shoen
- Belz Mein Shtele Belz
- Eishes Chayil
- Fiddler on the Roof Matchmaker
- Mezinka (parents of last daughter)
- Miserlou
- Mitzvah Tanz
- (All dance with bride and groom)
ITALIAN (TARRENTELLA/MAZURKA)
- Al-Di-La
- Arrivederci Roma
- Come Back to Sorrento
- Mala Femana
- Non Dimenticar
- Tarrentella
- Volare
IRISH (IRISH JIG)
- Danny Boy
- Irish Washerwoman
- My Wild Irish Rose
- Stack of Barley
- That's an Irish Lullaby (Too-ra-loo-ra-loo- ral)
- When Irish Eyes are Smiling
FRENCH
- Allez
- Vous
- April in Paris
- I Love Paris
- Je Vous Aime
- Mam'selle
- Paris in the Spring
- The Last Time I Saw Paris
SCOTCH (REEL)
- Blue Bells of Scotland
- Bring Back my Bonnie to Me
- Loch Lommond
GREEK
- Kalamatiano
- Mustafa
- Samiotisa Stamiko
- Theme from Zorba The Greek
- Via
MEXICAN
- Cieto Linda
- Estrelita
- La Cucuracha
- Las Chapanecas
- Vaya con Dios
- Que Sera Sera
RUSSIAN
- Dark Eyes
- Karapet Korobushka Troika
- Two Guitars * POLISH (POLKA) Husia, Siuskia Przepioreczka
GERMAN
- Ach de Lieber Augustine
- Lili Marlene
- Trink, Trink, Brudevlein Trink
- Wilkommen (from CABARET)
- Wo Die Nordsee Wellen
CARRIBEAN
- All Night Long
- Calypso Melody
- Con Razon o Sin Razon
- Caribbean Queen
- Jamaica Farewell
- Kokomo
- La Bamba
- Saint Thomas
1920s (and earlier)
- Ain't She Sweet
- Alice Blue Gown
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Five Foot Two
- For Me and my Girl
- I Want a Girl
- If You Knew Susie
- Margie
- My Melancholy Baby
- Goody Goody
- I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
- It Had to be You
- Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey
- Shine On, Harvest Moon
- Sugar Blues
- Sweet Adeline
- That Old Gang of Mine
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Why Do I Love You?
- Yes Sir, That's my Baby
- You Made Me Love You
1930s
- Anything Goes
- Blue Moon
- Body and Soul
- Enjoy Yourself
- Cocktails for Two
- The Continental
- Dancing on the Ceiling
- Georgia on my Mind
- How Deep is the Ocean
- I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
- It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing
- It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
- Just a Gigilo
- Moonglow
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Over the Rainbow
- Pennies from Heaven
- That Old Gang of Mine
- Too Marvelous for Words
- Up a Lazy River
- The Way You Look Tonight
1940s
- Bewitched Beyond the Sea (La Mer)
- Forty
- Second Street
- I Can't Get Started
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
- I Don't Want to Walk Without You
- I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
- June Night
- Moonlight Serenade
- Oh What A Beautiful Morning
- Red Roses for a Blue Lady
- Some Enchanted Evening Sentimental Journey
- Serenade in Blue Stardust
- Tangerine
- Tenderly
- Till the End of Time
- When You Wish Upon a Star
1950s and Rock and Roll
- All I Have To Do Is Dream
- Be My Love
- Baby Love
- Dance to the Music
- Eight Days a Week
- Hey There
- The Hucklebuck
- I'm Walkin'
- It's Impossible
- Johnny B. Goode
- June Night
- Kansas City
- Mister Lee
- Old Time Rock and Roll
- Only You
- Peggy Sue
- Rock and Roll to Satisfy my Soul
- Rock Around the Clock
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Save the Last Dance for Me
- Shake Rattle and Roll
- Silhouettes
- Tammy
- That'll Be the Day
- Twist and Shout
- Unchained Melody
- Wake Up, Little Susie
- Wipe Out
1960s
- Angel of the Morning Baby Love
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- For Once in my Life
- Hey Jude
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Its Now or Never
- The Loco
- Motion
- Our Day will Come Stay
- The Second Time Around
- Strangers in the Night
- Tossin' and Turnin'
- The Twist
1970s
- After the Lovin'
- The Air That I Breathe
- Alone Again
- Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Come In From the Rain
- Easy
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- Honestly Love You
- Its Not for Me to Say
- I Won't Last a Day Without You
- Joy to the World
- Love Will Keep Us Together
- Night Fever
- Nobody Does It Better
- On the Street Where You Live
- See You Later, Alligator
- Shadow Dancing
- Venus
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life
1980s
- 1-2-3/Miami Sound Machine
- Big Love/Fleetwood Mac
- Break Out/Swing Out Sister
- Can't Stay Away/Gloria Estefan
- Celebration/Kool and the Gang
- Chains of Love/Erasure
- Dance Little Sister/Terence T. D'Arby
- Dancing on the Ceiling/Lionel Richie
- Dreamin'/Vanessa Williams
- Emotion in Motion /Rick Ocasek
- Everybody Have Fun Tonight/Wang Chung
- Faith/George Michael
- Girlfriend/Pebbles
- Giving You the Best/Anita Baker
- Greatest Love of All /Whitney Houston
- Hold in my Heart/Cyndi Lauper
- Holiday/Madonna
- Hot Hot Hot/Buster Poindexter
- I Found Somebody/Cher
- I Want to be Your Man
- Kenny Rogers
- I Want to Dance/Whitney Houston
- 'll Always Love You/Taylor Dane
- Jump/Pointer Sisters
- Like a Prayer/Madonna
- Living in a Prayer/ Bon Jovie
- Lost in You/Rod Stewart
- Lost in Your Eyes/Debbie Gibson
- Love of a Lifetime/Chaka Kahn
- Love Will Save the Day/Whitney Houston
- One Moment in Time/Whitney Houston
- The Power of Love/Huey Lewis
- Real Love/Jody Whatley
- The Real Thing/Jellybean
- The Rose/Bette Midler
- Saving All My Love for You/Whitney Houston
- Say You Say Me/Lionel Richie
- Sweet Love/Anita Baker
- The Time of my Life
- True Love/ Glen Frey
- Under the Boardwalk/Bette Midler
- We'll be Together/Sting
- Wind Beneath My Wings/Bette Midler
FOR THE FOOD
- Supper March
- The Night They Invented Champagne
- Song of the Flame
NOVELTY DANCES
- The Alley Cat
- Boomps a Daisey
- The Bunny Hop
- The Charleston
- The Chicken Dance
- The Conga (1
- 2
- 3 Kick)
- Dollar Dance
- Handkerchief Dance (Greek)
- The Hokey Pokey
- Mexican Hat Dance
- Mummer's Reel (in Philadelphia)
- Square Dances (various) Trough Dance (in the Farm Belt)
- Virginia Reel
REGIONAL (and for the HONEYMOON)
- Aloha Oe
- Autumn in Rome
- Blue Bayou
- Blue Hawaii
- California, Here I Come
- Chicago
- Do You Know What it Means to miss New Orleans?
- A Foggy Day (in London Town)
- Manhattan
- Moon Over Miami
- My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)
- New York, New York Saint Louis Blues
- Tennessee Waltz
- The Yellow Rose of Texas
SPECIAL OCCASIONS AND HOLIDAYS
- Anniversary Song
- Happy Birthday
- The Christmas Song
- God Bless America
- Easter Parade
- My Funny Valentine
- White Christmas
LOCATIONS, seasons and weather
- Autumn in New York
- Blue Skies
- Cruising Down the River
- Hot Hot Hot
- Its a Lovely Day Today
- Its So Peaceful in the Country
- Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!
- Small Hotel
- Spring is Here
- Summertime
- Stormy Weather
RELIGIOUS (Christian)
- All You Need is Love
- Bless this House
- Everything is Beautiful
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
- My Sweet Lord
- Put Your Hand in the Hand
MUSIC FOR SINGING (Christian)
- Amazing Grace
- Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit
- In the Garden
- Little Brown Church
- Old Rugged Cross
- Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus
- The Bible Tells Me So
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Closing Music
- Auf Wiedersehen
- Auld Lang Syne
- God Be With You 'till We Meet Again
- Goodnight, My Love
- Goodnight, Sweetheart
- I'll See You in My Dreams
- May You Always
- On the Road Again
- The Party's Over