WEDDING MUSIC 101 - INTRODUCTION
PART 1 of 3

Planning your wedding ceremony music often starts with the phrase, "I know how it sounds, but I don't know the name." Wedding Music 101 will help you identify how a piece "sounds" and give it a "name."

Thankfully, much of the wedding service order is preordained (pun intended). You know there are going to be vows, rings and readings. The officiate, minister, priest, rabbi, or judge will have a prearranged order for all of these speaking parts and carefully go through this with you.

At some point in the conversation, you will be asked, "What music are you going to have?"

Fortunately, your blank stare can be replaced with a look of wisdom.

There are four parts of your ceremony that you should consider choosing music for:

That's it. Only four decisions to be made about music and the choices are just mouse clicks away.

Now that you know where music traditionally is played, we should tell you that there are also a number of songs that are traditionally played during those parts. Not that you have to use them -- we recommend choosing whatever music you feel will make your wedding special -- but, the music below is listed because each selection has proven, at more weddings than we can count, to be appropriately beautiful for that part of the wedding ceremony.

Scroll through the lists. Some names will look familiar, others might not. That's where part two comes in. When you're ready to learn more about the individual selections and hear what each one sounds like, click the "listen to and read about the music" link under each section or click the WEDDING MUSIC OVERVIEW link at the bottom of this page.

PART TWO: WEDDING MUSIC OVERVIEW

Wedding Music 101 | Wedding Music Overview | Wedding Music in the Program
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