Wedding Music

Kenneth Gange

Part of a pair of marches, intended to bookend a wedding ceremony.

Karl Goldmark

A less-familiar, congenial piece. Quite jolly.

Johann Pachelbel

A very famous piece of classical music, and often played at weddings - but not recommended for the Bridal March

Giovanni Battista Sammartini

What a beautiful melody. Very pleasant.

Edward Elgar

This might be best played in the morning, but like the hymn Morning has Broken, it is good to hear at any time.

Johann Sebastian Bach

A dancing baroque piece which will have feet tapping.

Alfred Hollins

Striving; yearning; short, upwardly arched repeated fragments, eventually take flight in a melody characterised by wide intervals. Soaring like a couple at a wedding.

Louis Vierne

What a fun piece! Loud and fast, it is exciting, and would enliven the end of any wedding ceremony.

Léo Delibes

An exotic duet, perfumed one might say. Nothing at all to do with a wedding, but comes under the heading of "Good tunes that people might recognise".

John Rutter

What a beautiful and appealing anthem.

Alexandre Guilmant

A march in three-four (!) - loud and boisterous.

Giuseppe Verdi

A stirring, grand march