For your convenience, we have a Spotify playlist of all the pieces listed on this page. Please contact the office to discuss musical choices for your wedding.
Please also see our Sacrament of Matrimony page for further information. Reading choices are available in the Together for Life handbook you will receive from the office.
Wedding ceremony layout:
Optional: Seating of the mothers and grandmothers
Bridal party entrance
Bridal entrance
Psalm
Optional: special music after vows
Exit music
Wedding mass layout:
Optional: Seating of the mothers and grandmothers
Bridal party entrance
Bridal entrance
Psalm
Offertory hymn
Communion hymn
Exit music
Sample wedding ceremony program:
Bridal party entrance: Air on a G string (J.S. Bach)
Bridal entrance: Bridal chorus (Wagner)
Psalm: The Lord is My Light
Special music after vows: Arioso (J.S. Bach)
Exit music: Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
Sample wedding mass program:
Seating of the mothers and grandmothers: Ave Maria (Schubert)
Bridal party entrance: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (J.S. Bach)
Bridal entrance: Canon in D major (Pachelbel)
Psalm: Blest are those who love you
Offertory: Christ, be our light
Communion: Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Exit music: Spring (Vivaldi)
Other instrumental choices:
Air from Water Music (G.F. Händel)
Clair de lune (Debussy)
Largo from Concerto for 2 lutes, 2 violins, and continuo in D major (Vivaldi)
Flower duet from Lakmé (Delibes)
Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie)
i Giorni (Einaudi)
Largo from Xerxes (G.F. Händel)
Allegro from Mandolin Concerto in C Major (Vivaldi)
Meditation from Thaïs (Massenet)
Prelude in C Major (J.S. Bach)
Prince of Denmark’s March, or “Trumpet Voluntary” (Clarke)
Rêverie (Debussy)
Salut d’amour (Elgar)
Sheep may safely graze (J.S. Bach)
Suite from The Gadfly (Shostakovich)
The Swan from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saëns)
Träumerei from Kinderszenen (R. Schumann)
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Other vocal choices:
Ave Maria (J.S. Bach/Gounod)
Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
Bread of Angels
Eat this bread
For the beauty of the earth
Holy is His name
I am the bread of life
I have loved you
Joyful, joyful we adore thee (Beethoven)
Make me a channel of your peace, or “Prayer of St Francis”
Miracle of Grace
One bread, one body
Sacred Silence
Taste and See
