Choosing Your Processional Music

Generally you will need:

Suggestions for when your guests are arriving:

This wants to be joyful but unobtrusive.

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

Music for the bride's entrance:

You will want to choose something that is long enough for the bride & bridesmaids to walk the length of the ailse with an appropriate pace.

Here Comes the Bride, Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin - Wagner
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Hornpipe in F from the Water Music - Handel
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Prelude to a Te Deum - Charpentier
The Swan - Saint Saens
Grand March from Aida - Verdi
Romance from String Quartet - Mozart
Trumpet Tune and Air - Purcell
Pomp and Circumstance March - Elgar
Trumpet Tune - Stanley
I Was Glad - Parry
Spring from the Four Seasons - Vivaldi
Winter from the Four Seasons - Vivaldi

Music during the signing of the register:

We suggest an instrumental or a piece sung by the choir or a solo artist.

Ave Maria - Schubert
Ave Maria - Gounod
Air on a G string - Bach
Jesu, joy of man's desiring - Bach
Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach
Flower Duet from Lakmé - Delibes
Ave Verum Corpus - Mozart
Clair De Lune - Debussy
The Lord bless you and keep you - Rutter
Panis Angelicus - Franck
Adagio in G minor - Albinoni
Choral (Christus ist erstandel) - Prelude - Bach
Nocturne from String Quartet - Borodin
Largo from Symphony No 9 - Dvorak

For your triumphant exit as husband & wife:

You will want a piece of music that is joyful & uplifting.

The Rejoicing - Music for the Royal Fireworks - Handell
Wedding March from a Midsummer Night's Dream - Mendelssohn
Toccata (Symphony no 5)
March Pontificale - Widor
Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah - Handel
Prelude and Fugue in A - Bach
Trumpet Voluntary (Prince of Denmark's March) - Clarke
March from Scipio - Handel
Grand March from Aida - Verdi
The Ride of the Valkyrie - Wagner
Ode to Joy - Beethoven
Triumphal March - Greig