Weddings

Heidi has played for a number of weddings over the past twelve years from the formal cathedral church wedding to the informal outdoor civil ceremony. Below is a starting list of musical selections that can be tailored for your special day and ideas for where the music is appropriate. Feel free to check out the Listen page to determine which specific selections you would like. Or contact Heidi to set up a time to meet with her personally to go over details.

Traditional places for music during a wedding:

Ceremony

• Prelude (seating of guests)
• Processional
  (1-3 songs - entrance of parents, grandparents, bridal party, and bride)
• Ceremony (background to unity candle, solo, etc. )
• Recessional (exit of bridal party)
• Postlude (dismissal of guests)

Receptions

Anywhere from 1-3 hours of an assortment of background music for the arrival of guests, cocktails, and/or dinner. Visit the Special Occasions page for a list of further repertoire.

Wedding Music Suggestions

Prelude

• Clair de Lune — Claude Debussy
• Sonata in A Major, K 208 — Domenico Scarlatti
• All I Ask Of You — Andrew Lloyd Webber
• In the Looking Glass — Lorie Line
• Träumerei — Robert Schumann
• Aria from Sonata for Flute — Leonardo Vinci
• To a Wild Rose — Edward MacDowell
• Largo — G.F. Handel
• Girl with the Flaxen Hair — Claude Debussy
• Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini — Sergei Rachmaninoff

Seating of Parents & Grandparents

• Aria from Sonata for Flute — Leonardo Vinci
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring — J.S. Bach
• Largo — G.F. Handel
• Sheep May Safely Graze — J.S. Bach
• Sleepers Awake — J.S. Bach

Bridesmaids, Groomsmen, Flower Girl & Ring Bearer

• Canon in D — Johann Pachelbel
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring — J.S. Bach
• March of the Priests from "Alceste" — C.W. Von Gluck
• Sheep May Safely Graze — J.S. Bach
• Sleepers Awake — J.S. Bach

Bridal Entrance

• Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin" — Richard Wagner
• Trumpet Voluntary — Jeremiah Clarke
• Trumpet Tune — Henry Purcell
• Canon in D — Johann Pachelbel
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring — J.S. Bach
• Fantasy on Psalm 19 — B. Marcello

Ceremony

• The Lord's Prayer — Albert Hay Malotte
• Be Thou My Vision/Come Thou Fount Medley
• Amazing Grace
• O Perfect Love — Joseph Barnby
• Ave Maria — Franz Schubert
• Prelude in C — J.S. Bach

Recessional

• Air from "Festes de l'Ete" — M.P. de Monteclair
• Hornpipe — G.F. Handel
• Hornpipe (Allegro Maestoso) — G.F. Handel
• Ode to Joy — Ludwig von Beethoven
• Trumpet Voluntary — Jeremiah Clarke
• Trumpet Tune — Henry Purcell
• Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" — F. Mendelssohn

Postlude

• Gavotte — Carlos Salzedo
• Automates — Bernard Andrès
• Viennese Waltzes — arr. by Elenor Fell
• Passacaille — G.F. Handel
• Everybody Loves Somebody — Ken Lane
• Embraceable You — George Gershwin