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OK my df and I are meeting with the music director Monday and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for the music at the Church besides the traditional Here Comes the Bride… I can’t stand that processional it makes me think of when we were kids and used to mock it. Any advice would be gladly accepted.

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Wagner is not allowed in parishes in our dioceses. So “Here Comes the Bride” is out.

I like Trumpet Voluntare by Purcell. Here is a YouTube clip (played with string quartet):
youtube.com/watch?v=z33cGMnT9pY

There are piano arrangements for this if you don’t have trumpets or an organ.

For our processional, my husband and I used a wonderful vocal piece called “In Native Worth” from Handel’s Creation. Sorry, I can’t find a youttube.
 
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Wagner is not allowed in parishes in our dioceses. So “Here Comes the Bride” is out.

I like Trumpet Voluntare by Purcell. Here is a YouTube clip (played with string quartet):
youtube.com/watch?v=z33cGMnT9pY

There are piano arrangements for this if you don’t have trumpets or an organ.

For our processional, my husband and I used a wonderful vocal piece called “In Native Worth” from Handel’s Creation. Sorry, I can’t find a youttube.
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We used the Purcell piece for our processional. It was quite nice.

(Wagner isn’t used here, either.)
 
There’s one or two classical pieces. a lot of people like Pachelbel’s Canon in D (just go to youtube and do a google, you’ll probably be able to find it).

For me I like Mozart’s Elvira Madigan, really lush and romantic
 
Your music director (if he or she is a professional) should have some suggestions for you. In my parish, they meet with the couples right up in the organ loft so they can play samples of the suggested marches and such.

Betsy
 
The Clarke Prince of Denmark’s March is very nice (also known as Purcell’s Trumpet Voluntary).

My wife came down the aisle to it, as did my sister-in-law.

When my sister got married, we used the Purcell Trumpet Tune because she wanted something “different, but sorta the same.”

Her bridal party processed in to Ralph Vaughn-Williams’s Sine Nomine, which has become the hymn For All The Saints. Lots of colleges use it as a commencement processional too.

My wife and I left to a trumpet/organ rendition of The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition. Our priest was a big classical music buff, and he refused to recess out so he could hear the entire performance.

Both my sister and my sister-in-law left to Morceau’s Rondo, which would also work as a nice procession for the bride.

A section of The Crown Imperial by William Walton is very nice, but would work better, in your case, as a full performance in a recessional. Some weirdo has probably also done up William Latham’s concert march Brighton Beach for organ, which could also be a good recessional.

I would also recommend, if I knew that the piano edition was available, John Philip Sousa’s Power and Glory March (March of the Mitten Men) because the trio section contains the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers. My humor is slightly twisted. Had I known about this gem when I got married, we would have had it played somewhere in the prelude, processional, or recessional.
 
I’ve got a slightly twisted sense of humour too. Having several Monty Python fans in the family, it would be hysterical to recess to Sousa’s Liberty Bell March (better known as the theme from the Monty Python tv show). If I’m ever fortunate enough to marry (unlikey as my age), I think I’ll be able to restrain myself though 😃
 
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I’ve got a slightly twisted sense of humour too. Having several Monty Python fans in the family, it would be hysterical to recess to Sousa’s Liberty Bell March (better known as the theme from the Monty Python tv show). If I’m ever fortunate enough to marry (unlikey as my age), I think I’ll be able to restrain myself though 😃
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Ah, yes, the Liberty Bell. In 1992, the United States Marine Band demonstrated their love for Bill Clinton by playing it immediately after his inauguration ceremony. And now, for something completely different…

For wedding recessionals, I have always been a fan of two of the greatest “Finals” ever written for the organ; those of Charles-Marie Widor’s 5th Organ Symphony and of Louis Vierne’s 1st Symphony, assuming, of course, that your organist is capable of playing them.
 
joandarc2008 said:
OK my df and I are meeting with the music director Monday and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for the music at the Church besides the traditional Here Comes the Bride… I can’t stand that processional it makes me think of when we were kids and used to mock it. Any advice would be gladly accepted.

God bless
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You could always process with the priest the way it’s suggested in the Marriage Rite and have a congregational hymn of praise. I’m partial to Rutter’s arrangement of “For the Beauty of the Earth”.
 
I know I’m late, but, when are you getting married? I ask this because a lot of the musical choices might have to jibe with the liturgical season on which your wedding may fall.

For example, if you are getting married during a liturgical season like Advent, you might try processing in with a hymn like O Come, O Come Emmanuel. If you are getting married during the Christmas season (Dec. 24th through the Baptism of the Lord), you might process in with an appropriate Christmas hymn (doesn’t have to be a carol) or with something like Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring.

The other matter to consider is whether or not you will be getting married during the parish’s anticipated Sunday Mass. What we’ve done at the Cathedral is to have the bridal party (with the priest bringing up the rear) process in with the entrance hymn for that particular Mass.

These are some of the variables involved when selecting music for a wedding. Also, be sure to get someone who can cantor the parts of the Mass. That always helps. In fact, this was policy at the Cathedral when my friend seved as rector. The musicians had to know the parts of the Mass and not just sing two or three pieces. They also had to be well versed in the liturgy. This policy was drawn up in response to a couple of Mariachi disasters (the band played Spanish Eyes during the offertory and my rector sent the wedding coordinator to the choir loft to tell them to put a lid on it–not a very pretty picturre).

I hope it goes well for you.
 
Well, everyone we have picked our music. We mixed modern with traditional. Benedictgal we did use the Jesu, Joy Song for one of the selections. It is a seperate wedding mass on a Saturday afternoon so we had many selections to pick. I’ll do a full posting after the wedding because I want this to be a suprise to everyone at the wedding. I just wanted to thank everyone for their help.

God bless,
 
joandarc2008 said:
OK my df and I are meeting with the music director Monday and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for the music at the Church besides the traditional Here Comes the Bride… I can’t stand that processional it makes me think of when we were kids and used to mock it. Any advice would be gladly accepted.

God bless
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Here are some (things that has “trumpet” in it, you can still use it just as an instrumental) You can look these up on YouTube if you want to hear other versions of it with different instruments, etc.
Some really beautiful hymns can work splendidly as well. Someone mentioned Sine Nomine (Vaughn-Williams version) That would be incredible. My husband and I used organ instrumental of “O God Beyond All Praising” by Holst. An instrumental version of “Lord of All Hopefulness” is also beautiful.
 
Ooops!!! I just saw the last post after I posted already. Well, I guess what I suggested won’t be any help now. Congrats!!!
 
I like The Wedding Song. I don’t remember who wrote it, I think in the early 1970’s. I like that it expresses how a man will leave his parents and a woman leave her home (from Genesis).
For my own wedding, my husband, who does not read music, found a friend to put his song without words on paper. We had a mutual friend planning to join the Carmelites sing the song with her beautiful voice.
 
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for the music at the Church besides the traditional Here Comes the Bride.

Wagner’s wedding march from Lohengrin (“Here comes the bride”) is not traditional. There was a time when it did not exist.
 
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