Don’t worry if “Here Comes the Bride” (Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus”) isn’t your speed for your wedding processional song — you have plenty of alternatives. Here are 35 wedding processional ideas to accompany you, and everyone else in your party, as you walk down the aisle:
Traditional/Classic
1. “Air” (from Water Music Suite), (George F. Handel)
22. “Winter,” Largo, (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)
Contemporary
23. “Appalachia Waltz” (Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O’Connor)
24. “Sunrise, Sunset” (from Fiddler on the Roof), (Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock)
25. “The Look of Love” (Dionne Warwick/Burt Bacharach)
26. “The Vow” (Jeremy Lubbock)
27. “To A Wild Rose” (Edward MacDowell)
28. “Flatbush Waltz” (Andy Statman)
29. “Wedding Processional” (from The Sound of Music), (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein)
Religious/Sacred
30. “All People That On Earth Do Dwell” (“Old 100th” hymn)
31. “Dona Nobis Pacem” (16th century hymn)
32. “Hanava Babanot” (A Love Song), (Neeman)
33. “St. Anthony’s Chorale” (Franz Joseph Haydn)
34. “Hymn Fanfare from The Triumphant” (Francois Couperin)
35. “Scalero de Oro” (traditional Sephardic)
After your officiant pronounces you husband and wife, you’ll want to follow up with a triumphant fanfare. Your wedding ceremony recessional music should inspire your wedding guests to stand up and cheer you on as you make your way down the aisle. Here are 35 favorites:
Traditional/Classic Recessional Wedding Music
1. “Allegro Maestoso” (from Water Music Suite), (George F. Handel)
2. “Brandenburg Concerto No. 1,” Allegro, (Johann S. Bach)
3. “Brandenburg Concerto No. 4,” Allegro, (Johann S. Bach)
4. “Coronation March” (from Crown imperial), (Sir William Walton)
5. “Fugue in E-Flat Major” (from St. Anne), (Johann S. Bach)
6. “Hallelujah Chorus” (from The Messiah), (George F. Handel)
7. “Hornpipe” (from Water Music Suite), (George F. Handel)
8. “Ode to Joy” (Ludwig van Beethoven)
9. “Spring,” Allegro, (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)
10. “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” (George F. Handel)
11. “Toccata” (from Symphonie 5, opus 42), (Charles-Marie Widor)
12. “Trumpet Tune and Bell Symphony,” (Henry Purcell)
13. “Tuba Tune in D” (Craig Sellar Lang)
14. “Wedding March” (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream), (Felix Mendelssohn)
Traditional Alternative Recessional Wedding Music
15. “Badinerie” (from Orchestral Suite No. 2), (Johann S. Bach)
16. “Concerto grosso in D Minor,” Op. 2, No. 3 (Presto), (Francesco Geminiani)
17. “Rondeau” (from Abdelezar), (Henry Purcell)
18. “Rondeau” (theme from Masterpiece Theater), (Jean Joseph Mouret)
19. “Sonata in G Major” (Giuseppe Tartini)
20. “Triumphal March” (Edvard Grieg)
21. “Variations on the Kanon by Pachelbel” (George Winston)
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