Sample Music Programs

Ceremony

Prelude (20min before ceremony)
Mix of classical, baroque, and renaissance selections

Wedding Party (bridesmaids/flower girls/mothers/families)
Kanon Pachelbel (listen - CBQ recording)

Popular alternatives:      

• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Bach (listen)
  
• Lascia Ch’io Pianga Handel (listen)
  
• Flower Duet Delibes (listen)
  
• St Anthony's Chorale Brahms (listen)
  
• Arioso Bach (listen)
  
•  Air on the G String Bach (listen)
  

Processional
Here Comes The Bride (Bridal Chorus) Wagner (listen - CBQ recording)

Popular alternatives:      

• Trumpet Voluntary Clarke (listen – CBQ recording)
  
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Bach (listen)
  
• Kanon Pachelbel (listen - CBQ recording)
  
• Te Deum Prelude Charpentier (listen)
  
• Rigaudon Campra (listen)
  

During the Service (optional, for candle lighting, meditation, communion)
Ave Maria Schubert (listen – CBQ recording)

Popular alternatives:      

• Lascia Ch’io Pianga Handel (listen)
  
• Flower Duet Delibes (listen)
  
• Gymnopedie #1 Satie (listen)
  
• Bist Du Bei Mir Bach (listen)
  
• Prayer Humperdinck (listen)
  

Recessional
Wedding March Mendelssohn (listen - CBQ recording)

Popular alternatives:     

• Allegro Maestoso from “Water Music” Handel (listen – CBQ recording)
  
• Ode to Joy Beethoven (listen)
  
• Spring from “The Four Seasons” Vivaldi (listen)
  
• Rondeau from “Masterpiece Theater” Mouret (listen – CBQ recording)
  
• Te Deum Prelude Charpentier (listen)
  
• Rigaudon Campra (listen)
  
• All You Need Is Love Beatles (listen)
  

Cocktail hour

Moonlight Serenade (listen - CBQ recording)
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me (listen – CBQ recording)
New York, New York (listen - CBQ recording)
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong (listen – CBQ recording)
At Last (listen)
Unforgettable (listen)
Beyond The Sea (listen)
Come Fly With Me (listen)
La Vie En Rose (listen)
Mo Better Blues (listen)
 Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (listen – CBQ recording)
Take the A Train (listen)
Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (listen)
Black Orpheus (listen)
April in Paris (listen)
Girl From Ipanema (listen)