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Selecting Your Wedding Music |
| Part of Ceremony | Description |
| Prelude | Before ceremony, approx. 20 minutes (while guests are being seated). The quartet usually takes the liberty of selecting pieces for the prelude, but will honor special requests as much as possible. |
| Family seating | For seating of parents and grandparents. If you have a unity candle, two family members light the tapers during this piece. |
| Attendants' Processional | Officiant, groom, and groomsmen enter. Bridesmaids, flower girl, and ring bearer walk down the aisle. |
| Bride's Processional | For entrance of bride. We recommend a separate piece to highlight her moment. |
| Interlude | Optional.
This is music that is played in the middle of the ceremony. Depending
on your type of ceremony, you may decide to include more than one of
these. Here are different types
of interludes:
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| Recessional | Wedding party exits. |
| Postlude | One piece performed while guests exit. The quartet usually takes the liberty of selecting a piece for the postlude, but will honor special requests as much as possible. |
If you're getting married in a church, be sure to check with the music director or wedding director at the church to make sure you are aware of any restrictions on the music you select. Restrictions vary from church to church, even within the same denomination. The most typical restriction is that they allow only religious and/or classical music. Specifically this means:
No pieces from operas. That includes Wagner's "Bridal Chorus" (a.k.a. "Here comes the bride") which is from opera Lohengrin and Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" (thought of as the traditional recessional) which is from opera A Midsummer Night's Dream.
No pop songs, in general. For example, Shania Twain's "From This Moment" is a popular song for weddings, but not acceptable to churches because the lyrics are not religious.
Pop songs with religious lyrics are acceptable. For example, "The Prayer" sung by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli has words that actually are a prayer.
