Another wonderful year of adding the beauty and romance of harp music to weddings across the globe! From historic churches to gardens to ballrooms, I have played in a stunning variety of venues for weddings large and small this year. Along with the lists of music below, you’ll see pictures from several of these ceremonies.
Each year, I go back over the wedding ceremonies I played for, and put together a list of all of the pieces my couples chose for different highlighted moments during the service. You’ll see the traditional “wedding classics,” but also several songs you might not have considered. Any piece of music that you love can be wedding music! Each list has the most popular pieces at the top, and the numbers in parentheses tell you how many times I have played that song for that particular moment of a ceremony.
For the grand entrance music (as the bride or groom walks down the aisle), “Can’t Help Falling in Love” took the top spot, followed by the traditional “Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride).” Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” is still popular, but this year it was primarily used for a wedding party processional. Lord of the Rings fans chose “Concerning Hobbits” for four of the five main ceremony elements. For the recessional to conclude the ceremony, many couples opted for the traditional “Wedding March,” but right behind that was “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” – which didn’t even make the list last year!
While many of my couples book solo harp, I also work with other musicians. Some options are duets of harp with violin, flute, cello, steel drums, and piano, or larger ensembles such as a trio of harp, violin, and cello or a harp with string quartet.
Your wedding music should be personal to you – something you hear even years later and are taken back to your walk down the aisle. Maybe that’s your favorite pop song or maybe that’s the same piece your grandparents used in their ceremony. I love working with couples to make their wedding soundtrack both meaningful and unique.
If you are looking for a musician for your wedding, contact me to discuss the harp music for your ceremony, reception, and rehearsal dinner!
Grand Entrance (processional music for the bride/groom):
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- Can’t Help Falling in Love (6)
- Bridal Chorus – Here Comes the Bride (4)
- A Thousand Years from Twilight: Breaking Dawn (1)
- Always Remember Us This Way (1)
- Canon in D (1)
- Clair de Lune (1)
- Concerning Hobbits from Lord of the Rings (1)
- Enchanted (1)
- Fields of Gold (1)
- From This Moment On (1)
- Love Me Like You Do (1)
- Marry Me (1)
- Memory from Cats (1)
- Now I See the Light from Tangled (1)
- Ode to Joy (1)
- Perfect (1)
- Portraits (1)
- Promises from Hadestown (1)
- Theme from Top Gun (1)
- Unchained Melody (1)
- Until I Found You (1)
- Wedding March (1)
- Whole Lotta Love (1)
- Your Song (1)
Family seating:
- Prelude in C (3)
- Here Comes the Sun (2)
- A Thousand Years from Twilight: Breaking Dawn (1)
- Across the Stars from Star Wars (1)
- Andiam mio Tesoro (1)
- At Last (1)
- Ave Maria (1)
- Bless the Broken Road (1)
- Canon in D (1)
- Clair de Lune (1)
- Clocks (1)
- Eyes on Me from Final Fantasy (1)
- Go the Distance from Hercules (1)
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (1)
- Never Seen Blue (1)
- Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) (1)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz (1)
- Stairway to Heaven (1)
Wedding party processional:
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- Canon in D (5)
- Here Comes the Sun (3)
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (1)
- Perfect (2)
- 500 Miles (I’m Gonna Be) (1)
- Always Remember Us This Way (1)
- At Last (1)
- Ave Maria (1)
- Bless the Broken Road (1)
- Bridal March from Skjevik (1)
- Clair de Lune (1)
- Concerning Hobbits from Lord of the Rings (1)
- Dancing Queen (1)
- From This Moment On (1)
- Hallelujah (1)
- Lavender’s Blue from Cinderella (1)
- Nothing Else Matters (1)
- Pavane Style Renaissance (1)
- Portraits (1)
Mid-ceremony interludes (for the unity candle/sand, etc.):
- Ave Maria (3)
- All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera (2)
- Can’t Help Falling in Love (1)
- Clair de Lune (1)
- Concerning Hobbits from Lord of the Rings (1)
- Down by the Salley Gardens (1)
- Fields of Gold (1)
- Hold My Hand (1)
- I Love How You Love Me (1)
- Largo from Concerto in D for Guitar (1)
- Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (1)
- Morning is Broken (1)
- Perfect (1)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz (1)
- The Luckiest (1)
Recessional:
- Wedding March (6)
- This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) (5)
- All My Loving (2)
- I’m On Top of the World (2)
- This Must be the Place (2)
- A Thousand Years from Twilight: Breaking Dawn (1)
- Clocks (1)
- Con te Partiro (1)
- Concerning Hobbits from Lord of the Rings (1)
- For the Beauty of the Earth (1)
- Here Comes the Sun (1)
- Loch Lomond (1)
- Lover (1)
- Marry You (1)
- One Love (1)
- Romantic Flight from How to Train Your Dragon (1)
- Stand by Me (1)
- Trumpet Voluntary (1)
- You are in Love (1)
If you are planning your wedding, please visit my website: The Classic Harpist. I work with couples worldwide to plan their wedding music. With the harp, that can be anything you want it to be! I play all of the classical wedding favorites, as well as non-traditional options: jazz, pop, rock, Broadway, Bollywood, Arabic, Celtic, Renaissance, and more! Contact me today to start planning your perfect wedding soundtrack.
