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Selecting Wedding Ceremony Songs and Music

Phoenix Wedding DJ Billy James has an online reception planner checklist.

There was a time when all brides walked down the aisle to the traditional Wedding March. Today's bride, however, has a variety of options for selecting both the ceremony music and the instrumentation to perform it. For traditional selections, recordings by acoustic guitarists, string quartets and harp soloists are currently among the most popular renditions.

A typical ceremony has music at four intervals:

·      Prelude  (seating of guests and parents, 3-4 songs)

·      Processional  (entrance of the bridesmaids and then the bride, 2 songs)

·      Interlude (optional)  (lighting of the unity candle, 1 song)

·   Recessional  (departure of the bride, groom and wedding party, 1 song)

 

Ceremony music can be traditional or contemporary. Below are the most popular classical selections for the traditional ceremony.
 

     Click a song to hear a sample

Click a song to hear a sample. 

Processional

 

Bridal Chorus (Wagner)*

Canon in D (Pachelbel)*

Prelude Te Deum (Charpentier)

Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)

Interlude

Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)*

Minuet (Bach)*

Ave Maria (Schulbert)*

Recessional

Wedding March (Mendelssohn)*

Arrival of Queen Sheba (Handel)

Rondeau (Mouret)

Hornpipe (Handel)

Ode to Joy (Beethoven)**

                                                                      * Michael Soloway, Classical Guitarist
                                                                    **  Rock version
 

If your wedding ceremony is at your reception site, Phoenix DJ Billy James can provide the ceremony music and wireless microphones for the officiant and vocalists. A multi-speaker digital sound system, separate from the reception system, will be used.

 

 

Download Wedding Ceremony Music

Music is an integral part of the perfect wedding ceremony. Selecting the songs and instrumentation for your ceremony can be a challenging and time-consuming task. DJ Billy James has selected a variety of popular wedding songs to assist you in creating a personalized ceremony soundtrack for your special day.

 

You can listen to samples and easily download the complete songs you are considering. Many brides download the music they have selected for their ceremony and then play the songs at the rehearsal so the wedding party can practice with the actual ceremony music.

 

All songs are in MP3 format and are DRM-free, so you can play them in any music program and on any MP3 device, including iPods™, Zunes™, Zens™, iPhones™, RAZRs™ and BlackBerrys™. Files are free of digital rights management (DRM) software, so you can burn your songs to CDs, play them on computers, and transfer them to all digital devices.  And you can download any song in seconds for under a dollar.

 

 

 

 

Classical Guitar Wedding Ceremony

"My classical renditions of traditional wedding music will create an understated elegance for your ceremony. If I can't perform for you personally, then have Phoenix wedding DJ Billy James make my classical guitar music the soundtrack for your Arizona wedding ceremony."

Michael Soloway
Classical Guitarist & Recording Artist
New York, NY

 

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Ceremony Music Planner

My ceremony music planner can simplify selecting the songs you want played before, during and at the conclusion of the ceremony. Click HERE to view or download my Ceremony Music Planner.

 

The ceremony music planner is in a PDF file. If you aren't able to view the planner, you can download the free Adobe Reader from the Adobe web site.

 

DJ Billy James    602-992-0605    billy@billyjamesmusic.com

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