Weddings

About 95 percent of our bookings are weddings. It is our goal to make your day as special as possible.
Our Wedding Ceremony Package Includes:

Meeting to discuss your ceremony and provide help in selecting your ceremony music.

A CD of your ceremony music to use at your rehearsal, which is also a great keepsake.

Accompaniment for a soloist, if needed (quartet or trio only).

If you have a special song or accompaniment that needs to be written, we have a skilled arranger on our staff.

Rehearsal with a soloist at our rehearsal location and/or just before the ceremony.

Early arrival to coordinate cues with ceremony director and officiant.

All the music needed for your ceremony (see Selecting Your Wedding Music below for a complete list).

Selecting Your Wedding Music

What to Select Music For

Below are the parts of the ceremony we typically play for. If you need additional music, just let us know.
You can listen to several samples from our music library by going to the Music Library page.

*Part of Ceremony*	*Description*
Prelude	Before ceremony, approx. 20 minutes (while guests are being seated). The musicians usually take 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 comes 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: Lighting of the Unity Candle Sand Ceremony Presentation of Gifts (just before communion) Communion Vocal Solo Moment of Reflection
Recessional	Wedding party exits.
Postlude	Guests exit. The musicians usually take 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 about any music restrictions they may have. Restrictions vary from church to church, even within the same denomination. The most typical restriction is that they want only religious and/or classical music. Usually (but not always) 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 have no religious content.
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.

Weddings

Our Wedding Ceremony Package Includes:

What to Select Music For

Church Music Restrictions