Weddings

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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.

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

Early arrival to coordinate cues with ceremony director and officiant.

Up to a 30 minute prelude while guests are being seated.

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

Special music requests can be arranged for an additional fee. Please contact our arranger for an exact quote

Selecting Your Wedding Music

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. 30 minutes (while guests are being seated).
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.

Church Music Restrictions

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.
Contemporary songs with religious lyrics are acceptable. For example, "The Prayer" sung by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli has words that actually are a prayer.