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Wedding Repertoire

These are often chosen for walking down the aisle or signing the register:

Canon in D - Pachelbel Hornpipe from Water Music – Handel Prelude in C – Bach Sheep May Safely Graze – Bach Air on the G String – Bach Trumpet Tune – Purcell The Flower Duet – Delibes Wedding March – Lohengrin

These are popular songs which can be used for background as well as for the above:

Film and Musical – (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s) Jeux Interdits – Anon. (from Forbidden Games) Kissing You – Des’Ree (from Romeo + Juliet) Love Story – (from Love Story) Cavatina – – (from The Deer Hunter) The Rose – Amanda McBroom (from The Rose) My Own True Love – (from Gone With the Wind) Somewhere over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen (from The Wizard of Oz) My Favourite Things – Richard Rodgers (from The Sound of Music) – (from Titanic) Sunrise Sunset – Jerry Bock (from Fiddler on the Roof) Love Changes Everything - Andrew Lloyd Webber (from Aspects of Love) Memory – Andrew Lloyd Webber (from Cats) – (from A Little Night Music) Mothersbaugh’s Canon – Mark Mothersbaugh (from The Royal Tenenbaums) Castle on a Cloud – Claude-Michel Schönberg (from Les Miserables) When She Loved Me – Randy Newman (Toy Story 2) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – Bryan Adams (Robin Hood: of Thieves)

Disney Once Upon A Dream – George Bruns (from Sleeping Beauty) Colours of the Wind – Vanessa Williams (from Pocahontas) Can You Feel the Love Tonight – Elton John (from The Lion King) Beauty and the Beast – (from Beauty and the Beast) – Alan Menken (from Aladdin) When You Believe – Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston (The Prince of Egypt)

30s Georgia on My Mind – Stuart Gorrell and A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square – Nat King Cole

50s When I Fall In Love – Victor Young Unchained Melody – From this Moment On – Cole Porter Autumn Leaves – Nat King Cole Que Sera Sera – Doris Day Misty – Erroll Garner Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley Loving You – Elvis Presley

60s Can’t Help Falling in Love – George Weiss Somethin’ Stupid – Frank Sinatra Stand by Me – Ben E. King All You Need is Love – Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles Help! – The Beatles God Only Knows – The Beach Boys For Emily Wherever I May Find Her – Simon & Garfunkel Mrs. Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong Sitting on the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding

70s Wild Horses – Killing Me Softly – Roberta Flack Your Song – Elton John – Willie Nelson Evergreen – Paul Williams and Wonderful Tonight – How Deep is Your Love – The Bee Gees Perfect Day – Lou Reed Annie’s Song – John Denver 80s Somewhere in Time – Have I Told You Lately – Van Morrison – and Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen Heaven – Bryan Adams Take My Breath Away – Berlin Endless Love –

90s Walking in Memphis – Marc Cohn Under the Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers Fields of Gold – Make You Feel My Love – Bob Dylan Today – The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness – The Smashing Pumpkins Wonderwall – Oasis Don’t Look Back In Anger - Oasis Angels – Robbie Williams She’s The One – Robbie Williams China Roses – Enya Iris – The Goo Goo Dolls Flying Without Wings - Westlife The Prayer – Celine Dion You’re Still The One – Shania Twain I Try – Macy Gray She – Elvis Costello

00s The Nightingale – Deborah Henson Conant Hero – Enrique Iglesias Bedshaped - Keane Wherever You Will Go – The Calling Clocks – Coldplay A Moment Like This – Kelly Clarkson Heartbeats – Jose Gonzalez Better Together – Jack Johnson Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol Patience – Take That How to Save a Life – The Fray River flows in you – Yiruma One Day Like This - Elbow Fireflies – Owl City Halo – Beyonce Ave Maria – Beyonce Flightless Bird, American Mouth – Iron and Wine Greatest Day – Take That The Cave – Mumford and Sons I’m Yours – Jason Mraz Just the Way You Are – Gold Forever – The Wanted Skinny Love – Bon Iver Video Games – Lana Del Rey A Thousand Years – Christina Perri When I Was Your Man – Bruno Mars Love is Easy – McFly Cosmic Love – Florence and the Machine

These are classical pieces, which can be played during the ceremony or as background music:

O Mio Babbino Caro – Puccini Barcarolle – Grandjany In Paradisum – Faure Morning (from Peer Gynt Suite) – Grieg Duet (from the Pearlfishers) – Bizet Panis Angelicus – Franck Song to the Moon (from Rusalka) – Dvorak The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals) – Saint-Saëns Meditation (from Thaïs) – Massenet Va Pensiero (From Nabucco) – Verdi On Wings of Song – Mendelssohn Moderato Cantabile – Chopin Largo (from New World Symphony) – Dvorak Träumerei – Schumann Arabesque No.1 – Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin (the girl with the flaxen hair) – Debussy Pavane – Faure Prelude in F Major – J.S. Bach Minuet (from Orfeo ed Euridice) – Gluck “Moonlight” Sonata – Beethoven Voi Che Sapete (from The Marriage of Figaro) – Mozart

Hymns (these are not allowed in a civil ceremony as they are religious) Amazing Grace – Anon Abide with Me – William H. Monk Love Divine, All Loves Excelling – W.P.Rowlands I Vow to Thee my Country (Jupiter Theme from The Planets) – Holst Pie Jesu - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Traditional (both local and international) Water of Tyne – trad. Eriskay Love Lilt – trad. Greensleeves – trad. Bonny at Morn – trad. Londonderry Air – Irish trad. David of the White Rock – Welsh trad. Gelliwig – Gilmor Griffiths Milonga para amar – Alfredo Rolando Ortiz Cocorna – Alfredo Rolando Ortiz Zelda’s Lullaby – Koji Kondo

Bollywood

Kuchh Na Kaho (Don’t say anything) from 1942 A Love Story Na Tum Jano Na Hum (Neither you nor I can know) from Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai Aa Meri Jaan (Let me put my life in yours) from Chandni Raat Ki Hatheli Par (On the palm of the night, the moon glitters) from Refugee Ek Ladki Ko Dekha (I Saw A Girl) from 1942 A Love Story Chalo Tumko Lekar Chale (Come, let me take you away) from Jism Tu Hi Re from Bombay Baahon Ke Darmiyaan from Khamoshi – The Musical Mausam Ke Sargam from Khamoshi – The Musical