Contemporary Wedding Music Ideas

Choosing the Best Songs for a Romantic Wedding Ceremony

© Elaine Walker

Feb 3, 2008

Between readings, during the wedding ceremony, some couples choose to have a piece of music. This can be live, or can be recorded music. If you don’t have your heart set on one particular song, think carefully before making your choice.

Choose music to complement the setting and style of the wedding. If the wedding is unconventional, don’t use traditional music, but stay true to the theme and choose something that reflects how you feel. Wedding songs should not be too long as guests can get restless, especially the children.

Top Wedding Songs

There is a lot of popular wedding music and these are some of the top songs:

1. Never Gonna Let You Go by Sergio Mendes
2. Nothing Compares To You by Sinead O'Connor
3. Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler
4. We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters
5. Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden

Romantic Classics for Weddings

Whilst those popular songs are perfectly suitable for a wedding ceremony, there are some wonderful sentimental oldies with great style. For the best romantic classics consider one of these:

1. Only You by The Platters
2. The Wonder of You by Elvis
3. Our Love is Here To Stay Nat King Cole
4. And I Love Her by the Beatles
5. Your Love Amazes Me by John Berry

Each of these songs has a beautiful melody and appropriately romantic words which will catch the imagination of the wedding guests.

Something special and in a league of its own is There is Love (Wedding Song) by Paul Stookey. This classic has a low-key Christian theme and gently tugs at the heart strings.

Outdoor Wedding Music

If the wedding is outdoors on a beach or in a sunny garden, consider something that might complement the setting :

1. Let Your Love Flow by the Bellamy Brothers starts with “There’s a reason for the sunshiny sky..”
2. Your are the Sunshine of my Life by Stevie Wonder

If you want something unusual that works as a reading set to music, consider

1. My Love is Like a Red Red Rose by Izzy. This is the Robert Burns love poem beautifully set to the music of an Irish folk melody, with full orchestra.

Movie Music for Weddings

Those couples who are movie fans could select something from the popular titles:

1. Titanic: My Heart Will Go On
2. Sleepless in Seattle: When I Fall in Love
3. Ghost: Unchained Melody

Or something more unusual and perhaps more intriguing:

1. Cinema Paradiso: Love Theme
2. Out of Africa: Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K 622
3. A Room with a View: Ch'il bel sogno di Doretta

More wedding ideas:

• wedding readings to set the mood
• creative wedding readings

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