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Sample Wedding Ceremony

Prelude & Seating of Guests
Soft music: classical or worship songs

Seating of Grandparents
Seating of Mothers
More soft music or a hymn

Candle Lighting
More soft music or worship song

Processional
Groom and Groomsmen Enter
Bridesmaids Enter
Flower girls and Ring bearer Enter

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, by Johann Sebastion Bach (traditional classical)
Canon in D, by Johann Pachelbel (traditional classical)

Entrance of Bride
Great is Thy Faithfulness (hymn)
Be Thou My Vision (hymn)
Anne’s Theme (from Anne of Green Gables)
Bridal Chorus by Richard Wagner (traditional classical)
Trumpet Voluntary “The Prince of Denmark’s March”, Jeremiah Clarke (traditional classical)
Processional from “Royal Fireworks” by George Frederick Handel (traditional classical)

(Opening Prayer)
(Scripture Reading)
(Message)


Special Music
You and I by Stevie Wonder
If You Could See What I See by Geoff Moore and Steven Curtis Chapman
Back at One by Brian McKnight
Because You Loved Me (Theme from “Up Close and Personal”) Words and Music by Diane Warren
If You Asked Me To, Words and Music by Diane Warren
How Do I Live, Words and Music by Diane Warren
I Do (Cherish You), Words and Music by Keith Stegall and Dan Hill
So In Love With You, Words and Music by David Foster, Bill Ross and Linda Thompson

(Exchange of Vows and Rings)

Unity Candle
The Lord’s Prayer
How Beautiful, Twila Paris

(The Kiss)
(Presentation of Bride and Groom)


Recessional
Hornpipe from “Water music” by George Frederick Handel (traditional classical)
Trumpet Air by Henry Purcell (traditional classical)
Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn (traditional classical)
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Other considerations:
Any of the above songs can be put in another part of the ceremony. Or, you could choose favorite hymns or worship songs; a song you and your fiancée enjoy listening to; or your mom and dad’s wedding song.


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