Wedding Music Options
Incarnation Catholic Church
The provided links are not always the best versions (because some of these songs don’t have really good recordings available), but it will at least give you an idea of the songs if you’re not familiar with them. Any without links are easily found by searching online.
Here are all the places you can have music (but the 5 ones in bold are the only necessary ones to pick!):<br>
Parents Seated: optional
Bridal Party Entrance: optional if large wedding party
Bride’s Entrance:
Responsorial Psalm:
Offertory:
Communion:
Flowers to the Blessed Mother: optional
Recessional:
Sung Options for During the Mass:
Sung Processional/Recessional (Not very common: Instrumental Options at Bottom)
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Be Thou My Vision
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) – contemporary
The Blessing: contemporary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp6aygmvzM4
Offertory (Some of these could be done at Communion also)
More contemporary:
We Bring Our Gifts to Your Altar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RvyI8v1-j0
Take My Life & Let it Be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6hqnWh45q8
When It’s All Been Said & Done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2rjfabh49A
More traditional:
These Alone Are Enough For Me – Schutte
The Gift of Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZza7fUXlP4
I Have Loved You – Joncas
Covenant Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8FBGi-ZPr0&t=25s
Wedding Song (There is Love)
Only A Shadow
Ave Maria (Shubert)
Hail Mary, Gentle Woman (These last two could also be for flowers to the Blessed Mother if you are doing that. The Salve Regina can also be sung for that)
Communion:
*Contemporary:
Bread of Angels – Curtis Stephan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZU9Gn0L8U
To Live With Him Forever – Hart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwrOQVhlmgU
Jesus Meek & Humble – Walther: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTXDZa-Iah8
Panis Vere – Brian Flynn
*Common Communion Hymns:
Ubi Caritas (Where Charity & Love Are, God is there): Hurd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeG_rnbda8
Ubi Caritas: Rosania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2XJ8LWjB4I
Gift of Finest Wheat
This is Jesus – Jim Cowan
Taste and See – Moore
One Bread One Body
I Received the Living God
How Beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJM0hFvz_64 (mentions the radiant bride)
The King of Love My Shepherd Is
Gift of Finest Wheat
Panis Angelicus: Classical by Franck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdKAHp9m1Q0
Panis Angelicus: Traditional Hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF00FnR9NMo
Contemporary songs that can be inserted different places depending on singers:
Here I Am To Worship – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKCThJB5w0
O Come to the Altar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYQ5yXCc_CA
Faithfulness – Matt Maher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAqsXuF63y4
Set Me As A Seal – Matt Maher – Inspired from the Bible’s Song of Songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMUehTuoTCs
Instrumental Options for Processionals and Recessional:
Ode to Joy (Hymn set to this tune you might recognize is Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6XUFbkTQNM
Trumpet Voluntary (on organ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrss4kBi2M
Trumpet Tune (on organ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmxvhBZkgFQ
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
Canon in D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1elGqARTb1Q&list=PL65T-YRAC_PcnRm1qnl1db7LDupVzmrJc&index=1
Gabriel’s Oboe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmvZ-QvEnjk&list=PL65T-YRAC_PcnRm1qnl1db7LDupVzmrJc&index=2
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Alla Hornpipe
Wedding March: Mendelssohn|
Allegro (from Water Music Suite)
Processional (Handel)
Processional (Purcell)