Weddings
Chris plays many wedding ceremonies each year. Whether you want a traditional wedding with organ, a classic piano wedding or a more contemporary keyboard sound, Chris can do the job. He will also sing at the ceremony if you like. Here is information to assist in planning your wedding.
Other Instrumentalists
Although the organ and/or piano sound fine alone, adding other instruments to the mix can really set the mood for your ceremony. For example, trumpet has a brilliant and formal effect; harp has an inspired and elegant effect; violin has a sincere and heart-felt effect; and bagpipes have a rustic and outdoors effect.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you would like to hire any additional instrumentalists for your wedding so that I can get them scheduled.
Places For Music In A Roman Catholic Wedding Ceremony
- Prelude – selected by musician unless you have specific requests.
- Seating of the Mothers [optional]
- Attendants’ Processional
- Bride’s Processional
- Responsorial Psalm
- Unity Candle [optional]
- Preparation of Gifts
- Rite of Peace [optional]
- Communion
- Visit to the Mary statue [optional]
- Recessional
Places For Music In A Protestant Wedding Ceremony
- Prelude [selected by musician unless you have specific requests]
- Seating of the Mothers [optional]
- Attendants’ Processional
- Bride’s Processional
- Congregational Hymn [optional]
- Unity Candle [optional]
- Vocal Solo [optional]
- Recessional
Responsorial Psalms (Roman Catholic Mass)
Psalm 16 Center of My Life
Psalm 25 To You, O Lord
Psalm 34 Taste and See
Psalm 103 The Lord is Kind and Merciful
Psalm 118 Sing to the Mountains
Psalm 128 Blest Are Those Who Love You
Psalm 139 You Are Near
Psalm 145 I Will Praise Your Name
Psalm 148 Let All Praise the Name of the Lord
Processionals & Recessionals
Allegro Maestoso from Water Music
Bridal Chorus – “Here comes the bride”
Canon in D
Hallelujah
Highland Cathedral
Hymne
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Main Titles from Cider House Rules
Ode to Joy
Overture or The Rejoicing from Fireworks Music
Prelude in Classic Style
Prelude to the Te Deum
Procesión Alegre
Rondeau
Star Wars—Main Title
Toccata from Symphony No. 5
Trumpet Tune
Trumpet Voluntary
Trumpet Voluntary
Wedding March – “traditional”
Wedding Processional from The Sound of Music
Hymns & Vocal Solos
A Nuptial Blessing
All I Ask of You
Amazing Grace
And On This Day
As Man and Woman We Were Made
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Ave Verum
Bist du bei mir
Blest Are They
Blest Are Those Who Love You(Psalm 128)
Bread of Life, Hope of the World
Center of My Life (Psalm 16)
Come, Let Us Use the Grace Divine
Come, My Way, My Truth
Covenant Hymn
Dona Nobis Pacem
For the Beauty of the Earth
God, Whose Love Is Reigning O’er Us
Grow Old With Me
Hail Mary, Gentle Woman
Hallelujah
Here I Am, Lord
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
How Beautiful
I Am the Bread of Life
I Have Loved You
I Will Be Here
I Will Be with You
In This Very Room
Irish Wedding Song
Jesus, Joy of Our Desiring
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You
Let There Be Peace On Earth
Life-Giving Bread, Saving Cup
Love Will Be Our Home
Magnificat
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
Mary Me
My Soul Rejoices (Magnificat)
No Greater Love
Not for Tongues of Heaven’s Angels
Now in This Banquet
Now Thank We All Our God
O Perfect Love
On Eagle’s Wings
On This Day, O Beautiful Mother
One Bread, One Body
One Hand, One Heart
Panis Angelicus
Shine on Us
Simple Gifts
Sunrise, Sunset
Taste and See (Psalm 34)
The Gift of Love
The Lord Bless You and Keep You
The Lord’s Prayer
The Prayer
The Servant Song
The Wedding Song
The Wedding Song [There Is Love]
This Is the Day (A Wedding Song)
We Are Many Parts
We Have Been Told
When Love Is Found
Where Charity and Love Prevail
Wherever You Go
You Are Near
You Raise Me Up
Your Love, O God, Has Called Us Here