List Of The Most Popular Wedding Songs

If you search for "popular wedding songs" in the search engines, you know that everyone has their own idea what their best is.

I like the following list, a courtesy from Morris County Library (NJ), Wedding Music, since it has a blend of classical and contempo flavor.

CLASSICAL

Best of Baroque (CD)
- Handels' Water Music, Bach's Brandenberg Concertos, Pachelbel's Canon, etc.
Biggs Plays Bach (Cassette)
- Organist E. Power Biggs plays Toccata & Fugue in D minor, Fantasy & Fugue, etc.
Here Comes the Bride (LP)
- Organist Virgil Fox performs Tchaikovsky's Theme from Symphony #6, Haydn's St Anthony Choarle, Greig's I Love You, etc.
High, Bright and Clear (CD)
- Purcell, Bach, etc.
Lohengrin (CD)
- Includes Wagner's The Bridal Chorus
Midsummer Night's Dream (Cassette)
- Mendelssohn; includes The Wedding March
Music for the Marriage (Cassette)
- Includes Purcell's Trumpet Tune, Bach's Air for the G string, plus various Handel works.
Reverie: French Music for Flute & Guitar (CD)
- Works by Couperin, Rameau, Poulenc, etc.
Trio Sonatas (Cassette)
- Albioni's Adagio, Pachelbel's Canon, Bach's Suite in B Minor, etc.
The Wedding Album (LP)
- Includes Mendelsohn's Wedding March, Wagner's Bridal Chorus, The Lord's Prayer, Because, I Love You Truly, Oh Promise Me, etc.
Ave Maria (LP)
- Kiri Te Kanawa sings O Divine Redeemer, Ave Maria, Jesu, Joy of My Desiring, Sanctus, etc.
Music for the Marriage Service (Cassette)
- Psalm 128, A Wedding Blessing, Whither Thou Goest, O Perfect Love, To Know Thou Art, the Greatest of These is Love, etc.
Pleasures of Their Company
- Kathleen Battle sings Ave Maria, Come Again?, Sweet Love ..and What if I Never Speed?
Sacred Songs
- Jessye Norman sings Amazing Grace, Greensleeves, Let Us Break Bread, Ave Maria, O Divine Redeemer, etc.

POPULAR

Beatles (LP, cassette or CD)
- Including When I'm Sixty Four, Something, In My Life, etc.
James Brown (Cassette)
- I Feel Good in his Greatest Hits
Temptations (Cassette)
- My Girl in The Temptations
Barbra Streisand
- Duet with Johnny Mathis, One Hand, One Heart in Back to Broadway
There is Love (The Wedding Song) Cassette
- Paul Stookey's One Night Stand
Natalie and Nat King Cole (CD)
- Unforgettable
Beach Boys (CD)
- Wouldn't It Be Nice in Pet Sounds

COLLECTIONS

All Occasions Album (LP)
- Processional & recessional album, including Wedding March
Bride's Guide to Wedding Music (CD)
Songs for a Wedding (Cassette)
- Duets and male/female versions of The Wedding Song, And I Love You So, etc.
Wedding Day (Cassette)
- Includes Endless Love, Wind Beneath My Wings, etc.

ETHNIC
See also our World Music list

SPECIALTY SONGS

Music for Processionals
- Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, J.S. Bach (on Baroque for Brides to Be, CD)
- The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Handel (on Best of Baroque, CD)

Music for Recessionals
- Air on a G String, J.S. Bach (on Ultimate Wedding Album, CD)
- Ode to Joy, Beethoven (Symphony No. 9 in D. Minor, final movement)
Mother-Son Songs
- Wind Beneath My Wings, Lyn Larsen (on Wedding Day, CD)
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, Elvis Presley (on Stereo '57, cassette)
- Sunrise, Sunset, Jerome Robbins (from Fiddler on the Roof)
Father-Daughter Songs
- The Way You Look Tonight, Frank Sinatra (in The Very Best of Frank Sinatra, CD)
- My Girl, The Temptations (on Billboard Top Hits, 1965, CD)
- Isnt' She Lovely, Stevie Wonder (on Songs in the Key of Life, CD)
Last Dance Songs
- Last Dance, Donna Summer, Thank God It's Friday [motion picture soundtrack]
- Unforgettable, Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole [CD]
- What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong's Greatest Hits [CD]

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