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Wedding Music – Planning for your Big Day
• Prelude – This is when the guest assembles for the ceremony and find their seats. There will be general
mingling and the music for the prelude usually is played low in the background, giving just enough
ambiance to set the tone for the ceremony.
• Processional – A professional can be either a long or short affair depending on personal preference. In
general, this music will be a slow-paced or acoustic piece that offers the ability to walk slowly and
gracefully down the aisle.
• Brides entrance – Following the processional, the bride enters often on the arm of her father, or a close
male friend or relative. Often the music played for her entrance will be the same as a processional but
for some bride, finding a song or piece of music that means something special to them or their future
spouse is a more popular choice.
• Recessional – Now man and wife, the newly-weds parade their marriage down the aisle as they leave the
ceremony. Some couples like to repeat their processional music, either with the same or a variation of
the first, whilst other will pick a love song or another piece that represents them as a couple.
• First Dance – This is likely the most important piece of music during the day, given that it is the first
time a new husband and wife stand up together as newly-weds. This song often has a very special
meaning for the couple though with more and more couples choosing to post their dance on the
internet, more imaginative, funny dance routines are being done to the tunes of classic films and
popular songs.
• Daddy Daughter Dance – And of course, something of a new tradition in modern weddings, the father-
daughter dance is usually an emotional dance where a daughter gets to say a figurative goodbye to the
man in her former life for the man in her new. Once again sentiments vary, but popular choices
include songs about fatherhood and loving one's papa.