Wedding Prelude Music
The music playing as your guests arrive and take their seats. Classical, contemporary, and instrumental options for every style of wedding ceremony.
Your prelude music plays as guests arrive and take their seats — usually in the 30 minutes before the ceremony begins. It's the very first piece of your wedding soundtrack that guests will hear, making it one of the most underrated planning decisions you'll make.
Far from being background noise, your prelude sets the emotional temperature for everything that follows. A string quartet playing Bach tells guests something very different from an acoustic guitarist playing Ed Sheeran. Choose music that reflects who you are and signals the tone of the day ahead.
Classical & Traditional Prelude Music
Timeless choices for formal church weddings or couples who want an air of elegance and tradition.
- Air on a G String — Bach
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring — Bach
- Sheep May Safely Graze — Bach
- Arioso — Bach
- Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto — Bach
- Air from Water Music — Handel
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 — Bach
- Courante (from Three Lute Dances) — Antoine Francisque
- Spring (from the Four Seasons) — Vivaldi
- The Swan — Camille Saint-Saëns
- Clair de Lune — Claude Debussy
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune — Debussy
- Ave Maria — Schubert
- Nocturne in E Flat — Chopin
- The Prince of Denmark's March — Clarke
- Canon in D — Pachelbel
- Bist du bei mir (You Are With Me) — Bach
- Wachet Auf — Bach
- Méditation (from Thaïs) — Massenet
- Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee — Beethoven
- Moonlight Sonata — Beethoven
- Waltz (from Sleeping Beauty) — Tchaikovsky
- Greensleeves — Ralph Vaughan Williams
- The Marriage of Figaro — Mozart
- Minuet — Mozart
Contemporary & Lyrical Prelude Music
Modern songs with meaningful lyrics — perfect for garden weddings, non-religious ceremonies, or couples with a more personal musical taste.
- Always — Atlantic Starr
- This Very Moment — K-Ci & JoJo
- Butterflyz — Alicia Keys
- Love — Musiq Soulchild
- Tonight I Celebrate My Love — Peabo Bryson feat. Roberta Flack
- You and I — Stevie Wonder
- Gift of Love — Bette Midler
- The Rose — Bette Midler
- Someone to Watch Over Me — Ella Fitzgerald
- When You Say You Love Me — Josh Groban
- The Prayer — Andrea Bocelli
- I Do (Cherish You) — 98 Degrees
- If — Bread
- We've Only Just Begun — The Carpenters
- Everything I Do (I Do It For You) — Bryan Adams
- The One — Elton John
- Waiting on an Angel — Ben Harper
- Don't Know Much — Linda Ronstadt feat. Aaron Neville
- Come Away With Me — Norah Jones
- I Honestly Love You — Olivia Newton-John
- Adore — Prince
- Hero — Enrique Iglesias
- All the Way — Frank Sinatra
- Say Once More — Amy Grant
- I Will Be Here — Steven Curtis Chapman
- Lady — Kenny Rogers
- Bless the Broken Road — Rascal Flatts
- China Roses — Enya
- May It Be — Enya
- Only Time — Enya
- Since You Asked — Judy Collins
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