Wedding Entrance Music

The wedding entrance music or processional music is usually an uplifting piece of wedding music that places the bride at center stage.

There is no law that says the bride has to walk down the aisle to the Bridal Chorus by Lohergrin, if you choose something else make sure it evokes some sort of fanfare.

The music listed below is only a sample of the large variety of music available.

A Selection of Bridal Entrance Music

Bridal Chorus - Lohengrin (Here comes the Bride) Most traditional and still very popular

Song of Joy from Symphony No 9 Beethoven

Trumpet Tune in C - Purcell

Coronation March - Walton

Crown Imperial - Walton

Orb and Sceptre - Walton

Whiter Shade of Pale - Keith Reid and Gary Brooker

Music for the Royal Fireworks - Handel

Bride and her father entering church

Water Music - Handle

The St Anthony Chorale - attributed Hayden

Wedding March (from 'The Marriage of Figaro') - Mozart

Psalm XIX - Marcello

Prelude to Te Deum - Charpentier

Sinfonia (from Cantata No 156) - Bach

Canzon V - Gabrieli

Sonatas for Organ, Op. 65, No 3 (con moto maestoso) - Mendelssohn

Promenade (from Pictures at an Exhibition) - Mussorgsky

Coronation March for Czar Alexander III ) - Tchaikovsky

The Trumpet Voluntary (Prince of Denmark’s March) - Clark

Pomp and Circumstance - Elgar

The Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel

Rondo the Master Piece Theatre theme - Mouret

Andante in F - Wesley

Amazing Grace - Traditional

Fanfare from the Triumphant - Couperin

Sarababde from Suite No11 - Handel

Bridal March - Parry

Trumpet, Tune and Air - Purcell

Largo - Handel

Trumpet Tune - Stanley

Oboe (from "The Mission") - Gabriel

The Vow - Jeremy Lubbock

Flatbush Waltz - Andy Statman

Appalachia Waltz - Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor