Wedding Music

Congratulations on your upcoming wedding. A few things you should know:

• All St. Ann's weddings require an organist and a singer/music director. The fee for each of those individuals is $200 ($400 total) and is payable prior to the wedding. Details on payment will be emailed by the music minister.
• If you choose to contract with additional musicians (violinists, trumpeters, etc.) there may be additional fees for rehearsal if we are expected to accompany these musicians.
• Friend or family members may sing a hymn or song at the ceremony, but that does not preclude hiring a singer/music director. Our singer/music director will sing all parts of the Mass and coordinate other liturgical music. 
• Pre-recorded music is not permitted for weddings at. St. Ann's Church. All music will be performed live.
• The list below is suggestions drawn from the most popular pieces performed at weddings. If you wish to have a piece that does not appear on the list, it must be requested at least five (5) weeks before the wedding. As we are a desirable and busy venue, we want to allocate enough time to properly prepare music for your special day.
• Pieces not on this list will only be approved if they are appropriate to the liturgy and can be performed with the available instrumentation. Pieces appearing in the Breaking Bread Hymnal or other standard hymnals are generally acceptable. Popular music and Broadway show tunes, while desired, are often not appropriate to the liturgy.
• The links below are for demonstration purposes only- instrumentation will be a solo singer and an organ or piano.

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Processional Choices (Please select TWO: ONE for the Bridesmaids AND ONE for the Bride for a total of TWO processional pieces, unless it is a small wedding and you'd prefer the entire procession be to a single piece):

• "Largo" (from Xerxes), (George F. Handel)
• "Bridal Chorus" (from Lohengrin), (Richard Wagner)
• "Canon in D" (Johann Pachelbel)
• "Spring" (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)
• "The Prince of Denmark's March" (Jeremiah Clarke) [aka Trumpet Voluntary]
• "Trumpet Tune" (Henry Purcell)

Responsorial Song:

• Wherever You Go (Norbet)
• I Have Loved You (Joncas)
• Blest Are Those Who Love You (Haugen)
• Taste & See (Moore)

Candle Ceremony (Optional):

• One Hand, One Heart (Leonard Bernstein)
• The Irish Wedding Song

Offertory Song: (Mass Only):

• All I Ask of You (Norbert)
• Eat This Bread (Taize)
• I Am The Bread of Life (Toolan)
• I Have Loved You (Joncas)
• One Bread, One Body (Foley)
• Prayer of St. Francis (Temple) 

Communion Song (There is no Communion at a Wedding ceremony but these songs might be appropriate meditations):

• Amazing Grace (Traditional)
• Ave Maria (Schubert)
• Gift of Finest Wheat (Kreutz)
• Hail Mary, Gentle Woman (Landry)
• Here I Am Lord (Schutte)
• I Have Loved You (Joncas)
• Lady of Knock (Scallon)
• Let There Be Peace On Earth
• Morning Has Broken
• On Eagle’s Wings (Joncas)
• One Bread, One Body (Foley)
• Panis Angelicus (Franck)
• Prayer of St. Francis (Temple)
• Taste and See (Moore)
• The Irish Wedding Song (Betteridge)
• The Wedding Song (There Is Love) (Stookey)

Recessional choices:

• "Hallelujah Chorus" (from The Messiah), (George F. Handel)
• "Hornpipe" (from Water Music Suite), (George F. Handel)
• "Ode to Joy" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
• "Spring," Allegro, (from The Four Seasons), (Antonio Vivaldi)
• "Trumpet Tune" (Henry Purcell)
• "Wedding March" (from A Midsummer Night's Dream), (Felix Mendelssohn)