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Musical Ideas for Theme Weddings

Over the years, I have had the pleasure of collaborating with some incredibly creative clients to find just the right music to compliment their theme weddings.

Let the musical choices listed below inspire your imagination to create the theme wedding of your dreams!

Shakespeare in Love
One of my musicians arranged all the music from the movie Shakespeare in Love for one of my clients. The Bride used it as her processional and recessional music. The bride also included the sonnets of Shakespeare in her ceremony.

Songs used in Broadway Theme Weddings:
I Have Dreamed - The King and I
Follow the Rainbow - Finnegan Rainbow
Unexpected Song - Unexpected Song
All I Ask of You - Phantom of the Opera
Day by Day - God spell
Edelweiss - Sound of Music
Climb Every Mountain - Sound of Music
My Favorite Things – Sound of Music
Oh What a Beautiful Morning - Oklahoma
Night and Day by Cole Porter

Christmas Wedding

Processional Music for the Bride
Overture to The Messiah - Handel
And the Glory of the Lord from The Messiah - Handel
Dance of the Reed Flutes from The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky

Recessional Music for the Bride
Joy to the World - Handel
Halleluiah Chorus from The Messiah - Handel
March from The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky
Chinese Dance from The Nutcracker - Tchaikovsky

Beach Wedding

Have a Steel Drum Band at the cocktail hour to create an “Island Feel” for your big day.

SIMPLE IDEAS

Here are a few very simple non-musical ways that I have seen my clients put their individual stamp on their ceremony

Get to Know Your Celebrant
When a couple and the celebrant take the time to get to know each other, it adds a deeper level of intimacy to the Ceremony. Nothing is more touching then having the Ceremony begin with the celebrate saying a few words about the journey that has led the couple to that moment.

Declaration of Support
Many of my clients will ask a parent or a good friend to say a few brief words about their relationship with bride and the groom during the ceremony. This is a great way for the guests at the wedding, who do not know both sides of the family, to become more familiar with the couple.

Planting a Tree
When a couple gets married at their home or a parent’s home, planting a tree during the ceremony is a beautiful way to remember the day for years to come.

The Candlelighting Ceremony
In order to personalize this moment many of my clients will use a family heirloom such as a Candelabra or Candle Sticks.

Reading and Poetry
Two or three poetry or prose readings will add so much to your ceremony and can also provide an opportunity to directly involve some of your family and friends. Readings can be serious and meaningful or light and humorous. There is so much poetry and prose to choose from, whether classical Sonnets by Shakespeare or Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to modern poems including song lyrics.