weddings
Live piano music adds an atmosphere of elegance, beauty, and personality to your wedding day. Katie may be hired to play for one or more of these events:
- wedding ceremony
- ceremony rehearsal
- cocktail/appetizer hour between ceremony and dinner
- dinner after the wedding
Possible additional fees: travel fee depending on location, music fee for obtaining music not listed below, any additional rehearsals with a singer or instrumentalist.
Ceremony Music Repertoire: Possible Selections
Prelude/Seating Music
This music sets a delightful mood for the wedding, starting 15 minutes before the ceremony. Katie can make the appropriate selections, or include a particular piece of your choosing.
Selection
Air on the G String
All I Ask of You (from Phantom of the Opera)
Arabesque No. 1
Blue Danube
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Dawn (from Pride and Prejudice)
For Good
Great is Thy Faithfulness
I Just Called to Say I Love You
O Perfect Love
Ode to Joy
Open Our Eyes/ Be Thou My Vision
Morning Has Broken
My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic)
Prelude in D Major, Op. 23, No. 4
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Stars and Butterflies
The Secret Life of Daydreams
You and You
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Claude Debussy
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Traditional American Melody
Dario Marianelli
Stephen Schwartz
William M. Runyan
Stevie Wonder
Joseph Barnby
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Robert Cull, Traditional Irish Melody
Traditional Gaelic Melody
James Horner
Sergei Rachmaninoff
William B. Bradbury
Dario Marianelli
Dario Marianelli
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Processional
Music for the processional is usually stately music at a nice walking pace. The parents are seated*, and then the officiant, groom, and any attendants, including groomsmen, bridesmaids, flower girl, and ring bearer, enter and walk to the front. Depending on the quantity of family members and attendants, Katie will tailor the length of the piece so that it ends when the last attendant reaches the front.
* if desired, Katie may play a separate piece for the seating of the family, or the family may walk in during the prelude instead.
Air on the G String
Ave Maria
Canon in D
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Morning Has Broken
Trumpet Voluntary
Trumpet Tune
Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Schubert
Johann Pachelbel
Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig Van Beethoven, adapted by Edward Hodges
Traditional Gaelic Melody
Jeremiah Clarke
Henry Purcell
Bridal March
A new piece, beginning after the processional, marks the entrance of the bride and sets a beautiful tone for her walk down the aisle. You may choose one of the pieces below, or speak with Katie about a favorite piece you would like to select.
Bridal Chorus
Canon in D
Dawn (from Pride and Prejudice)
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Trumpet Voluntary
Richard Wagner
Johann Pachelbel
Dario Marianelli
Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston
Jeremiah Clarke
Special Music
If there is a unity ceremony, signing of the documents, or another special moment you would like to highlight with background music, Katie can help you choose a piece suited to your taste.
Amazing Grace
Ave Maria: Based on Prelude in C Major by J. S. Bach
Ave Maria
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Traumerei
O Perfect Love
Stars and Butterflies (Pride and Prejudice)
Traditional American Melody
Charles Gounod
Franz Schubert
Traditional American Melody
William M. Runyan
Robert Schumann
Joseph Barnby
Dario Marianelli
Recessional
This music is typically joyous and upbeat, accompanying the bride and groom and their attendants as they exit the ceremony. The piece will be played in its entirety and may be followed by another piece of a similar mood while guests begin to exit.
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Ode to Joy
Rondeau
Trumpet Voluntary
Wedding March
Edward Perronet
Traditional American Melody
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Jean-Joseph Mouret
Jeremiah Clarke
Felix Mendelssohn