120 of the Best Wedding Ceremony Songs

Try these beautiful songs played during throughout the wedding service to create a calming atmosphere.

Wedding ceremony songs cover all the music you’ll play during the ceremony. Getting the right music for the prelude (the time when the guests are taking their seats) and the processional (when the bridesmaids are walking down the aisle) will set the tone for your ceremony.

How to Choose Your Wedding Ceremony Music

The key sections of your wedding ceremony that you require music for are:

Prelude
Processional
Signing of the register
Recessional
Post-wedding music, to move between the ceremony and reception

For each section, think whether you want calming or upbeat music? Will you have songs or just instrumental? Will you have gentle background music while the register is being signed or it is hymns all the way for you? Do you want something playing while you say your vows?

Our playlist contains lots of different genres and tempos so have a listen to them all and get a sense of what feels right for you.

Because there’s so much choice, we’ve actually created separate inspirational playlists for the signing of the register and the recessional (when you exit the church) but these beautiful songs could be used at any point during the ceremony.

The 120 Best Wedding Ceremony Songs

Below you’ll find our Spotify playlist of the top wedding ceremony songs, which includes wedding prelude songs and processional songs. Scroll down for the full list of songs to inspire you.

Canon in D Major – Pachelbel Orchestra
Bella’s Lullaby – Carter Burwell, Dan Redfeld and Elizabeth Hedman
Make You Feel My Love – ADELE
I’m Kissing You – Des’ree
The Secret Wedding (From “Braveheart”) – David Arkenstone featuring Kathleen Fisher
Better Together – Jack Johnson
Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) – Quindon Tarver
The Way You Look Tonight – Tony Bennett
Across the Stars (From “Episode II: Attack of the Clones”) – John Williams
The Prince of Denmark’s March (Trumpet Voluntary In D Major) – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Christian Rainer
A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
My Lover’s Prayer – Otis Redding
From This Moment On – Shania Twain & Bryan White
Claire De Lune – Claude Debussy
A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
I Knew I Loved You – Savage Garden
All Of Me – John Legend
When You Love a Woman – Journey
Circle of Life (From “The Lion King”) – Lebo M & Carmen Twillie
Kisses and Cake – John Powell
This I Promise You – Ronan Keating
All I Ask of You (Phantom of the Opera) – Wedding Music
How Long Will I Love You – Ellie Goulding
A Groovy Kind of Love – Phil Collins
Londonderry Air – John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers
Canon In F – The O’Neill Brothers
Dreams Come True – Westlife
Glasgow Love Theme – Craig Armstrong
Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars
Be Mine – David Gray
Here and Now – Luther Vandross
Perfect – Ed Sheeran
The Best of Me – Cliff Richard
Bridal Chorus (From “Lohegrin”) – Royal Wedding Orchestra
Halo – Beyoncé
Moon River – Frank Sinatra
Rule the World – Take That
The Luckiest – Ben Folds
“Ode to Joy” from Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125: Choral) – Beethoven
Can You Feel the Love Tonight – Elton John
Helena – My Chemical Romance Piano Tribute
If I Fall to Your Heart – Derwent Hannon
On the Wings of Love – Vitamin String Quartet
Endless Love (From “The Endless Love” Soundtrack) – Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
Love You More – JLS
On This Day – David Pomeranz
Recessional – Trumpet Tune – Purcell
She Is Love – Oasis
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
Canon In D Major – Single – Johann Pachelbel
Falling In Love With You Again – Imelda May
Let’s Get Married – The Proclaimers
(They Long to Be) Close to You – Carpenters
Barry: Main Theme from Out of Africa – Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Chanson de Matin (Piano) – Edward Elgar
Prelude from Te Deum – The Raglan Baroque Players & Nicholas Kraemer
(There Is) No Greater Love – Amy Winehouse
After All Is Said and Done – Beyoncé & Marc Nelson
Always – Bon Jovi
Gravity – Embrace
Love Is All Around – Wet Wet Wet
12. Wagner Bridal Chorus – Wagner
Chopin – Nocturne – Ballet Dance Company
You’ll Never Walk Alone (Carousel) – Rodgers & Hammerstein
‘Spring’ from ‘The Four Seasons – Violin Concerto In e Major – Antonio Vivaldi
Feels Like Home – Edwina Hayes
Have You Ever – Westlife
Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Songbird – Oasis
The Book of Love – Peter Gabriel
This Guy’s In Love With You – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
All I Want Is You – Barry Louis Polisar
Amazed – Lonestar
Any Other Name – Original – Thomas Newman
Can’t Hold Us Down (feat. Lil’ Kim) – Christina Aguilera
Four Seasons – Summer III Presto – Antonio Vivaldi
No One – Alicia Keys
Always On My Mind – Willie Nelson
Amazing Day – Coldplay
Can’t Help Falling In Love – Elvis Presley
Eidelweiss – The New London Orchestra
Everything (Curtis & Moore Remix) – Mary J. Blige
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492: Overture (arr. S. Bergler) – John Bauer Brass
Love Is Easy [Live] – McFly
Power of Love – Huey Lewis & The News
Bel Air – Lana Del Rey
Cherish – The Association
Evergreen (Love Theme from “A Star Is Born”) – Barbra Streisand
Everything – Michael Bublé
Father Daughter Dance – Wayne Jacobs
Haven’t Met You Yet – Michael Bublé
Just Be – Paloma Faith
Love and Marriage – Frank Sinatra
Love Never Fails – Brandon Heath
Love You I Do – Jennifer Hudson
Marry Me – Train
Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
Still In Love – Lionel Richie
Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden
All Time Love – Will Young
Bat Out of Hell – Meat Loaf
Grow Old With Me – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Highway to Hell – AC/DC
I See You [Theme From Avatar] – Leona Lewis
Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder
Love Oh Love – Lionel Richie
My Girl – The Temptations
One – Ed Sheeran
Suddenly – Angry Anderson
Sweet Louise – Passenger
The One – Kodaline
The Power of Love – Jennifer Rush
Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Two Hearts – Phil Collins
Verdi: Aida: Triumphal March & Ballet – Giuseppe Verdi
Wedding Day – Bee Gees
When I’m Sixty-Four – The Beatles
You Are So Beautiful – Joe Cocker
Your Song – Ellie Goulding
You’re Still the One – Shania Twain