Order of Service for a Wedding Ceremony
• Prelude music does not need to be listed
• Music selections should include the name of the piece and then the composer
• Use Wedding Music 101 to check your spelling!
• The order of the service varies with each religion or civil ceremony, but your priest, pastor, rabbi, officiant will help you.
• Songs at this site are brief examples, at the wedding they will be timed to fit each segment
Wedding Program Examples
Catholic Wedding Ceremony Mass
Inside Program Example
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PRELUDE MUSIC
Seating of Parents
BRIDESMAID PROCESSIONAL
Largo from Seasons, Vivaldi
BRIDE PROCESSION
Trumpet Voluntary, Clarke
GREETING AND OPENING PRAYER
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading
Responsorial Psalm (This Is the Day)
Second Reading
Gospel Acclamation (Celtic Alleluia)
Gospel
Homily
RITE OF MATRIMONY
Consent
Exchange of Vows and Rings
CANDLE CEREMONY
Flower Song from Lakme, Delibes
PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Presentation of the Gifts - Ave Verum, Mozart
Eucharistic Prayer
Sanctus - Mass of Creation, Haugen
Memorial Acclamation - Mass of Creation, Haugen
Amen - Mass of Creation, Haugen
Lord’s Prayer
Nuptial Blessing
Agnus Dei - Mass of Creation, Haugen
Sign of Peace
COMMUNION
Panis Angelicus, Franck
CLOSING RITES
PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN
Ave Maria, Schubert
Final Blessing
RECESSIONAL
Hornpipe from Water Music, Handel
A Reading
"One Other Person"
If we can whisper into each other’s ear our dreams and plans, no matter how foolish, and find eyes that light with glee...then our childhood days of adventure and promise need never end.
If we hurt each other through selfishness, pride, and lack of understanding and both can forgive, then we will have courage to try again...only this time wiser, more mature, and filled with enthusiasm, because our failings did not destroy love, but taught us how to deepen it.
If we wake to find the other still by our side during the financial setbacks, family difficulties, times of serious doubt, and bitter disappointments, then life’s problems will never cause us despair, for this “one other person” will be a candle in the darkest of hours.
And if in each other, we have trust and are able to forgive, help, appreciate, and cherish one another, and come to believe that each is precious, beautiful, and special, then we have loved.
In marriage we say, “This is my helpmate: my one other person.” May our days become a journey of life filled with great abundance.
Protestant Wedding Ceremony
Inside Program Example
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PRELUDE MUSIC
Seating of Parents
BRIDESMAID PROCESSIONAL
Canon in D, Pachelbel
BRIDE PROCESSION
Bridal Chorus (Traditional) , Wagner
WEDDING SERVICE
Greeting
First Reading
Wedding Message
Second Reading
Declaration of Intent
RITE OF MATRIMONY
Giving of the Bride
Exchange of Vows
Blessing of the Rings
Exchange of Rings
UNITY CANDLE
Flower Song from Lakme, Delibes
Declaration of Marriage
The Lord's Prayer
Final Blessing
Presentation of the Bride & Groom
RECESSIONAL
Wedding March, Mendelssohn