Wedding Music

[jhinckley84]

My sister doesn't want traditional wedding music. Any ideas? Shorter pieces preferred...

[georgecziffra]

Liszt's 'Funerailles'

[birba]

 

[birba]

No, seriously.  Purcell's trumpet voluntary substitutes Wagner's wedding march quite well.  I don't know your technical capacity, but some flashy Widor is fun at the end, instead of the hackneyed Mendelssohn.

[quantum]

Church or civil wedding?

Churches would have guidelines on acceptable music, so check with them first. 


Some suggestions:

[point of grace]

once i played Jesus Joy of man's desiring. Really beautiful and i think it fits perfect for the ocation

[jhinckley84]

She's having a church service. I'm meeting with them this week, so I hope our music director can help me too. I asked her about Jesu's Joy (It was one of my first choices) and she said no. Thanks for the suggestions!

[slow_concert_pianist]

Without know precisely what she wants to achieve it is difficult to tender any coherent advice. Liszt wrote some stunning sparkling transcriptions around various wedding march themes. Volodos, Horowitz, Howard and Cziffra are a few of the many performers I have on disc. Her wedding certainly wouldn't be "boring" but the minister might raise an eyebrow! If you want the actual names of the transcriptions I will dig them out for you.

[quantum]

My suggestion is to first meet with the music director, and find out what music is an absolute no-no.  Then you would have some frame of reference where to start when meeting with the wedding party.