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There is a planner to help you put together your ceremony on the ‘Your Wedding’ website here
 

We have put together our own local notes to help you below:

Music

Music is an important element of a wedding service and there is a wide variety of music, hymns and worship songs to choose from.

Hymns

It's traditional to sing either two or three hymns during the wedding service. When choosing a hymn its usually best to stick to ones that most people are likely to know, otherwise you may be the only two people singing! You will also want to consider when choosing hymns whether the words are saying the things you want them to.

One last thing on hymns.  Some hymns can be sung to more than one tune, so it's worth checking with your organist to make sure that the tune they are planning to play is the one that you have in mind.

Hymns that are popular choices for weddings include:

• Alleluia! Sing to Jesus
• Come down O love divine
• Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
• Lord of all hopefulness

• Love divine all loves excelling
• O Jesus I have promised
• Praise to the Lord, the Almighty the King of creation
• Praise my soul the King of heaven

The ‘Your Wedding’ site also has a page where you can listen to many popular wedding hymns

Instrumental Music

As well as hymns you will probably want to have some instrumental music at certain points in the service such as:

• The entrance of the bride
• During the signing of the registers
• When you leave church as a married couple at the end of the service

The organist can play this music for you and traditional pieces include:

The entrance of the bride:

• Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
• Bridal march from Lohengrin (‘Here comes the bride…’) (Wagner)
• Hornpipe in F from the Water Music (Handel)
• Prelude to the Te Deum (Charpentier)
• Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
• Trumpet voluntary (J Clarke)

When you leave church as a married couple:

• Chorale - improvisation on "Now thank we all our God" (Karg-Elert)
• Crown Imperial (Walton)
• Finale from the Water Music (Handel)
• Toccata from Symphony No. 5 (Widor)
• Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Mendelssohn)

You can hear versions of all of these tunes by clicking on them (you will be taken to ‘YouTube’)