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NB. All the titles below can be played on the large concert harp. The letter 'C' after a title denotes that it is suitable to be played on the smaller Celtic harp.

The Wedding Ceremony

Although the choice of music for the Wedding Ceremony is very much a matter of personal taste, certain pieces are often requested for the three key elements where music is required: the Processional (entrance of the bride), the Signing of the Register, and the Recessional (exit of the couple and guests). As a guide, some suggestions for these are given below.

Processional (entrance of the bride / couple)

• Canon in D (Pachelbel)              
• Bridal March (Wagner)              
• Chaconne  (Clarke) C         
• Flower Duet  (Delibes)            
• Give Me Your Hand  (Trad.) C
• Sunrise, Sunset  (from 'Fiddler on the Roof') (Bock/Harnick)   
• Llety'r Bugail ('The Shepherd's Abode') (Trad.)

Signing of the register

• Prelude in C  (J. S. Bach)            
• Canon in D   (Pachelbel)              
• Flower Duet  (Delibes)           
• Ricordo Ancor   ('Pelagia's Song' from 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin') (Warbeck) C   
• Gymnopedie No. 1  (Satie)   
• Chaconne  (Clarke)  C       
• Ave Maria (Schubert)
• Allegro (Handel)
• And I Love Her  (The Beatles) C   

Recessional (exit of couple and guests)

• Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
• Canon in D (Pachelbel)
• Chaconne  (Clarke) C
• Carolan's Concerto  (O'Carolan) C
• Prelude in C (J S Bach)

 General Repertoire

This section contains suggestions for pieces that can be played at any point during the Ceremony, during the Drinks Reception and Wedding Breakfast, and also as background music for other functions. The titles are categorised according to musical style.

Classical

• Chaconne  (Clarke) C
• Canon in D (Pachelbel)
• Flower Duet (Delibes)
• Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie)
• Prelude in C (J S Bach)
• Passacaille (Handel)
• Prelude No. 3 (Tournier)
• Pie Jesu  (Lloyd Webber) C
• Ricordo Ancor  ('Pelagia's Song' from 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin') (Warbeck)
• Balcony Scene  (from 'Romeo and Juliet')  (Craig Armstrong) C
• Cavatina (Myers)
• Ave Maria (Schubert)
• Nocturne (Glinka)
• Chanson dans la Nuit (Salzedo)
• Au Bord du Ruisseau (Renie)
• To a Wild Rose (MacDowell)
• Pavane (Fauré)
• Gabriel's Oboe (from 'The Mission') (Morricone) C
• Allegro (Handel) C
• 'Morning' from Peer Gynt (Grieg)
• Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, 18th Variation (Rachmaninoff)
• Largo from 'Winter', from 'The Four Seasons' (Vivaldi)
• 'The Godfather' Love Theme (Nino Rota)
• Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partirò) (Sartori)

Popular / Easy Listening

• Cavatina (Myers)
• My Heart Will Go On (from 'Titanic') (Horner) C
• Unchained Melody (North/Zaret) C
• I Get a Kick Out of You (Porter)
• Hey Jude (The Beatles)
• Hedwig's Theme (from 'Harry Potter') (Williams)
• Amazed (Lonestar)
• Into the West  (from 'Lord of the Rings') (Shore/Walsh) 
• Watermark (Enya)
• May It Be (Enya)
• Evening Falls (Enya)
• And I Love Her (The Beatles) C
• In My Life (The Beatles)
• Over the Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg)
• Blue Moon (Rodgers/Hart)
• Moon River (Mancini/Mercer)
• All the Things You Are (Kern/Hammerstein)
• You'll Never Walk Alone (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
• All I Ask of You (from 'Phantom of the Opera') (Lloyd Webber) C
• Think of Me (from 'Phantom of the Opera') (Lloyd Webber)
• You're Still the One (Shania Twain) C
• From This Moment On (Shania Twain)
• Aniron (from 'Lord of the Rings') (Enya)
• Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton) C
• Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (Van Morrison) C
• Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley)
• Annie's Song (John Denver)
• Endless Love (Lionel Ritchie)
• Kissing You (from 'Romeo and Juliet') (Des'ree)
• Always (Jon Bon Jovi)
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen)
• You're Beautiful (James Blunt)
• Flightless Bird, American Mouth (from 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1') (Samuel Beam)
• The Wind Beneath My Wings (Henley/Silbar)
• Wherever You Are: The Military Wives' Prayer (Mealor)
• Fields of Gold (Sting)
• Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partirò) (Sartori)
• Beauty and the Beast (Menken)

 Traditional Music of the British Isles

• Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (Watching the Wheat) (Trad.)
• Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock) (Trad.)
• Y Deryn Pur (The Gentle Bird) (Trad.)
• Merch Megan (Megan's Daughter) (Trad.) C
• Berwyn (Delyth Evans) C
• Cariad Pur (True Love) (Delyth Evans) C
• Llydaw (Brittany) (Trad.) C
• Greensleeves (Trad.) C
• Scarborough Fair (Trad.) C
• Danny Boy / The Derry Air (Trad.) C
• Give Me Your Hand (Trad.) C
• Lord Galway's Lamentation (O'Carolan) C
• Carolan's Welcome (O'Carolan) C
• Carolan's Concerto (O'Carolan) C
• Don Oiche Ud I mBheithil (The Night in Bethlehem) (Trad.) C
• My Love is like a Red, Red, Rose (Trad.) C
• Lament for a Blind Harper (Stevenson) C
• The Mermaid's Song (Trad.) C
• Och Nan Och, 'smi fo leireadh (Trad.)
• The Ancient Sports of the Glen  (Trad.) C
• Cruit gun Cheis, Ceall gun Aba (A Harp without a Key) (Kennedy) C
• Eleanor Plunkett (O'Carolan) C
• The Leaving of Liverpool (Trad.)
• Llety'r Bugail ('The Shepherd's Abode') (Trad.)
• Ar Lan y Môr  (Trad.)
• Suo Gân (Trad.) C
• Walsh's Hornpipe (Trad.) C
• The Walls of Liscarroll (Trad.) C
• The Bard of Armagh (Trad.) C
• Down by the Salley Gardens (Trad.) C
• The Swan (McKay) C
• My Wife's a Drunkard (Trad.) C
• Andowin at da Bow (Trad.) C
• The Fields of Athenry C

 Jewish

• Chorsha ha Eucaliptus (Trad.) C
• Mi Yitnami Of (Trad.) C
• Sunrise, Sunset  (from 'Fiddler on the Roof') (Bock/Harnick)
• Dodi Li ('I Am My Beloved's') (Trad.)