Wedding Music Selections

First there's the "Prelude Music" as guests are being seated before the wedding.  Those selections are usually not listed in a program.  When it's time for the "Service Music", as many as six pieces may be specified:

Processional:   Seating of the Mothers
Processional:   Entrance of the Bridesmaids
Processional:   Entrance of the Bride
Interlude:           Candle Lighting, etc.
Recessional:    Bride & Groom exit
Recessional:    Postlude (All exit)

Some typical examples from the Classical tradition:

PROCESSIONALS:

PACHELBEL:  Canon in D                       
BACH:  Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring           
CLARKE:  Trumpet Voluntary                                   
WAGNER:  Bridal Chorus                       
PURCELL:  Trumpet Tune                       

INTERLUDES:

HANDEL:  Air from the Water Music           
BACH:  Air from the Suite in D (“on the G string”)                                   
HUMPERDINCK:  Children’s Prayer from Hansel and Gretel                                   
VIVALDI:  Winter (Largo)           
SCHUBERT:  Ave Maria           

RECESSIONALS:

BEETHOVEN:  Ode To Joy           
MENDELSSOHN:  Wedding March from Midsummer Night’s Dream           
HANDEL:  La Rejouissance                                               
VIVALDI:  Spring (Allegro)                                               
HANDEL:  Hornpipe from the Water Music                       
LENNON/McCARTNEY:  All You Need Is Love