Wedding Music – String Quartet, String Trio, Violin & Cello Duo & Orchestra
Music has an important and transformative role to play in your ceremony. It sets the mood and atmosphere for your day.
There are 4 main sections in a wedding ceremony where music is usually performed:
1) As guests arrive and are seated
2) Processional – As you walk down the aisle.
3) Signing of the Register – While you sign your papers (2 songs).
4) Recessional – Immediately after you are announced as married.
Timing: From experience, Stringspace recommends booking for 1.25 – 1.5 hours for a wedding ceremony to cover all 4 sections. 1-hour bookings are also an option.
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Wedding Repertoire:
AS GUESTS ARRIVE: Stringspace performs beautiful classical music (such as Bach, Mozart, and Handel), or we can also play jazz, pop, or a mix of these styles.
We recommend that you choose 4 songs from our repertoire list for the ceremony:
- 1 song for the Processional
- 2 songs for the Signing
- 1 song for the Recessional
Alternatively, if you prefer to choose the style (e.g. stylish classical, jazz or pop), you can leave the rest to us.
Catholic mass: If you are having a full Catholic Mass, please let us know at the time of booking, as we can also include music for Offertory and Communion.
PROCESSIONAL (as you walk down the aisle):
You choose 1 song:
- Pachelbel: Canon
- Amazing Grace
- Bach: Air
- Bach: Arioso
- Bach: Goldberg Variations
- Delibes: Flower Song
- Schubert: Entr’acte
- Wagner: Wedding March
- A Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay
- A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
- Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
- Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley
- Halo – Beyonce
- Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
- In My Life – The Beatles
- Into My Arms – Nick Cave
- Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
- Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- My Girl
- One – U2
- Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey
- What A Wonderful World – Armstrong
SIGNING OF THE REGISTER (while the papers are signed):
You choose 2 songs:
- Amazing Grace
- Bach: Air
- Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
- Bach: Goldberg Variations
- Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
- Beethoven: Cavatine
- Boccherini: Minuet
- Debussy: Clair de Lune
- Delibes: Flower Song
- Handel: Andante con Moto (Sarabande) from Water Music
- Handel: Passacaille
- Handel: Sarabande “Lascia ch’io pianga”
- Mozart: Romance from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
- Mozart: Divertimento KV.136 (Allegro, Presto)
- Schubert: Ave Maria
- Ave Maria – Beyonce
- The Book of Love – Peter Gabriel
- Can’t Help Falling in Love – Presley
- Can’t Take My Eyes Off You – Franki Valli
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- Close To You – Bacharach
- Dreams – Gabrielle
- Fields of Gold – Sting
- Gabriel’s Oboe – Morricone
- Hallelujah – Cohen/Buckley
- Kissing You – Des’ree
- Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Never Tear Us Apart – INXS
- No One – Alicia Keys:
- Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
- Perfect – Ed Sheeran
- She Makes My Day – Robert Palmer
- Something – The Beatles
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Stand By Me
- Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey
- What the World Needs Now – Bacharach
- Yellow – Coldplay
- What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
RECESSIONAL (as the ceremony concludes):
You choose 1 song:
- All You Need Is Love – The Beatles
- Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
- Beautiful Day – U2
- Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
- Fly Me to the Moon
- I’m Yours – Mraz
- L-O-V-E
- Stand By Me
- Viva La Vida – Coldplay
- Walking On A Dream – Empire of the Sun
- What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
- What the World Needs Now – Bacharach
- Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
- Handel: Hornpipe from Water Music
- Handel: La Rejouissance
- Mouret: Rondeau
- Vivaldi: Spring from the Four Seasons
- Mendelssohn: Wedding March
COCKTAILS & CANAPES:
Stringspace is often asked to perform for guests whilst the bride and groom are socialising or away having photographs. We will happily entertain your guests.
RECEPTION/AFTER PARTY:
Stringspace is aware of the importance of its role in establishing a mood at your event. Our string quartets & jazz bands are perfect as stylish background music during your canapés and reception and will sound amazing for the key memorable moments in your ceremony.