Prelude music selections are those played pre-ceremony as guests are arriving and being seated. The music during this time sets the tone and vibe you're going for whether it's formal, relaxed, or casual. These are just a few ideas. Certainly you're not limited to this list.
Prelude Song Ideas
12 Stones - Hey Love
3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone
98 Degrees - I Do (Cherish You)
Aaradhna - Faith
Aaron Tippin - For You I Will
Adagio - "Oboe Concert In D Minor, OP9, NO2, Allegro"
Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
Akon - Don't Matter
Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You
Alabama - Angels Among Us
Aladdin Soundtrack - A Whole New World (instrumental)
Aladdin Soundtrack - "There's A Party Here In Agrabah, Pt.1"
Alamid - Your Love
Alan Jackson - Like Red on a Rose
Alan Silvestri - Amas Veritas
Alan Silvestri - Forrest Gump Suite
Alan Silvestri - Practical Magic
Album Tusmo - Cawaale Adan
Alexi Murdoch - All My Days
All 4 One - Beautiful as You
Amanda Preze - Angel
Amel Larrieux - Make Me Whole
American Authors - What We Live For
Amerie - I Just Died
Amy Adams (Enchanted Soundtrack) - That's How You Know
Andrea Bocelli - Con te Partiro
Andrea Bocelli - Romanza
Andy Williams - A Time for Us (Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet)
Animusic - Aqua Harp
Anita Baker - You Bring Me Joy
Anne Murray - Could I Have this Dance?
Anthony David - Words
Anthony David Feat. Algebra & Phonte - 4Evermore
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Spring Allegro
Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Ashford & Simpson - Solid
ATC - So Magical
Atlantic Starr - Always
Augustana - More Than a Love Song
Avenged Sevenfold - Dear God
Avril Lavigne - Innocence
Bach - Arioso
Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude
Barbara Mandrell - Hold me
Bary Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You
Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Bebe and Cece Winans - Addictive Love
BeBe and CeCe Winans - For Always
Beethoven - Fur Elise
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 E Flat Major Op. 73: Rondo
Beethoven/Words: Henry Van Dyke - "Joyful Joyful, We Adore Thee"
Ben Rector - Brand New
Better Than Ezra - Crazy Lucky
Beyonce - 1+1
Beyonce - At Last
Beyonce Knowles - Ave Maria
Beyonce Knowles - Dangerously In Love Instrumental
Bill Bragg - Hesitating Beauty
Bill Withers - A Lovely Day
Billie Holiday - Come Rain or Come Shine
Blackmore's Night - Ghost of a Rose
Blue October - 18th Floor Balcony
Blues Traveler - Just Wait
Bob Dylan and Billy Joel - Make You Feel My Love
Bob Marley - One Love
Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love
Bon Jovi - I'll Be There For You
Boyce Avenue - Fix You
Boyz II Men - Four Seasons of Loneliness
Boyz II Men - On Bended Knee
Brad Paisley - Find Yourself
Brad Paisley - Love is Never Ending
Brad Paisley - Waitin' On A Woman
Brandon Heath - Give Me Your Eyes
Brantley Gilbert - Fall into Me
Brian Crain - A Walk in the Forest
Brian Mcknight - Never Felt this Way
Brian Wilson - What Love Can Do
Brook Benton - Endlessly
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Bruno Mars - Marry You
Bryan Adams - All For Love
Bryan Adams and Sarah McLachlan - Don't Let Go
Capital Cities - Safe & Sound
Carly Simon - Anticipation
Carman - I Promise
Carter Burwell - A Nova Vida
Carter Burwell - Bella's Lullaby
Case - Lovely
Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken
Celine Dion - Ave Maria
Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
Celine Dion - The Greatest Reward
Chaka Khan - Angel
Chantal Kreviazuk - Feels Like Home
Charlie Wilson - You Are
Cheryl Cole featuring WILL.I.AM - 3 words
Chloe Agnew - Nella Fantasia
Chopin - "24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 7 in A Major - Andantino"
Chris Rice - Let the Words Escape
Chrisette Michele - A Couple of Forevers
Chrisette Michele - I Don't know Why But I do
Chrisette Michele - If I Have My Way
Chrisette Michele - Love Is You
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Christina Aguilera - I Turn To You
Christina Aguilera - These Are the Special Times
Ciara - Promise
Cinderella - A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Claude Debussy - Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun
Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black - When I Said I Do
Colbie Caillat - Here Comes The Sun
Colbie Calliatt - I Do
Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
Coldplay - The Scientist
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Coldplay - Yellow
Counting Crows - Colorblind
Creed - Higher
D' Angelo - Lady
Dan Fogelberg - Longer
Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch
D'Angelo - Cruisin
D'Angelo - Higher
Dara MacLean - Yours Forever
Darius Rucker - History in the Making
Dashboard Confessional - Even Now
Dashboard Confessional - For You to Notice
Dave Barnes - Close Your Eyes
Dave Koz feat. India.Arie - It Might Be You
Dave Matthews Band - #34
David Gray - January Rain
David Haas - Faith Hope and Love
Debussy - Beau Soir
Devotchka - How It Ends
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Disney - Beauty and the Beast (Original)
Dixie Cups - Chapel of Love
Dolly Parton - Marry Me
Don Henley - For My Wedding
Dondria - You're The One
Donny Hathaway - You Were Meant For Me
Doug Stone - I Never Knew Love
Dru Hill - 5 steps
Dru Hill - April Showers
Dusty Drake - Say Yes
Eagles - Get Over It
"Earth, Wind & Fire" - Love's Holiday
Edward MacDowell - To a Wild Rose
elis regina - Fascinacao
Ella Fitzgerald - Someone to Watch Over Me
Ellen Page and Michael Cera - Anyone Else But You
Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Elton John - The Heart Of Every Girl
Elton John - Your Song
Elvis Presley - Hawaiian Wedding Song
Elvis Presley - You'll Never Walk Alone
Emerson Drive - Moments
Ennio Morricone & Yo Yo Ma - Gabriel's Oboe
Enya - Caribbean Blue
Enya - Flora's Secret
Enya - May It Be
Eric Benet - Still with You
Etta James - At Last
Evanescence - Anywhere But Home
Evanescence - You
Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Faith Hill - Breathe
Flyleaf - All around me (acoustic)
Foo Fighters - Miracle
Frank McComb - The Wedding Song
Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer
Frank Sinatra - "Some Enchanted Evening (from ""South Pacific"")"
Franz Schubert - Serenade
Fred Hammond - Your Love is a Wonder
Freddie Jackson - You Are My Lady
Frederic Chopin - "Nocturne in E Flat Op. 9, No. 2"
Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine
Gal Costa - Chuva de Prata
Gavin Degraw - (Nice to Meet You) Anyway
Gavin Degraw - Chariot
Gavin Degraw - Meaning - Piano Version
Gavin Degraw - Soldier
Geoff Moore and The Distance - If You Could See What I See
George F. Handel - Air
George Frideric Handel - Let the Bright Seraphim
George Michael - Faith
Gerald Levert - Made To Love Ya
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
Glenn Jones - Here I Am
Glenn Jones - In You
Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green River Ordinance - Endlessly
Handel - Bourree
Handel - Largo
Handel - "Oboe Concerto No. 3 In G Minor, Hwv 287: Iv. Allegro"
Handel - Sarabande
Hayley Westenra - Ave Maria
He is We - I Wouldn't Mind
Heart - Dog and Butterfly
Heatwave - Always and Forever
Hello Goodbye - Here in Your Arms
Hellogoodbye - "Oh, It Is Love"
Hezekiah Walker - Let's Dance
HIM - Right Here In My Arms
Hoobastank - The Reason
Incubus - Aqueous Transmission
India.Arie - Ready For Love
Ingrid Michaelson - The Hat
Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am
Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights
J. Holiday - Fatal
Johann Sebastian Bach - Dona Nobis Pacem
Johann Sebastian Bach - Wachet Auf
Jagged Edge - Good Luck Charm
Jagged Edge - Promise
Jake Owen - Don't Think I Can't Love You
James Horner & London Symphony Orchestra - Colonna Sonora (Braveheart Theme Song)
James Taylor - Shower The People
Jason Michael Carroll - Livin' Our Love Song
Jason Vieaux - Julia Florida
Jason Wade - You Belong To Me
Jay Sean - Do You Remember
Jay Ungar - Ashokan Farewell
Jean-Yves Thibaudet - A Postcard to Henry Purcell
Jeff Bates - One Thing
Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls Soundtrack) - Love You I Do
Jennifer Knapp - Say won't you say
Jennifer Lopez - Love Don't Cost A Thing
Jewel - Stay Here Forever
Jill Jackson and Sy Miller - Let There Be Peace on Earth
Jill Scott - He Loves Me
Jim Brickman - Angel Eyes
Jim Brickman - Beauty and the Beast
Jim Brickman - My Destiny
Jim Brickman - The Gift
Jimmy Buffet - Cheeseburger In Paradise
JJ Heller - The Boat Song
Joe Nichols - I'll Wait For You
Joe Satriani - "Always With Me, Always With You"
Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D
Johann Sebastian Bach - Air On The G String
Johann Sebastian Bach - "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
Johann Sebastian Bach - A Lover's Concerto (Minuet in G Major)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude In C Major
Johann Sebastian Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze
Johannes Brahms - "A Rose Is Gently Blooming (Op. 122, No. 8)"
John Denver - Annie's Song
John Dowland - "Weep You No More, Sad Fountains"
John Legend - Refuge (When its cold outside)
John Pringle - So Sincerely
John Stamos and The Beach Boys - Forever
Johnny Gill - There U Go
Jon English - Six Ribbons
Jon Secada - Angel
Jonathan Butler - Falling in Love with Jesus
Jorma Kaukonen - Embryonic Journey
Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon
Joss Stone - For The Love of You
Joy Collins - I Do
Juanita Bynum & Donnie McClurkin - Because you loved me
Julee Cruise - The Nightingale
Julia Lane - All in a Garden Green
Justin Timberlake & Beyonce - Until The End Of Time
Katy Perry - The One That Got Away
K-Ci & Jojo - This Very Moment
K-Ci & Jojo - All My Life
Keith Urban - Better Life
Keith Urban - Got It Right This Time
Keith Urban - I Wanna Be Your Man (Forever)
Kelly Price - He Proposed
Kenny Chesney - I'd Love to Change Your Name
Kenny G - Forever In Love
Kenny G - The Wedding Song
Kenny Loggins - Danny's Song
Kenny Loggins - Return to Pooh Corner
Kenny Rogers - Buy Me A Rose
Lady Antebellum - Love's Lookin Good on You
LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight
LeAnn Rimes - God Bless America
Lena Park - You Raise Me Up
Leona Lewis - Here I Am
Liberty Under Grace - Unity Strong (Wedding Song)
Lifehouse - All in
Lifetime - Prophet Jones
Little Mermaid Soundtrack - Kiss The Girl
Lonestar - Amazed
Loreena McKinnett - Dante's Prayer
Lorrie Morgan - Something In Red
Ludwig v. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
Ludwig v. Beethoven - "Pathetique, Op. 13, 2nd Movement"
Luther Vandross - Here & Now
Luther Vandross - Wait for Love
Luther Vandross with Cheryl Lynn - If This World Were Mine
Madonna - Cherish
Mae - The Sun and The Moon
Mandy Moore - Cry
Mandy Moore - Only Hope
"Many, incl. Mormon Tabernacle Choir" - Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Marc Anthony - Love Is All
Marianas Trench - Good To You
Mario - How Do I Breathe
Mark Knopfler - A Love Idea
Mark Knopfler - Storybook Love
Mark Schultz - Remember Me
Martina McBride and Bob Seger - Chances Are
Martini - Plaisir d'amour
Marty Haugen - One Ohana
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
Mary J. Blige - Share My World
Mary J. Blige - Stronger
McFly - Love is Easy
Melissa Etheridge - I'm The Only One
Melissa Manchester - Through the Eyes of Love
Michael Buble - For Once In My Life
Michael Bublé - Call Me Irresponsible
Michael W. Smith - The Other Side Of Me
Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A.
Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You
Monica - For You I Will
Morman Tabernacle Choir - "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing"
Mormon Tabernacle Choir - "Come, Come Ye Saints"
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mumford & Sons - Not With Haste
Musiq SoulChild - 143
Musiq Soulchild - Don't Change
Musiq Soulchild - Love
Nat & Natalie Cole - Unforgettable
New Order - Ceremony
Newsboys - Something Beautiful
Newsong - When God Made You
Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch Me
Ne-Yo - Stop This World
Nick Lachey - This I Swear
Nicki Minaj - Your Love
Nivea - Complicated
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
On Golden Pond - On Golden Pond
One Direction - Little things
Ottis Redding - Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day
Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
Paul McDonald & Nikki Reed - All I've Ever Needed
Pete Seeger - Shenandoah
Peter Gabriel - Book of Love
Phil Vassar - Love is a Beautiful Thing
Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack - Dawn
Prophet Jones - A Lifetime
Puddle Of Mudd - It Was Faith
Pure Soul - We Must Be in Love
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Greensleeves
Randy Montana - "1,000 Faces"
Rascal Flatts - Bless The Broken Road
Rascal Flatts - My Wish
Rebecca St. James - Wait For Me
Regina Spektor - The Call
Rent Soundtrack - Seasons of Love
Rhonda Vincent - I Give All My Love To You
Ricky Martin - Saint Tropez
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
Rihanna - Rehab
Rob Thomas - All That I Am
Robert Marr - The Wedding Song
Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway - For All We Know
Robin Thicke - Angels
Rodgers & Hammerstein - Younger Than Springtime
Rogers & Hammerstein - Edelweiss
Rolling Stones/Vitamin Source - As Tears Go By
Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All
Ronnie and the Hi-Lites - I Wish That We Were Married
Ruben Studdard - Amazing Grace
Ryan Adams - Desire
Sade - By Your Side
Sade - I Never Thought I'd See the Day
Sam Cooke - Nothing Can Change This Love
Santo and Johnny - Sleepwalk
Sara Evans - Suds in the bucket
Sara Evans and Warner Brothers - That's the Beat of a Heart
Savage Garden - Crash and Burn
Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You
Schubert - Ava Maria
Seal - Love's Divine
Secondhand Serenade - Awake
Secondhand Serenade - Your Call
Shekinah Glory Ministries - How Deeply I Need You
Sheri Miller - "Right Here, Right Now"
Sibelius - "Romance Op. 24, No. 9"
Sinead O'Conner - You Do Something To Me
Sir William Walton - Coronation March
Sister Hazel - This Kind of Love
Skillet - A Little More
Slow Club - Christmas TV
Smash Mouth - I'm A Believer
Staind - Tangled Up In You
Steve Amerson - Somewhere (A Place for Us) (from West Side Story)
Steve Green - Household of Faith
Steven Curtis Chapman - Echoes Of Eden
Steven Curtis Chapmann - I Will Be Here
Stevie Wonder - If It's Magic
Stevie Wonder - You and I
Stuart Damon and Lesley Ann Warren from Cinderella - Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
Sugarland - April Showers
Supertramp - Downstream
Taliesin Orchestra - Bella's Lullaby (piano version)
Tamia Washington - You Put A Move On My Heart
Taylor Swift - Love Story
Teddy Pendergrass - "You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration"
Tesla - Love Song
The Avett Brothers - January Wedding
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
The Beatles - "Here, There, Everywhere"
The Beatles - In My Life
The Bee Gees - To Love Somebody
The Crystals - (Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry
The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me
The Cure - Pictures of You
The Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - String of Pearls
The Irish Guard - Endearing Young Charms/Bells Of Shannon/The Wild Rover Medley
The Juliana Theory - Constellation
The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
The O'Neill Brothers - A Time For Us
The O'Neill Brothers - Canon in F
The O'Neill Brothers - Edelweiss
The O'Neill Brothers - Falling In Love
The O'Neill Brothers - From a Distance
The O'Neill Brothers - Imagine
The O'Neill Brothers - Joy
The O'Neill Brothers - Love Always
The O'Neill Brothers - Morning Has Broken
The O'Neill Brothers - Music Box Dancer
The O'Neill Brothers - The Rose
The Piano Guys - A Thousand Years--Instrumental
The Platters - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The Royal Irish Regiment - Highland Cathedral
The Workday Release - A Starlit Sky
Thompson Square - Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
Timbaland - The Way I Are
Todd Hannigan - Thicker Than Water
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me
Tracy Lawrence - Find Out Who Your Friends Are
Traditional - Amazing Grace
Traditional - Sally Gardens
Train - "For Me, It's You"
Travis Tritt - Best of Intentions
Trey Songz - Already Taken
Twila Paris - How Beautiful
U2 - Rejoice
UB40 - Can't Help Falling in Love
Us The Duo - No Matter Where You Are
Usher - Here I Stand
Utada Hikaru - Passion (Sanctuary)
Van Morrison - Crazy Love
Victoria Beckham - I.O.U.
Victoria Williams - Let It Be So
Vienna Teng - City Hall
Vince Gill - Look At Us
Vitamin String Quartet - All I Want is You (Lyrical Violin Version)
Vitamin String Quartet cover - Helena
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Spring
Vivaldi - Winter Largo
Vivian Green - Cursed
Warren Barfield - Love Is Not a Fight
WestLife - No Place That Far
Whitley - I Remember
Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Laudate Dominum
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Minuet (From Don Giovanni)
Yiruma - A River Flows In You
Yiruma - River Flows In You
Zac Brown Band - Free
Zac Brown Band - Whatever It is
Zakk Wylde - Sold My Soul
Zero 7 - Somersault
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