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
Think of any PRELUDE SONGS we missed. Let us know below…
