Joy has created a general repertoire to guide couples in choosing their ceremony music. However, these songs are only suggestions and it is possible to request something that is not listed.
You may choose songs that are special to you, whilst checking their suitability with your priest/celebrant. All songs listed are also offered as an instrumental. Songs listed under one section can can be transferable to other stages of the ceremony.
The Signing of the Register and Recessional take place after the mass has ended, meaning you are generally more flexible in song choices. For this part, you may choose any of the songs listed below, or some of personal meaning to you.
Church Music Layout
- Entrance
- Candle Ceremony
- A short instrumental will be played here
- Psalm
- Alleliua
- Unity Candle
- A short instrumental will be played here
- Offertory
- Sign of Peace
- Communion
- 2 songs/hymns will be required here
- Signing of Register
- 2-3 songs/hymns will be required here
- Recessional
Civil Ceremony Music Layout
- Entrance
- Candle Ceremony
- A short instrumental will be played here
- After First Reading
- During Special Ritual
- Unity Candle
- A short instrumental will be played here
- Signing of Register
- 2-3 songs/hymns will be required here
- Recessional
Ceremony Repertoire
Entrance:
This can be vocal or instrumental
Instrumental:
- Canon in D
- Here Comes the Bride (Wagner)
- Wedding March (Mendelsshon)
- Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
- Glasgow Love Theme (Love Actually)
Vocal:
- Nella Fantasia
- How Beautiful (Twila Paris)
- The Cloud’s Veil
- A Thousand Years
- Feels Like Home
- The One (Kodaline)
- I Get to Love You
- I Choose You
- To Build A Home
- Perfect (Ed Sheeran)
- She Moved Through The Fair
- Footprints in the Sand
- Tale as Old as Time
- Songbird
- Make you feel my love
- The Rose
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight
- The Blower’s Daughter
- You Are So Beautiful
- I See The Light (From ‘Tangled’)
- Better Place (Rachel Platten)
- A Million Dreams
- Just The Way You Are
- Raglan Road
- Don’t Stop Believin’
- A Moment Like This
Psalm:
- Only in God
- Here I Am Lord
- Song of Ruth (Wherever You Go)
- Mo Ghrá Thú a Thiarna
- Sé an Tiarna Maoire
- On Eagles Wings
- The Lord is my Shepherd
Offertory:
- How Great Thou Art
- Ag Críost an tSíol
- I Watch The Sunrise
- In The Quiet
- As I Kneel Before You
- Éist a Stór
- Bí Íosa Im Choríse
- I Will Be the Vine
- I am the Bread of Life
- Everglow (Coldplay- Instrumental)
Sign of Peace:
- Make me a channel of your peace
- Somewhere Only We Know
- Fields of Gold
- Tabhair Dom Do Lámh (Instrumental)
- Take My Hand (Picture This)
Communion:
- Lady of Knock
- Blest Are They
- Queen of the May
- You Are Mine (Liam Lawton)
- Hail Queen of Heaven
- Panis Angelicus
- How Great Thou Art
- Maidin ag Gealadh
- A Mhuire Mháthair
- Song for Ireland
- Pie Jesu
- Ave Verum
- I Watch the Sunrise
- Songbird
- Halo
- Winter Song
- Rainy Night in Soho
- Falling Slowly
- Flying Without Wings
- My Love
- Your Song
- You & I (Picture This)
- Never Change
- Addicted To You
- Can’t Help Falling In Love
- Wind Beneath my Wings
- Caledonia
- Wherever You Will Go
- Say You Won’t Let Go
- Fields of Gold
- The Rose
- The Voyage
- Danny Boy
- What a Wonderful World
- Somewhere over the Rainbow
- The Prayer (Céline Dion)
- Hold My Girl (George Ezra)
- As Long as You Love Me
- You Give Me Something
Signing of Register:
- Make You Feel My Love (Adele)
- Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)
- Photograph (Ed Sheeran)
- Perfect (Ed Sheeran)
- La Vie En Rose
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered- I’m Yours (Stevie Wonder)
- At Last (Etta James)
- Higher Love
- Red is the Rose
- No Frontiers
- Song for Ireland
- Stand By Me
- Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
- You’re Beautiful (James Blunt)
- Tenerife Sea
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Skinny Love
- This I Promise You
- Moon River
- Power of Love
- Love Changes Everything
- Time After Time
- Here Comes The Sun
- How Long will I Love You
- Say You Won’t Let Go
- I Won’t Give Up On Us
- Yours (Ella Henderson)
- I Swear (All-For-One)
Recessional:
- Wedding March
- Here Comes The Bride
- Sing to the Mountains, Sing to the Sea
- Take My Hand (Picture This)
- Sky Full of Stars
- Heaven is a Place on Earth
- Ain’t No Mountain High
- At Last (Etta James)
- You’re Making My Dreams Come True
- Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher & Higher)
- Dreams (Cranberries)
- Faith (George Michael)
- O Happy Day
- Shine (Laura Izibor)
- For Once In My Life
- All You Need Is Love
- Dance With Me Tonight (Olly Murs)
- God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
- Circle Of Life
- I’m a Believer (The Monkees)
- Shut Up and Dance
- Shine (Take that)
- Hey Soul Sister
- World of Our Own
- Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
- The Whole of the Moon
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- On Top Of The World
- I Will Wait (Mumford & Sons)
- Perfect (Fairground Attraction)
- Lovely Day (Bill Withers)
- Marry You (Bruno Mars)
- L-O-V-E (Nat King Cole)
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered- I’m Yours (Stevie Wonder)
- Send Me On My Way