Wedding Music Guides
Practical advice for planning your ceremony music, from song choices to tech setup. Start with the running order, then dig into the moment you are working on.
Wedding Ceremony Music Order
A running order for your ceremony music: prelude, processional, signing the register, recessional. What plays at each moment and how long it lasts.
Read the running order →Music for each moment
Every part of the ceremony, in the order it happens, with a guide to the song or playlist for each.
Wedding Prelude Music App
An app for your wedding prelude music: ready-to-play instrumental tracks for as guests arrive, and a ceremony timeline that fades cleanly into the processional.
How to Choose Your Walk-Down-the-Aisle Song
How to choose a processional song to walk down the aisle to: match the feeling, pick a version that builds, and fade it cleanly when your walk ends.
Music for Signing the Register
Signing the register has no fixed length. How to choose music that fills a few unpredictable minutes and fades the instant you are called back.
How to Choose Your Wedding Recessional Song
How to choose a recessional song to walk back up the aisle as newlyweds: starts strong, lands the celebration, and carries you into the confetti.
How to Choose Your First Dance Song
How to choose a first dance song that means something and works on the floor: the right mood, the lyrics, how long to dance, and a graceful ending.
Know the rules
What you can and cannot play, so nothing gets stopped on the day.
Civil Ceremony Music Rules in the UK
The UK rule that catches couples out: civil ceremonies allow no music with religious content. What it means, how registrars check, and clearing songs early.
Church Wedding Music Rules in the UK
In a church wedding, religious music is expected and pop songs may be restricted. What Church of England and Catholic ceremonies allow, and who decides.
On the day
Make it play cleanly, whatever the venue throws at you.
Wedding Ceremony Music: What Can Go Wrong
The eight things that most often go wrong with ceremony music, from a phone ringing mid-vows to the signal dropping, and how to prevent each one.
Music for an Outdoor Wedding Ceremony
Outdoor ceremonies have no PA, power or signal. How to play your ceremony music in a garden, field or beach: the right speaker, offline, and wind.
Ceremony Music Without Passing Your Phone
Lock your iPhone to Wedding Player for the ceremony, so you can hand it to a friend or coordinator without exposing anything else on the device.
Connect Your iPhone to a Venue PA System
Which cable, which adapter, and what to check before the ceremony. A practical guide for every iPhone model and every type of venue sound system.