Wedding Music Guide

There are many different parts to your wedding day that require music. The obvious spring to mind… wedding ceremony music and wedding reception music. We can break this down even further so each part of the ceremony and reception have varying music pieces.

A processional song for the bridesmaids
A separate processional song for the bride (if needed)
Signing the register song (a good idea to have 2 songs in case it takes longer than expected)
A recessional song
A song while the bridal party enter the reception
A first dance song
A cutting the cake song
A last dance song
Pre-ceremony music
Music for guests while they have canapes/drinks while bridal party away getting photos
Dinner music
General dance music

If you’re hiring a DJ or a band then they will be able to help you out with what is good wedding music to be played at each of these times. You will of course have your favorites which you’ll want to include, but don’t forget there will be some form of music playing for the majority of the day, that’s a lot of songs to choose! You may decide to DIY your wedding music and just use an IPOD and some speaker instead of paying a professional, this is perfectly OK, just make sure you have a responsible person on the night looking after the playlist, there is nothing more annoying than drunk people taking over the music so you only get half songs played before they decide they want to listen to something else!

The upside of hiring a professional DJ or band to take care of your wedding music is they can act as your MC if you don’t have one. It’s very useful having someone with a microphone telling people the “housekeeping” rules.

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