Catholic Church Ceremony Songs

ochsd010

Hi Girls

I am having a really difficult time finding ceremony songs that are acceptable in the Catholic church, they are pretty strict at mine.

Can all you brides getting married in a Catholic church tell me what your ceremony songs are?

Thanks for the help!

jcg98

We had a LOT of music in our Catholic ceremony (full Mass).  Here is the rundown:

Processional:  Entrance of the Nobles (Rimsky-Korsakov) and Thaxted (Jupiter from The Planets) (Holst) - brass quintet
Responsorial Psalm:  Blest are Those Who Love You (Haugen) - cantor/organ
Celtic Alleluia - cantor/organ
Unity Candle - Ubi Caritas - organ
Presentation of the Gifts - Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - soloist/organ
Mass of Creation - cantor/organ
Sign of Peace - Let There Be Peace on Earth - soloist/organ
Communion Meditation - Panis Angelicus (Franck) - soloist/organ
Flowers to Mary - Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) - soloist/piano
Recessional - La Rejouissance (Handel) - brass quintet

ElisabethJoanne

They should have a list. There are also Catholic hymnals at churches and in larger libraries. Ours is Anglican Catholic. I don't know how strict, actually. The Rector and I have identical taste for church music (except we disagreed on the minor-key fanfare on Sine Nomine played last All Saints').
Preludes: Standard organ repertoire, but including Bach's In dulci jubilo, Toccata and fugue in d minor, and Toccata and fugue in F Major
Processional: The Church's One Foundation
Sermon Hymn: Sing Praise to God Who Spoke Through Men
Offertory: John Newton's wedding hymn, I can never remember the name, but there's only 1
Communion hymn: Adoro devote
Recessional: For All the Saints
Postlude: Fanfare on Sine Nomine (but not that minor-key one from last All Saints')

all service music will just be the usual Mass setting from Sundays in Ordinary Time

kgrawedding

You're church's music/choir director or organist probably have a list of suggestions.  Or grab the hymnal one week and start flipping through it.  FI and I started by just making a list of our favorite church songs, now we are in the process of selecting just what we need from our long list.

MobKaz

As other posters have suggested, your best option is to contact your music ministry and ask them for the information.  Typically, the music needs to be liturgically approved, however, each archdiocese, and each parish within that archdiocese, will have varying degrees of "flexibility".

My daughter also found this website helpful in making some of her selections......
http://catholicweddinghelp.com/topics/catholic-wedding-music-list.htm

ochsd010

Thanks everyone!