Chicago Wedding Ceremony Music
Ceremony Song Suggestions (below)
About Us: The TVK Orchestra, a Chicago band specializing in wedding music, offers elegant, professionally performed wedding ceremony music. We only offer ceremony music when you book us for your reception.
Instrument options include the following:
- Classical string quartet
- Instrumental duos: Piano/flute, piano/violin, piano/trumpet
- Harp
- Professional wedding singers
Have you finalized the reception entertainment for your Chicago-area wedding? Check out TVK's prices, song lists, and audio samples.
Ceremony Music Suggestions
(Computer-Generated MIDI Audio Samples, NOT real musicians!)
1. Prelude
As guests arrive, about 30 minutes prior to the ceremony |
| CLASSICAL |
TRADITIONAL/CONTEMPORARY |
Spring, from The Four Seasons - Vivaldi
Prelude from Te Deum - Charpentier
Air, from The Water Music - Handel
Pavane - Faure
Fur Elise - Poco Moto - Beethoven
Minuet - Boccherini
Piano Concert 21 - 2nd Mov (Elvira Madigan Movie) - Mozart
Sleeping Beauty Waltz - Tchaikovsky
Ave Verum Corpus - Mozart
Rondo Allegretto - Alla Turca - Mozart
Prelude to Afternoon of a Fawn - Debussy
Nocturne - Op.9 in Eb Major - Chopin
Adagio from Piano Sonata in Eb - Mozart
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One Hand, One Heart - West Side Story
Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet
All I Ask of You - Phantom of the Opera
My Romance - Rogers & Hart |
2. Processional
Wedding party entrance |
| CLASSICAL |
TRADITIONAL/CONTEMPORARY |
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Guitar Concerto in D (Largo) - Vivaldi
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cantata 147) - Bach
Prelude from Te Deum - Charpentier
Pathetique Sonata - Adagio Cantabile - Beethoven
Etude 3 In Eb - Lento Ma Non Troppo - Chopin
To a Wild Rose - MacDowell
Trio Op.49 No.1 - 2nd Movement - Andante Con Moto Tranquillo - Mendelssohn |
In My Life - The Beatles
One Hand, One Heart - West Side Story
Through the Eyes of Love - Ice Castles Theme
Amazing Grace
Erev Shel Shoshanim
Erev Ba |
| 3. Bride's Entrance |
| CLASSICAL |
TRADITIONAL/CONTEMPORARY |
Wedding March from Lohengrin - Wagner
Trumpet Voluntary (Prince of Denmark March) - Clarke
Arioso - Bach
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Erev Shel Shoshanim
Dodi Li |
4. Incidental
Played during the body of your ceremony, such as Unity Candle, interlude, and as musical transitions between readings |
| CLASSICAL |
TRADITIONAL/CONTEMPORARY |
Ava Maria - Schubert
Arioso - Bach
Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach
Clair de Lune - Debussy
Panis Angelicas - Franck
Suite in B Minor (Minuet) - Bach
Wachet Auf (Sleepers Awake)- Cantata No. 140 - Bach
Lords Prayer - Malotte
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The Wedding Song - Paul Stookey
Through the Eyes of Love - Ice Castles Theme
From This Moment - Shania Twain
All I Ask of You - Phantom of the Opera
Amazing Grace
Surely the Presence of the Lord
Let There Be Peace on Earth
Gift of Love
Endless Love
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5. Recessional
Exit of bride/groom and wedding party |
| CLASSICAL |
TRADITIONAL/CONTEMPORARY |
Ode to Joy - Beethoven
Wedding March, From a Midsummer Night's Dream - Mendelssohn
Brandenburg Concerto (Allegro) - Bach
Allegro Maestoso (Hornpipe), From Water Music - Handel
Spring, from The Four Seasons - Vivaldi
Autumn, from The Four Seasons - Vivaldi
Rondeau (Masterpiece Theatre Theme) - Mouret
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Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
My Heart Will Go On (Titanic) - Celine Dion
Siman Tov, Mazel Tov |
6. Postlude
Following the Recessional, as all guests exit |
| CLASSICAL |
TRADITIONAL/CONTEMPORARY |
Le Rejouissance, from Music for the Royal Fireworks - Handel
Rondeau (Masterpiece Theatre Theme) - Mouret
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A Whole New World - Alladin's Theme
It Had to Be You - Kahn
When You Wish Upon a Star - Disney
Someone to Watch Over Me - Gershwin |
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