Top 24 Wedding Ceremony Songs

Photo by Jen Linfield

Similar to the best movies, a soundtrack will set the tone for your big day. These are the songs that you’ll listen to again and again over the years to reminisce on that amazing “just married” feeling — and we’re here to help you choose the right tracks!

To start things off, here are a few recessional (exit) and processional (entrance) songs we absolutely adore. Give it a listen and tell us what you think:

The options are endless, but here are a few of our favorite instrumental wedding recessional and processional songs.

  • Home – Vitamin String Quartet

  • Bittersweet Symphony (Instrumental) – The Aranbee Pop Symphony Orchestra

  • I’m Yours – Guitar Tribute Players

  • A Thousand Years – The Piano Guys (cover)

  • I’m Gonna Be (500 miles) – Sleeping at Last (cover)

  • Starálfur – Vitamin String Quartet (cover)

With these wedding recessional and processional songs, you won’t be walking up that aisle — you’ll be dancing up it!

  • Get Lucky – Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers

  • You’re The One That I Want – John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John

  • You Make My Dreams (Come True) – Hall & Oats

  • Marry You – Bruno Mars

  • Dog Days are Over – Florence + the Machine —

  • I Choose You – Sara Bareilles

  • Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours) – Stevie Wonder

Here are the top R&B wedding recessional and processional songs to kick off your married life.

  • This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) – Natalie Cole

  • Got to Get You Into My Life – Earth, Wind & Fire

  • Jump (For My Love) – The Pointer Sisters

  • Why I Love You – MAJOR.

  • River – Leon Bridges

  • XO – Beyoncé

Are you a hopeful romantic at heart? Give these processional songs a chance, and you wont regret it

  • La Vie En Rose – Emily Watts

  • Can’t Help Falling in Love – Kina Grannis

  • She is Love – Parachute

  • Ruelle - I Get to Love You

  • At Last – Etta James

  • Breathe Me – Sia (have your bridal party enter during the beginning of the song, then you enter at 3:15 for that WOW moment!)

What are some of your favourite wedding ceremony songs? Tell us in the comment section below

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