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Alright Hive!
What song did you pick to walk down the aisle to?
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I walked down to Sade's "By Your Side".
I know classical music or "Here Comes the Bride" works for many, but I just wanted something more meaningful to us and sounded more pleasant than, "Dun-dun-dun-dun..."
We hired our DJ to do a separate set-up for the ceremony to play the songs we wanted for processional/recessional and my walk. We picked fun songs like Lauryn Hill's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" for the BMs when they were walking down the aisle, and it really set the tone that we wanted...upbeat, fun and all about love!
"I Love N.Y.E." by Badly Drawn Boy. A string quartet played before the start of the ceremony and for the cocktail hour following - but I have always thought this was the most beautiful piece of instrumental music, like, ever. Had to use it.
Hymn, by Vangelis for the bridal party, and Only tiem by enya for me.
ashokan farewell, played by a single violinist (for me)
still haven't decided on the bridesmaids or processional
Hey Missrae- it's Ashokan Farewell for me too! I have a flutist and may have it be a duet with a violinist.
that's awesome!! i had never heard it until the violinist mentioned it.. our ceremony is in a civil war fort, so i was worried she was going a little too war on me 
but it's a BEAUTIFUL song!
Water music by Handel
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Missrae- I'm actually getting married in Phoenicia, NY which is right near the town of Ashokan that inspired the song. You should look up the meaning behind the song- it wasn't written during the Civil War, it was written in the 90s (I think) at the end of a music camp run by the composer! I chose it, not only because it's beautiful, but that area of the Catskill Mountains is very special to me and the song evoked that sentiment for me. But I think that's an awesome choice for a wedding in a Civil War fort!
I'm walking down to At Last by Etta James in an instrumental version. I really love the song and didn't want to go with the traditional canon d or the bridal chorus. I feel like this is just much more ME
My bridal party walked down to "Sigh No More, Ladies" from Much Ado About Nothing (anyone in the audience who remembered the lyrics probably got a snicker out of it), and I walked down to the theme from "The Princess Bride." All on the harp.
My processional was to "We Must Be in Love" by PureSoul. It epitomized everything I felt and I loved that it was from a woman's perspective on her wedding day.
our bridal party (my mom & grandma, grooms parents, groom, best man, flower girl and ring bearer) all walked down to
Landon Pigg - "Falling in Love at a coffee shop"
and I and my Dad walked down to "Say" by John Mayer. (i'm a John Mayer freak- its not very wedding like at all- but the guitar in the beginning is soooo lovely and perfect for the wedding we had)
"Love Fire" by Simply Red. A beautiful and sexy song. My fiance knew that when he proposed that this was a non-negotiable. Will play song for the bridal party at the rehearsal dinner so they know the beat (it's a little different from what they may expect)
For our ceremony, we're going pretty traditional, so the bridal party is walking in to Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, I'm walking in to Pachelbel Canon in D (I learned to play this on the clarinet in the 7th grade and knew I wanted to walk down the aisle to it when I got married - I didn't realize then that it was so popular - oh well!) and we're walking out to Handel's Hornpipe.
I'm a geek. "Aria di Mezzo Carattere" from Final Fantasy VI. It's the opera music from the game. It will be played by violin and harp.
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i'm either walking to "no one else" or "lucky to be me" by amel larrieux...i cannot even wait!
I'm walking into "Here Comes the Sun" by The Beatles. All our music is going to be by The Beatles and performed by a string ensemble. We're having an outdoor ceremony, and I wanted something sweet and fun to walk in to.
FFIL is a composer and wrote an original ceremony to music for woodwind quintet for us...such an honor! Sorry, that probably doesn't help much in terms of a suggestion :/
The entire processional will be done to the song Debbie, composed by Michael Nyman.
I'm walking down the aisle to a Song for You by Gram Parsons. I love the words to that song and the way the guitar sounds.
Girls Processional Enya, On My Way Home
Bride & Ring Bearer Processional Enya, Marble Halls
Recessional, you guessed it, Enya, Only If... a very upbeat happy song
We haven't decided on everything yet, but there's going to be a *lot* of music in our ceremony! I've played in string quartets since I was 10 - so my friends who play in an awesome professional quartet are going to play the ceremony. Since Mr.GV and I both play a lot of contemporary classical music, I'd like to keep it 20th century and later, but I still want the music to sound "pretty" to all the non-new-music-lovers who are there. (If it were up to him, we would use the weirdest, most obscure stuff, so I'm going to make these decisions. 
)I think I'll probably walk down the aisle to the first movement of Ravel's string quartet (whatever piece we end up with, they'll start it a few minutes before the ceremony so they can play the whole thing), and I'm going to try to find a movement of Bartok or Ives and also something traditionally Jewish (like R'tzei) for during the ceremony and the recessional.
I've known for years that I wanted to walk down the aisle to Enya's Watermark. Haven't figured out anything else yet.
Bridal party is Air by Bach, I'm Canon by Pachelbel and we're also incorporating "Grow Old With Me" by John Lennon in there as a segue from the "readings" portion of the ceremony to the "weddingy" portion. We're also using Water Fountain by David Foster for the unity candle portion (piano) and we're walking about to Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach. We have two violinist and a pianist to help. FI is a music guy, so he's taking care of all of the arrangements.
My Bridesmaids and Groomsmen are walking to Forever by Jaheim
And I'm walking to Babyfaces version of You are so beautiful
I have so many ideas of what I want to walk down the aisle to, but the current front runner is "Who Am I to Say" by Hope. It's such a beautiful song!
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I am super excited about mine!!! I am walking down the aisle to my brother playing an accoustic version of #41(my favorite song). If you've ever heard the live version of dave matthews with tim reynolds, it's gonna sound like that. It's a little slower and softer than the album version because it's accoustic. yea!!!
When I asked my brother, he immediately started playing it and I swear, tears welled up in my eyes!!!
I never wanted to walk down to the wedding march, I absolutely can't stand that song!
I already walked, and it was to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Yeah, the title is weird, but the song is lovely. :)
My girls are walking to "Better Together", by Jack Johnson, and for me, I'm walking to "Oh my love", by John Lennon,
I'm walking to "Con te partiro" via string quartet. I just love the translated lyrics.
I walked to Jesu Joy of Man desiring since I have always loved that song.
But if I were doing it again I would probably use:
Mothersbaugh's Cannon from the Royal Tenebaum's soundtrack. We used it as our "walking music" to go up to the alter and in a couple of other places in our ceremony but afterwards I loved it so much I kind of wished I had walked in to it. I just seems so happy without being over the top.
The BM's are going in to a piano piece by Brickman called "Believe" it's actually a holiday song but you can't tell in the slightest.
I'm walking in to "Bless The Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts, the piano version is amazing.
Hey sweeny2Be, thats the song that my FH had played on a viola for our proposal.....unsure if it will be the one i walk down th aisle to yet.....beautiful....
The bridal party is walking to Ordinary Miracle by Sarah McLachlan, and I am walking to It Is You (I Have Loved) by Dana Glover from Shrek. Our recessional is Wouldn't It Be Nice by the Beach Boys. We will certainly shock people because nobody here does nontraditional things, but we really wanted something different.
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