For anyone needing a refresher:

• Prelude Music - while guests are being seated
• Special Music - Seating of Grandparents or Special Guests
• Special Music - Requests from Bride/Groom for special songs during Prelude music
• Special Music - Vocal or Instrumental selection
• Special Music - Lighting of the candles
• Processional - Special music for Bridesmaids
• Processional - Special music for Bridal March
• Wedding Ceremony - Included Vocal or Instrumental solos
• Recessional - Festive music for Wedding couple / Bridal Party exit
• Postlude Music - additional music while guests exit

Complete Wedding Songbook - 2nd Edition
Easy Piano
$14.95

Contents:

air (from water music suite) allegro maestoso Ave Maria (Schubert) beautiful in my eyes bless the broken road bridal chorus (Wagner - "here comes the bride") canon in d could i have this dance dawn endless love everything from this moment on god gave me you grow old with me here and now here there and everywhere highland cathedral i need you i swear i will be here in my life yesu joy of man's desiring

just the way you are keeper of the stars longer the lord's prayer love me tender now and forever ode to joy one in a million you rondeau sunrise sunset through the years trumpet voluntary (Clarke) valentine we've only just begun wedding march wedding processional wedding song (there is love) when you say nothing at all you are so beautiful you light up my life you raise me up your song (Elton John)

Lord's Prayer and Other Sacred Classics
Easy Piano
$9.95

Contents:

ave maria create in me a clean heart, o god he shall feed his flock he smiled on me i know that my redeemer lives i walked today where jesus walked i wonder as i wander the lord's prayer

my heart ever faithful o divine redeemer the palms panis angelicus prayer of the norwegian child sheep may safely graze thanks be to thee twenty-third psalm

Love And Wedding Piano Solos
Piano Solo
$12.95

This is a great collection at about the intermediate level, with very effective arrangements. Recommend.

Contents:

All I Ask Of You Ave Maria Back At One Don't Know Much Endless Love For All We Know From This Moment On Grow Old With Me Here And Now I Believe In You And Me In My Life Just The Way You Are Let It Be Me (Je T'appartiens)

Longer Maybe I'm Amazed Seasons Of Love Somewhere In Time Sunrise Sunset The Lord's Prayer Through The Years Unchained Melody We've Only Just Begun Wedding March Wedding March (Bridal Chorus) When You Say Nothing At All You Light Up My Life You Raise Me Up

Popular Wedding Music
Intermediate (upper) to Advanced Piano Solo
$17.95

Reeeely nice arrangements by Dan Coates. Even the Wagner "Bridal Chorus" (here comes the bride) is thought through in terms of how a very good pianist would play the first part subdued, and then big and full for the bride.
Highest recommendation for this collection. Great arrangements, not overly difficult for a good pianist to learn, and most importantly
-- the arrangements sound full and professional.

Contents:

amazed and i love you so angel eyes anywhere the heart goes ashokan farewell ave maria (Schubert) because you loved me bridal chorus colors of my life could i have this dance endless love evergreen from this moment on greatest love of all the homecoming i believe i do it for you (everything i do) i swear

i will always love you love solo a love until the end of time over the rainbow pachelbel canon in d the prayer somewhere in time somewhere out there sunrise sunset theme from ice castles tonight i celebrate my love true love up where we belong valentine wedding march (Mendelssohn) wind beneath my wings with you in mind you needed me

Favorite Jazz For Piano Solo
Int. / Adv. Piano Solo
$8.95

This is an outstanding collection for the more accomplished pianist. Pretty much a "greatest hits" collection, and all arrangements by Tom Roed are excellent.

Contents:

ain't misbehavin don't get around much anymore georgia on my mind killing me softly with his song linus and lucy mood indigo on green dolphin street over the rainbow

ribbon in the sky shadow of your smile take five taking a chance on love windmills of your mind you are the sunshine of my life you stepped out of a dream

Jim Brickman: Best New Wedding Classics
Int. / Adv. Piano Solo
$19.95

Technically, this is a piano/vocal collection, as songs with lyrics are presented in traditional format. But, all songs have melody in piano part, and the arrangements are very good. All arrangements are around the intermediate to upper intermediate level. No great technique required, but one should be familiar with the songs to save time trying to figure out the rhythms.

Contents:

angel eyes by heart valentine devotion destiny one and only love never fails

in a lover's eyes the promise love of my life the gift largo - ode to joy your love

Dan Coates Complete Advanced Piano Solos
Intermediate / Advanced Piano Solo
$21.95

Very large collection
Contains many of Dan Coates arrangements found in previous collections, as well as some new titles. Many of these arrangements of more recent hits are the best-sounding in print.
Very highly recommended for the upper intermediate to advanced player.

angel eyes anne's theme (from Anne of Green Gables) anywhere the heart goes (Meggie's Theme) arthur's theme as time goes by ashokan farewell beauty and the beast because you loved me can you read my mind? (love theme from Superman) canon in d colors of my life colors of the wind desperado dream is a wish your heart makes evergreen favorite son forever friends and lovers from a distance greatest love of all happy birthday to you heart hey there homecoming how could i ever know? how do i live how do you keep the music playing? i believe i can fly i can love you like that (everything i do) i do it for you i don't want to miss a thing i say a little prayer i swear i will always love you if my friends could see me now if you believe in this life karen's theme kei's song

la vie en rose love and marriage love solo may you always miss celie's blues misty my one true friend my unknown someone noelle's theme oh! what it seemed to be once before i go one moment in time open arms over the rainbow the prayer ragtime the rose saving all my love for you send in the clowns separate lives (love theme from White Nights) she loves me song from m*a*s*h star wars (main theme) summer me, winter me (theme from Picasso Summer) tears in heaven tell him that's what friends are for theme from ice castles (Through the Eyes Of Love) theme from new york, new york time to say goodbye tonight i celebrate my love un break my heart up where we belong valentine we've got tonight what's new? wind beneath my wings you can always count on me

Richard Clayderman: Music Of Love
Piano Solo
$10.95

Contents:

ballade pour adeline barcarolle don't cry for me argentina feelings guantanamera la vie en rose lara's theme liebestraume love is a many splendored thing love is blue

medley: la mer - yesterday - till moon river romeo and juliet romeo and juliet, love theme from serenade sonate au clair de lune (moonlight sonata) strangers in the night traumerei where do i begin

David Lanz: Sacred Road
New Age Piano Solo
$16.95

Matching folio with 17 pieces, including:

before the last leaf falls beloved brother quixote circle of friends the long goodbye nights in white satin

nocturne sacred road take the high road variations on a theme from pachelbel's canon and more

Planning the Music For Your Wedding
Intermediate to Lower Advanced Piano Solo
Book and CD
$16.95
This is one of the best collections on this web page, for anyone not familiar with the classical music possibilities for the wedding service.
The CD contains piano performances of the included works, so the pianist can listed to how the arrangements are suppose to sound.
For the bride and groom, the CD is the only way to listen to all the possibilites, and make selections based on what would be most appropriate for their wedding. Once the selections are made, the pianist can be given the music, which is exactly what is heard on the CD.
Notes for the pianist. . . the arrangements are very good, time has been taken to arrange for the intermediate level, with good sounding arrangements not overly awkward. The only drawback is that both Ave Marias and the Bach "Bist Du Bei Mir" are vocal with piano solo: great, if you have a vocalist, but these will not work as piano solo.
Overall, an excellent collection for both the pianist and the wedding couple, to figure out what to play, when to play it (there is a lengthy text section covering the wedding ceremony, as well as appropriate sections of the ceremony for the selections), and how the music will sound when played. Most of these will be familiar works, even if not readily identifiable from the titles.
Highly recommended.

Contents:

air (from Water Music) - Handel air on the G string - Bach ave maria - Bach/Gounod ave maria - Schubert ave verum (Jesu, Word of God Incarnate) - Mozart bist du bei mir - Bach bridal chorus (from Lohengrin) - Wagner canon in D - Pachelbel caro mio ben - Giordani cavalleria rusticana - Mascagni dance of the spirits - Gluck hornpipe (from Water Music) - Handel jesu joy of man's desiring - Bach largo (from Concerto F-minor) - Bach largo (from Xerxes) - Handel

laudate dominum - Mozart minuet (from String Quartet) - Boccherini ode to joy - Beethoven panis angelicus - Franck pavanne - Faure prince of denmark's march (note: this is often attributed to Purcell as his Trumpet Voluntary) - Clark processional (from Royal Fireworks) - Handel rondeau - Mouret sheep may safely graze - Bach sinfonia (from Christmas Oratorio) - Bach spring )from The Four Seasons) - Vivaldi trumpet tune - Purcell wedding march - Mendelssohn where e'er you walk - Handel winter (from The Four Seasons) - Vivaldi

Wedding Album For The Classical Pianist
Advanced Piano Solo
$17.95
Outstanding collection of appropriate music for the formal wedding, arranged or edited by Robert Schultz. Even if you don't buy this, scan the contents list for suitable music ideas which you might have in your own library.
I don't know if I'd ever play Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance" at a wedding (!), or a Schubert Impromptu. . . But, there are many pieces very beautifully arranged by Schultz which you won't be able to find elsewhere (perhaps the best arranged "Jesu, Joy" in print). This collection is for the more advanced pianist. Highly recommended.

Contents:

Selected Piano Works: Chopin: prelude op. 28 no. 4 prelude op. 28 no. 6 prelude op. 28 no. 15 prelude op. 28 no. 20 Debussy: arabesque no. 1 clair de lune reverie Erik Satie: gymnopedie in a minor Schubert: impromptu op. 90 no. 3 Schumann: traumerei from foreign lands and people (from Scenes of Childhood) Piano Transcriptions: adagio in g minor - Albinoni air - J.S. Bach air (from Water Music) - Handel ave maria - Bach, Gounod ave maria - Caccini ave maria - Schubert bridal chorus - Wagner canon in d - Pachelbel casta diva (from Norma) - Bellini dance of the blessed spirits (from Orfeo ed Euridice) - Gluck hornpipe (from Water Music) - Handel intermezzo (from Cavalleria Rusticana) - Mascagni

jesu, joy of man's desiring - J.S. Bach largo (from Clavier Concerto No. 5) - J.S. Bach meditation (from Thais) - Massenet minuet and trio (from String Quintet Op. 13, No. 5) - Boccherini nessun dorma (from Turandot) - Puccini o mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) - Puccini pavane - Faure polovetsian dance (from Prince Igor) - Borodin pomp and circumstance - Elgar rondeau theme (from Symphonic Suite No. 1) - Mouret soave sia il vento (from Cosi Fan Tutte) - Mozart swan, the - Saint-Saens trumpet voluntary - Purcell un bel di (from Madama Butterfly) - Puccini vocalise - Rachmaninoff waltz (from Sleeping Beauty) - Tchaikovsky wedding march - Mendelssohn

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Intermediate to Lower Advanced Piano Solo
$9.95
Includes an introduction about the history of The Four Seasons and translations of the four sonnets written by the composer about the concertos. Vivaldi's vivid indications that appear throughout the score have been translated into English.
There are sections of this famous work that would be very good for Prelude music, or even as background music during the reception. Tricky passages do require nimble fingerwork, but overall not too difficult.

Contents:

Spring Summer

Fall Winter

Sheet Music -

Individual Sheet Music Titles - Intermediate to Advanced

Bridal Chorus and Wedding March Intermediate level piano. $4.50 Ave Maria Schubert Intermediate $3.95 Hawaiian Wedding Song Piano/Vocal $3.95 Hymne Vangelis Upper Intermediate $3.95 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Intermediate $3.95 Note regarding Jesu, Joy above - from Dr. Vaga. . . The individual sheet of "Jesu Joy" above is rather difficult and awkward, in my opinion, more of an advanced piano arrangement. You must be able to comfortably reach 10ths in the left hand, and have very good control of double-notes in the right hand. If you're looking for an intermediate version of this work, the best arrangement I have found at the intermediate level is in the following collection. Check the contents, as there are several other pieces suitable for wedding music. - RV Great Classical Themes Classical Piano - Intermediate to Advanced $14.95 Contents: TOMASO ALBINONI: adagio in g minor JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: bist du bei mir / brandenburg concerto no. 2, first movement excerpt / brandenburg concerto no. 5, first movement excerpt / jesu, joy of man's desiring (jesus bleibet meine freude, from Cantata No. 147, Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben, originally for choir and orchestra) BEETHOVEN: piano concerto no. 5 in E-flat, first movement excerpt / symphony no. 5 in c minor, first movement excerpt / symphony no. 7 A major, second movement excerpt / turkish march (from The Ruin of Athens) BRAHMS: lullaby (wiegenlied) / symphony no. 1 in c minor, fourth movement excerpt / symphony no. 4 in e minor, first movement excerpt DEBUSSY: prelude to the afternoon of a faun, opening excerpt DVORAK: symphony no. 9 in e minor, second movement excerpt (From the New World) ELGAR: nimrod (from Enigma Variations) GABRIEL FAURE: apres un reve CESAR FRANCK: panis angelicus GRANCOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC: gavotte CHARLES GOUNOD: funeral march of a marionette EDVARD GRIEG: in the hall of the mountain king GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: air (from Water Music) / allegro (from Water Music) / pastoral symphony (from Messiah) / i know that my redeemer liveth (from Messiah) FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: gypsy rondo / the heavens are telling (from The Creation) / symphony no. 104 in D major (London) first movement excerpt / trumpet concerto in E-flat major, first movement excerpt GUSTAV HOLST: jupiter (Chorale Theme, from The Planets) GUSTAV MAHLER: symphony no. 2 (Resurrection) fifth movement choral excerpt / symphony no. 5, second movement (Adagietto) MENDELSSOHN: fingal's cave overture (from The Hebrides) / violin concerto in e minor, first movement excerpt MOZART: ave verum corpus / lacrymosa (from Requiem) / piano concerto no. 21 in C major (Elvira Madigan) second movement excerpt / symphony no. 38 in D major (Prague) first movement excerpt / symphony no. 41 in C major (Jupiter) first movement excerpt PACHELBEL: canon in D (originally for 3 violins and continuo) HUBERT PARRY: jerusalem SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: rhapsody on a theme of paganini, variation XVIII MAURICE RAVEL: pavane pour une infante defunte NICOLAY RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: sheherazade, themes from part 1 CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS: the swan (from Carnival of the Animals) FRANZ SCHUBERT: ave maria / die forelle (The Trout) / symphony no. 5 in B-flat major, first movement excerpt ROBERT SCHUMANN: ich grolle night (i bear no grudge) / piano concerto in a minor, first movement excerpt BEDRICH SMETANA: the moldau (from Ma Vlast) JOHN PHILIP SOUSA: the stars and stripes forever / washington post march JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.: by the beautiful blue danube, themes / tales from the vienna woods, themes RICHARD STRAUSS: allersellen (All Souls' Day) / also sprach zarathustra, opening theme PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 overture, excerpt / dance of the reed flutes (from Nutcracker) / dance of the sugar plum fairy (from Nutcracker) / dance of the swans (from Swan Lake) / marche slav, excerpt / symphony no. 6 in b minor (Pathetique) first movement excerpt / violin concerto in D major, first movement excerpt GIUSEPPE VERDI: lacrymosa (from Requiem) ANTONIO VIVALDI: autumn (from The Four Seasons) first movement / gloria in excelsis (from Gloria) / mandolin concerto in C, first movement excerpt

Liebestraume, No. 3 Dream of Love Liszt Advanced $3.95 Love Story Upper Intermediate $3.95 Memory (from Cats) Upper Intermediate $3.95 Moon River Lower Intermediate $3.95 Moonlight Sonata - 1st mvt. Beethoven Lower Intermediate $3.95 My Favorite Things Rodgers / Hammerstein Upper Intermediate $3.95 Ode To Joy Beethoven Upper Intermediate $3.95 On Golden Pond Upper Intermediate $3.95 Ordinary People, theme from Intermediate $3.95 People Need The Lord Upper Intermediate $3.95 A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody Irving Berlin Upper Intermediate $3.95 The Rainbow Connection Upper Intermediate $3.95 Reverie Debussy Intermediate $3.95 Romeo And Juliet, Love Theme Upper Intermediate $3.95 Trumpet Voluntary Upper Intermediate $3.95 The Way We Were Streisand Upper Intermediate $3.95 Wedding March Wagner Advanced $3.95 Wedding March Mendelssohn Advanced $3.95 Wedding Song Kenny G Lower Intermediate $3.95 What A Wonderful World Lower Intermediate $3.95 A Whole New World Lower Intermediate $3.95