Choosing the music for your wedding can be just as difficult and fraught with tension as anything else you have to decide on. There are any number of beautiful, traditional pieces of wedding music to choose from, but what if you just don't want the standard 'weddingy' tunes?What if you're having a non-religious ceremony? You know that you want something emotive, perhaps, soul-stirring and uplifting, or maybe just a very pretty tune. What is suitable?
We've put together a few pieces of non-bridal music that are still perfect for a wedding.
- Beethoven's Pathetique sonata - a simple and elegant piano piece
- The theme song from True Romance - You're So Cool by Hans Zimmer - it's hauntingly beautiful.
- Somewhere over the rainbow - an acoustic version would be very moving.
- All You Need is Love by the Beatles - remember that scene in the movie Love Actually? Wonderful! What a 'memory moment' and fabulous music too.
- What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong - played on the saxophone, this is very stirring - there won't be a dry eye amongst your guests. Listen to a version here, on You Tube.
Tip 1: Good instruments would be: classical guitar, the ukulele and the saxophone
Tip 2: Check with your family to make sure they don't have any major requests, and avoid a family crisis!
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