Ceremony Music

One of the services we provide is music for the Wedding Ceremony for civil marriage services. This is something I’m really passionate about because it’s so important and sets the tone for the whole day.

If you get married in a church the organist will be playing as your guests arrive, he then plays your entrance music, the hymns, something while you are signing the register and finally your music to leave the church.

For a civil ceremony you are not permitted to use any music that mentions God, outside that restriction you can have almost anything you like. You’ll probably need about 15 minutes for the guests to enter and take their places (that’s usually 4 or 5 songs). Then a song for your entrance – we will look at the timings for the distance from the doorway to the front of the room and edit the music if required. Next, a couple of tracks to play in the background while you sign the register and the photographs are taken. Finally a piece for your exit as Husband and Wife.

All the time, we are ready to raise the volume, for example to add impact to your entrance, or lower it so that the registrar can speak to your guests. I had a chat with the two registrars officiating at Saturdays wedding and was so pleased to hear their kind words regarding the service we provided.

We were located at the back of the room with a speaker under the table cloth out of sight. You can see the venue had supplied a small system which obviously would have played whatever was required, but whoever was operating it wouldn’t have had the same control that we had with our professional equipment that you can see on the right of the table.

Keep an eye on this blog over the next few weeks as I’ll be posting some ideas for ceremony music.

CLICK HERE for the article on the Hampshire County Council website on civil marriages.