On the occasion of meeting with the Cathedral Parish priest to set the date for your wedding and begin preparation for celebration of the Sacrament, he will give you information for planning liturgical music for your wedding. Please do not make any arrangements for liturgical music ministers or contract any musicians prior to your meeting with the Cathedral Parish priest.
Musician Fees and Policies
Liturgical Music Suggestions
Processional Marches:
- Trumpet Voluntary • Jeremiah Clarke
- Trumpet Tune in D Major • David Johnson
- Te Deum • Marc Charpentier
- Procession Alegre • Gary Cornell
- Trumpet Tune and March • Henry Purcell
- Canon in D • Johann Pachelbel
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring • J. S. Bach
- Air from Water Music • Handel
- Musique Royale • Richard Delalande
- Allegro from the 5th Symphony • Ludwig van Beethoven
Optional Opening Hymns (In place of an Instrumental Processional):
- Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You
- Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
- Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
- God of Love and Joy and Laughter (View Text)
- Let’s Praise The Creator (View Text)
- Hear Us Now, Our God and Father (View Text)
- God, Who Created Hearts To Love (View Text)
Preparation of the Gifts:
- May Love Be Ours • Michael Joncas
- The Gift of Love • arr. Hal Hopson
- May the Grace of Christ our Savior • Johann S. Bach (Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring)
- Where there is Love (Bist Du Bei Mir) • Johann S. Bach
- Panis Angelicus • Cesar Franck
- Laudate Dominum • Wolfgang Mozart
- Let the Bright Seraphim • George F. Handel (for Soprano Soloist)
- The Call • Ralph Vaughan Williams (Come My Way, My Truth, My Love)
Communion Hymns:
- Love One Another • James Chepponis
- Taste and See • James Moore
- Gift of Finest Wheat • Robert Kreutz
- I Received the Living God • Clément Jacob
Choral Selections:
- Thy Perfect Love • John Rutter
- The Call • Randall Stroope
- Ubi Caritas • Paul Mealor
- Ubi Caritas • Maurice Duruflé
Visit to the Altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
- Ave Maria • Franz Schubert
- Ave Maria • Bach-Gounod
- Seasonal Marian Antiphon (Salve Regina, Regina Coeli)
- Ave Maria • Philip Stopford (Choral)
- Ave Maria • Caccini
Recessional Marches:
- Trumpet Tune • Henry Purcell
- Hornpipe • George Handel
- Ode to Joy • Ludwig van Beethoven
- Rondeau • Jean-Joseph Mouret
- Trumpet Tune • John Stanley
- Psalm 19 • Benedetto Marcello
- Coronation March • Sir William Walton
