Category Archives: wedding

Remind your Priest/Reverand/Officiant

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Most brides contact all their suppliers a few months before their big day just to make sure everything is ok but sometimes they forget that the priest/officiant is also a supplier. Please make a phone call to them as well.

I was at a wedding a few weeks ago and the priest didn’t turn up! Luckily there happened to be a priest in the parish church at the time and he filled in.

Another wedding I sang at, I arrived at a church with my gear ready to set up and met the priest on his way out – he was heading out for lunch. I told him the wedding was due to start an hour later and he tried to convince me I was wrong. he left the church anyway. I rang the bride and she nearly had a panic attack! she rang his mobile and told him to get back to the church as she was going to be there bang on time!

So while you’re doing the rounds of phoning or e mailing suppliers, remember there won’t be any wedding if you don’t have an officiant so remind them too!

Ave Verum Audio File

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Just thought I’d upload another audio file. This is me with one of my voice coaches a couple of years ago singing the beautiful Ave Verum by Mozart. Note the deliberate mistake on the piano!

I’m hitting the recording studio soon so that I have some better quality audio files for my new website which will be coming in a few months!

Just click the link Ave Verum

Walking Up The Aisle Music Suggestions

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Just a few ideas for music to walk up the aisle to. It’s usually a slow piece of music for this part of the ceremony. For more ideas on music for the various parts of the ceremony check out www.Siobhanoliver.com

Sung

Gabriel’s Oboe – Nella Fantasia
Caccini’s Ave Maria
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Delibe’s Flower Duet
Songbird (Eva Cassidy)

Instrumental

Wagner’s Bridal March
Mendelssohn’s Wedding March
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Purcell’s Trumpet Voluntary
Handel’s Hornpipe
Handel La Rejouissance
Beethoven’s Ode To Joy
Wedding Processional (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

Order of Service for Catholic Ceremony Outside of the Mass

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Below you will find a link to a sample Order of Service for a Catholic Wedding Ceremony outside of the mass. There will be no offertory but you can add a piece of music after the Prayers of the Faithful if you so wish. There will be no communion but you can have a reflection sung or spoken at this point of the ceremony if you choose to do so. Hope it helps some of you out

order of service outside the mass

Music for civil wedding or for signing of the register in church

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I’ve received numerous e mails asking for ideas for non-religious ceremonies or music that could be used at the signing of the register (if the celebrant allows!) so I thought I’d give you a few suggestions so to get you all started –

When You Say You Love Me (Josh Groban)
Feels Like Home (Randy Newman – theme tune from the movie Michael)
Miracle (Foo Fighters)
What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
You Light Up My Life
Here There and Everywhere (The Beatles)
Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles)
All I Ask of You (The Phantom of the Opera)
Over The rainbow (Eva cassidy)
At Last (Eva Cassidy)
Songbird (Eva Cassidy)
Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)
A World In Union
Unforgettable (Nat King Cole)
When I Fall In Love (Nat King Cole)
Love Changes Everything (Andrew Lloyd Weber)
We’ve Only Just Begun (The Carpenters)
Nella Fantasia (Theme tune from The Mission)
Sul Aria (From the Marriage of Figaro)
Cinema Paradiso (Katherine Jenkins)
True Love (High Society)

The Ceremony doesn’t last for just an hour!

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I’m always hearing that the ceremony lasts for an hour and couples plan their day around this. From experience, the ceremony lasts a lot longer than an hour!

If you are having the full church service with music you are looking at 1hr 20mins – 1hr 30 mins for the ceremony alone. Then take into account that the bride is usually late for an Irish wedding – add another 15 minutes for that (at least!). Then you’ll have the greeting the guests at the back of the church – another ten minutes or so. If the weather is bad, the photographer might also bring you back into the church for some family/bridal party photographs so that can add another 20 mins to half an hour. Worth taking into account when planning your times for the various parts of the day – and always add a bit extra for the unforeseen bits and pieces like the car forgetting to go back to collect the bride or arriving at the church having left the flowers back at the house or the priest leaving for his lunch as he got the time wrong!

Where to Put Music in a Catholic Wedding Ceremony

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I’m often asked where music needs to go during a catholic wedding so here you go!

Processional
Individual candle ceremony
Psalm
Alleluia
Lighting of Unity Candle
Offertory
Holy Holy
Ar n’Athair
Sign of Peace
Communion (choose 2 pieces)
Signing of Register (choose 2 pieces)
Recessional

You don’t necessarily need music at all the parts above and not everyone has the candle ceremony. If you do have the candles, it should either be a short instrumental piece or something that you can just sing a verse of as it only takes a minute.

the register time varies hugely depending on the photographer – select at least two pieces but I recommend you don’t put your favourite music here as you just won’t hear it – you’ll either be out in the sacristy signing or you’ll have the photographer talking to you on the altar.