Church wedding songs and hymns (part 2)

This is the third in my series of posts about the inclusion of music in your irish wedding ceremonies.
The first post covering the importance of music in your church ceremony can be found in Church wedding songs and hymns (Intro). The second in the series entitled church wedding songs and hymns (part 1) gives information on the format of an Irish wedding ceremony and the places within the ceremony where you can include music.

This post covers music choices for the first part of the marriage ceremony, the introductory rites.
Usually the brides entrance is accompanied by music rather than singing, at this stage all eyes will be turned towards the bride and we don't want anyone distracted by a beautiful singing voice.

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Church wedding songs and hymns (part 1)

Before we talk about your choice of wedding songs and hymns for your church wedding it is important that we are actually aware of where exactly we can include music in our church wedding ceremony. A sample format of Irish church wedding ceremonies is listed below. All highlighted points represent areas where you can include music and wedding songs and hymns in your wedding ceremony. If you want to include a few Irish customs in your wedding refer to my previous post on  Irish wedding traditions and you might like to read church wedding songs and hymns (Intro).

Church wedding songs and hymns (intro)

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Brides often leave their choice of music for their marriage ceremomy until the last minute (or was it just me?). Well let's face it with so many other details to plan it often takes low priority and at the time doesn't seem that important with so many other huge decisions to be made ..like THE dress..HeLLo people!!

However, many a musician or wedding singer will use the quote "music is the food of love"...and they are right.