Wedding Music Guides
Practical advice for planning your ceremony music, from song choices to tech setup. Start with the running order, then dig into the moment you are working on.
Wedding Ceremony Music Order
A running order for your ceremony music: prelude, processional, signing the register, recessional. What plays at each moment and how long it lasts.
Read the running order →Music for each moment
Every part of the ceremony, in the order it happens, with a guide to the song or playlist for each.
Wedding Prelude Music App
An app for your wedding prelude music: ready-to-play instrumental tracks for as guests arrive, and a ceremony timeline that fades cleanly into the processional.
How to Choose Your Walk-Down-the-Aisle Song
How to choose a processional song to walk down the aisle to: match the feeling, pick a version that builds, and fade it cleanly when your walk ends.
Music for Signing the Register
Signing the register has no fixed length. How to choose music that fills a few unpredictable minutes and fades the instant you are called back.
How to Choose Your Wedding Recessional Song
How to choose a recessional song to walk back up the aisle as newlyweds: starts strong, lands the celebration, and carries you into the confetti.
How to Choose Your First Dance Song
How to choose a first dance song that means something and works on the floor: the right mood, the lyrics, how long to dance, and a graceful ending.
Know the rules
What you can and cannot play, so nothing gets stopped on the day.
Civil Ceremony Music Rules in the UK
The UK rule that catches couples out: civil ceremonies allow no music with religious content. What it means, how registrars check, and clearing songs early.
Church Wedding Music Rules in the UK
In a church wedding, religious music is expected and pop songs may be restricted. What Church of England and Catholic ceremonies allow, and who decides.
On the day
Make it play cleanly, whatever the venue throws at you.
Wedding Ceremony Music: What Can Go Wrong
The eight things that most often go wrong with ceremony music, from a phone ringing mid-vows to the signal dropping, and how to prevent each one.
Music for an Outdoor Wedding Ceremony
Outdoor ceremonies have no PA, power or signal. How to play your ceremony music in a garden, field or beach: the right speaker, offline, and wind.
Ceremony Music Without Passing Your Phone
Lock your iPhone to Wedding Player for the ceremony, so you can hand it to a friend or coordinator without exposing anything else on the device.
Connect Your iPhone to a Venue PA System
Which cable, which adapter, and what to check before the ceremony. A practical guide for every iPhone model and every type of venue sound system.
More guides
How to Add a Whole Apple Music Playlist to Wedding Player in One Tap
Skip adding songs one by one. On iPhone and iPad, open your Apple Music playlist in Wedding Player, tap Add All, then trim and play the moment offline.
How to Play Your Wedding Music Without WiFi or Signal
Stone churches, rural barns and basement function rooms all kill phone signal. How to play your wedding ceremony music offline, with no internet at all.
How to Make a Wedding Ceremony Playlist (Step by Step)
A step-by-step guide to building your wedding ceremony playlist: gather your songs, match them to each moment, order them, trim the starts, and play it cleanly.
The Wedding Ceremony Music Cue Sheet, Made Live (A Guide for Celebrants and Coordinators)
A written cue sheet lists the cues. It cannot start the song, hold the fade, or lock the screen. Here is how celebrants and coordinators turn a ceremony music cue sheet into one that actually runs on the day.
How to Manage Ceremony Music for Multiple Weddings (A Guide for Wedding Professionals)
How celebrants, planners and coordinators keep every couple's ceremony music separate, prepared and ready across a full season of weddings.
How to Choose the Right Version of Your Wedding Song
You have picked the song. Now pick the right recording: how to choose between the original, an acoustic cover, and an instrumental for your wedding.
PA and Ceremony Music: A Setup Guide for UK Celebrants
You already carry the speaker. This is how UK celebrants set up a portable PA and run recorded ceremony music cleanly, walk-in to walk-out, with no adverts, no dead air, and no wrong song.
Wedding Player 3.0: iCloud sync, and a home for every wedding
Wedding Player 3.0 is here. Plan your ceremony on iPhone and run it from iPad with iCloud sync, and pros can keep every wedding in its own workspace.
Who Plays the Music at Your Wedding Ceremony?
If you are not hiring a DJ, someone still has to run the ceremony music. How to choose the right person, brief them properly, and set things up so they only ever tap once.
How to Play Your Wedding Ceremony Music Without a DJ
Run your own wedding ceremony music from a phone, no DJ needed. Build a timed running order, trim and fade every song, and play it all offline.