Are you choosing the music for your wedding ceremony and wondering what songs to walk down the aisle to? We’ve compiled an amazing list of 50 songs to walk down the aisle to on your wedding day!

Handpicking your own unique wedding ceremony music is another big conversation happening in the wedding industry right now! It’s a fun modern spin on an old wedding day classic. And it takes an otherwise very traditional part of the wedding ceremony and turns it into something you can make all your own. How amazing would it be to hand pick a song that you love, to walk down the aisle to? That’s right, you have more choices than just the good old standby, the wedding march! 

There are a few different parts that make up the beginning of your wedding ceremony. The very start of your wedding ceremony, before you even make your grand entrance, will begin with the prelude. The prelude is when music will begin to play softly as guests arrive and find their way to their seats. A lighter tone of the music is typically played in the background during the prelude. This allows guests to sit patiently and await the arrival of the bridal party!

It’s important to note that depending on the entertainment or musicians that you’ve hired for your ceremony music, the prelude music will be done in the same style as your ceremony music. The prelude music that you select should also set the tone for the upcoming ceremony. Whether it’s pop, rock, or classical, we’ll let you decide! Here’s another quick note about your prelude. The prelude music should be enjoyed by your guests at a volume that allows them to carry on light conversations. Because this is the time that things begin to settle down in anticipation of the start of the ceremony!

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Next, the bridal party will make their grand entrance, kicking off the beginning of the processional. What is a wedding processional? It’s when members of your family and your bridal party walk down the aisle in a specific, set order. The order in which these groups of people walk down the aisle will be dependent upon the type of wedding you are having and varies correspondingly to different cultures and religions. For example, Jewish, Christian, and Hindu weddings all have their own version of what defines a classic wedding processional according to their own customs and tradition. Simply put, a processional refers to your walk down the aisle and kicks off the start of your wedding ceremony.

Not sure about the order in which your family and bridal party should make their entrance during your processional? A typical non-denominational wedding ceremony processional would follow an order similar to these two examples:

Processional Example 1

• Officiant
• Groom, and Best Man (they can come out from the “side” or walk down the aisle!)
• Groomsmen (can be combined with bridesmaids)
• Bridesmaids (can be combined with groomsmen)
• Maid of Honor
• Flower Girl & Ring Bearer
• Bride and Escort

If you’re having a non-denominational wedding and you’d like your grandparents to make their way down the aisle also, then it’ll be up to you to decide the order in which they come out. You have a few different options for sending those amazing grandparents of yours down the aisle. They can come out in pairs after the officiant (grandparents of the groom, then grandparents of the bride) or they can come out before the bridal party according to which side they are related. If you decide to send your grandparents down the aisle using the second option, then your processional might look a little something like this:

Processional Example 2

• Officiant
• Groom, and Best Man (they can come out from the “side” or walk down the aisle!)
• Grandparents of the Groom
• Groomsmen (can be combined with bridesmaids)
• Grandparents of the Bride
• Bridesmaids (can be combined with groomsmen)
• Maid of Honor
• Flower Girl & Ring Bearer
• Bride and escort

Now that you have the order in which your family members and bridal party will come down the aisle as part of your processional, here’s where the fun party begins! You can select different songs for each set of groupings within your processional!

If you want to keep things as straightforward as possible, and not add on a whole lot of extra time to your ceremony, there are a few ways to go about this. We’ll break it down for your using the example of the processionals from above!

Processional Example 1

First Song:

• Officiant
• Groom, and Best Man (they can come out from the “side” or walk down the aisle!)
• Groomsmen (can be combined with bridesmaids!)

Second Song:

• Bridesmaids (can be combined with groomsmen)
• Maid of Honor
• Flower Girl & Ring Bearer

Third Song:

• Bride and Escort

Processional Example 2

First Song:

• Officiant
• Groom, and Best Man (they can come out from the “side” or walk down the aisle!)
• Grandparents of the Groom
• Groomsmen (can be combined with bridesmaids!)

Second Song:

• Grandparents of the Bride
• Bridesmaids (can be combined with groomsmen)
• Maid of Honor
• Flower Girl & Ring Bearer

Third Song:

• Bride and escort

Of course, you can break this format up in any way that works best for your wedding. One quick thing we’d like to mention through before you scroll through our list of 50 songs to walk down the aisle to on your wedding day! If you’re going to do the whole “please stand for the bride” thing and your wedding guests are not expecting the opening lick of a rock song, you may want to have your officiant actually announce “please stand for the bride!” before your song begins!

We’ve included everything in the list below from Frank Sinatra to the 70s, 80s, and 90s. There are a few indie favorites, some modern love songs, and of course, Queen Bey! We rounded up some of our absolute favorites but the choice will be yours on whether you delight your guests with versions of these songs that are acoustic, instrumental, orchestra style, played by string instruments, or played on an organ. Or, conversely, you can surprise your guests and have your music done in a completely different, unique styling that will have them going “hey, what song is that?”!

Scroll through these 50 amazing songs to walk down the aisle on your wedding day! 

1. A Groovy Kind Of Love – Phil Collins
2. All My Life – K-Ci & JoJo
3. All Of Me – John Legend
4. At Last – Etta James
5. Beautiful – James Blunt
6. Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve
7. Can’t Help Falling In Love – Elvis Presley or Kona Grannis (Crazy Rich Asians Version)
8. Candy Rain – Soul For Real
9. Crazy In Love – Beyoncé
10. Dark Blue – Jack’s Mannequin
11. Fade Into You – Mazy Star
12. Faith – George Michael
13. Follow – Crystal Fighters
14. Forrest Gump Theme – Alan Silvestri
15. Friday I’m in Love – The Cure
16. Ghost – Justin Bieber
17. Hold On – Wilson Phillips
18. Home – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
19. How Sweet It Is (to be loved by you) – Marvin Gaye
20. I Can Love You Like That – All-4-One
21. I Love You Always Forever – Donna Lewis
22. Linger – The Cranberries
23. Love Fool – The Cardigans
24. Love Me Like You Do – Ellie Goulding
25. Love Song – The Cure or 311
26. Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
27. Marry You – Bruno Mars
28. On Bended Knee – Boyz to Men
29. Over The Rainbow – Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole
30. Power Of Love – Huey Lewis
31. Rather Be – Clean Bandit feat Jess Glynne
32. So This Is Love – Ilene Woods
33. Somebody To Love – Queen
34. Something About The Way You Look Tonight – Elton John
35. Stand By Me – Ben E. King
36. Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’Roses
37. Teenage Dream – Katy Perry
38. The Skye Boat Song (Outlander Theme) – Bear McCreary
39. The Way You Are – Bruno Mars
40. The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra
41. These Words – Natasha Bedingfield
42. This Will Be (an everlasting love) – Natalie Cole
43. Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
44. Today – Smashing Pumpkins
45. Today Was a Fairytale- Taylor Swift
46. Underneath It All – No Doubt
47. What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
48. XO & Halo – Beyoncé
49. You’re the First, the Last, My Everything – Barry White
50. You’ve Got The Love – Florence + The Machine

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