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When it comes to planning your wedding ceremony<\/a>, you can choose to walk down the aisle to any music you like. Some people choose a pop track, others choose a classical version of a pop track and most dispense with pop tracks entirely and go for a tradition piece of wedding music to accompany them on the most exciting walk of their life.<\/p>\n

That intro wasn\u2019t quite true; religious songs at secular ceremonies might not be allowed depending on your wedding venue so do check in advance. That being said, the three most traditional pieces of music that brides choose for their wedding ceremony aren\u2019t deemed to be religious so go ahead and pick them if you\u2019ve been wanting them for years! Below we\u2019ll run through Pachelbel\u2019s Canon, Mendelssohn\u2019s Wedding March and Wagner\u2019s Here Comes the Bride.<\/p>\n

Pachelbel\u2019s Canon<\/p>\n

A wedding favourite, Pachelbel\u2019s Canon wasn\u2019t always as popular as it is today. It was lost for centuries until it was republished in 1919 and only became a tradition wedding staple in the 1970s when the Palliard Chamber Orchestra recorded themselves playing the piece, which was then used in a number of adverts and film scores. A canon is a piece of music repeated a number of times by different \u2018voices\u2019 and in Pachelbel\u2019s case, his Canon is the same eight bars repeated twenty-eight times. Apparently it’s awful to play if you’re on the cello, as this comedian recalls.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mendelssohn\u2019s Wedding March<\/p>\n

Another popular tune to be played a wedding ceremony, Mendelssohn\u2019s Wedding March is a composition that every string quartet will know. Often used as the \u2018recessional\u2019 to close the service, the fanfare that begins the Wedding March effectively introduces the married couple to the guests. Composed as part of his most famous work, A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, it was initially used between acts IV and V during a wedding feast. It has been used at weddings since at least 1848, though only became hugely popular from 1858, when Queen Victoria\u2019s daughter, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, got married to Prince Frederick William of Prussia.<\/p>\n

Wagner\u2019s Here Comes the Bride<\/p>\n

Richard Wagner\u2019s Here Comes the Bride was composed as part of his opera, Lohengrin, in 1850. Officially known as the Bridal Chorus, Wagner\u2019s piece if most often used to announce the entrance of the bride and has become a seminal \u2013 if controversial \u2013 part of traditional wedding ceremonies. Why controversial? Well for a time, the tune was associated with paganism thanks to the content of the opera, leading to the Roman Catholic church regarding it with some suspicion. Thankfully, the popularity of the piece is almost certain to outweigh any misgivings about the song\u2019s origins these days and it\u2019s instantly recognisable notes mean that it is one of the only orchestral pieces that can be played on a variety of different instruments.<\/p>\n

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