# Aargh. Please help me chose my wedding "entrance" music! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824 "2008-06-30T22:12:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/21 "2008-07-01T04:03:52Z")
ELP’s [Jerusalem](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4bzRI0BUv0) , perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/22 "2008-07-01T04:37:41Z")
I used a song by an Irish group called [De Dannan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Dannan): _The Call And The Answer_. It’s a beautiful song, with very appropriate lyrics, but is still reasonably short. We managed to time it out so I got up to the minister at the end of the last chorus. For some reason, I can’t remember what our recessional was, though. Himself picked it out, and I thought it was a good choice, but I can’t remember what it was. _pokes around computer_ Oh, yeah - it was Bobby Darin’s version of _More_. Nice and upbeat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/23 "2008-07-01T04:40:36Z")
[QUOTE=Student Driver] A friend of mine used the instrumental opening to Robotech as the groom’s march [/QUOTE] This is a new one on me. Is it customary in America for the bridegroom to process in to music too? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/24 "2008-07-01T04:54:33Z")
_Promenade_ from _Pictures at an Exhibition_, on a pipe organ. Or what **Johnny LA** suggested. [Linus and Lucy](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UBDIA8/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk4) for the recessional. Bride and Groom skip down the aisle. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/25 "2008-07-01T05:14:08Z")
[This march](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_95hdy6Nw) ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/26 "2008-07-01T05:22:57Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] This is a new one on me. Is it customary in America for the bridegroom to process in to music too? [/QUOTE] I may have gotten terminology wrong, but the Robotech theme played as the groomsmen marched in, then the groom came down. This preceded the entrance of the bridesmaids to another bit of music, then the ever-so-slow walk of the bride to yet another bit o’ music. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/27 "2008-07-01T05:57:23Z")
[QUOTE=Jennyrosity] It’s no good asking me asking the groom, he wants me to use the Emperor’s march from Star Wars! So I turn to you, being the bastions of good taste that you are, for opinions and advice. Please don’t let me down! [/QUOTE] Hee, I was going to suggest the Rebel March from Star Wars (the tune that plays when Luke, Han, and Chewie walk down the aisle to get their medals for blowing up the Death Star) ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/28 "2008-07-01T06:09:48Z")
[QUOTE=Student Driver] I may have gotten terminology wrong, but the Robotech theme played as the groomsmen marched in, then the groom came down. This preceded the entrance of the bridesmaids to another bit of music, then the ever-so-slow walk of the bride to yet another bit o’ music. [/QUOTE] Your terminology sounds correct to me. It’s just that I’ve never seen the bridegroom and his groomsmen walk/march/process in for a wedding ceremony. They’ve always just hung around at the front and stood up when the bride appears and starts walking down the aisle. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/29 "2008-07-01T06:10:51Z")
Thanks everyone! This has really helped - if I don’t need to worry about the length, then I’m definitely going with the Vivaldi. I don’t know why I have this vision of all my guest looking at their watches and muttering “oh, come _on_, get on with it”, but I shall try to ignore it! The recessional piece is sorted - we’re having “! Hear a Symphony” by Diana Ross and the Supremes: “You’ve given me a true love, And everyday I thank you, love” ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/30 "2008-07-01T11:55:50Z")
If you like Vivaldi. [Arrival of the Queen of Sheba?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqwj0uq9edo) [The Water Music (Allegro-Alla Hornpipe)?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7NLYBB9zAE) Or [Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWL8Y-qsJg) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/31 "2008-07-01T11:59:00Z")
Moved from IMHO to CS. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/32 "2008-07-01T12:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=Student Driver] A friend of mine used the instrumental opening to Robotech [/QUOTE] Don’t tempt me! I could probably still get away with music changes at this point (Currently planning on using the bridal march–what?). With our taste in music, it’s hard to think of something appropriate, and I think the priest would nix any requests for Linkin Park. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/33 "2008-07-01T12:13:14Z")
[QUOTE=Jennyrosity] It’s no good asking me asking the groom, he wants me to use the Emperor’s march from Star Wars! [/QUOTE] That’s what my friend Sarah had at her wedding. The priest hadn’t been warned, but managed to say “the Force is strong in these two”. Go for it! [Then when they were signing the register, another friend played a lovely piece of classical music on the guitar, which if you listened very carefully turned out to be _(There ain’t no party like an) S Club Party_. Genius!] ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/34 "2008-07-01T12:23:59Z")
Couple of late entry suggestions - at a friend’s wedding, they entered with ‘Horizons’ from the second side of the Genesis album “Foxtrot”. And at my sister’s wedding, the recessional was Ravel’s ‘Bolero’, played on the organ. Cracked a number of people up, as ‘10’ had just been released, and it hadn’t been printed in the order of service. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/35 "2008-07-01T12:48:50Z")
“Should I stay or should I go” by the Clash, if you’re going for laughs ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/36 "2008-07-01T12:52:18Z")
We entered our reception to _The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down._ ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/37 "2008-07-01T12:58:28Z")
I intend to use Moret’s _Rondeau_ for my wedding. It’s the Masterpiece Theatre intro. You may borrow it if you bring it back in good shape. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/38 "2008-07-01T13:32:56Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] **Nooooooooo!!!** Everyone plays that at their wedding. I used to do wedding videography, and if I don’t hear it again for a decade I wouldn’t mind a bit. [/QUOTE] Agreed! We had a strio trio at our outdoor wedding and actually requested that they NOT play it. Halfway through the ceremony, what do I hear…? Nooooooo…! Anyway, we rented a sound system, as well and my Dad and I entered to an instrumental version of “Hero of the Day,” by Metallica. People still talk about it! It’s a beautiful, stately, haunting melody and the younger people will not believe how cool you are! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/39 "2008-07-01T13:40:38Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s just that I’ve never seen the bridegroom and his groomsmen walk/march/process in for a wedding ceremony. They’ve always just hung around at the front and stood up when the bride appears and starts walking down the aisle. My husband walked me down the aisle both ways. It was lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824/40 "2008-07-01T14:03:51Z")
Hey, I need processional/recessional music too! 1. It can’t be “churchy” ie ANYTHING that was originally written to be played in a church is out. This was, independently, a formal request of my Rabbi, and a personal request by my father. However music by the same composer not originally written for the church is ok. So, “Joy of Man’s Desiring” out, “Brandenburg Concerto” in. 2. It must be playable by a string trio 3. It cannot be anything recognizable from pop culture. 4. Nothing too ponderous. Oh, and they played the “March from Aida” at my high school graduation (Pomp & Circumstance being far too short for my graduating class of 900) so not that. 5. We will both be walking in, each with our parents, + 3 bridesmaids, +3 groomsmen, so it has to be long enough for that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aargh-please-help-me-chose-my-wedding-entrance-music/454824.md?page=3)