Prelude (Generally choose 4, including one for the seating of the mothers)
When choosing songs for the prelude we suggest trying to try to tie one or two into the scriptures you have chosen. The letters and numbers before the song title correspond with the letters and numbers in your yellow “Together for Life” book.
This list is suggestions only and is certainly not all-inclusive. In Church, however, keep in mind that your selections need to be sacred in nature.
The Blessing by Celtic Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSgnl3Lvx8
Bridal Prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2QTxT2amyE
Covenant Hymn (from Ruth 1:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh5jnx8GC4Q
Father, we commit to you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vxd0YZ9Bug
I have loved you (Jeremiah 31:3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkMBScHV0Hc
Love is the Sunlight David Haas (omit spoken part)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4IaZGneMhA
One (Love One Another Collection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br5p0T2u8k0
The Servant Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989yxUqfrSI (begins at 1:57)
When Love is Found (Gather/Waly Waly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pHRWiYU8gA
Wherever You Go by Gregory Norbert (from Ruth 1:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv5nMMkE5tg
Where You Go I Will Go Sean Ivory (from Ruth 1:16)
https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/where-you-go-i-will-go-print-g7743
Wherever You Go David Haas (from Ruth 1:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAS1NRDrNA8
As for me and my house(from Joshua 24:15) (Haas when love is found)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4wdY3nm4Q
God Beyond Glory (When Love is Found)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THjsJKx8MPg
D12, F5, F8, F9 Where there is love David Haas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG64yTuVjQ0
D2, D5, F5, F8, F9 Faith, Hope and Love David Haas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFIE4GeVRhk
D2, D5, F5, F8, F9 Faith Hope and Love Francis Patrick O’Brien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr18pco0Ikg
D2, D5, F5, F8, F9 The Greatest Gift Marchionda (love one another collection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVUVJ0m91c
D2, D5, F5, F8, F9 Set Your Heart on the Higher Gifts (love one another collection) G611 Steven Warner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQSE6ALGQF8
F5, F9, Love One Another (Love one another collection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsGEGs9oqRI
B2 Flesh of my Flesh and Bone of my bones
(Flesh of my flesh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-LEfX3m-B0
(Flesh of His flesh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8mN65vIF5I
B7 Set me like a seal on your heart Carey Landry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKOPl1wLqE
Wherever You Go G860 David Haas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAS1NRDrNA8
D1, D12 Love is the Touch arr True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlBAX0cCKeI
*D5 Corinthians (plus others in the above list. Look for D5)
The Gift of Love sung by Melissa Simmons on the soloist list
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W-HMI_oFqGAVbvYkDzDdNtXDqZdqhsNi/view?usp=sharing
In love, we choose to live Jeanne Cotter (Haas WHen Love is found)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uPfQYXEoh4
Love never fails arr Amy Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9PwV46lVw
May Love Be Ours Dan Schutte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX31UzWAsvM
Love Ed Bolduc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoq41co497k
A new commandment Janco/missalette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUbyGb4iX1M
F1 Blest Are They
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoEwSakQ0mM
F2 Salt of the earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7_v__5q9ws
F4 Man shall leave his mother Wedding Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZbhrO4IEtI
F8, F9 We have been told
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZowVhbf4T4
F8, F9, Love One Another Cotter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbUGPf4oCM
Prelude, seating of Mothers, after vows
I am always with you
https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/i-am-always-with-you-print-g8468
May the Light of Christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yalATcat310
A Nuptial Blessing Joncas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epYRRpoLlVQ
Responsorial Psalm: choose 1
C1 Psalm 33 The Goodness of the Lord (Love One Another Collection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIq2tlfwMS0
C1 Psalm 33 Blessed are We
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIuvDcEK_Uo
C2 Psalm 34 Taste and See Haugen G34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6EfvH1UmAU
C3 Psalm 103 The Lord is Kind and Merciful Haugen G59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP4bb9QF0sM
C3 Psalm 103 The Lord is Kind Colson and Colson
https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/76056
C3 Psalm 103 The Lord is Kind and Merciful Cotter G58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgThX5JU0og
C3 Psalm 103 The Lord is kind Cooney
https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/11146/the-lord-is-kind
Psalm 118 This is the Day the Lord has Made sung by VIcki Burt on the wedding soloist list
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sL-8nKt5aVPKgzrDFLxXjmRJK9ObM6-h/view?usp=sharing
C4 Psalm 112 God’s Command Haas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkYP_54eGIY
C5 Psalm 128 Blest are Those who love you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhWE3oa693s
C5 Psalm 128 Walk in His Ways Hughes
https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/walk-in-his-ways-print-g5624
C5 Psalm 128 May the Lord Bless Us (Love One Another Collection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2R4Syv8vPw
C5 Psalm 128 May the Lord Bless Us Cooney (click “see details” to bring up the sound file)
https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/11820/all-the-days-of-our-lives
C5 Happy are They Who Honor the Lord (When Love is Found)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3it-aiRhhc
C6 Psalm 145 I will praise your Name G 76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfTJRbVKGTw
C6 Our God is Compassion (When Love is Found)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBJSdoZFdLM
C7 Psalm 148 Let All Praise the name of the Lord Terwilliger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKhNte34Rg8
C7 Psalm 148 Let all Praise the Name of the Lord David Haas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63D1GTJXHzo
Entrance Chant and/or refrain after vows
As soon as the bride’s procession is over a short Entrance Chant is required. You may sing the refrain of the Alleluia, or the refrain of your responsorial psalm in either of these places. You may also choose another refrain. This list gives some appropriate suggestions but is not all-inclusive. The goal is to get people to participate, so singing something familiar is good, or singing something in more than one place is also good.
ie: if you have a song sung in the prelude and then repeat the refrain after the vows, people will have heard it. Or if you sing the same chant after the procession and then again after the vows, they might participate. Similarly singing something they do know, like the Alleluia after the procession and again for the Gospel verse, or the responsorial psalm again after the vows also adds to continuity. I will help you with this when we meet.
Where there is love David Haas
Refrain: Where there is love, there is God, the love of God has gathered us together. Alleluia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG64yTuVjQ0
May the Light of Christ (especially good after vows)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yalATcat310
A Nuptial Blessing (refrain) (after vows)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epYRRpoLlVQ
God Is Love Hommerding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4NoZrwgbk
(Can attach after Canon In D or Tpt Voluntary in D)
Visit to Mary’s Altar
This is optional. If you have a devotion to Mary, you may take flowers to Mary after Communion and a song to Mary is sung. If you have no particular devotion to the Blessed Mother but your Mom or Grandmother really wants to hear the Ave Maria or other Mary song, we can have the Mothers seated to one of these songs before the processional and this usually makes them happy.
Ave Maria by Schubert Schubert Ave Maria
Ave Maria by Gunod Gunod Ave Maria
Hail Mary Gentle Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4olGuMBiag
Holy Is His Name (Magnificat) by John Michael Talbot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFAiPzHflY
Holy is Your Name (Magnificat) David Haas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOrVrN8qzTo
This is the tempo I usually do it, and this rendition has a little less Celtic feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVxEfsNKZY
On This Day O Beautiful Mother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDjlNcYp1b0
Ave Maria Ed Bolduc (This is a newly composed more modern take on the Ave Maria)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5pi3cSrY6Q
Offertory/Communion
(choose 1 offertory song and 1 communion song)
Communion songs should be able to be sung by the congregation. Offertory songs are not as restrictive, so a piece from the Prelude list may be used at the Offertory.
You are mine sung by Laura Best (see wedding soloist list)
On Eagles Wings sung by Laura Best (see wedding soloist list)
Gifts for Our Lord (good for offertory) sung by Vicki Burt (see soloist list)
I am the bread of life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9KWyEtUSg8
One Bread One Body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OshpSD0z1ts
Eat This Bread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OASqBa6V49o
F7, Come to the Banquet
https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/come-to-the-banquet-print-g4924
F1 Blest are They
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoEwSakQ0mM
F5, F8, F9, We have been told
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZowVhbf4T4
The Servant Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989yxUqfrSI
A New Commandment (Janco/missalette)