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Instrumental Songs for Your Wedding

10 Classical and Modern Instrumental Songs for Your Ceremony

Classical to Modern: These Instrumental Songs Will Make Your Wedding Unforgettable

- Antonia - 07.02.2020 -

You've found the love of your life and want to finally make your unique bond official? One of the most important questions for the celebrations is: Which songs should be played at the wedding? If you want to accompany your special moment with dreamlike instrumental sounds, then you're in exactly the right place. We present the 10 most beautiful instrumental songs for your civil ceremony. Our tip, so the moment remains unforgettable for you and your guests: Don't play a recording, but have your favorite music performed live by musicians at your ceremony! This creates the ultimate goosebump moment!


1. Viva la vida - David Garrett

The ideal mix of classical and modern: Viva La Vida as instrumental version on violin. This piece of music creates an extra portion of butterflies and future euphoria at your civil ceremony.

2. River Flows In You - Yiruma

This instrumental music will enchant everyone in the hall. The gentle piano piece invites you both to look nostalgically into the past and to look hopefully toward the future.

3. Air - Bach

Air by Bach is a classic among instrumental songs for a civil ceremony. Enchantingly beautiful on both piano and violin.

4. Ich kenne nichts - Xavier Naidoo (Piano Version)

Do you want instrumental but modern German music at your civil ceremony? Then the piano version of "Ich kenne nichts" is something for you. Meltingly beautiful.

5. Gymnopédie No.2 – Erik Satie

Gymnopédie No.2 transports you to a romantic dream world. With this song, your ceremony will feel as if you're in the middle of an old, French film. La vie est belle!

6. Kiss me (Sixpence None the Richer Cover) - The O'Neil Brothers Group

Kiss Me also brings endless romance to your civil wedding. Even more magical than the radio version of the song: The piece as an instrumental version on acoustic guitar.

7. Canon in D Major - Johann Pachelbel

Rumor has it that Pachelbel wrote this instrumental music as a wedding gift for Johann Sebastian Bach's older brother . Whether truth or myth: This romantic piano song is made for the perfect civil ceremony.

8. Butterfly Waltz - Brian Crane

The piece "Butterfly waltz" combines romance with elegance – when rings are exchanged to this song, everyone will surely have to wipe away a tear or two.

9. Halo - Cory (Beyonce Cover)

The instrumental version of "Halo" is for all modern couples who want to start marriage with determination and strength . The music underscores both the feeling of being strong together and the feeling of being allowed to be weak with each other.

10. Wedding march - Mendelssohn

A classic to finish: Wedding march by Mendelssohn. If you choose this instrumental song for your civil ceremony, then you'll feel exactly when the music begins: This is the day you've waited for your whole life. Now a new chapter of life begins!


Instrumental Musicians Who Will Make Your Civil Ceremony an Unforgettable Experience:

Mona & Stefan about Lisa Wohlfarth
Lisa accompanied our wedding in France with her cello and made it something very special! We were able to send her our favorite songs in advance, which she had specially rehearsed for us. The cello sounds created a very special atmosphere in the church, we were very moved and our guests were absolutely thrilled!
La Casa about Michael Nickel
It was a great evening with an inspiring artist who knows how to take his audience into his world of music, his fantasies and moments through which his creations arise! Thank you Michael!
Mathias & Lara about Maja Taube
The concert with Maja was simply wonderful! For all of us it was something completely different and very special to experience such harp sounds!

Not the ideal song for your civil ceremony among them? Maybe songs with vocals suit you better after all. Find more songs for your civil ceremony here.


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