Congratulations on your engagement!  Please schedule a meeting with the Director of Liturgy and Music, Angela Flynn BEFORE completing the Wedding Liturgy Planning Form.  If you have any questions or concerns during this process, please reach out via email.

Musicians & Fees
The Director of Liturgy and Music will assist you with planning the music, securing a cantor and other musicians if desired. The Assistant Director of Music will be present to lead music for your wedding.  You are contracting directly with the Asst. Director of Liturgy and Music for these services, and the fee is $200.  This is paid directly to Cyrus D'Arcy.

For the liturgy, you must also have a cantor.  The Director of Liturgy and Music will secure a cantor for you.  The cantor fees are $150 for a Nuptial Mass and $100 for a wedding outside of Mass (liturgy of the Word with vows), and that is also paid directly to the cantor.  If you have a friend or family member who is qualified and would like to serve as a cantor, that can also be arranged.

Any additional musicians (instruments, additional singers) can be hired for a fee of $150 each.  Qualified musicians who are friends or family can assist with permission of the Director of Liturgy and Music.

Guidelines for Selecting Music
Paragraph #30 in the Introduction to the Order of Celebrating Matrimony provides for the following instruction regarding music:

The chants to be sung during the Rite of Marriage should be appropriate and should express the faith of the Church, with attention paid to the importance of the Responsorial Psalm within the Liturgy of the Word. What is said concerning the chants applies also to the selection of other musical works.

Therefore, please keep in mind the following…

† Any sung music must be Christian in nature, ie, “express the faith of the Church”
† Instrumental music may not be derived from a secular song, show tune, opera, film score, etc.
† These are not judgments of style, but association.  Many different styles of music can be considered.

Examples of appropriate music are listed below, click on the link to listen.  This is not an exclusive list, only some suggestions.

How the music sounds will be limited by the type and number of musicians.   Almost anything is possible, it’s just a matter of resources. The Director of Liturgy and Music will work with you to create the music you envision as much as possible with the resources that you’re able to invest.

Please enter your music selections as part of completing the Wedding Liturgy Planning Form at least 6 weeks before your wedding date.  You'll receive a copy of the form in your email.   If you want to hire additional musicians, this should be decided upon as soon as possible!

Entrance Rite Procession 
• Canon in D (Pachelbel)
• Prelude in C (Bach)
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
• Largo (Handel)
• Te Deum (Charpentier)
• Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)

Responsorial Psalms 
• Psalm 33
• Psalm 34 (English only)
• Psalm 103
• Psalm 112
• Psalm 128
• Psalm 145
• Psalm 148

Offertory 
• Covenant Hymn (Daigle/Cooney)
• Not for Tongues of Heaven’s Angels (Joncas)
• Lead, Kindly Light (Warner)
• Prayer of St Francis (Sebastien)
• Set Your Heart on the Higher Gifts (Warner)
• Hail Mary: Gentle Woman (Landry)
• Holy is His Name (Talbot)

Communion
• Ubi Caritas (Hurd)
• Behold the Body of Christ (Manalo)
• Taste & See (Moore) 
• One Love Released (Keil)
• Where Charity and Love (Thomson)

Recessional
• Alla Hornpipe (Handel)
• Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
• Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee 
• Lead Me, Lord (Becker)
• With One Voice (Manalo)
• Rain Down (Cortez)