Ceremony Recessional & Reception Entrance Music Help

Take a look at recessional song playlists on YouTube and see what catches your attention. Usually something upbeat. If you are marrying in a house of worship you will have restrictions.

View Quoted Comment I’ve been looking at website suggestions & YouTube and I’m struggling, sometimes I have better luck asking actual brides so figured I’d give it a shot (:

Do a search on the forum for recessional songs. Lots of past brides with suggestions

Hi Kenzie - we walked out of the ceremony with Felix Mendelssohn “Wedding March” and entered our reception to Paula Abdul’s “Forever Your Girl” ❤️🥂

We are having 'can't do without you' by Caribou for our recessional:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI2Et19vDCM

and for our entry, we're not having the bridal party announced, as they are going to be enjoying the cocktail hour with their partners while we're getting our couple photos done, so they'll enter with all the other guests, but for our entry (and this is a surprise for everyone which I'm super excited about!) we are having our band introduce us by altering the lyrics to the beginning of Justin Timberlake's Senorita to -

Ladies and Gentlemen! It's my pleasure to introduce to you -

They're friends of yours! (yes, yes they are)

And they go, by the name of (HISLASTNAME)

We were singing it on a road trip once and my fiance was joking about how funny it would be, since it goes so well with his last name, and I said I thought it sounded amazing! So we reached out to our band and they were keen on the idea too!

I know that's a super specific idea, so maybe not ideal for you -

so some of the songs to walk in to that we considered before we hit on this idea were:

Rare Earth - Get Ready

Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)

Calvin Harris - This is what you came for

Sister Sledge - We are Family

Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll Pt 2

The Beatles - All you Need is Love

oh! and a fun one for the bridesmaids is trombone shorty - here come the girls

We recessed to Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" and entered the reception to Imagine Dragons' "On Top of the World"

View Quoted Comment I love that! Such a cool idea!! And thanks for the extra suggestions, it’s super helpful!

View Quoted Comment Ooo I love that imagine dragons song!

We walked out of the ceremony to “You Are the Best Thing” by Ray LaMontagne and entered the reception with “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” by Natalie Cole.

Our ceremony recessional song was the Vitamin String Quartet cover of the Star Wars theme song! No one knew we were doing that so it got a couple of laughs. And then for the reception entrances we had Best Day of My Life by American Authors playing when parents/bridal party introduced and Higher Love by Kygo and Whitney Houston for when we were introduced.

This is one of the last decisions that we made about a week before the wedding because I just could not mentally handle making another decision (and a decision that literally no one else will remember!)

Our Processional Song will be All I Need by Jacob Collier feat Mahalia & Ty Dolla $ign.

I haven't picked our Grand Entrance song yet though.