Wedding Music Checklist Printable
Based upon our previous feature that guided you to Selecting your Wedding Music , this week’s Wedding Planning Series installment breaks down each part of your wedding day that will require a special song. The entire wedding day is a time during which so many special traditions (or your own meaningful innovations) take place. You may feel that you’d like to mark each moment with a specific song. Soak up these tips for selecting your wedding music for the different parts of your wedding day.
Before Selecting Your Wedding Music
When choosing your music for each part of your wedding day, be sure to first consider the following:
- Fave Music Genre: Your preferred genre of music will help you to choose your songs.
- Playlist of Your Fave Songs: A playlist of the songs that you’d absolutely love to hear.
- “Do-Not-Play List” Playlist: A playlist of the songs that you’d love not to hear.
Grab Your Wedding Music Checklist Printable
Here’s another printable to add to your wedding planning file! Get dancing with our Wedding Music Checklist Printable that will help you to plan music for each part of your wedding day.
Wedding Ceremony Music Checklist
The wedding ceremony has several parts to think about in terms of your music. Depending on the type of ceremony that you are planning, you should choose songs that flow from the time that your guests arrive before the ceremony, until after the ceremony is over.
- Pre-ceremony music played while your guests are welcomed to the venue and are taking their seats.
- Processional music played to signal the beginning of the wedding ceremony when the wedding party enters. The music can build up to announce your walk down the aisle.
- Recessional music played after you’ve exchanged your wedding vows and you’re walking back down the aisle with as newlyweds.
- Post-ceremony music played during cocktail hour or the pre-drinks session before the wedding reception. Be sure to plan some well-chosen background music for your guests to enjoy while you slip away to have your couple pics taken.
Wedding Reception Music Checklist
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For your wedding reception, it is common to have music playing from the moment guests begin entering the venue, right up until guests begin to leave after the reception. The music selected can be background music that will be enjoyed while the meal is served or music that is meant to get your guests out of their seats and dancing. You can choose the type of music that you prefer suited to the following parts of your wedding reception:
- Reception ambiance music played as your guests arrive, as they settle into their seats and while they enjoy the meal.
- Grand entrance music played as you enter the venue and depends entirely on the type of entrance (funny, silly, dramatic or romantic) that you want to make!
- First dance musicplayed to open the dance floor for your first dance as newlyweds, which matches the type of dance moves that you have planned.
- Father-daughter/ Mother-Daughter/ Mother-Son dance music played during the special dance with your parents.
- Dance or party music played after dessert is served closer to the end of the reception.
- Cake cutting music for the moment the wedding cake is cut.
- Last dance music saved for the end of the reception to close the dance floor.
Grab Your Wedding Music Checklist Printable
Plan your wedding music like a pro with this Wedding Music Checklist Printable.
Grab this Wedding Music Checklist Printable PDF download here.
For more wedding music ideas, check out this DJ Shylo’s Top 30 that shares some of the top songs to choose for the different parts of your wedding day.
MORE HELPFUL RESOURCES:
- How to Plan a Wedding in 100 Steps: Detailed Checklist
- How to start your wedding budget breakdown
- How select guests and plan your wedding guest list
- How to Plan Your Engagement Party
- What Does a Wedding Planner Do? Do I Need One?
- 150 Question Wedding Venue Checklist
- Selecting a Wedding Officiant
- How to Choose A Wedding Photographer
- When to order and send wedding stationery (timeline)
- How to select your bridesmaids
