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Music for a Civil Wedding

by: Various Composers

Release Date October 01, 1999
This is a wonderful album, musically. The sound is clear, the choices superb.
BUT - and it is a big but - if you are planning to use tracks from this album for your wedding there is a potential for gross confusion because the digital index is for a Maria Callas album. So be warned, and make sure that whoever is in charge of ensuring that the right track is played at the right time has their wits about them.

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A Brides Guide to Wedding Music for Civil Ceremonies

by: Various Composers

Release Date May 29, 2006
This is a wonderful album, musically. The sound is clear, the choices superb.
BUT - and it is a big but - if you are planning to use tracks from this album for your wedding there is a potential for gross confusion because the digital index is for a Maria Callas album. So be warned, and make sure that whoever is in charge of ensuring that the right track is played at the right time has their wits about them.

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Wedding Readings and Vows (Confetti)

by: Confetti.co.uk

Release Date February 15, 2003
This book will really help you if you're stuck on ideas for wedding readings/vows. Our wedding is in 8 months time, so haven't chosen any readings as yet, but I'm sure that we will be referring to this book nearer to the time!

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Poems and Readings for Weddings

by: Julia Watson

Release Date April 01, 2004
We used quotes from this book on our order of service, kept the guests busy....and they loved it so much many took it home instead of the keepsake !. Some moving, and beautiful poetry and quotes. Absolutely ideal inspiration for brides to be. I still browse through my now dog -eared ,tatty copy at times over a coffee...ahhh

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The Big Book of Wedding Readings

by: confetti.co.uk

Release Date May 11, 2006
We used quotes from this book on our order of service, kept the guests busy....and they loved it so much many took it home instead of the keepsake !. Some moving, and beautiful poetry and quotes. Absolutely ideal inspiration for brides to be. I still browse through my now dog -eared ,tatty copy at times over a coffee...ahhh

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The Complete Wedding Album

by: Various Composers

Release Date April 04, 2001
Choosing wedding music had been getting a bit boring several CD's later and hearing the same old classics repeating themselves. After receiving this CD it gave my a lot of inspiration for music for a civil wedding. There were some well hidden gems in this including an instrumental of "Unchained Melody" which had everyone in tears, and Vivaldi's "Largo from Concerto for Guitar" which was beautiful. The CD offers a wide range of choice, so if you are looking specifically for a harp piece, or guitar peice, contemporary or piano, they are all segregated ready for you. This is the best wedding album I've come across so far.

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A World of Ways to Say I Do: Wedding Vows, Readings, Poems, and Customs from Different Traditions and Cultures and How to Write Y: Wedding Vows, Readings, ... from Different Traditions and Cultures

by: Noah Benshea, Jordan Benshea

Release Date December 01, 2004
Choosing wedding music had been getting a bit boring several CD's later and hearing the same old classics repeating themselves. After receiving this CD it gave my a lot of inspiration for music for a civil wedding. There were some well hidden gems in this including an instrumental of "Unchained Melody" which had everyone in tears, and Vivaldi's "Largo from Concerto for Guitar" which was beautiful. The CD offers a wide range of choice, so if you are looking specifically for a harp piece, or guitar peice, contemporary or piano, they are all segregated ready for you. This is the best wedding album I've come across so far.

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A Bride's Guide to Wedding Music

from: Naxos

Release Date May 05, 2003
It was only after I bought "A Bride's Guide to Wedding Music" that I then discovered "A Bride's Guide to Music for Civil Ceremonies" so if you come across the former first, be warned that it's meant for church weddings (although it doesn't specify this in the title!). The inlay inside however is quite clear that the music is meant predominatly for church weddings. Some very well known classics in here that have been heard in lager adverts to children's programmes and therefore nothing too original.

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The Everything Wedding Vows Book: Anything and Everything You Could Possibly Say at the Altar-and Then Some (Everything)

by: Janet Anastasio, Michelle Bevilacqua

Release Date June 08, 2000
Having tried the more "traditional" books, which did not really suit the purpose, we somehow stumbled onto this book.

On first appearance the book looks like a "joke" book and we wondered whether we had wasted our money. However, when we actually got stuck into the book, we were pleasantly surprised.

The book is split into 11 Chapters, enabling you to go straight to the section that interests you.

The first 3 chapters asks you and your partner to answer questions about your relationship and provides space for you to draft your vows.

The other 8 chapters cater for the different types of vows that you can utilise in your ceremony, great verses of love and even vows relating to the ... Read More:

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Classic FM Weddings 2008 (2 Discs)

by: Various Artists

Release Date April 14, 2008

Weddings 2008 is Classic FM's third compilation album of the year, a timely release to help with the music choices for the summer wedding season. It's the second of their Wedding `Best Of' collection (the last one was Music for Weddings in 2006) and this time the clever marketing people at Classic FM have helpfully divided the music into church music and civil music, recognising the confusion that can exist when deciding which music is allowed at each ceremony. Sacred music, of any religion, is forbidden by law to be played at a civil wedding while the registrar is present.

This is helpful, considering many pieces traditionally associated with church ceremonies, such as Mendelssohn's `Wedding March' which evokes images of ... Read More: