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Can anyone suggest wedding hymns?

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sagitta · 07/02/2008 13:39

My friends (neither of them English) are getting married in a CofE church. They are not religious and don't know English hymns very well (and neither do their families...)
Can you think of any good hymns, with tunes that are used throughout Europe? My friend said she didn't want anything too heavy She's chosen 'morning is broken', so that kind of thing...
Thanks!

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dustystar · 07/02/2008 13:41

I had Lord of the Dance (without the depressing verse about the crucifiction)

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pirategirl · 07/02/2008 13:41

i had morning has broken too!! was going to suggest that.

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CarGirl · 07/02/2008 13:41

amazing grace possibly?

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FAQ · 07/02/2008 13:42

only amazing grace if you have a decent organist.......otherwise it could be like a funeral dirge (as my parents discovered when they got married )

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heronsfly · 07/02/2008 13:46

We had Bind us together lord,played at our wedding and all our childrens baptisms lovely hymn about love and family.

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flamingtoaster · 07/02/2008 13:47

I had Morning Has Broken, and For the Beauty of the Earth (though it was not to the traditional tunes -I knew a much nicer one which the organist finally found in a Canadian Sundayschool Hymn Book!).

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MrsBadger · 07/02/2008 13:49

there are lots of cracking German hymn tunes but many are 'heavy'...

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JingleyJen · 07/02/2008 13:52

We had "All things bright and beautiful" (lots of children at the wedding)
"Lord of all Hopefulness"
and
"Give me Joy in my heart"

Had brilliant organist so had
Entrance of the bride - Maestoso from Symphony No. 3 Saint-Saens
Singing of the register - Priére à Notre-Dame from Suite Gothique Boëllmann
Exit from church - Widor's Toccata,

Hmm wish I could do it all again!!

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sagitta · 07/02/2008 13:53

Thanks everyone - can you keep them coming? All good suggestions...

Mrs Badger, which ones? My friend is German and she may say yes if she knows them...

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becklespeckle · 07/02/2008 13:59

I had Jerusalem, The Lord is my Shepherd and Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.

All Things Bright and Beautiful is a popular wedding one too

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sagitta · 07/02/2008 14:36

Thanks! I hadn't even thought about enter/exit music. (Mine was a registry office do, with Desmond Dekker...)

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cornsilk · 07/02/2008 14:38

We had 'Give me joy in my Heart' and no-one sang apart from the priest. Hymns and weddings just don't go.

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cat64 · 07/02/2008 14:59

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sagitta · 07/02/2008 15:05

Mmm, the fact not many will sing is a worry. I'll just have to sing twice as loud - sadly for everyone else

The reception, at parents house, is really in the middle of nowhere, so they can't get to a registry office easily...

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PandaG · 07/02/2008 15:05

LOve Divine?

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JingleyJen · 07/02/2008 15:11

OOhh loads of people sang the hymns at our wedding it was lovely.

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mosschops30 · 07/02/2008 15:13

We had Lord of all Hopefullness because I love that hymn. Also had it at ds's baptism

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IorekByrnison · 07/02/2008 15:37

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer
He Who Would Valiant Be
Praise my Soul the King of Heaven
Jerusalem
Praise to the Holiest in the Height
Love divine, all loves excelling
For All the Saints

Might be worth booking a singer/singers to do an anthem during the signing of the register and to bolster the hymns if the congregation aren't likely to know them well.

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Blandmum · 07/02/2008 15:41

I had Guide me o though great Jehovah (sung to cwm Rhondda)

and Praise my soul, the King of Heaven.

Since we were in the Rhondda, and the chapel was full of my Non-conformist, Welsh relatives, we raised the roof!

Dh's family and our English friends were all somewhat stunned at our 'vigor'

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IorekByrnison · 07/02/2008 15:43

If they want a tune well known by Europeans, "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoke" is sometimes sung to the tune of "Deutschland, Deutschland uber Alles" (it's Haydn).

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IorekByrnison · 07/02/2008 15:43

spoken

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Meeely2 · 07/02/2008 15:49

we had the wedding march to come in - morning has broken, jerusalem and eeek, another one i can't remember, how bad is that! Pachabels Canon in D while we signed register and the usual wedding music to leave to....

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hanaflower · 07/02/2008 15:56

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MrsBadger · 07/02/2008 15:56

I was thinking of Haydn too
or All People That on Earth D Dwell

(we had Cwm Rondda and Love Divine All Loves Excelling, which is another cracking Welsh tune. DH wanted World In Union )

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