Help with wedding music needed (priest approved and pipes)!

[PumpkinsAndCoconuts]

Hello, fellow Mumsnetters!

We are planning our (traditional, religious, 60-person) wedding on a lovely estate in Scotland. (I’m not Scottish but we’re getting married in Scotland.)

Everything is planned but we have been stumped when it comes to our music and I am getting quite desperate. So when I saw the other thread currently running I thought: why not?

Requirements:

It needs to sound good on pipes:
smallpipes for the entrance and ceremony, highland pipes for the exit. We had to promise the priest that all ceremonial music (aisle in, aisle out, during the ceremony) will be Christian in nature. AND we need to give him the set list in advance (for approval).

Do you have any suggestions? Our pipers will be accompanied by a drummer (outside the church).

I can’t ask my parents as I’ve done my best to not get them involved in anything wedding related. Although they’ll obviously attend (which I am extremely happy about. I’ve also organised their accommodation, made travel arrangements etc.) I’d simply prefer to not get their input when it comes to wedding planning…

I would be grateful for any suggestions for the following:

Entrance (aisle in)
During ceremony (signing / reflection)
Exit (aisle out)

Try the Gael, walking down the aisle. Its Irish Scottish. Wonderful solo bit on the pipes. Or amazing grace. Some up beat to come up the aisle Scotland the brave, or Highland laddie. Get them all on YouTube.

Yes, that’s what I meant…

The priest is actually great, but definitely no Father Dougal 🤣

@Butteredtoast55 definitely something along the lines of Highland Laddie outside the church! 😀

@deplorabelle Lord of the Dance probably wouldn’t quite work 🤣

Good news:
Highland Cathedral was given the go-ahead for the exit! I’m so pleased and get quite excited when I picture our exit 🥳

So far we’ve got Amazing Grace, Be Thou My Vision and Highland Cathedral.

So there’s just one more to choose and agree on. Thank you all so much for all the suggestions. I’ll have a proper look through them today.

Hopefully I’ll find something we all like (and suitably sacred!) that our piper can play!

Oh @PumpkinsAndCoconuts I'm so pleased for you...I feel quite emotional just thinking of how beautiful and joyous it will be as you leave the church!

I don’t know if this would work on Pipes but what about Cesar Franck’s Panis Angelicus? It’s a lovely piece, should be fine with the priest and would be nice for signing the register.

i was once playing in a concert where a rather pushy soprano screeched her way through it. Trying to suppress my laughter was a nightmare!

I’d lay the house that wouldn’t work on pipes.

@Piglet89 I’m a string player, not a piper. But it is a lovely work (when not being massacred).