Wedding music

For walking down the aisle, signing the register and the first dance. 18 pieces, easiest first.

Playing at a wedding is one of the loveliest jobs a pianist can be given, and it does not need to be hard. Canon in D and the Wedding March both have easy versions here, and the Ave Maria and Ode to Joy sit well under a beginner's hands.

If you have a few months, the fuller pieces further down make beautiful music while guests find their seats.

Beginner Levels 1 to 3

Intermediate Levels 4 to 6

Advanced Levels 7 to 10

Picture credits

Ludwig van Beethoven with the score of the Missa solemnis. Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Johann Strauss II. Fritz Luckhardt, 1899. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Erik Satie. Suzanne Valadon, 1893. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Conrad Kocher. Conrad Schacher, c. 1860. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Barbara Krafft, 1819. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
The oldest surviving copy of Pachelbel's Canon. Unknown copyist, undated manuscript copy, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Felix Mendelssohn. Thomas Howell Jones, after Theodor Hildebrandt, 1842–1870, British Museum. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Charles Gounod. Nadar, 1890. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
George Frideric Handel. Thomas Hudson, before 1779. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Antonio Vivaldi. François Morellon la Cave, 1725, Rijksmuseum. Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0.
Title page of The Well-Tempered Clavier, in Bach's hand. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1722. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Johannes Brahms. C. Brasch, Berlin, 1889, New York Public Library. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Claude Debussy. Atelier Nadar, c. 1908. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.