Recessional Wedding Songs For Your Wedding Ceremony

Recessional Wedding Songs

Recessional wedding songs are played while you and your wedding party exit the wedding ceremony. Generally, you want recessional songs to be lively and upbeat. For more information on how to choose your recessional songs, see recessional wedding music.

The following is as list of popular recessional songs. Listen to samples of the recommended songs for free and download those that you like!

Religious Recessional Songs

1. Joy - George Winston

2. Exultate, Jubilate - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3. Now Thank We All Our God - Johann Sebastian Bach

4. Psalm 19 Benedetto Marcello

5. Hallelujah Chorus (Handel Ode to Joy) - Ludwig van Beethoven

Classical/Traditional Recessional Songs

1. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - George Frederic Handel

2. Trumpet Voluntary - Jeremiah Clarke

3. Autumn (Four Seasons) – Antonio Vivaldi

4. Hornpipe (from Water Music) – George Frederic Handel

5. La Rejouissance (from Royal Fireworks Music) – George Frederic Handel

6. Sonata in G – Giuseppe Tartini

7. Magnificent in D – Johann Sebastian Bach

8. Trumpet Tune – Henry Purcell

9. The Wedding March – Felix Mendelssohn

Contemporary Recessional Songs

1. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen or The Vitamin String Quartet

2. Wouldn’t It Be Nice - The Beach Boys

3. It’s a Beautiful Day - U2

4. At Last - Etta James

5. How Sweet It Is – James Taylor

6. I Got You Babe – Sonny and Cher

7. I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown

8. From This Moment On – Shania Twain

9. Thank You - Dido

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