Wedding Planning » Wedding Hymns

In the Roman Catholic Church, there are two marriage liturgies. The full Mass includes possibilities for an entrance or processional hymn (not common), a hymn during the Presentation of the Gifts (Offertory), a communion hymn, and a recessional hymn (not common).

Because the Catholic Church does not have a standardized hymnal used universally, there are many used in various church. The following hymnals are utilized in this compilation of hymns:

• Choral Praise (CP) - light blue
• Gather Comprehensive (GC) - dark green
• Gather, Second Edition (G) - dark blue
• Glory & Praise Classic Edition (G&P Cl) - royal blue
• Glory & Praise Comprehensive Edition (G&P Co) - maroon
• Glory & Praise, Second Edition (G&P II) - green
• Journeysongs (JS) - blue
• Journeysongs, Second Edition - (JS II) - blue
• Music Issue 2004 - (MI)
• RitualSong (RS) - dark red
• Worship, Third Edition (W) - red

Wedding-Specific Hymns

A Nuptual Blessing (GC 870, G 633)
Blessing the Marriage (GC 871, G 634)
God, in the Planning (GC 868, G 631)
Hear Us Now, Our God and Father (CP p178)
In Love We Choose to Live (GC 873, G 627)
Love Is the Sunlight (GC 866, G 629)
May the Grace of Christ Our Savior (W 742)
O Father, All-creating (W 744)
We Will Serve the Lord (GC 869, G 632)
When Love Is Found (GC 865, G 628, W 745)
Wherever You Go (G 630)
Wherever You Go (G 635)
Within Your House, O God, Today (W 743)

Other Relevant Hymns

A Spendthrift Lover Is the Lord (W 597)
Beloved, Let Us Love (W 601)
Bwana Awabariki / May God Grant You a Blessing (GC 587, G 411)
Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life (GC 577, W 569)
God Is Love (GC 629, G 445)
I Have Loved You (GC 504, G 351)
Jesus, Come! For We Invite You (W 564)
Lord of Our Growing Years (W 556)
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (GC 622, W 588)
Love One Another (GC 630, G 446)
No Greater Love (GC 628, G 444)
Not for Tongues of Heaven’s Angels (GC 623, G 441, W 589)
Now the Silence (GC 754) Song of Saint Patrick (GC 703, G 505)
This Is My Will (W 590)
Ubi Caritas (GC 408, G 301, W 604)
We Are the Light of the World (GC 508, G 353)
We Have Been Told (GC 699, G 501)
We Praise You (GC 541, G 370)
Where True Love and Charity Are Found / Ubi Caritas (GC 631, W 598)

Communion Hymns

All hymns from the Lutheran Worship (LW)
or The Lutheran Hymnal (TLH)

Wedding-Specific Hymns

Lord, When You Came as Welcome Guest (LW 252)
Lord, Who at Cana’s Wedding-Feast (TLH 620)
O Father, All Creating (LW 251, TLH 621)
O Perfect Love (LW 253, TLH 623)
The Voice Than Breathed O’er Eden (TLH 622)

Other Relevant Hymns

O Blessed Home Where Man and Wife (TLH 624)
Oh, Blest the House, Whate’er Befall (TLH 625)
O Happy Home Where Thou Art Loved Most Dearly (TLH 626)

All hymns from The Presbyterian Hymnal

Wedding-Specific Hymns

Not for Tongues of Heaven’s Angels (531)
O God, You Give Humanity Its Name (532)
O Perfect Love (533)
The Grace of Life Is Theirs (534)

Other Relevant Hymns

All hymns from The United Methodist Hymnal

Wedding-Specific Hymns

As Man and Woman We Were Made (642)
When Love Is Found (643)
Jesus, Joy of Our Desiring (644)
O Perfect Love (645)
Canticle of Love (646)
Your Love, O God, Has Called Us Here (647)

Other Relevant Hymns

Because Thou Hast Said (635)
Come, Let Us Use the Grace (606)
Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life (164)
Covenant Prayer - text only (607)
Gift of Love (408)
God, Whose Love Is Reigning O’er Us (100)
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (89)
Where Charity and Love Prevail (549)

All hymns from The Hymnal 1982

Wedding-Specific Hymns

O God of Love, to Thee We Bow (350)
May the Grace of Christ Our Savior (351)
O God, to Those Who Here Confess (352)
Your Love, O God, Has Called Us Here (353)

Other Relevant Hymns

Communion Hymns