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Romantic Music for Your Northern California Wedding 

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flutes of fancy has performed at many beautiful weddings throughout California for over a decade. Let this page be your guide in planning your ceremony music. View our 2008 calendar to see this year's available dates.  flutes of fancy can perform at the following types of weddings:

Traditional Weddings Wine Country Weddings Elopements
Celtic Weddings Renaissance Weddings Castle Weddings
 
We are honored by your feedback.
"Your music was very much enjoyed, and we're very appreciative of your time working with you on the set list. My parents loved your playing and were grateful that it wasn't loud contemporary music. It was just lovely and really added something special to our reception.....I hope to find reason to hire you again in the future!...." (December 2008 wedding reception)

"Thank you for making our wedding day so special. It was a dream come true."

If you are having a  destination wedding in California and wondering how to plan your wedding music, look no further. Selecting your ceremony music will be easy and enjoyable using our ceremony music planning sheet and the flutes of fancy sound samples provided below. 

flutes of fancy's  music is best suited to intimate venues: small- to medium-sized churches, chapels, homes, gazebos, and courtyards.  We do not amplify our music, and our delicate sound and instruments do require protection from  elements such as excessive sunlight, moisture, or ocean breezes.

Our sample repertory contains music suitable for traditional as well as Renaissance theme weddings. Included are selections suitable for a reception or cocktail hour. Our sheet music library includes Renaissance, Baroque, light classical, folk,  and popular music. We love to explore new repertory, and  our library is constantly expanding!

We will be pleased to customize our repertory to your event and can consult  by telephone, e-mail, or in person about your wedding. Use our calendar link to  check  which dates are available. Your wedding date will confirmed after we receive your signed Performance Agreement and deposit. For more information about our wedding services, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions.

 

photo by Vince van Joolen

 

photo by Vince van Joolen
 

Photographic Images by Faith

 

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Below you can preview 15 processionals and 9 recessionals.  We hope you enjoy sampling the variety of options available for your ceremony music. 

Ten Tips for a Smooth, Stately, and Stunning Wedding Processional

Two of the processionals below are given with alternate instrumentations: violin/recorder or two recorders. 

Purcell's Trumpet Tune is effective both as a processional and recessional and is therefore listed in both categories.

For the bride and groom desiring seeking unique music that is also lovely and ceremonial, we include some lesser-known selections.  Additional music in this category can be heard on our Renaissance Wedding page.

If you are having a traditional wedding and are seeking the most requested and time-honored ceremony music choices, just look for these icons:

 Traditional Bridal          Bridesmaids' favorites

Wedding Processionals

Bridal Chorus (Wagner)  Canon in D (Pachelbel)

March of the Priests 
from the Magic Flute (Mozart)

Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
 		Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring  (Bach) Processional from the Water Music Suite (Handel)
Air from the Water Music Suite (Handel)  Rondeau Theme from Masterpiece Theatre (Mouret) Processional from St. Anthony's Chorale (Haydn)
Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)   
(2 recorders) 		Trumpet Voluntary  (Clarke)  (violin and recorder) King's March (Clarke)
Rigadoon (Purcell) 
(2 recorders) 		Rigadoon (Purcell)
(violin and recorder) 		May I Come to Thee? (Campion)

Wedding Recessionals

Alla Hornpipe from the Water Music (Handel) Rejoicing from the Royal Fireworks Music (Handel) That Sounds So Wondrous from the Magic Flute (Mozart)
Air de Trompettes  
(English Baroque) 		Gavotte (Handel) Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
Allegro (Croft) Presto (Telemann) Trumpet Tune (Purcell)

Wedding Meditation

Simple Gifts (American Shaker)

Be Thou My Vision (Irish Traditional)

For the bride and groom looking for something different....We have been hard at work  preparing sheet music arrangements of Old English tunes that make wonderful  processionals and recessionals. Listen to samples and order Playford Promenade, Music for Grand Occasions. 

For more sheet music anthologies by Dorothy Barth appropriate for wedding use, visit the sheet music page.

 

Photo by Vince van Joolen

flutes of fancy is conveniently located to perform as your wedding musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Marin County as well as the Wine Country of Napa and Sonoma Counties. flutes of fancy's  rates include travel up to 70 miles one-way. A modest travel fee may apply to locations more than 70 miles. 

San Francisco Bay Area:  flutes of fancy will travel to your wedding destination anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Peninsula.

Sacramento:  Sacramento, Davis. Additional  travel fees may apply to locations further east, such as Lake Tahoe.

Solano County:  Vallejo, Benicia, Fairfield, Vacaville

Marin County:  San Rafael,  Sausalito, Tiburon, Belvedere, Novato, Mill Valley

Wine Country:  Let flutes of fancy enchant your wine country wedding with their delicate music in Napa County:  Napa, St. Helena, Calistoga, Rutherford; and Sonoma County:  Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Forestville, Guerneville, Glen Ellen, Kenwood, Sonoma, Petaluma, Cloverdale

South Bay and Peninsula:  Burlingame, Half Moon Bay, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Palo Alto,  Portola Valley,  San Mateo, Saratoga, Woodside, Belmont, Redwood City, Milbrae

All in a Garden Green is the name of a popular English Country Dance tune. We sometimes use it for a lilting bridesmaids' processional (hear it on our Renaissance wedding page). Many English Country Dances in our repertory would provide a lovely atmosphere for your garden wedding. Beautiful garden wedding locations abound in Northern California. Check out the English gardens or  winery gardens in Napa, Sonoma, Bodega, or Half Moon Bay! 

Bookings (707) 554-4874       

  email (please include type of event, date, and location in your subject line) 

e.g.,  Wedding, June 1, Napa

We frequently receive inquiries from musicians asking where we get our sheet music. We draw from a huge library collected over many years.  Check out the links below for a large variety of sheet music. 

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