As soon as you have booked the church or chapel, please make an appointment to discuss with your chosen musician a program of suitable music for your wedding. Recorded or taped music is not permitted.

As a Sacrament of the Church, the celebration and blessing of the marriage covenant calls for music that will reflect the couple's understanding of marriage within the context of the church. The selection of the wedding music is to reflect the sacred nature and sense of joy that characterizes all Christian worship. The music and words chosen for the marriage ceremony are to sustain and support the prayerful nature of the liturgical celebration and be an appropriate complement to the scriptural readings and formal prayer of the rite. The following questions are to be considered in planning the music:
a. Does the musical score evoke a sense of sacred action and call the community to joyful prayer?
b. Does a particular selection emphasize and enhance that part of the liturgical celebration at which it occurs?
c. Does the overall music selection allow for some congregational participation?
d. Does the text express a biblical view of love and marriage?

A "yes" response to the above questions will assure that lyrics will celebrate not only the human love between two persons, but love as a reflection of the God who is love, and the wedding music will emphasize the theme of sacred celebration. Music within a Catholic wedding must be approved by the Catholic Church.

Please contact one of the following musicians directly to book them for your wedding. You can also bring in outside musicians if you wish.

Stephanie Mire
Vocalist, pianist, organist
Phone: 512-858-2589
Email: music@stmartindp.org
Fee: $200