Wedding Forum - Please can I have some help and opinions,...

Hi All
I need some help please.
H2B and I are getting married in a Catholic Church. We need to pick some hymns, not sure how many, but we were told they need to be ones people generally know otherwise noone will sing which will be awful and also accessible, in other words not too challenging for those who aren't vocally talented.
We know Shine Jesus Shine may not be most appropriate for a wedding and if noone really belts it out it sounds awful so that's off the menu especially as our priest wasn't keen on it for the wedding.
So I have a list of ones I like and that I think people will know so just hoping you could all give me your thoughts on the following hymns:

Be Thou My Vision
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
Walk in The Light
Bind Us Together
Father In My Life I See
O Lord my God When I in Awesome Wonder (how great thou art)
Be Still for the Presence of the Lord
Love Divine all Love Excelling
As I kneel Before You
Give Me Joy in My Heart
Tell Out My Soul
Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer

Please let me know which hymns you know, like and think will be appropriate for a wedding.

Also feel free to make any other suggestions as they will be gratefully received, if I'm not sure what they are I can u tube them.

Thank you xxx

Hi, I'm not having hymns as I'm getting married in a registry office but do know some of the hymns :-)

How great thou art is a lovely hymn which most people should know??
Make me a channel of your peace may be a little quiet(if you know what I mean??) but that said another lovely hymn??!!
Give me joy in my heart I think is GREAT for a wedding!!!

Why do you think Shine, Jesus, Shine is not appropriate for a wedding??
But, I know what you mean about it won't sound right if it's not belted out!!!

My suggestions are Lord ofall Hopefulness or All things Bright and Beautiful??

Hope this helps
:-)

Thanks LinziJo.
I know many of our guests don't go to church regularly. Our priest said we should think abiut hymns they sing on songs of praise because then everyone will know them, he was so sweet I didn't have the heart to tell him that majority of people do not watch songs of praise. Most of the ones on that list I know from when I was a kid but I went to Catholic primary and secondary plus mass every Sunday so can't remember some of them if I knew then from school or church.

Just looked it up on the tube. It's the same melody as Be Thou My Vision. Thanks Rachael.

Thanks GC2B, im not sure I had one more step at school, just tubed it, it's very primary school isn't it.
I've been to other weddings in CofE that have Jerusalem but never sung it in a Catholic church I have to admit.
Wills and Kate also had Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer and Love Divine all Love Excelling.

Or amazing grace, that's a good one to belt out.....

Xx

My grandson picked ours sing hosanna as he sings it at school xx

I love them all as remind me of weddings. We are having all things bright and beautiful as h2b remembers his mum singing it, she isn't alive anymore so nice memory. Do any of the songs mean anything to you?

There is loads of suggestions on cofe website too and think you can listen to them too xxx

I'm not overly keen on hymns, but I do quite enjoy 'Give Me Joy in My Heart', it's so cheery.

Yeah, i see what you mean about them being school-y.

I think even non church goes will know sing hosanna. And love divine is a lovely one.

Is there any hymns that mean anything to deceased relatives? It could be a nice way of remembering them...

Bind them together seems quite appropriate for a wedding xxx

LK you're on form tonight!

Thanks LauraJo - I was thinking of contacting my family in Malaysia and asking what my grandmothers favourite was as I want to remember her at the wedding. She was very religious, she did the rosary every day so when she passed away last year that was the only thing I asked for, I will be walking down the aisle with her rosary in my hand then pass to my dad for safe keeping when I reach the altar.

Lol, noted LK. Maybe he's trying to tell you something!?

I was talking to my mum this morning about hyms and asked her what she had at her wedding.... maybe an idea to see what your parents or his parents had too? Also my mum suggested to print off all the words ot each hym and see which words mean more to you and you like the sound off xxx

This is going to be difficult, h2b is being picky or just winding me up deliberately grrrrrr. He's hardly coming up with any suggestions and all I get is "well it's a bit like being in school assembly".

Oh thank goodness, just u tubed all the hymns and H2B knows many and likes some ..............we may be making some progress on this if the priest on Tuesday is in agreement xx

Firstly, avoid those that are mainly school hymns, as people can't think of them as anything else. Definitely avoid Bind Us Together and Give Me Oil In My Lamp. The most obvious one is Love Divine, and Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer is well known and a great hymn. Make Me A Channel is also familiar, and Be Thou My Vision has beautiful words. You only need two hymns, but you could add a third.

What did you decide ID?

Love them InDreamland! xx

Thanks Linzi-jo.

Nice choices GC2B xx

Awww no Heather! Andy, me and Fr. had to agree on them, ok, so more that we were guided to ones that were ones everyone would know and be vocally unchallenging x

great if it was a winter wedding lol in December xx