Weddings

Highly Strung are available to play for wedding services, ceremonies, civil partnerships, blessings and receptions.

Highly Strung has been entertaining wedding guests in the midlands since 1996 and have extensive experience of tailoring their repertoire to create the perfect mood for your special day. Sarah can help you plan your booking to suit your individual requirements and is available to help with the arrangements leading up to the engagement. The quartet can play from as little as one hour to five hours and are happy to travel between venues if the ceremony and reception are in different places. Highly Strung has repertoire to suit church services, civil ceremonies and civil partnership ceremonies and will gladly offer advice about which music to consider.
We can also arrange a singer/trumpeter/choir for your ceremony or service - speak to Sarah for more details. For church services Highly Strung can also play hymns (please see our list below).

Here are some suggestions for music for your service / ceremony:

Processional
Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride) - Wagner
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Air on a G String (from Suite No. 3) - Bach
Ave Verum Corpus * - Bach
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel
Intermezzo (from Cavalleria Rusticana) - Mascagni
She - Elvis Costello
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Trumpet Tune - Purcell

Signing of the register
Pavane - Faure
Salut D'Amour - Elgar
Romance - Shostakovich
Chanson de Matin - Elgar
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Can't take my Eyes off you - Crewe & Gaudio
2nd movement from Concerto for 2 violins - Bach
Voi che Sapete (from the Marriage of Figaro) - Mozart
Excerpts from the Four Seasons - Vivaldi
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * - Bach
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
Flower Duet (from Lakme)- Delibes
Meditation (from Thais) - Massenet
Barcarolle - Offenbach

Recessional
Hornpipe (from the Water Music) - Handel
All you need is Love - Beatles
Queen of Sheba * - Handel
La Rejouissance (from Music for the Royal Fireworks) - Handel
Trumpet Voluntary - Clarke
Wedding march (from Midsummer Night's Dream) - Mendelssohn
Spring (from Four Season's Violin Concertos) -Vivaldi
'Rondo' from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart
Moondance - Van Morrison
Come Fly with Me - Jimmy van Heusen

* For civil ceremonies please check with your registrar

Hymns
Praise My Soul
I Vow to Thee my Country
Jerusalem
Sing Hosanna
Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer
Morning has Broken
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
All things Bright and Beautiful
Love Divine (both versions)
Hail, Queen of Heaven
Amazing Grace
Lord of all Hopefulness
How great Thou are
O Jesus I have Promised
Be still, for the presence of the Lord
One more step along the World I go
I am the Lord of the Dance

(we can also arrange other hymns for a small fee)

As you can see from our full repertoire list we have a mixture of both classical and lighter music to suit all tastes.

The Highly Strung String Quartet predominantly takes bookings for weddings in the East Midlands and West Midlands. Areas include; Nottinghamshire, The Vale of Belvoir, Rutland, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (South and East), Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, North and East Birmingham and Warwickshire though we do travel further on request.