Posted: 6/22/16 at 9:45am
I'm looking for a song for our wedding ceremony from a musical. Would like something a bit more contemporary. It would be arranged for cello and piano. I love the style of The Next Ten Minutes from Last Five Years but I don't want anything from that show. Any ideas? Thanks!
Posted: 6/22/16 at 11:28am
"Always" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1925, as a wedding gift for his wife. The song was supposed to be used for the Broadway musical The Cocoanuts but was cut by Berlin during out-of-town tryouts. I used this at my wedding. Would be lovely with piano/cello
Posted: 6/22/16 at 1:37pm
I always suggest The Human Heart from Once On This Island.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 1:42pm
With You from Pippin would be gorgeous on cello.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 2:36pm
Cliche but "All I Ask Of You" from Phantom would be lovely
Posted: 6/22/16 at 2:56pm
Two Words, by Lea Salonga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMw6RVS7Q0U
Posted: 6/22/16 at 2:57pm
"Without You/ No Day But Today" from RENT.
"Before and After You/ One Second and a Million Miles to Go" from BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. (Yeah, I know it's a play about infidelity but I don't care-- those songs are exactly what love is all about.)
Posted: 6/22/16 at 3:00pm
"Do You Love Me?" from "Fiddler On the Roof" 
Posted: 6/22/16 at 3:02pm
^ Not sure if you're joking. I'm just imagining a bride walking down the aisle while the cello plays the line:
"Do you love me?
Do I WHAT??"
Kind of a needle-scratch, no?
Posted: 6/22/16 at 3:06pm
You came to the right place, great topic.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 3:44pm
We rewrote some of the lyrics from "Little Things You Do Together" as a tribute to friends getting married
Posted: 6/22/16 at 4:07pm
This is a little less traditional musical theater but what about "Origin of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Or if want something really new you could do "That Would Be Enough" from Hamilton. I think that would be really pretty on a cello
Updated On: 6/22/16 at 04:07 PM
Posted: 6/22/16 at 4:19pm
"Loving You" from Passion.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 4:36pm
I did an arrangement of "Sun and Moon" from Miss Saigon for a friend's wedding; it was for violin, viola, and cello, but I'm sure it would sound lovely with piano and cello. (I also did a mashup of "Without You" and "I'll Cover You" from Rent for that same wedding, but that was for piano, violin, viola, cello, and three female voices. Just throwing it out there, in case you want to take a listen!)
Posted: 6/22/16 at 4:40pm
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do! Mamma Mia
Posted: 6/22/16 at 4:47pm
Marry Me Now - Will Rogers
My Cup Runneth Over - I Do I Do
Posted: 6/22/16 at 8:06pm
This Day/Walking By A Wedding from If/Then.
I Do, I Do In The Sky from The Drowsy Chaperone.
Updated On: 6/25/16 at 08:06 PM
Posted: 6/22/16 at 8:30pm
backwoodsbarbie said: ""Loving You" from Passion.
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There's also "Loving You" by Jerry Herman for the film version of MAME. I wouldn't say it's a better song, but it's a tad less stalkerish. In my family, we play it at all weddings: it's romantic and melodic without being too well known.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 9:22pm
I don't know exactly what it is about "My Cup Runneth Over" that gets me so much...every time I hear it. I was a little kid when this premiered on Broadway with Robert Preston and Mary Martin. I have memories of it playing on my parent's radio...in a kitchen window facing the backyard...while my dad barbecued for the neighbors and all of the grownups were having gin and tonics... It's really funny...the things that occupy brain cells for decades and don't fade away with time. Hope this made sense to some of you...
Posted: 6/22/16 at 10:12pm
oh my god. I CHOSE RIGHT from BABY would be GORGEOUS on cello.
Posted: 6/22/16 at 10:54pm
MichelleCraig said: "I don't know exactly what it is about "My Cup Runneth Over" that gets me so much...every time I hear it. I was a little kid when this premiered on Broadway with Robert Preston and Mary Martin. I have memories of it playing on my parent's radio...in a kitchen window facing the backyard...while my dad barbecued for the neighbors and all of the grownups were having gin and tonics... It's really funny...the things that occupy brain cells for decades and don't fade away with time. Hope this made sense to some of you...
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Of course that makes sense (and I have no sweet memories of my absentee father).
Thank you for sharing your recollection.
Posted: 6/25/16 at 1:27pm
“You Matter To Me” from Waitress. Very new (therefore original), is perfect for piano and cello, and just so meaningful. Try the concept album version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1gKmZYFVc
Updated On: 6/25/16 at 01:27 PM
Posted: 6/25/16 at 1:44pm
"Falling Slowly" from Once would be beautiful on piano/cello.
