How Many Songs for the Processional?

Only one song for the processional. It'll probably go quicker than you think, but I would check with the musicians!

We have about the same as you - except I have 4 BMs and 6 GM!

I'm in the same situation and I decided to have 2 songs played for the processional. 1 for the wedding party and 1 for me to walk to down the aisle with my mom. For our families, the musicians are just going to play soft music for them.

Oh, well yeah..haha. I thought we were just talking about the processional and not the bride's entrance.

We're having one song for the parents and bridal party, and then a different song for the bride's entrance.

We had 2 songs. We had a violinist perform Silent Night for the lighting of the candles, Grooms' parents, Pastor, GM and Groom (I don't have parents and neither of us have grandparents). The men came in from the side and went straight to the alter. Then I had a cellist, violinist and pianist perform A Thousand Years, Piano Guys version, for 3 BMs walking solo, 2 FGs walking solo, 1 FG and RB walking together, and then me. That song was about 4 minutes long and I had it timed so that I came out about 2 minutes into it at the climatic part.

My grandparents will be seated before the procession as they are unable to walk down the aisle. But for his grandparent, parents, officiant, groom, and my mom I plan to have Canon in D play, which will probably take only like a minute. Then for the BM/GM and BM/MOH (4 couples total), I have another song chosen to play. Then obviously my song for my dad and I.

I too have a small number of people (3 smaller than you) and we will all walk in to the same song. i've sort of timed and I think it will work out just fine.

You didn't ask about this but I want to mention some good advice that a wedding musician friend of mine gave me when I wanted to hire her to play piano during my cocktail hour (in addition to my ceremony). She said she has done that many times and depending on the number of guests (I'll have 200) and the venue, most of the time, the talking is so loud that she feels most can't even hear her. I took that advice and talked with my venue and they agreed that in their space it does get very loud. I've since been by there enough to hear various groups and it is loud. So, I saved quite a bit of money and am just having a play list of songs piped through their sound system. This may not at all apply to you but FYI in case it does. good luck!

Two for me. One for parents, wedding party, and one for me.

I think giving each their own song would just jar it. You'd only hear 30-45 seconds of each song!

I have steps we're walking down, and I'm just going to have multiple BMs walk down. So when one is half way down, the next will be at the top, etc. I have 9...lol. The groomsmen, groom, and officient are just going to walk in without official music, and both my parents are walking me down the aisle.

We only have one song for the entire processional and we have a fairly large bridal party (7 GMs & 7 BMs) not including our parents. The song we like currently is 7 minutes which should be enough time for everyone, including myself, to walk down the aisle to their places.

If you have a song for every group, you'll only be able to hear a few seconds of each song and it can really start to sound cluttered and jarring. Especially if your aisle isn't very long.

We're just doing one as we want to keep it super simple. We don't have a big bridal party, and I think adding more songs would make it awkward.