60 Best Unity Candle Songs
2019
The Unity Candle event takes place during the wedding ceremony after the bride and groom exchange their vows. Typically, the bride lights a single candle for herself and the groom lights a single candle for himself. Then, the bride and groom light their “unity candle” together with their single lit candles. A unity candle song is played during the unity candle lighting ceremony.
Another great show of bringing families together through matrimony is to have parents and/or grandparents light candles and then pass the candles onto their respective daughter/bride, and son/groom. The bride and groom then light their unity candle together.
Unity candles are a big business to candle companies. They come in all sorts of sizes and colors. For the do-it-yourself bride and groom, they can buy a standard candle. Then, the candle can be decorated in your wedding colors with ribbon, beads and whatever suits your fancy. Unity candles can be purchased as a single candle or in a candelabra setting with a single tapered candle on each side of the official unity candle.
Traditional wedding Unity Candle songs celebrate the union of the bride and groom. Bridal couples can select romantic pop songs I Was Meant To Be With You by Diamond Rio, True Companion by Marc Cohn and Give Me Forever (I Do) by John Tesh. Bridal couples can also select instrumental songs perfect for church weddings like Wedding Song by Kenny G. Since the candles are being lit, a theme appropriate song would be You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone.
An alternative to the unity candle songs ceremony is the unity sand ceremony. The unity sand ceremony can be done after the vows are read, as the unity candle ceremony would be, or while the vows are read. The sand ceremony uses multiple sand colors to fill a glass container such as a vase. The bride and groom take turns filling a glass vase, or also known as the unity vase. The sand colors can be coordinated with the bridal couple’s wedding colors. The same unity candle songs below are also fitting for the sand ceremony.
Unity Candle Songs
Last Updated: December 30, 2018
98 Degrees – I Do (Cherish You)
1999, Pop
Alison Krauss – When You Say Nothing At All
1995, Country
Amber Norgaard – One Flame
2010, Folk Rock
Amy Grant – Say Once More
1988, Christian
Atlantic Starr – Always
1987, R&B
Bebo Norman – A Page Is Turned
1999, Christian
Ben Harper – By My Side
1995, Folk Rock
Bette Midler – The Rose
1980, Pop
Beyonce – Ave Maria
2008, Pop
Brian McComas – I Could Never Love You Enough
2002, Country
Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
1991, Rock
Bryan Adams – When You Love Someone
1997, Rock
Case – Happily Ever After
1999, R&B
Casi Joy – I Do
2018, Country
Charlotte Church & Josh Groban – The Prayer
2001, Pop
Cher & Peter Cetera – After All
1989, Pop
Clay Davidson – Unconditional
2000, Country
Cliff Richard & Sarah Brightman – All I Ask Of You
1986, Broadway
Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black – When I Said I Do
1999, Country
Daniel Jang – All Of Me
2014, New Age (Violin)
Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life
1977, Rock
Diamond Rio – I Was Meant To Be With You
1992, Country
Ed Sheeran with Andrea Bocelli – Perfect Symphony
2017, Pop
Elton John – Circle Of Life
1994, Pop
Emmylou Harris – Pledging My Love
1983, Country
Firehouse – I Live My Life For You
1995, Rock
Foy Vance feat. Ed Sheeran – Guiding Light
2013, Pop
Heatwave – Always and Forever
1977, R&B
John Tesh – Give Me Forever (I Do)
2000, Pop
Josh Groban – You Raise Me Up
2002, Inspirational
Keith Urban – Your Everything
2000, Country
Kelly Clarkson – A Moment Like This
2002, Pop
Kenny Chesney – Me And You
1996, Country
Kenny G – The Wedding Song
1992, Jazz
Kenny Lattimore – For You
1997, R&B
Lari White – Amazing Grace
1997, Country
Leann Rimes – You Light Up My Life
1997, Country
Leon Patillo – Flesh Of My Flesh
2007, Christian
Luciano Pavarotti – Ave Maria
1988, Opera
Marc Cohn – True Companion
1991, Rock
Martina McBride – I Just Call You Mine
2009, Country
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Grow Old With Me
1984, Country
Matthew West – When I Say I Do
2010, Christian
Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
1992, Rock
Natalie Cole – Inseparable
1975, R&B
Nick Lachey – This I Swear
2003, Pop
Peter, Paul & Mary / Noel Paul Stookey – Wedding Song (There Is Love)
1969, Folk
Rascal Flatts – I Melt
2003, Country
Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All
1999, Rock
Sara Evans – No Place That Far
1998, Country
Shania Twain – Forever And For Always
2003, Country
Shania Twain & Bryan White – From This Moment On
1997, Country
Steven Curtis Chapman – I Will Be Here
1989, Christian
Stryper – Honestly
1987, Christian Rock
Teddy Pendergrass – You’re My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration
1982, R&B
Teresa James & David Chamberlin – Yours, Mine & Ours
2001, Pop
The Beatles – Let It Be
1970, Rock
The O’Neill Brothers Group – One Hand, One Heart
2013, Piano
The Piano Guys – Just the Way You Are
2013, Classical
Tracy Byrd – The Keeper Of The Stars
1995, Country
Twila Paris & Steven Curtis Chapman – Faithful Friend
2001, Christian
Question can more than one unity ceremony be done at a wedding???
Hi Teena. Absolutely. We have seen weddings with multiple events at a wedding celebrating two coming together as one such as the sand ceremony, unity candle ceremony, wedding rope ceremony, jumping the broom and more. It’s your wedding and do what makes you happy!
My daughter is getting married in the Fall in the mountains. Candles for the unity ceremony Wong work since its outdoors and may be windy. I’m thinking the sand unity is more for weddings at the beach. Any suggestions for a unity ceremony in the mountains?
Hi Fatims. Most of our unity candle songs will also be great for the sand ceremony as well. Just skip the songs with candle in the title of course.