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Pipe Major David Waterton

Quality traditional Scottish highland bagpipes for weddings, with the assurance of exstensive experience and a sense of both style and occasion to enhance the ceremonial aspects on your special day

Based in North Yorkshire but offering a Nationwide service.
 
Steppin' Out Entertainments

Steppin' Out have a range of pipers for your wedding or corporate event. They also cover many other acts and services suitable for a wedding event.
Wedding Bagpipers in the UK

Ed Arnold
is a full time bagpipe player that plays with pride and passion. He has performed at over 100 weddings, funerals and other public and private events and has the experience to make YOUR SPECIAL OCCASION that extra bit memorable with the haunting and individual sounds of the great highland bagpipes

Peter Anderson
Whether the piper is leading the bride down the aisle with a slow processional tune, escorting the wedding party out during the recessional to a cheerful march, or complimenting your reception with background music for your guests or piping the newlyweds to their top-table. The music of the bagpipe will certainly make your wedding day truly impressive and memorable.

Cambridge Bagpiper
Whatever the event, be it a wedding, funeral, party, Burn's night celebration or gala dinner the bagpipes always add a touch of style and prestige; leaving your guests with lasting memories. With every detail tailor-made to your own requirements you can be assured of a professional and personal service. I can play traditional Scots and Irish music, favourite melodies or even requests.

Mark Chesman
A piper for your wedding will add to the beauty, majesty and excitement of the day. The pipes can be played to welcome guests on arrival, as the bride arrives, after the service to announce the couple or during the formal reception.

Keith Davis
As a Piper, I am asked to play on the happiest and the saddest days of my client’s lives. I take that obligation very seriously and strive to create the most appropriate effect, adding to the importance and memories of the day, while not overwhelming them.
Pipe Major Roderick Deans                                                      
Scotland
Pipe Major Roderick Deans strives to provide excellent piping for weddings and other events whether it be in Edinburgh, the Central Belt of Scotland or further afield. Clients enjoy not only the Scottish music, but also the very best in traditional Scottish entertainment.
www.roddythepiper.com

Piping Connections                                                      
Scotland
Piping Connections is a professional and reliable company which specialises in providing only top quality Scottish Bagpipers for special occasions. Our pipers can play at any events, which in the past have typically included Weddings, Funerals, Burns Nights, St Andrews Day Celebrations, birthdays, Hogmanay celebrations and Corporate Events. Whether you are planning your wedding, or a corporate event, think of Piping Connections for an experienced and reliable piper.
www.pipingconnections.com

Wedding Bagpipes                                                      
South East, East Anglia, East Midlands
A Scottish Piper will help you celebrate your special day with a touch of the Highlands. See the splendour of the piper in full Highland dress and enjoy the sound of music from the glens and lochs of Scotland at your wedding in England. Want to give your guests a special welcome as they arrive for your wedding ceremony? Would you like to have your own personal piper for the day? Do you want to be piped in to your wedding meal as your friends and relatives applaud?
www.weddingbagpipes.co.uk
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Bagpipers are becoming more and more popular at English weddings. As a bagpiper of 15 years experience I find that many people who book me to play are unsure of what the role is of the piper at a wedding, when it is necessary for him to play and what tunes are suitable. This article briefly summarises what is traditionally expected.



The Ceremony

The bagpiper traditionally pipes guests in and out the ceremony playing medleys of traditional Scottish marches including Scotland The Brave, Maries Wedding, The Barren Rocks of Aden, The Green Hills of Tyrol and Bonnie Soldier, etc. It is also traditional but not always custom for the piper to pipe the bride down the aisle, maybe play during the signing of the register and then pipe the newlywed couple out of the ceremony. In my experience the bride has always had a tune in mind for being piped down the aisle and that tune has generally been Flower Of Scotland. If I’m asked to play during the signing of the registar it almost always Flower of Scotland, Amazing Grace, Highland Cathedral or The Skye Boat Song.



During Photos

The next point of call for the piper is to have him playing during the signing of the photos (usually in the background). Traditionally what the piper plays is at his discrepancy and will include medleys of marches, jigs and reels to entertain guests with.  It is often required of the piper to pose in several photos, usually just with the bride and groom and any photos of just men wearing kilts.



The Wedding Breakfast

The piper is not always required to play at the wedding breakfast but if he does it is traditional for him to pipe in the guests and then pipe the bride and groom to the top table and be presented with a whiskey for doing so. The tune he will pipe the bride and groom in with is usually one that will get guests clapping. Scotland the Brave never fails or the Black Bear and neither does more jiggy numbers such as Cock of the North and The Glendural Highlanders.



Article provided by Ed Arnold www.yorkshirebagpiper.co.uk