The Canon and you
While the Pachelbel Canon in D is certainly a beautiful work and has countless arrangements making it very flexible, it is overused. Not just overused, incredibly overused.
Wedding Music Unveiled recommends against it because of this. Music that is overused diminishes the personal nature of your wedding music by making it common with the music of so many other weddings. It’s too bad because it really is a nice piece of music for weddings.
If you are considering the Canon for your wedding, here’s a challenge. Try to find another piece of music, just as beautiful, that would express your wedding joy in a more personal way (a way not shared with tens or hundreds of thousands of other weddings each year). Classical music has hundreds of beautiful, melodic pieces that would work well for weddings. Many of these works may appeal to you and allow you music as unique as you.
Check out our articles with ideas for wedding preludes and processionals (here and here) or just look on our Music Suggestions category page for ideas to get you started.