If you want to include a musical instrument, such as a violin, in your church wedding ceremony, you may be wondering how much music to have the musician play.
Should the musician play the whole ceremony? Instruments add a wonderful accent to a ceremony and help make it a personal and memorable event, so should you use them for everything? You’ll be paying him or her, so you might as well get all you can, and then you won’t need the church’s organ or piano, right?
Not quite.
In this article you’ll learn how to answer these questions. [Read the full article…]
“Do I have to use classical music for my church wedding ceremony? Why can’t it be the music that I listen to?”
I wrote in an earlier article about using classical music for your church wedding music. That article explains what it means for music “to be appropriate” for use in a church.
This time from a different angle
This time, let’s look at it from the “But I don’t listen to classical music!” perspective. After all, classical music doesn’t have the audience it once did. This impacts wedding music planning because it’s very easy to discount it as irrelevant. [Read the full article…]
Would you let someone else pick your wedding dress or choose your bridesmaids and groomsmen?
Of course not!
It’s your wedding
You also wouldn’t let someone else choose other wedding details. It’s your celebration and you want it to reflect your personal choices.
You make the decisions about other aspects of your wedding because they’ll make the event more personal. [Read the full article…]
It’s Wedding Music Unveiled’s birthday…but you get the gifts!
To all you readers: THANKS!
Please join me in celebrating our first anniversary.
It’s been a great year
In this first year, we’ve published close to a hundred articles on this blog, launched a wonderfully successful wedding music guide and just last month, brought wedding music coaching into the online world – a first as far as I can tell!
I hear time and again appreciation for Wedding Music Unveiled as the only source for real church wedding music advice.
Countless couples have
- had their wedding ceremony music planning simplified
- saved time
- have found music ideas they’d never have found otherwise
- and most importantly, had wedding ceremonies with memorable and distinctive music that they’ll remember forever!
There’s more to come
It’s a thrill to be helping so many people!
I’m working on exciting ideas for this next year. But I’d also love to hear from you – I’d like to know what you would like to see. Leave a comment or send an email. I read them all.
How I got started
Wedding Music Unveiled started when I decided to walk away from an engineering career and try to find a way to help people (and maybe even put my musical experience to use).
I hope you agree it’s been worthwhile!
Let’s celebrate!
I can’t throw a party for my readers, but here are two other ways to celebrate:
- For the rest of July, Wedding Music Unveiled’s church wedding music guide is $10 off (starting today). No discount codes, no rebates that have to be mailed in or anything complicated. I’ve kept it simple and just dropped the price by $10 for the rest of the month.
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Hi! A short post today. I just want to ask you a question:
What’s the biggest fear you have in planning the ceremony music for your church wedding?
I want to be help in any way I can. I want to make sure I’m in tune with your concerns!
I already know that some of you feel intimidated by classical music. I know that some are afraid of planning music for a major formal occasion. Others don’t know anything about music and are intimidated work with musicians. Still others just don’t know what needs to be done and are afraid missing something important or screwing something up.
So what’s holding you back? Please leave a comment or send me an email at dave [at] WeddingMusicUnveiled [dot] com
I’m also interested in hearing ways you’ve overcome these fears. Your comments are always welcome and appreciated!
If you want to include a musical instrument, such as a violin, in your church wedding ceremony, you may be wondering how much music to have the musician play.
