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Ceremony Music Planning

How Much Instrumental Wedding Music Should You Have?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…]

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church wedding music-does it have to be classical“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…]

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A DIY Approach To Your Wedding MusicWould 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…]

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A Tip For Choosing the Order of Your Prelude Wedding SongsDo you want your prelude wedding songs to be a jumbled collection of pieces thrown together?

Or would you like them to sound as if they were crafted together for the sole purpose of making your wedding ceremony an occasion to remember?

Here’s a tip for you that will help make your prelude music work together to help achieve the goal of setting the mood for your ceremony and culminate in its start – your procession down the aisle. [Read the full article…]

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Give-Me-5-Minutes-And-I’ll-Give-You-11-Great-Wedding-Recessionalsfeature_articleSpend just a little time reading this and you’ll have ideas to end your wedding on a perfect note that will leave everybody in just as joyful a mood as you!

In the first part of this article, I offered tips about choosing your church wedding recessional music. This time, I’ll give you some specific music ideas. [Read the full article…]

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Keep Your Wedding Music In Touch With Reality

Here are a few quick thoughts on making sure your wedding ceremony music plans stay grounded in reality. You might choose your music based on recordings, but there are several factors that can keep music during the ceremony from sounding like the recording. I don’t want you to be disappointed.

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A Sample Wedding Ceremony

Here’s a sample wedding ceremony and a review of how this one was set up. I hope the example will help you as you plan your church wedding ceremony.

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Wedding Disasters 2: Lessons From Stories of Wedding Music Gone Wrong

Who doesn’t love a good disaster story? Unfortunately, sometimes disasters happen at weddings, too. Fortunately, there’s often a lesson that can be learned. Here’s a wedding music disaster story and 3 tips you can use to make sure your wedding ceremony goes smoothly.

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3 Reasons Wedding Music Planning Isn’t As Easy As You Think and What To Do About It

Wedding music planning isn’t as easy as couples think it will be. Here are 3 surprises you might not expect when planning your music and how to avoid them.

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How Much Wedding Prelude Music Should You Have?

How much wedding prelude music do you need for your church wedding? This article dispels a common myth that you need up to 45 minutes of music and instead provides practical advice for your wedding ceremony.

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