Do 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.
Not random
Having the music played in some random order may or may not be effective at setting the mood.
A reminder: In a church wedding, music is so much more than just setting mood. Music in a Christian church wedding is to be worshipful, but I’m not looking at that aspect in this article. In fact, this tip can be used for church weddings and non-church weddings alike.
After all, does a club DJ play random tracks all night? If so, nightclubs could just put an iPod on shuffle and forget about a DJ!
Put thought into getting the order just right
But no, a good DJ carefully chooses the music throughout the night, making sure that the intensity builds and by the end of the night, the dance floor is packed and the place is crazy.
This would never happen without the DJ putting lots of thought into it.
This same logic applies here, except that the goal isn’t to get people dancing. And fortunately, you most likely only have between 5 and 25 minutes of music to be concerned with.
Build the anticipation and joy
So here’s my suggestion: try to make your prelude wedding songs a progression of music that builds the anticipation and joyful moods of your guests.
It’s much easier than it sounds
Fortunately, this isn’t difficult and is something your subconscious will handle for you very well. You don’t need to over think it and you don’t need to be a musical expert or some sort of great classical music connoisseur to successfully pull this off.
Let your ears be your guide.
Just as the courses of a carefully prepared meal aren’t served randomly, but instead build excitement for what is yet to come, have your prelude music build a joyful mood and make your guests eager for the start of the ceremony and one of its highlights: your bridal processional.
What about the talkers?
You may be thinking: But don’t people just talk during the prelude music? Why spend time on this?
Well, yes, unfortunately there is a disrespectful habit of some people to ignore music and talk away right up until the ceremony starts.
Because of this, many now have the idea that the purpose of prelude wedding songs is only to cover up this background noise.
But that isn’t the purpose!
So don’t think that just because some people may show disrespect that you shouldn’t bother making an effort.
Instead, make your prelude music so spectacular at setting the mood that they won’t want to talk!
It’s your turn to express your thoughts
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I hear all the time how people don’t want to bother with such detail. But sometimes the same people will work out every last detail of their reception table settings or what their reception DJ will play.
I’ve also heard wonderful compliments from amazed and astounded guests when the music was carefully crafted.
What do you think? Please share your thoughts in a comment below. It will be most appreciated!
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