Here’s something that should help you with your expectations for how your ceremony music will sound.
Here’s a small article from one of my email newsletters. It got some great feedback so I thought I’d share it with everyone.
Here’s the newsletter article:
Stay In Touch With Reality
It’s very easy to get caught up in all the excitement surrounding your upcoming wedding.
As you try to figure out what music you’ll want, you’ll likely hear many exciting performances of various pieces on wedding music CDs, on the iTunes Music Store and other sources.
You have to keep in mind that what you hear on these recordings may not be what you get at your church wedding.
The recordings were made in controlled settings with highly skilled musicians, orchestras, choirs or other ensembles, in either recording studios or churches with incredible acoustics. If the music is a recording of an organ, the organ is probably a large, well-maintained, and beautiful instrument. The combination of location, instrument, music played and musicians were all chosen to make for a wonderful-sounding recording.
I’ll try to put this delicately. Not every church has the fantastic acoustics, organ or musicians available that Westminster Abbey does. Don’t expect an 40 year old electronic organ in a carpeted church to compare with the magnificence of a world-class pipe organ in a large, stone church.
Even if your church has a great organ, great acoustics and great musicians, the music probably still won’t sound exactly like the recording. Things will sound a little different. Musicians have their own styles and interpretations.
So what can you do?
It’s fine to have high expectations. In fact, you should have high expectations.
But also stay grounded in reality. It can be all to easy for expectations to get out of touch with reality.
Be realistic when envisioning your ceremony, work closely with your musicians, but don’t lose sight of what’s important to you.
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