How many other wedding ceremonies will yours be a copy of?
Hopefully, none!
Musically, how do you want your wedding ceremony to sound? Whether you want the most traditional of weddings or something more contemporary, do you want music that sounds just like many other weddings? Or do you want a wedding that reflects who you are, that leaves people thinking “wow, that was perfect!”?
All you need to create the latter sound for a ceremony is to find music that matches the moods you want for your ceremony, expresses joy in the way you want to express it, and isn’t commonly used.
Just how important is music anyway?
Is music really all that important? Why does so much thought need to be put into it?
In all the world’s great celebrations the world has known (Olympic ceremonies, coronations, inaugural balls, royal weddings, etc.), music plays a huge part in all of them and in each, the music was carefully planned.
Why? Because music has the power to evoke great emotions.
Think about your own emotional connection to the music you like best. It can be powerful, can’t it?
Contrast this with your reaction to music you don’t like and music you don’t even notice when it’s played in the background. Even music you don’t like stirs up emotions. Only music you don’t notice fails to stir up emotions.
So too, your ceremony music (that’s part of the great celebration of your marriage), can stir up powerful emotions. Unless you want your guests to sit emotionless through your ceremony, you probably want to inspire feelings of joy through music.
To do this in a personal way that’s uniquely yours, you need to put some thought into it. But fortunately, it doesn’t have to be difficult.
Don’t worry if you don’t know much about music. Don’t worry if the type of music you’re familiar with won’t work for a church wedding. Wedding Music Unveiled will help you get past that.
What’s important is that you choose music that you want to be heard, not what other people wanted heard at their weddings.
If your music reflects you, people will remember your wedding. You’ll get many compliments. But most important are the positive memories you will have!
The secret to your unique wedding
So how do you go about choosing music that is “uniquely yours”? Three simple steps:
- Decide to have a preference for music that is not overused.
- Understand your personal concept for the ceremony (how do you want various parts of the ceremony to sound)?
- Find music that fits this concept.
So, if you have a wide variety of high-quality music to choose from and are in tune with your concept for the ceremony, then the choices you make will reflect you and speak volumes about you!
For example, if you are looking for a processional, close your eyes and visualize yourself going down the aisle, in the church you’ll be getting married in, with your soon-to-be spouse at the front of the church waiting for you, with your family and friends watching excitedly.
Given a variety of pieces to choose from, the piece that generates the most positive emotional response from you is the piece that will best reflect you!
But if you choose a piece only because that’s what others seem to like or worse, if someone else makes your choice, then the choice doesn’t reflect you. It reflects them.
Don’t worry about trying to please others when choosing music. Instead focus on music that connects with you.
Wrapping up
We hope you recognize the role music has in creating your a distinctive and memorable wedding ceremony. We hope you realize that your wedding ceremony can easily be uniquely yours and you’re now inspired, starting today, to achieve that goal, with help from Wedding Music Unveiled.
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