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…]
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. [Read the full article…]
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. [Read the full article…]