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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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Keep Your Wedding Music In Touch With RealityHere’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…]

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Wedding Disasters 2: Lessons From Stories of Wedding Music Gone WrongWho doesn’t love a good disaster story?

When it comes to wedding disaster stories, I like them because there’s often a lesson that can be learned. And when there’s a lesson, some good can come from what may have been an awful experience for those involved.

In that spirit, here’s another wedding music disaster story. From the lesson come three specific tips you can use in your wedding planning.

The Story

At the wedding ceremony, no one provided the musicians with a copy of the wedding program.

By itself, this wasn’t a big deal. But if the musicians had seen the program, one of them could have noticed that the bride had switched the location in the ceremony where the vocal solo was to be sung. [Read the full article…]

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Last-Minute Wedding Music Preparation TipsHere are tips based on my experience that will banish stress from your wedding day final preparations. At least stress caused by music. I can’t do anything about the rest of your wedding day.

I know that many of you with 2010 weddings are in the final stages of preparations, especially those with weddings in the coming month!

So I thought I’d focus on final preparations (for wedding music) in today’s article. I’ll point out what you should be taking care of in the final weeks before your big day. [Read the full article…]

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Should You List Ceremony Music in Your Wedding Program?

Wondering whether to list your ceremony music in your wedding program? I’ll help you decide. This article explains when you should and when you might not want to list your music. It also has tips to help you with how to list music!

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7 Reasons To Get Excited About Wedding Checklists

Let’s face it, checklists aren’t the most exciting part of planning your wedding. But using a checklist for your wedding music planning can save you lots of time, energy and stress. Here’s how.

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Here’s What to Do Next If Your Wedding Musician Doesn’t Have the Music You Want

What do you do if the musician doesn’t have the music you want, what’s next? Here are some tips on how to get around this obstacle & find the music you are looking for.

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How to Survive Being Hopelessly Behind in Your Ceremony Music Planning

How far along are you with your wedding ceremony music planning? Are you like many couples and feeling hopelessly behind because your wedding date is so close? If your church wedding is less than 2 months away and you don’t have musicians and music finalized yet, you’re not alone. Here are tips for maximizing your very limited remaining music planning time…

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Overused Wedding Music Is Not The Bride’s Fault

Couples often ask their wedding musicians for overused music choices. But this may be because those are the only choices the couples know! Here are some tips for how musicians, particularly church musicians can more effectively serve the couples turning to them for help in preparing meaningful ceremony music.

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