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…]
If you just can’t find the right ceremony music for your wedding or you’re incredibly busy, you may be tempted to just ask your musician to pick something for you.
Don’t worry. All hope for having memorable ceremony music that reflects you is not completely lost (see Music That Reflects You) if you decide to do this!
But there are a few things to think about before you ask to make sure you actually get results you’re looking for (and not simply offloading a task to someone else).
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I hear this sad story over and over again:
A couple thinks wedding ceremony music will be a piece of cake. They wait until a month or so before the ceremony and then approach their church’s musician to see if he or she is available (or they start looking for outside musicians).
They quickly discover there’s a lot more to do than they thought.
Combined with everything else they’re already working on, they become completely stressed out. There’s got to be an easier way to plan wedding music. [Read the full article…]
Wondering how you should list your ceremony music in your wedding program?
First, ask yourself whether you really want to include the music. There are perfectly good reasons both to list it and not list it.
Reasons to
Reasons you should consider listing your ceremony music: [Read the full article…]
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Do you feel swamped by wedding day preparations? Are you afraid that you won’t be able to find that perfect piece of music for your ceremony and that you’ll have to settle? Are music suggestions all starting to sound alike to you?
If you’re not entirely sure how you should be selecting music from your lists of ideas, I can help. Some people just stare at the list of music suggestions they have and at the list of music needed and just can’t get started. [Read the full article…]