Are you afraid of your wedding music?
Planning the music for a wedding ceremony—especially your wedding ceremony—can be a daunting task.
For some, planning a church wedding ceremony can be especially frightening. You probably feel more intimidated than if you were planning something not as formal. A church wedding comes with so many requirements, traditions, and expectations, including music you might not know anything about.
Don’t let it be more complicated than it needs to be!
With a little help, it won’t be so bad. If you don’t yet have a copy of the checklist that comes with our church wedding music how-to guide, the information below can help you get started. But the checklist has six pages of detailed things to keep you from forgetting to do (and the guide explains it all and provides lots of tips). All this will help make your ceremony music a joy-filled and memorable experience! [Read the full article…]
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Not starting your planning early enough to accomplish everything is the biggest cause of wedding music stress.
Church musicians I’ve talked to report that too many couples wait too long to contact them about wedding music arrangements.
One or two months before the wedding is very late to be starting to talk about music and does not leave couples with many options.
For more on making arrangements for wedding music, see these articles on meeting with your church and your church musician.
You’ve got a lot to do
From the couple’s perspective, this is completely understandable. It’s easy for couples to be preoccupied with other wedding day details. There is a lot of work to do. [Read the full article…]
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This article is written by guest author Robert Cruz, pianist, organist and choir director. I appreciate him taking the time to write it for you!
Since a wedding ceremony in a church is first and foremost a worship service, it is very fitting to include hymns as part of your ceremony music.
Many wedding rites allow for the use of hymns at various points of the ceremony, often as the processional/recessional or interspersed with the readings. The lighting of the unity candle, if included in your wedding ceremony, is another appropriate point for a hymn. [Read the full article…]
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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…]
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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…]
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