Will your wedding ceremony music be background filler or the soundtrack to your most-important moment?
Too many couples don’t put much thought into their wedding music
Sadly, this is often the reason I hear for couples not putting much effort into their ceremony music: it should be nice but it’s really just background “filler”—its point is to cover up silence.
Maybe the bride will put some effort into her processional, but that’s about it. Everything else can be chosen by the musician with the instruction to “play something appropriate.”
Try a better approach to your wedding music
What’s wrong with this picture?
What’s wrong is that it ignores music’s great and unmatched ability to express powerful emotions.
It can express emotions well beyond the capability of even words. That’s why it’s so universally used in great celebrations.
What does it say about a couple’s approach to their wedding if they consider an element that most use in great celebration to be nothing more than a way of covering up silence?
What does it say about a couple’s approach to their wedding if such a great celebration in their life doesn’t deserve music that expresses how they feel?
Make it personal
What I mean is: If you pick your music and put thought into it, it reflects you and will be very personal.
If someone else picks it, then it won’t reflect you at all and certainly won’t be personal.
It may still sound nice if the musician does their job, but it won’t have any connection to you.
Does your wedding deserve great music?
So my question for you is this:
Isn’t your wedding worthy of expressing the great joy you feel?
Of course it is! And there are many ways you will express your great joy: You will have a beaming smile on your face. You will put great effort into even the smallest details. You will spend hard-earned money not in extravagance, but in expressing how very important this moment is to you.
So why do some couples stop short then when it comes to music—which can perhaps communicate this great joy more powerfully than anything else?
Why do some couples take what is a powerful universal means of celebration and think its only purpose is to cover up silence?
Here’s a challenge
I have a challenge for you.
Make your wedding ceremony music the soundtrack to what will be the greatest celebration of your life to this point! Don’t let it be anonymous noise that blends into the background and will be forgotten as soon as it is over.
Work on it such that when you or your guests look back on that day years from now, the uplifting music is one of the things they remember for having put smiles on their faces.
Help achieving the challenge
The steps to do this are not impossibly difficult.
I know that you may not know anything about classical or church music. I know that you may not be entirely sure how to go about taking music more seriously. I know that you’re already busy with plenty of other wedding preparations.
That’s why I’ve filled this site with wedding music ideas and tips to help make this celebration distinctive and memorable for you. I’ll work to help make it a less daunting task but still one that has wonderful results!
Will you accept my challenge?
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