Slide, Grind, Shuffle or Hustle. (ipod video) Discover How to Choose Your Wedding Day Music!
No commentsBy Mike McCoy
Your wedding music is the sound track for the most important day of your life. Although songs like, Reasons, Three Time A Lady, Why Have I Lost You, and If You Think You’re Lonely Now - Wait Until Tonight, Girl, are all great songs, they are terrible songs for a wedding!
The music of your wedding day serves to set the tone and create the mood that will speak of the love you have for one another. If you are the bride there is a good chance you have dreamed of this day for most of your life. If you are the groom this day starts the beginning of the rest of your life. Either way it’s your day! Everyone else is a witness, fan, family member or hater! So, pick the music that YOU love and want to hear!
That being said, there are some boundaries, or at least some different elements of the wedding ceremony and reception that you need to consider. The venue often dictates what is appropriate and allowed to be played during the ceremony.
Usually, weddings held in places of worship require that the music be on their list of approved songs. However, if you present the lyric of the song to the pastor or official, they might approve a secular song for your ceremony. A great example of this is can be found on the Wedding Day! project by international recording artist, E. Walter Smith.
Even though it’s a secular song, many Unity Candles around the world were lit to Smith’s I Do, which has been approved by the U.S. Pastors Association for use in spiritual weddings.
Time seems to stop when the bride begins to walk down the aisle. It’s one of the main highlights of the wedding. The ambiance that the music creates for the bride should allow her to feel as if she is floating down the aisle. Every emotion that she has ever dreamed should come to life. The song chosen for this moment will be the musical bed on which this memory will rest forever.
After playing songs by E. Walter Smith like First Dance for your first dance and Little Girl for the Father Daughter dance, the music and entertainment at the wedding reception represents the ultimate in creative song list design. One of the first steps in this process is to make a ‘play’ and ‘do not play’ list (DNP).
Unless you want country, hardcore heavy metal or rap, you will need to make your choices clear to your DJ or band. This will be worth its weight in gold when your guests make requests, because it will be easier for your musicians or DJ to say, No, if the song is on the DNP list.
Luckily, music is an aphrodisiac and makes people feel good. If presented correctly it will inspire lots of laughs and happy memories. After you picked your the DJ must play this song list, don’t forget to choose some songs that everybody knows. At some point they will all want to show off their version of doing The Bride Slide to We Married.
Slide, Grind, Shuffle or Hustle? In my opinion, choose all of the above. It’s a celebration! Every bride and groom needs music to set the tone of their wedding day. E. Walter Smith’s Wedding Day!
Precious Moments provides music for the most important parts of their wedding ceremony. As they choose music for the Unity Candle, Entrance of the Bride, Father Daughter Dance or their First Dance, this project is an excellent solution.
I offer four original songs for a wedding, one of which, I Do, has been endorsed by the US Pastors Association for use in spiritual weddings. (Ask any bride how difficult it is to get a secular song okayed by her pastor.www.YourWeddingDayMusic.com
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