Wedding Blog

If I told you that we booked our ceremony musicians only 7 weeks before the big day, would you call me a slacker? Well…. so be it! It was one of those things that got swept to the side early on in the process, and we just kept pushing it off until the last minute. We could never get a confirmation as to whether or not the organ in the chapel was really in a good working condition, or if the grand piano would be around during the summer (school ends in June… so who knows?), and we waited around for answers instead of just moving ahead.

In the end, we decided that the organ must be bad if no one knows of the last time it was used, and that if we banked on the piano being there and it magically disappeared, then we’d be stuck with a keyboard and we didn’t want that! Classic wedding panic set in and I went to work trying to find something that would work and wouldn’t break our non-existent musical budget.

I must admit that my main criteria was “pretty music” (sounds very much like my flowers, eh?) so I tried to figure out what that actually meant. In the end, I realized that minus a full orchestra or quartet, my preference went to a classical guitar and flute duo. Somehow I could just hear the echo in the chapel, and I got the magical little flutter in my heart when I listened to a wedding demo in front of Mr. Lemon. Thanks again to craigslist, we were able to book this duo for 90 minutes for $400. I thought it was a reasonable rate until I discovered that the flutist (also a sax player) charges $300/hour just for his services if you book him through the local talent agency. Well that made me smile just a little bit more!

Now it’s time to choose the songs for the ceremony… and hopefully we won’t be slackers on this task! Does anyone have any suggestions for wonderful music for a guitar/flute duo?