Wedding Blog

Last week, I began searching for the perfect tunes to play at the wedding. As I discovered, coming up with wedding appropriate songs was much harder than I anticipated as my CD collection was generally filled with more trendy than danceable discs.

So, after some research on my own and some of your awesome suggestions, I took to compiling what I have come to call “The Ultimate Playlist.” 1950s pop, 1960s soul, 1970s disco, 1980s new wave, I put it all together on one massive list and sat back, feeling satsified with all my hard work. However, after doing the math, I soon realized that I had done my job a little too well as I had ended up with about 10 hours worth of music.

As much as I hated to do it, it was time to start cutting. However, because I wanted to get Mr. Hum’s opinion and because I didn’t want to cut songs without hearing them myself (you never know when something’s going to work), I wanted to create a playlist with all our options and take a listen. But how do you do that when you don’t have all the CDs?

Happily, I discovered that this is possible with a website called finetune. It’s free to sign up and you can create a bunch of playlists with your favourite full length songs, so I spent part of my Sunday putting together 3 playlists worth of wedding tunes.

As we’re currently slicing through the 135 song playlist I’ve created, I have no final music news, but I figured I would pass along this little musical gem to you guys and see what you thought. For those who are currently working on their playlists, what musical tools/links have you discovered to help you on your quest for the perfect playlist?

(In case anyone needs help/is interested, here is the link to my finetune page. It has pretty much all my wedding playlist stuff and another playlist called Help, I’m Emo And I Can’t Get Up! which is full of a bunch of other good stuff.)