Wedding Blog

Courtesy of www.cbc.ca. My music playlist has left me feeling the same kind of
disbelief Rob from High Fidelity experienced when he heard Marie DeSalle’s version of a Peter Frampton song.

Yesterday, after about four hours of fiddling about, I finally managed to nail down the song order for our iPod wedding reception. It required patience, a keen ear for transitions (I listened to the first ten seconds and the last ten seconds of just about every song multiple times) and a bunch of caffeine, but at the end of the long night, I felt really happy with it.

However, as I listen to it today on my iPod, I have to say, I’m kind of surprised with what ended up on there. Normally, I think of myself as kind of a music geek (my friend John and I used to compare ourselves to the dudes from the movie High Fidelity, except that we worked at a paint store instead of a record shop), but a bunch of stuff that ended up on our playlist is stuff that I normally ignore music-wise. Neil Diamond. Leo Sayer. Wild Cherry. Anita Ward. ABBA*. These are artists or bands that are definitely not my style, but putting them in the context of our wedding actually makes them palatable . . . dare I say enjoyable?

When it comes to weddings, weird tastes can often reveal themselves (has anyone seen the Man Stroke Woman sketch where the wife, who normally hates Chris De Burgh, becomes obsessed with her wedding band playing “Lady in Red” at her wedding?), so I want to know - what wedding thing that you thought you’d hate have you actually developed a fondness for over the course of planning?

(And because it wouldn’t be a Miss Hummingbird post if I didn’t include a tune for you all, here is the song that has been obsessively stuck in my head and that I’ve been dancing around the apartment to for the last week or so: Let It Whip by The Dazz Band. I dare you to not to do a little bum shake or a head bob in your chair to its catchy beat!)

* John’s lovely girlfriend Jenn once referred to the song “Fernando” as “Underground ABBA” so I was obligated to include it out of sheer respect for her amusing terminology.