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I knew, from the minute we got engaged, two things regarding the music: I wanted a harp and violin duo, and I wanted to walk down the aisle to my favorite video game song. Luckily, Mr. Fondue had no issues with this. After a bit of searching, we found a violinist who works with several harpists, and was willing to learn a couple songs for us.
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For the wedding party processional, we are going with the standard “Canon in D”. We tried to resist it. We tried to find something else that we liked just as well but wasn’t as popular. But we failed. We just love it too much.
For my processional, we chose “Aria di Mezzo Carattere” from Final Fantasy VI. If you are familiar with the game, this is the opera piece that Celes sings when she is disguised as Maria. It’s one of the best pieces of music in a game ever, and Celes is my all-time favorite character from my all-time favorite game, so it made sense to go with this.
The recessional is also a piece from Final Fantasy. It is the main theme that is heard at the end of a lot of the games in the series. In Final Fantasy IV, it was the prologue music.
Sorry to any Final Fantasy purists out there (*cough* Mr. Fondue *cough*) that these clips are both from the Game Boy Advance versions of the game and not the original Super Nintendo versions.
How did you decide on your ceremony music?
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I absolutely love the violin! I love the harp too! What a great combo!!! Great Choice in music!!! 
( I also love Canon in D)
I am desperately looking for a violinist for my ring ceremony, and it is proving to be such a difficult task. Amazing that you found one who would interpret these songs for you as well. Once they are played on such beautiful instruments even your grandparents will be asking where the pretty music came from
Wow, I can’t believe how much the recessional music actually *sounds* recessional! Who’d have thought? Great choices! I love them. You are so awesomely geeky
We’re doing a film theme, so one of my all-time favourite film scores, Alan Silvestri’s Father of the Bride, is just MADE for the processional, and then we decided on the PM’s love theme from Love actually for the recessional. Nooo idea about the bridal party yet!
While I’m not a gamer, my younger brother and his friends are in an AWESOME videogame and anime music cover band called The Spoony Bards. You can download some of their music from their website: http://www.spoonybards.com. I love “The Legendary Theme” and “Small Two Pieces”. Hopefully they can play some instrumentals at our cocktail hour. =)
That is awesome! FI and I love the FF games (and the music in them!) too, and we are using ‘At Zanarkand’ from FFX for my processional. It’s so beautiful!
A friend suggested going to a local college looking for musicians. They may even be able to get some sort of school “credit” for playing for your wedding. It can be a win-win situation
I feel ya on the Canon in D — love it, hate that its so popular, using it any way! I totally love that you’re mixing it up with a VERY personalized song!
mad props on the FF theme music, my husband was so excited He knew both of them from across the room. He also recommends the FF VII main theme- piano version from ocremix.org .
Final Fantasy 9 is my favorite game of all time so I think this is the coolest freaking idea. Ever! We are having a Spanish guitarist at our cocktail hour and then at our ceremony. We haven’t even discussed music really but maybe I can sneak a FF song in there…
Where did you find your harp/violin duo? I saw some listings on Ashleysbrideguide but I’d like to have one with a recommendation!
i love your choices. and the final fantasy brought me back to junior year of college and watching my ra and his friend play it. good times.
i’m not engaged yet but i know i want to walk down to canon in d. on my way to work one day, i passed by a quartet and they were playing it and i got chills. that’s definitely a good sign that this is my song. lol.
We used FF music, too! We used “Melodies of Life” from FF IX for the sponsors, “Eyes On Me” from FF VIII for the processional, and I walked down to “Rydia” from FF IV. They were played by talented family musicians.
ocremix.org is an awesome site. I’d love to walk down the aisle to the Overland Theme from Zelda Ocarina of Time, but I think I still have to work on FI for that. We are entering the reception to Star Wars though, likely the Imperial March 
wow that freaking rocks.
i had wanted a live guzheng (chinese horizontal harp like instrument - i have one and i used to play it) for our ceremony music, but finidng a musician in my area turned out to be too much of a pain. but i’m totally picturing its sounds to the mario bros. theme. 2 cool 4 skool.
we ended up using the dj playing the standard shiz, which is fine coz i don’t even recall the ceremony music. wait, no, i do… we walked back up the aisle to ‘i wanna grow old with you’ by adam sandler
Thanks!
@cestrada: That is awesome! I wonder if we could get them at our local con.
@Christine: We saw the touring “Dear Friends” concert in Atlanta a few years ago and that was one of my favorite pieces the symphony played!
@Sarah: I sent you some more details.
@joyjoy: Too cool! I would’ve picked some more pieces, but I didn’t want to overload our musicians with new stuff.
@historykitty: We are also entering the reception to Star Wars music, “Throne Room” from the end of episode IV.
Oh wow, this takes me back! My brother and I played the early Final Fantasy games on our Super Nintendo (which we combined our money to buy) and I always loved Celes/Maria’s operatic aria. I think it will be gorgeous on harp/violin. (A lot of the music from that game is just awesome.)
I too wanted to avoid Canon in D for the processional, but Mr Y told me that he really loves that song. Since he very rarely gives input on the wedding (without being asked), we’re going with it.
so i read this post to my fiance and it spurred about a 30 minute discussion of music from final fantasy, complete with clips from his ipod playlist. you kids and your games are too cool for me!
that is so cool!
I am so glad that you finally found someone to play with the violinists! I hope they learn each others playing styles so that the ceremony goes off without a hitch, but I’m sure they will have no problem doing so.
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Miss Fondue, Nashville
Age and Occupation: 27, Technical Analyst
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Network Admin Student/Senior Game Advisor
Engagement Date: December 25, 2007
Wedding Date: May 2009
Blogging Since: September 14, 2008
Venue: Ravenwood Golf Club
About Me: I’m your average computer geek marrying a gaming geek and trying to find a good balance of elegance and geek chic in our wedding. I adore The Sims, Nintendo, cosplay, (good) music, TiVo, theme parks, and our two crazy felines.
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