Let’s talk about music again. For someone who only listens to the radio, doesn’t own a music playing device, and self-proclaims that she has bad taste, my wedding is going to have the most wide-range of kick-ass music ever!
For starters, the ceremony will begin with our bagpiper Evan and will also feature my Sister/MOH Big Eyes singing a song from the TV show, Smash. For the parents processional, we’re having this song by Sigur Ros—have you heard of it? Mr. Sword picked it (obviously), but I love it.
The bridal party is completely stoked about walking into this princess gem, (I say sarcastically).
This brings us to cocktail hour, which I have yet to talk about. I assume most people have their DJ’s play some sweet tunes during this hour of hosted bar and passed hors d’oeuvres, but we are lucky enough to have my talented future brother-in-law playing his guitar and singing instead!
FBIL frequently plays his music, both covers and songs he’s written at local bars and coffee shops and he’s really good. Not like, “Aww he’s good, he’s family so we just say that!” But good as in he’s a talented musician and I’m proud to welcome another artist into the family this coming June. 
Plus, I love the atmosphere that the live music will offer our guests during cocktail. This wedding has it all!
Sister Big Eyes and FBIL performing together at an outdoor wedding, aren’t they cute?
After cocktail hour ends we’ll have the grand march, followed immediately by the cake cutting, toasts and then dinner. After dinner it will be time for the first dances and then our Ceilidh band, The Gunn Slingers, will perform an hour of traditional Scottish music and led group dancing. Dear Sword Wedding Guests, BRING YOUR DANCING SHOES AND YOUR OPEN MINDS! I want to see everyone on the floor. I promise I’ll be the klutziest one out there. Seriously, I have zero idea of how I’m going to dance in my dress. Oh well, too late to worry about that now! The night will end with a rockin’ party atmosphere and our DJ playing mostly popular get down and dirty music with a few oldies mixed in for good measure. Phew!
The only thing I haven’t decided on is what to have the DJ play during the hour we have allotted for dinner time—does anyone have any suggestions? Our DJ is supposed to call us this week to ask for name pronunciations, so I can pass the information on at that time. The question is, what do you play during dinner when your wedding covers all types of music from princess movie themes to bagpipes to folksy love songs to Ceilidh music to today’s best pop?
(photo from FBIL’s personal collection)
What did you play during dinner? Anyone else having live music during their cocktail hour? Anyone else having a smattering of different types of music at their wedding?
This is awesome! What a fun treat for your guests. We won’t be having any live music (not in the budget), but if we were, this would be exactly the type I would want.
I’m thinking about playing our guests’ wedding first dance songs during dinner. The only down side is that it means people can’t dance to those, but we won’t have that many slow dances anyway. So maybe I just pick a couple of my favorites to use as slow dances and play the remaining ones during dinner.
We are having the exact opposite problem, we dont know how to get the party really started, we have about an hour’s worth of dance songs I’ve found on searches and from other bees, (just type in wedding playlist for a ton of results) we have the beatles, van morrison, etc then onto more popular dance songs out there right now, but- you should post your dance mx once you have it too! 
Our dinner music is solved, supposed to be a little more faster paced to get flowing towards the dancing music. We picked tsongs we liked, but couldnt particularly dance to.
I love the idea of live music for the cocktail hour! How fun!
We told our DJ during dinner to play Frank Sinatra/Michael Buble/The Temptations type music.. that’s the only direction we gave him, so we’ll see what he comes up with.
Your wedding sounds like it is going to be a giant party! We used the dinner to play all the music that we like, but can’t really dance to, which ended up being a lot of songs!
We’re using our dinner music to play all of our ‘inside joke’ songs with our guests, that might not get people dancing but that we know they’ll hear and appreciate.
Mrs. Sword, Chicago Age and Occupation: 28, Nanny/Actress Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Software Engineer Engagement Date: February 19, 2012 Wedding Date: March 2013 Venue: Embassy Suites Bloomington West in Bloomington, MN About Me: I am a true girly-girl originally from the great state of Minnesota and my fiancé hails from the beautiful country of Scotland. We met and fell in love in our favorite city, Chicago, and are having a blast blending our cultures for "A Highland Fairy Tale" wedding! We are truly a case of opposites attract in that he’s a world traveling introvert and I’m a social butterfly who is never too far from home. We both love hanging out with family and friends, fine dining, and laughing at ourselves. He drinks a lot of beer and I talk too much. We wouldn’t have it any other way!
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