Weddingbee Blog

I know what you’re thinking. This is just a blog; it isn’t a confessional.

No worries. I’ve been soap opera free for, oh, two years now. I don’t need a 12-step program at the moment. (Well, at least not for soap operas…)

But back when I was a 10-year-old soap opera addict, I made a very resolute decision about my wedding. I decided that I wanted to walk down the aisle to Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. That was what they played at Steve and Kayla’s wedding on Days of Our Lives, and after replaying it on the VCR 563 or so times, I was hooked.

Oh, the clothing horror of an ’80s wedding… (Source)

Read more…

Mr. Quiche and I are such “music” people, that I don’t trust leaving the song decisions up to a Jamaican DJ. We don’t want the same old song and dance (Electric Slide, Shout!, you get the point…).

The resort provides a Jamaican Mento band (I had no idea what one was, either!) as part of our general wedding package. I am glad that we’re going to have some Jamaican music for the ceremony, but I don’t want that to be the sole source of entertainment for the reception.
Read more…

Remember the secret life of Miss Champagne? In a nutshell, I’ve always been involved in the arts and music has had a huge influence in my life. So through my music experiences, I’ve been so lucky to work with some seriously talented folks. One in particular is our pianist. She’s unbelievably talented and I don’t think I’ve ever seen her have to look at a sheet of music—she just plays… I get goosebumps just thinking about it! Anyway, she’s agreed to play during our ceremony and she directed me to a website that has wonderful guidance for prelude, processional, ceremony, and recessional songs. We’ll also have a violin, so I was looking for songs that would fit for piano and a violin.

The website is My Wedding Music and it’s run by two musicians, the O’Neill Brothers. This site is so helpful because it actually allows you to listen to each choice, and recommends songs for each section of your ceremony.

There’s one other thing I love about this site—the celebrity song choice section!
Read more…

Music is a very important aspect of our wedding, and my life in general. I grew up playing instruments, and you may be surprised to learn that I’m a classically trained opera singer! So naturally, I’m finding myself to be very picky about our wedding day music.

From the moment Mr. Powder Puff slipped the ring on my finger, I knew I wanted guitarists for the ceremony. Relaxed, folksy, casual- perfect! We immediately contacted two guitarists who play for my church, and secured them for our date. Bing, bang boom!

Unfortunately, that was the only thing that was easy about our music choices. Let me tell you, we’ve agonized over my iTunes play list for hours, trying to decide what songs would be best.

Here’s the result of our hard work!
Read more…

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.

Source: George Callaghan

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.
Read more…

Do you want to know what’s been on my mind lately?

image source

Music. That’s right, sweet, beautiful music for our wedding, specifically for the ceremony. You see, music is REALLY important to Mr. Lemonade and me. Our first official date was at a concert, we go out to see live music at least once a week (we do live in the Live Music Capitol of the World, after all!), and Mr. Lemonade works in the music industry managing bands. In fact, our best man and one of our groomsmen both play in one of his bands, and we’re having live music at our welcome/birthday bash. We’ll also have two live bands at our reception. We feel pretty confident about the songs and decisions we’ve thrown around for these portions of the wedding weekend, but we’re seriously laboring over the ceremony portion.
Read more…

It’s hard to believe that my littlest sister, born when I was thirteen, is going to play the music for our ceremony. But as she’s grown up, she’s turned into quite the fine violinist, despite the fact that she’s still goofy.

(Striking a pose in a mini-archway at a Tokyo train station)

We asked her to be our violinist because we knew that she would play us anything we wanted, and anything she played would sound amazing. Plus, the fact that she’s my baby sister makes her contribution all the more touching and special!

For the prelude, she’s playing two pieces.
Read more…