The First Dance
September 26th, 2008 @ 2:29 pm by Miss Pinot Noir
Mr. PN and I don’t have “a song” and there is no particular song that we relate too (at least not something appropriate for a first wedding dance). I listened to dozens of songs trying to put together a list of possible choices. After narrowing it down to about six songs, I presented the list to Mr. PN, and he made the final decision. We will be dancing for the first time as husband and wife to Songbird by Eva Cassidy. I had never heard this song before searching for wedding dance songs. I think the song is so beautiful and it gives me goose bumps whenever I hear it!
Music To My Ears
August 21st, 2008 @ 6:18 pm by Mrs. Canary
Music was a task that Mr. Canary took full ownership of, since he loves music and it’s his passion and hobby. He spends about three nights a week out checking out new or local bands. Initially we had considered a band, but after much thought, we decided to go with DJ Gaza after we had heard some of the mixes he sent us. It was like he raided our iPods and CDs because there wasn’t anything we didn’t like. And ultimately, we wanted to hear our favorite songs in their original arrangements and not as a cover by a band.
DJ Gaza was great to work with. We only met once and corresponded throughout the entire process by email. He made sure that the music would work with the flow of the entire event and had an uncanny knack for reading the crowd– which was important for a Sunday wedding.
When it came time to create our play list, as usual, we deferred to Google Docs and created a master spreadsheet with the following categories:
- When?
- Artist
- Song
- Notes
Music is my Boyfriend—I Mean, Fiance!
August 13th, 2008 @ 3:32 pm by Mrs. Pomegranate
I thought I’d share with you a little bit more about how Mr. Pom and I came to be—as it ties in to the meaning behind what we’ve chosen to give to our guests as favors. Both Mr. Pomegranate and I are huge music fans with very eclectic tastes. With Christmas approaching a mere week and a half from the date we met, we decided to exchange very simple, inexpensive, but meaningful gifts.
Our challenge was to pick our Top 50 most favorite songs of all time and make an autobiographical play list on Rhapsody - which we swapped on Christmas Day. This was an extremely hard project—a 50 song limit made for slim pickings for me and I was rather skeptical about the message I wanted to send him, especially in regards to song lyrics, as we had just met each other! However, to this day, this remains one of my all-time favorite gifts ever received from ANYONE. EVER.
I have Rhapsody To Go service and I love it.
Marital Music Madness
July 9th, 2008 @ 6:02 pm by Mrs. Pomegranate
Since we’re having our ceremony at the top of an Olive Hill, we will not be able to have a DJ play our wedding music - so we’ve decided to go with a string quartet. Last weekend we had the great pleasure of attending a free audition for the Mersonacta String Quartet. I was a bit skeptical because their prices were extremely reasonable compared to some of the other local vendors, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Image via Mersonacta String Quartet.
I’m not sure if it had anything to do with the heat (it was 109 degrees outside), but we were very lucky as for the first 45 minutes or so, we were the only ones there! It was like a personalized concert just for us - so much fun. In between each song, we were asked what we’d like to hear and what our musical tastes for our ceremony will be. Both FH and I prefer a non-traditional ceremony and really enjoyed hearing selections from their atypical song set.
Ukelele Dreams
June 20th, 2008 @ 10:24 am by Mrs. Gingerbread
When we were sitting at LAX waiting for our flight last month, this older man started playing the ukelele. He played for a good 45 minutes and received round after round of applause from other travelers. Until that moment I never realized that I have a profound love for this instrument. If he’d been playing at YVR (that’s Vancouver International airport), then I might just have begged him to play at our reception. Oh and by the way, there aren’t a lot of hits when you search for ukelele musicians on Craigslist in Vancouver. I’ll just have to settle for the prerecorded stuff.
I adore this version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. I think it would be rather hard to do our first dance to it, but wouldn’t it be cute for cake cutting?
What song will you play while you cut your wedding cake?
From the First Mixed CD
June 19th, 2008 @ 3:53 pm by Mrs. Gingerbread
Back when Miss GB 2.0 was first wooing me, she sent me a mixed CD that she named “Warm Bodies & Cool Sheets.” Pretty smooth, eh? 
Now that we are trying to compile our reception playlist, I went looking for that CD. I found the case that the CD came in, which luckily had the songs listed. Miss GB 2.0 went heavy on the Nina Simone so she’ll definitely have a prominent place in our wedding. The Nina Simone portion of the CD had Do I Move You, Seems Like I’m Never Tired Lovin’ You, In the Dark, & Turn Me On.
Oh and here’s the first song from that CD.
Out of Character
June 19th, 2008 @ 3:03 pm by Mrs. Hummingbird
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.
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We Will Still Need A Song
June 18th, 2008 @ 5:01 pm by Mrs. Hummingbird
Over the course of a relationship, two people change each other. They share their loves and their personal experiences and through these exchanges, their personal opinions and tastes are altered. As I’ve written before, Mr. Hum and I have shared a lot over the four years we’ve been together and I think that this kind of sharing has been for our better. We’ve introduced each other to and influenced each other’s opinions about things like food, video games, literature, tv and movies and it’s been great.
However, one area where our tastes are vastly different is music and I think, no matter how much exposure we have to each other’s CD collections, this is unlikely to change.
Basically, we sit on two ends of the spectrum. Mr. Hum has very specific music tastes which lie in either the spastic ska style (think along the lines of Less Than Jake and Goldfinger) or the “I am woman, hear me ovulate” genre (Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan are a couple of the big figureheads).
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Walking Down the Aisle… To Feathers
June 5th, 2008 @ 3:36 pm by Mrs. Flamingo
When it came time to choose the music I walk down the aisle to, the task wasn’t easy. I looked at the usual bride entrance songs and there wasn’t anything that I truly loved… they just weren’t me. Plus, I wanted to choose a song that both Mr. Flamingo and I loved. It’s a really special moment and having a song we love will make it even more special
After an endless amount of searching, I finally found it. I will be walking down the aisle to Forest Gump’s (Feather Theme) by Alan Silvestri. Mr. Flamingo is the one that had introduced me this song. He would listen to it all the time so I thought it would be perfect. I love this song so much and just listening to it makes me all teary eyed.
Here is the song:
Is anyone else incorporating music from movies into their weddings?
Karaoke Down the Aisle?
June 3rd, 2008 @ 5:42 pm by Mrs. Penguin
We put off picking processional music till the very last minute of planning! I’d always wanted a musician to play an instrumental version of our first dance song for my walk down the aisle, but I couldn’t bear to sink another few hundred bucks into a musician to play for less than an hour, so we opted to choose music for our DJ to play as we walked down the aisle. Because of this, I gave up the instrumental aisle song.
BUT! Lo and behold! Itunes carries a huge selection of Karaoke music! Some songs sound pretty electronic, but I lucked out and our first dance song, “Only Hope,” by Switchfoot, was on the list…and not only was it on the list, but it sounds beautiful! The song is very long and boring, so I edited down the music to a little over a minute and left all the juicy parts in. Amazingly, it’s not the slightest bit cheesy at all! Have a listen…
Itunes Album: “Karaoke: Sing a Greater Hope”
Song Title: “Only Hope”
What is your walk down the aisle song and why did you pick it?
