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Your Wedding: Unique Music Ideas & Creating a Mood By: Loretta Legend  |
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Music adds a special, almost indescribable enhancement to any situation. Music is an audible representation of human emotions which when coupled with an event, can be used to bring an added dimension, heightening the experience for all who are involved. The next time you watch a movie; pay special attention to the music and how it is used to communicate emotions. That is exactly the type of music planning I am suggesting you consider when planning your wedding.
Think about your wedding ceremony. If you are to be married in a church, you will probably have an organ player. Before the ceremony the organ player will be playing some disconnected song that feels religious, but is most likely, unrecognizable. Then at the big moment when the bride approaches the aisle, the organ player snaps everyone to attention with a sudden an abrupt change in music, quickly beginning the traditional wedding march.
Now, let’s re-imagine that same wedding ceremony a different way, with a unique musical choice. You are to be married in a church. The organ is silent. Standing next to the organ is a lone violin player. His violin bow bobs through the air as your guests stair mesmerized by his playing ability and the beauty of the lone violin as the sound fills the interior church. The music is slow, yet there quick successions of notes that reoccur, heightening the atmosphere and cutting through the air like electricity.
Now it’s time for the reception. Let’s say the reception is being held at a fire hall. I myself have been to many fine wedding receptions held at fire halls. As seems to be the usual case, there is a DJ who is eagerly soliciting your guests for song requests. So you arrive at the fire hall. All your guests have been there for at least an hour. Most of them have already segregated themselves off to their assigned seating and have begun to drink, heavily. The door swings open and you enter the room to the half glazed look of your guests and Rod Stewart singing “Do you think I’m sexy?” As the evening continues you are additionally treated to such mood setting favorites as “YMCA” and “Old Time Rock and Roll.”
Once again, let’s re-imagine that wedding reception. It is being held at a fire hall. The limo pulls up to the entrance and you notice, no one is outside smoking. You open up the door and you can hear a faint sound of drums beating and horns. The sound gets louder as you approach and as the door opens you’re hit with the full on sound of an authentic salsa band and the loud applause of your guests who have been busy dancing and just down right felling sexy from the sultry Latin music. The band singer announces your arrival in Spanish which neither you, nor any of your guests can speak, but everybody gets it anyway, and there is another loud applause. You enter the reception swinging your hips and dancing into the evening.
The difference between these two wedding was fundamentally, in music choices. The problem with the music at wedding one is that it showed no sense of personality or identity, therefore the wedding suffered. The wedding could have still been fun and special, but it wasn’t all it could be.
The idea here is to let your imagination run wild. How about bagpipes? Chamber music? A 1950s big band? Elvis? Music can be used to set the mood you want to create. You can plan every moment to be unique by having a unique music accompaniment for the moment. Spend some time and imagine your wedding like it was a movie. What is the music you hear? What emotions are being conveyed and what mood is being created? Listen to the soundtrack of your wedding and then make it happen in real life. And it starts with making the right music choice.
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