When you're planning your wedding it's easy to assume that the cocktail hour can get along just fine without music, and it probably can. But music will elevate it to a whole new plane. And here's what great: if you're clever about it, it doesn't need to be very expensive. If you've had music at the wedding ceremony and or are having music at the reception, you've already paid for the first hour of the musician's time and that's the most expensive hour. If they're available, the extra hour will be cheaper. So, are you more interested in hearing more from your string quartet that enriched the ceremony, or are you ready for a little easy listening from the band that's going to rock the house later?
This is a great time for something like
- Classical guitar
- harp
- quiet vocals
- Jazz trio (very quiet drums, if at all.)
- String Quartet
- Woodwinds
Play music you like: And the music you have them play can be from a wide variety of music. As always, the most important thing about the music is that you like it. So, if you hate new age music, don't let anyone play it. You don't need to choose everything that gets played (especially if you want the band members to be talking to you at the end of the evening) but have a couple of favorites pop up. There's nothing wrong with using a song in the ceremony (when you say your wedding vows?), at the cocktail hour and at the wedding for your first dance. All of the musicians can give it a slightly different feel, but it will start to work its way into people's memories. Then it's not only you that's reminded about how much you love one another when you hear it. Every one who was at your wedding will stop and think, wait, I wonder how our friends are doing with their marriage when they hear "your" song.
Play music from your families' histories: This is also a great time to have your parents' favorites played (providing they're not going to be out having pictures taken the whole time!). But you want them to feel comfortable. Did they have wedding songs? What were they? Why yes, I have heard "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" done by a string quartet. How about your grandparents' songs if they're going to be with you. Or remember your sibs and your friends and the music that was played at their weddings.
Just remember this is quiet background music. People are needing to talk about how beautiful you looked, how wonderful the ceremony was, and how really perfect, perfect, perfect the promises you made to one another. They need to mingle a bit, either to catch up with old friends or to meet new. This is music to become community by. This is music that's going to help your marriage thrive. (And it's a good deal! Perfect!)
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