Wedding Music

Your Parents’ Music

Years ago, there were very specific songs that couples were expected to, and were even required to use, for their wedding ceremony, whether the wedding ceremony was considered to be traditional or nontraditional. These songs are mostly what we would consider by today’s standards to be very traditional.

The music was typically time-honored, or of liturgical (religious) nature, and one wedding ceremony (for a given faith) was virtually identical to that of the next. The wedding guests could literally predict one song to the next. Well, times have changed.

That wedding ceremony of yesteryear, was, what we, as musicians, would consider to be an ‘easy gig’ from the musician’s standpoint, since we would only need to learn a very specific set of songs that would work with just about every wedding ceremony. Easy, yes. Stimulating, no. The song selections were all very predictable, and that was the norm.

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Whenever you think of wedding music, you automatically think of the wedding march and other traditional types of wedding music accompaniments. Whilst a large majority of people still opt for the traditional wedding music ideas, there is a new breed of weddings that is enjoying the power of music.

Traditional Wedding Music for the Ceremony

Wedding music is an absolute essential part of a wedding ceremony. Traditionally, music is played before the bride arrives and whilst the bride walks down the aisle. This music depends largely on the type of ceremony; with a traditional church based ceremony, the music is likely to be from an organ or keyboard.

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Even the most well planned best-organized wedding can fizzle out if the wedding music and the DJ are not good. There are thousands of good DJ’s and DJ wannabes out there. The solution is finding the right one. Choosing from among them will not guarantee you the wedding music that would add to the fun of the party.

Pick a DJ that you have already heard perform. You might have heard a great DJ in a club, a restaurant, and a hotel, at other wedding parties and celebrations. Your friends are also good sources of DJ’s because chances are you have the same taste in music as they have. When choosing DJ’s, do not shop around anymore because the best DJ’s are the ones you already have heard and liked.

If you haven’t heard a good one lately, your job becomes harder.

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