Wedding Music Dilemma
Joe and I have not selected a musician to play at our wedding ceremony. I think this is because we're not going to have a musician play at our wedding ceremony, unless Mr. Boom Box counts. Mr. Boom Box is free, which live musicians (god bless 'em) are not.
Wedding music is tough. You always hard things like Pachabel's "Canon" during the processional, or just the trad old Wedding March (composer?). I wonder if this will work for us. What if we buy a bunch of cheap plastic melodicas and pass them out and encourage the guests to improvise a wedding march? That's ver avant-participarory. Sounds nice, but it would probably sound bad.
Joe and I like a lot of the same music, but ultimately we like very different music. Our main music crossover is easygoing 70s soft rock and early 90s shoegaze. Something makes me suspect that marching down the aisle to My Bloody Valentine or Gordon Lightfoot won't work, though.
At least we're not succombing to the employment of a wedding DJ. Wedding DJs bite ass. Here's my list of the least apprpriate but most often-played wedding reception songs.
1. "I Will Survive"
2. "Mony, Mony"
3. "You Shook Me All Night Long"
4. "The Chicken Song"
5. Anything from the "Grease" Soundtrack
6. Anything by ABBA
I like the idea of playing old standards. But not cliched ones. What a challenge! This will be like creating a mix tape for 50 very different people to enjoy.
Wedding music is tough. You always hard things like Pachabel's "Canon" during the processional, or just the trad old Wedding March (composer?). I wonder if this will work for us. What if we buy a bunch of cheap plastic melodicas and pass them out and encourage the guests to improvise a wedding march? That's ver avant-participarory. Sounds nice, but it would probably sound bad.
Joe and I like a lot of the same music, but ultimately we like very different music. Our main music crossover is easygoing 70s soft rock and early 90s shoegaze. Something makes me suspect that marching down the aisle to My Bloody Valentine or Gordon Lightfoot won't work, though.
At least we're not succombing to the employment of a wedding DJ. Wedding DJs bite ass. Here's my list of the least apprpriate but most often-played wedding reception songs.
1. "I Will Survive"
2. "Mony, Mony"
3. "You Shook Me All Night Long"
4. "The Chicken Song"
5. Anything from the "Grease" Soundtrack
6. Anything by ABBA
I like the idea of playing old standards. But not cliched ones. What a challenge! This will be like creating a mix tape for 50 very different people to enjoy.
posted by Lefty at 4:14 PM
1 Comments:
you forgot YMCA by the Village People. every god damned wedding i been to they play that junk... it sucked back then in the 70s and it sure as hell sucks bad now. if you do the wedding DJ route make him play some cool shit like Bauhaus or something. musically confuse your guests a little. they'll forgive you for it later.
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