Planning Your Wedding Music In 3 Simple Steps
Planning Your Wedding Music In 3 Simple Steps
Your wedding day can involve a lot planning and this takes know-how. Understanding how to plan much of your wedding will come naturally to you but specific things such as wedding music can feel like a daunting prospect. This short guide will help you take the steps in choosing your music wisely, music which will completely enhance your wedding day and leave you with nothing but happy memories.
Create A Playlist
Take out your laptop straightaway and write down musical ideas. When you have thought of the first 20 or so favourite songs which call to mind, create a playlist in your iTunes (or equivalent) and sync it with your phone or iPod. Repeat this process as many times as you see fit. Generally sift through songs and, without overplaying them, start to consider songs which are meaningful to you and which you can see working beautifully in your wedding ceremony. This could take days, a few weeks or several months but it gives you a chance to construct the musical layout of your ceremony in a way that you have complete control over. Try not to leave it to last minute or to someone else to choose your wedding music for you.
Watch Performances Of Your Music Ideas
Once you feel that you have some solid ideas for wedding songs/music worked out, watch a performance of them on YouTube. This will help you imagine them in the context of your wedding day and will help you decide if certain music is or isn’t appropriate. Different wedding ceremony types (church, civil, humanist) will be suited to different kinds of musical choices. The size of your congregation and venue could have an impact on which music works best. Perhaps you may even have a family member or friend who could to offer to sing with the main musicians and so watching performances of your music ideas helps you realise these possibilities.
Discuss With Your Wedding Musicians
Don’t be shy on this one! Wedding musicians are not only happy but obliged to help you with choosing your music and many brides/grooms can be bashful in asking for help. Once you have steps one and two from above in place, it does help hugely in giving your musician an accurate idea of what kind of music you’d like even if you’re not fully happy with your own ideas. You musician can suggest musical placement (whether it’s entrance, lighting of candles, recessional, etc.) and timing if nothing else and so you should utilise him.
These three simple steps will hopefully give you a little extra confidence in figuring out the musical process of your wedding and leave you with one less thing to worry about. Now, go stick in those earphones and get planning!
