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Last Updated: Aug 7, 2007 - 6:38:55 PM |
Wedding music plays a significant part in every wedding ceremony. This makes every wedding day special especially during the focal point of the ceremony, which is the exchanging of vows of the bride and the groom. The wedding ceremony sits right at the heart of this momentous occasion and a great live music to go with this can certainly add a unique presence and excitement to the event.
Religious Wedding Ceremony
If you want a religious wedding ceremony, choosing the wedding music is not a very difficult task for you since the church usually has standards concerning this. Often, there is a choir that will be singing the hymns and the church organist will play various wedding music just like when the bride starts to walk down the aisle.
However, if you don't want to stay firmly within traditional guidelines, you can always talk to the officiating minister about your choice of wedding music. Just make sure that the music you choose is of a sacred nature and that it will be appropriate to the tone of service that will be conducted.
Civil Wedding Ceremony
Meanwhile, if you want a civil wedding ceremony like a garden wedding, there is a broader range of musical styles for your wedding music. You can choose romantic jazz, modern love themes, traditional folk tunes, and other romantic types of music that may possibly suit your style.
Aside from this, you can also hire live bands, musicians, or duos or trios to sing during the ceremony and not just be confined to a choir and choir organist. However, you still have to discuss this with the officiating registrar to make sure that the music that will be played during the ceremony will be acceptable.
Wedding ceremony music is basically secondary to the ceremony itself. That is why you really have to take time before deciding which music to choose. The wedding ceremony, whether it is religious or civil, will be more memorable if the appropriate wedding ceremony music is played.
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