Vancouver Weddings: How to Choose the Right Music for Your Wedding
If you’re in the throes of planing a Vancouver wedding right now — like so many spring and summer bride in Vancouver – then one of the many details you’re probably thinking about right now is picking the right music for your wedding.
What follows here is a guideline for how to set the stage with the right music for your perfect wedding.
Wedding music for formal weddings:
If you’re having a truly formal Vancouver wedding, it may take place in a church, in which case your wedding ceremony music will likely be organ music. If you’d rather not have organ music, or if you’re not having your ceremony in a church, then the best music for your formal wedding ceremony is often either a single violin or a string trio or quartet.
For a formal reception, you may want to keep a violinist around for interludes such as between dinner and dessert. Your string quartet could stay for the dancing, or you could move to live or canned music of your choosing at this point.
Wedding music for informal weddings:
The real beauty of an informal wedding is that your choices can be very expressive of your personalities. And the wedding music is something you can have the most fun with!
Whether you want to “rock out” down the aisle to your favourite classic rock tune or techno vibe, this moment can truly reflect who you and your new husband are. If you have family or friends who play instruments, this might be a great way to showcase your relationships with them as well.
For your reception (dancing), you could go for a cost effective option like loading your iPod with your favourite tunes and just hitting “play” for the evening. You could hire a DJ and provide him or her with specific instructions as to your musical tastes. Or you could hire a live band that again reflects your personalities.
Wedding music for creative weddings:
If you really want to get creative with your Vancouver wedding, think about what you want your message to be at your event. If you are celebrating harmony, for example, give shakers and cymbols to guests and have them provide the “music” for your walk down the aisle! Have friends with duelling banjos or bagpipes get you and your hubby down there in a hurry. Have your new husband or a best friend sing a moving solo.
If you are musically inclined, you could even incorporate music and/or singing into your wedding vows!
For the dancing portion of your event, find some friends who put on a great show and hire them for the night! Haul out the karaoke machine or have a singing contest!
Or load up your iPod with tunes that mean something to you. Remember, though: If your music is too “out there” it won’t get anybody out on the dance floor.
There are all kinds of ways to get creative with the music for your Vancouver wedding — during the ceremony, the reception, and the dancing component of your wedding.
Enjoy planning your special day! For more Vancouver wedding planning tips and for in-depth critiques of over 150 wedding venues in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, go to www.myperfectwedding.ca.