Wedding Music

Wedding music is such an integral part of your wedding day. It helps set the mood and tone of your ceremony, and can get the party started and lasting at the reception. With so many choices (i.e. DJ, instrumental, band, Ipod, etc) you really need to be aware of the formality of your wedding, your budget and the tone you want to set. You wouldn't want to see an Ipod at a black tie wedding of 400 people, nor would you want a 12 piece classical band at a 20 person barnyard wedding.

For us, budget was a big factor in choosing our wedding music. We looked into live music for the ceremony and it was just to expensive for the whole 20 min the ceremony was going to last. Even a DJ was a little more money then we wanted to pay for such a short amount of time. For our ceremony, we ended up getting one of our musically inclinded guests to put together a track of music we selected for pre-ceremony, during the ceremony and afterwords. It ended up working out perfectly and was an inpensive way to have music encorporated into our ceremony.

Since our ceremony music was DIY, I did a lot of research into music suitable for ceremonies. We wanted traditional music, so it wasn't to hard to get a list of music together. For the pre-ceremony music, we used some upbeat "love" related songs to keep the mood light.

For our reception, we went with a hired DJ. Again, we werent into having a band, and after researching an Ipod reception, we felt it would just be too much work. We loved the idea of having people being able to request songs and having the DJ interact with the guests and change up the music according to the mood. I don't remember exactly how much we paid for our DJ, although I do know we got an amazing deal as he charged us less then $800 for 7hrs of music and he also was our master of ceremonies. We went with Pauls Music Service, and for what he charged, compared to many other Dj's he did an amazing job. (He doesn't have a website, but if your interested in using him please contact me and I will forward his phone number).