How to Plan Your Wedding Music
The music at your wedding ceremony or reception is essential to creating the environment. You plan the cake, dresses and tuxedos, but the music requires just as much time and attention. You need to hand select the songs that will be played to celebrate your wedding day.
- Set up a time for you and your fiancé to talk about the wedding music. It is important to work together to pick the best songs. Your fiancé might want songs that you had not thought about.
- Ask family and friends to make recommendations for songs they would like to have played. You might ask the mother of the groom to pick the song for her dance with her son, or talk to a grandparent who remembers a song played on his or her wedding day. Songs make memories.
- Begin writing down all the songs you want played during your ceremony and your reception. The ceremony list will probably have no more than three songs in addition to the Wedding March (Here Comes the Bride). The reception list should be at least 100 songs.
- Write down the important dances to have at your reception. Of course, there is the bride and groom’s first dance together as a couple. Then, you may have the entire bridal party dance to a song. A father and daughter dance and the mother and son dance are important moments you won’t want to miss. Don’t forget to have a Dollar Dance. This is a fun way to get a few more dollars from your guests. It also allows everyone some short intimate time with the beautiful bride or handsome groom.
- Choose some fun mixes for the reception. The Slide, the Cha-Cha Slide, Mony Mony and Celebration are all classics everyone loves. Your reception would not be complete without The Chicken Dance and at least one Polka to get the crowd moving.
- Share this list with the DJ or person in charge of the music. If you choose to play your own music, you will need to download these songs to an iPod, MP3 player or other computer program.