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Anyone not have live church music?

  • 31-10-2010 12:30am
    #1
    random10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone chose not to have live music at their wedding. I've been to a lot of weddings where I wasn't crazy about the music. It's not a money saving thing it's just that I would like to walk down the aisle to pachelbels cannon and i can think of loads of songs and instrumentals that would fit into the ceremony. Would people think it sounded bad or was scabby not to have live music?


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  • #2
    bubbledoll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭bubbledoll


    I love it - Im the same as you - dont really like the music but like instrumentals. Let me know how you get on/go about it


  • #3
    Alliandre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭Alliandre


    I was considering not having live music either, but don't know how it would go down. It's mainly because there's certain pieces of music I want that a live band/singer wouldn't be able to recreate properly.


  • #4
    random10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭random10


    It's not actually for me my friend is getting married next year but it just got me thinking what I'd like whenever my day comes around!! Music is actually really important to me but as you say I don't know if a live singer could do my favourite songs justice. I'd hate people to think it was scabby though, I suppose if you choose your songs carefully. You could have it in the church booklet the reasons behind each piece or something, just a thought


  • #5
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    random10 wrote: »
    It's not actually for me my friend is getting married next year but it just got me thinking what I'd like whenever my day comes around!! Music is actually really important to me but as you say I don't know if a live singer could do my favourite songs justice. I'd hate people to think it was scabby though, I suppose if you choose your songs carefully. You could have it in the church booklet the reasons behind each piece or something, just a thought

    Try not to worry about what people think. It's your day, do it as you see fit.
    The wedding music doesnt really inconvenience anyone anyway (in that some things you may see fit to do may be awkward for people - like a wedding abroad)


  • #6
    dollybird2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭dollybird2


    I attended one wedding where the music wasn't live and it sounded terrible tbh. Now the church in question is a large, echoy one and while the sound travelled it sounded like a bad recording.
    Maybe see if you can play the music in the church and see how it sounds?


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  • #7
    sandra06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭sandra06


    hi i got married in july all my husbands family are musians so had some lovely music in church.had terrible trouble with priest about songs we chose .just check with ur priest before u deside what u want because they seem to only want hyms now ,and good luck


  • #8
    wet-paint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭wet-paint


    random10 wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone chose not to have live music at their wedding. I've been to a lot of weddings where I wasn't crazy about the music. It's not a money saving thing it's just that I would like to walk down the aisle to pachelbels cannon and i can think of loads of songs and instrumentals that would fit into the ceremony. Would people think it sounded bad or was scabby not to have live music?
    It's perfectly possible to have Pachelbel's Canon played live. Just because you live music at hte venue doesn't mean you have to have a singer. It's your day, a string quartet/trio/piano and strings are all easily arranged.


  • #9
    Madame Razz
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    random10 wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone chose not to have live music at their wedding. I've been to a lot of weddings where I wasn't crazy about the music. It's not a money saving thing it's just that I would like to walk down the aisle to pachelbels cannon and i can think of loads of songs and instrumentals that would fit into the ceremony. Would people think it sounded bad or was scabby not to have live music?

    I was at a wedding a while back and they had a CDplayer on the altar, and to be honest, it just didn't look right, or sound right; but then their music choice wasn't wonderful either.

    A lot of priests seem to prefer live music even tho some of them restrict the type of music that you can have.

    A trio or quartet of musicians work very well in a church setting, as a previous poster mentioned, and they can play pretty much what you wish. Pachelbel's Cannon is very straightforward and a wedding regular, so I'm sure that would be no problem to anybody that you would approach.

    Your priest would probably be able to point you in the direction of some suitable musicians for the church:)

    Best of luck with it!


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