Johnny Gonzales The Wedding Ceremony Cocktail Hour Reception Guitarist

  Carol Dodge of Glastonbury, Conn., was walking with two friends recently when she brought up a nagging question: “My husband’s partner’s daughter is getting married. What should I give?” One friend then asked, “What have you given in the past?” Mrs. Dodge described her mental calculations for the recent wedding of her niece. She had estimated the cost of feeding five family members at the reception and then added more cash as a gift, and decided to give $1,000, she said. “What?” her friends said, gasping. Mrs. Dodge, clearly bewildered by their reaction, asked: “Wait, what are you saying? Is it too little? Is it too much?”   Read More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/fashion/weddings/wedding-gift-cash-grab-whats-too-little-whats-too-much.html?_r=0    

My childhood friend Kathryn is marrying, and she asked me to read a poem at her wedding. I took to this task, at first, like an overachieving English major, yanking heavy anthologies off the shelf and leafing through physical books. Then I reverted to normalcy, typed “wedding poems good” into Google, and emailed a bunch of people to see if they had ideas I could rip off. Entire article here: http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/08/5-kinds-of-poems-you-hear-at-weddings.html #

Why not make it really unique?” After launching her idea a few months ago, Ms. Price has used burlap and silk leaves to create an outdoorsy wedding shower invitation , and corrugated cardboard, with miniature trees Read entire article here: http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/12/31/315152/Mother-Daughters-Launch-Creative.aspx

They say diamonds are a girl's best friend, but when it comes to engagement rings, some couples are bucking the trend — and forgoing jewelry altogether. Read entire article here http://www.today.com/style/couples-are-sealing-their-eternal-love-ink-tattoo-engagement-rings-t61221 Johnny The Wedding Cocktail Hour Guitarist www.johnnygonzalesmusic.com

Christmas is a very special time and when it comes to asking for her hand in marriage your potential bride-to-be may sincerely reflect her heart decision if you can make a few of her Christmas Engagement wishes come true. These ideas are just a few things that can make a date out into a once in a lifetime event. Here are just a few points to consider that may elevate that moment and her decision into the heavenlies. Gentlemen, here are nine things from her perspective that she would like to hear and see when being asked to be married at Christmas time. 1. That he will give a Christmas gift to my parents or/guardians first and inside the gift ask them for permission to marry me. 2. That he will respect my parents wishes to marry me. 3. That he will look me in the eye when he asks for my hand in marriage. 4. That he will wear that handsome Seasonal clothing article or put on that cologne accessory that I gave him. 5. That he will not combine my engagem...

I Could Have Danced All Night is the joyous exuberance from discovered love. Written from the monumental musical My Fair Lady and released to the silver screen, lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Lowe conveys joy beyond comprehension at loves revelation.

The Best Christmas Present Engagement Ideas   Create a jewelry Christmas tree for her with engagement announcement   Gift Wrap engagement rings and put it under the Christmas tree Have carolers sing for her on your behalf asking for her hand in marriage Cook intimate Christmas Turkey dinner and for desert put engagement rings next to her favorite cake or pie. Compose the 12 Days of Christmas asking for hand in marriage as one of the days. Take her Christmas shopping for a favorite coat she likes and put her engagement ring in one of the pockets, gift wrapped of course with her name on it. Whether she says yes or no buy her the coat. Go on Facebook and create a special Engagement page, invite all of your friends and coordinate a time where they all are online at the same time as you ask for hand in marriage. Make her a special Christmas wreath with her engagement ring at the center of it. Ma...

A beautiful love song with a Christmas theme from Beatle George Harrison. A Christmas wedding song.   Tell me what you think.   Johnny

Winter bridal music with a Russian flavor. Played on an acoustic guitar. Here is one of my favorite soundtrack themes from Dr. Zhivago. To the winter brides!

Here is a Fall wedding poetic thought for this image: A New Melody For Their Fall Wedding Road “ Coupled, their hands share inner thoughts, Fall wedding seasons of air, An old rail harmonizes, a new road melody in love and flare. Passing by the fallen, debris and obtrusive things through life, His hand trembles not, nor loses his grip; solely, caressed, and cared by his wife.” How is your Fall Wedding going, will it be a very thankful giving of love? Would you want to be married, weather permitting, near an iconic railroad? Share with us your Railroad wedding. Johnny Gonzales www.johnnygonzalesmusic.com

A wedding poem for the Fall.     The Bridal Path Laid Autumnal Golden Leafed   There is a path in Autumn shaded for the bride and groom Away, cloistered, its scenery impressions A path of lite golden leaf for two. Daylights afterthought forests awakened love profound Aside the light and soul elemental Embanked affinities abounds. Like diamonds from the sky he bestows dove lockets en-wreathed Her bridal path lays Autumnal Golden leafed. By: Johnny Gonzales  Who is your favorite Fall poet? What is your favorite engagement jewels? Wedding Cocktail Hour Guitarist www.johnnygonzalesmusic.com

Leaves of brown and greyish mirth, Pillows and covens her bridal feet Texas Autumns bathes away The tidal rushes of Summers' heat With cool sparse grasses Shading temperance and slowing pace Rustling breezes sunlight round His voice branching; swaying; a loving gaze Surrounding leaves blush and fall with them Upon his feet; into her eyes; love in Falls' ascent, Genteel hands warm their rest enclose While her Autumn strolls the woodland folds By: Johnny Gonzales - Wedding Cocktail Hour Guitarist www.johnnygonzalesmusic.com Where is your favorite Fall wedding rest? Is your Fall wedding ready to tie the knot?

Perfect Parties: Warm up your fall wedding reception When it comes to choosing the perfect month to have your wedding ceremony and reception, there is really no wrong answer, although most college football fans would advise you to steer clear of football season. As long as you have the right venue, décor and menu selection for the season, you will have a perfect wedding..... Excellent ideas for Fall Weddings. Johnny

In downtown Waxahachie, TX, these beautiful places are the right spot for wedding music, celebration and of course, the bride and groom.

The Fall bride exhibits more to the heart than the eye. In this poem the Wedding Cocktail Hour Guitarist, Wedding Guitarist can vary a colorful palette of music and tones. First, the poem. “ Endearing sunlight warms From the Autumnal brides Their song a splendor in grace, Like lush green grasses of time Each wedding chapel pure, Invites cushioned clouds in skies of blue Fall beckons the harvest bride Unveiling, ripened and true .” by Johnny Gonzales Allow me to share some musical thoughts on this Wedding poem. “ Endearing sunlight warms...” begins the wedding reception music celebration into a breaking song of new awakenings. The mood is joyous, upbeat and refreshing. Music that can be played should incorporate songs that modulate the key with free and easy rhythms. The feeling here is warm sunlight on our face, soothing and assuring. And from this it can easily be placed into the next Autumn line, “ Their song a splendor i...

  “ The Autumn bride is a fragrant song, Who waits in line, flowers a throng. Our journey paved, some stony some smooth, Seasons abridged bursts apple red and orange hues; My true-tone is my dear, Our Fall station rings wedding love anew.” By Johnny Gonzales The song of the Autumn Bride is a bouquet of melodies performed during the Wedding Cocktail Hour. In each passage of the above poem a visually stimulating group of compositions are within reach and attainable. From classical to jazz to popular to original songs every artist performer can easily exhibit a poetic rendition for the poem cited. With just a few considerations from this writer, let us find some artistic gems and excavate them in the Wedding Cocktail Hour. “ The Autumn bride is a fragrant song” touches a musical theme of sweet love. Here the lyrical musical content can be anything related to the sweet love of the bride. A simply popular song can be used her...

  A Fall Wedding, as lovely as poet Joyce Kilmer's “Trees” inspires relations . Hence the word, “ inspiralations ” can be attributed to the inspirations of beautiful covenant relations found in weddings. Let us enjoy her beautiful poem. “ Trees” I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer Here are a few inspiralations for a musical Fall Wedding Cocktail Hour as lovely as a tree. A tone of warmth and echo can begin as your Wedding Cocktail Hour entertainer chooses their song. Often slow but swaying steady as each ...

  It is two minutes to midnight and The Right Reverend Dr. Toowillager has just found out that not only does he have to play the wedding ceremony music, but his “5000 Finger Concerto” that was to be performed by his star virtuoso pupil, Bartholomew Covington, has now been canceled due to hardening of old bubble gum in his braces and he has been rushed to Black Cat In The Hat Emergency. Is the bride and groom panicking? No, not at all. They have all the confidence in The Right Reverend Dr. Toowilleger because he is a master of performing the most memorable, heartfelt feelings and celebrations that all brides want . He has the chops to do it himself if need be. But most of all, because he has in his Ipod, his workbook called, “A Thousand And One Hair-Razing Themes for Gothic Weddings.” But, thank goodness he has the 6 most commonly asked musical themes for the Gothic Wedding Cocktail Hour Reception. And they are the following: The Candelabra Them...

As the harvest yields up its fruit and the earth rejoices, so too do hearts yield up their love and the bride and groom rejoices. Its the beginning of Fall and as everyone travels out and about there are pumpkins comforted here and there in their lounge of hay. Rainbow corn are starred above the wares of merchants. And the air is whisked with the smell of spiced scented apples and cinnamon; and somehow through all the crowds at the local shops and markets, everyone is sensing something magical in the air. That magic can be found at the nearest wedding occurring this time of the year. Especially when the new love-hearts are in that celebration time known as the Wedding Cocktail Hour. It is romance at its fullest. And with the help of poet Robert Louis Stevenson and your Wedding Cocktail Hour Guitarist Johnny Gonzales its time to find inspiring and romantic wedding ideas. “ Romance ” “ I will make you brooches and toys for your deligh...

You can always find inspiration for weddings from the great poets. Here are some ideas to inspire your Autumn wedding experience from the genius poet, John Keats. “ Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hoo...

"Hear the mellow wedding bells- Golden Bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight!- From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells Oh the future!- how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells- Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells- To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!" excerpt taken from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" Once, a long, long time ago there was always a public notice that a wedding was underway and had began its celebration, signaled by the ringing of the bells. Today's modern Fall wedding couples should take careful note o...

Believe it or not Fall weddings are totally in and totally hip. No longer is it only attributed to rural Americana but its shades of colors, taste, smell and texture is now cool metroburbia. With the recent blood red moons inaugurating the 2015 Fall season many colorful influences of the autumnal season are associated with Fall weddings. These Fall weddings can also be associated with the traditional celebrations of antiquity such as what is commonly known as Ingathering or Harvest Home . Celebrating the endtime harvest with singing, shouting, dancing and elaborate bough decorations of their bounty, the participants of this celebration were thankful for the fruit of their labors and looked forward to the next springtime season. So too, are todays Fall wedding couples thankful for the fruitful relationship they have shared and are thus moving forward into their next loving season together. These new seasonal Harvest celebrations are musically associated by m...

There is love in Halloween. Not just love for the macabre or the current B-movie gore flick, but love eternal in the shadowy moonlit night of each other’s arms. I ask you, was it Gomez Addams that swept Morticia out of her deep crypt or was it the dark endless unrest they saw in each other’s eyes that compelled them to entomb their love forever? Perhaps it is the same question and answer that assures most couples today that choose to cross the nuptial abyss on Hallows Eve. I believe it is the tell-tale heartbeat love from the harvest moon. There is no uneasiness of the eerie coincidences that lead to their encounter or any shocking eye opening ghoulish features of each other’s future in-laws. As like other dark romances portrayed in theatrical presentations such as The Phantom of The Opera, or the nuptial reanimations of Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein, Halloween weddings are true to the warm red blood of this body that enshrines our soul. So during this celebration l...