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Incorporating Your Wedding Promise & Courtship In The Wedding Cocktail Hour Music

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-A grooms serenade to his bride -A brides serenade to her groom -A poem with musical accompaniment -A song-dedication -A pre-husband/wife choreographed courtship remembrance dance If you think the courtship is over after the wedding ceremony you are mistaken. Courtships in a marriage are forever. And what better way to start than during the Wedding Cocktail Hour. Love never dies; it gets louder. After all the wedding ceremony regalia there is nothing wrong with vocally proclaiming again ones love for each other. Hence a musical serenade by the groom to his bride or vice-versa is a fantastic idea. Pick your favorite song, the musical key you feel comfortable with and practice it a couple times and then you are ready to perform it. Remember, love never dies, it gets louder. And why not with a lyrical serenade to each other? If one person of the happy couple is not comfortable with singing then perhaps a poetic interlude with musical accompaniment, Thes...

Nylon Wedding Guitar Or Steel String Wedding Guitar: Any Wedding Can Have Lilacs Or Roses!

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Do you like a nylon guitar sound for your wedding? Do you like a steel string guitar sound for your wedding? It depends if you like roses or lilacs. To be honest with you, its all a matter of taste. Your taste. No one else. If you like it, then IT WILL be great at your wedding. If you really want the bottom dollar reason for nylon VERSUS steel string; it is all in the arrangement. By that I mean it depends if you like how the tune sounds on nylon or steel string. On average, classical music is played on nylon guitars. Why? Its been arranged that way. If you go online to You Tube and search for your favorite song you can actually find different arrangements on that one particular song. There are many jazzy arrangements on your favorite classical song. Sometimes, its arranged in a special style, sometimes its a Readers Digest condensed style, sometimes its done for two or more entertainers. Sometimes all of the above...

Charleston’s Wedding Industry Means Local Musicians Have Their Cake, Eat It Too

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Abigail Darlington Email Facebook @A_Big_Gail Feb 17 2016 2:00 pm   Regina Ferguson studied the handwritten lyrics in her notebook as she worked out the chords on the piano last week as she prepared a few new songs for an EP she hopes to start recording next month.    Between her part-time job at a juice shop and playing weddings and special events, it’s pretty rare that the singer-songwriter finds the time to sit down and work on some of her own music. But she doesn’t seem to mind. Without the special events to play around Charleston, she probably wouldn’t be able to afford studio time in the first place.    Read this fantastic article here:  http://tinyurl.com/zpym8bw