Pre-Ceremony Music

My quartet said they do 30 min. I looove your idea of skater boi. The older people will have no idea and think it's just lovely, but your friends will love it!!

Lol thanks Getting excited to be a Mrs :-) I thought maybe it was just a crazy idea in my head but glad someone likes it. My friends would definitely get a kick out of it for sure!

I did all modern songs in a sting version for my preceremony - all of them were from the Vitamin Sting Quartet though... My fav was Lady Gaga's Bad Romance!!! we used it for our ceremony too... I walked out Journey's "don't stop believin'" and our recessional was "any way you want it"! haha I loved it!

I'm gonna have some atypical songs too. I think it's a fun way to infuse some personality but it's still subtle.

I amso lucky that my husband is an amazing musician. I walked down the stairs/aisle to a piano ballad he wrote for me when we first started datig in 1999. Then we walked out to another one of his piano ballads. We even used his music for the slide show I put together.

30 minutes prelude music is typical while guests begin to arrive....

Aside from Vitamin String, any other groups you can name that do this? I feel like I've exhausted the Vitamin String reserve.

I'm actually doing something a little different. I found this beautiful Spanish guitar CD from Tagret called "An Evening in Madrid." It fits perfect because it's really elegant and sort of not your average pre-ceremony music. I'm also half Spanish, and my husband plays beautiful Spanish guitar music, so it's great.

Plan to start the music 15-20 minutes prior to your ceremony time, but have about 40 minutes of music prepared. That way, you don't have to worry about running out or looping back if things don't get started on time!

I found a CD at Party City that has about 12 instrumental songs on it. Including the wedding march, Canon in D Major, Sinfonia in F Minor, etc.