Reading/special song during ceremony Nix it or.....

Since our wedding is in the church we plan on having a Biblical reading, but we aren't planning on having an singers. I just don't feel the need. I don't want my ceremony to be more drawn out than necessary. All of our ceremony music (processional and recessional and a minute long instrumental for the candle lighting and signing of the marriage document) will be played through the church sound system from my iPod...our usher will be manning it.

We're having two readings and my friend will be singing a song. We always wanted to the readings, but I thought it would be fun to have my friend sing, since she is amazing.

But you don't have to do anything, if you don't want too. It all depends on your style and what's important to you. To me the ceremony should be a reflection of you and your FI.

Personally, I've never been to a wedding (please note: I'm not religious) where they sang and I was like, "Oh, that was a GOOD idea!" - usually it's a bad singer, or a terrible song, or whats up with these professional singers dressing like middle school sub teachers?

You don't "need" readings either, and we'er having them just to mostly appease his parents (though I love the actual readings) and to extend our very short ceremony.

We had 3 readings aside from the officiant (all done by different members of the wedding party). We tried to book our college male acapella group to sing a song or two during the ceremony but it was the beginning of the school year and they hadn't had tryouts for new members yet. We got married on our college campus and our wedding was right after the first week of classes. I think it would've been fun because they are young and could've done a modern love song to make our ceremony more upbeat, but no one really knew about that idea so they didn't miss it.

We have 2 readings but only one is biblical. Personally I always get kind of uncomfortable when people sing at weddings. I find it awkward for some reason.

We are doing 2 readings during the ceremony, so we're not having any songs during the ceremony. We have a string trio for the ceremony music. My close friend and BM is a beautiful singer, her degree is actually in vocal performance lol. However, I am not having her sing because I want her to be with me in the moments before we go out, not singing.

My mom's best friend has 3 daughters, one of who has a beautiful voice and performed for 4 years in an acapella group at her college. I am going to ask her to sing with the string trio during the prelude.

Nope. our ceremony is planned to be the most simple thing ever. mothers and grandparents aren't walking in the processional. small wedding party. we both wrote words we are going to read, our "i dos" are literally just "jenna, do you take josh to be your husband?" "josh, do you take jenna to be your wife?" exchange rings. pronounce and kiss. let's party! lol.

most people don't like to sit through a long ceremony and they'll appreciate it being kept short. i'd rather get to the reception sooner.

Most of our weddings have readings woven through the ceremony (they are mostly non religious ceremonies without prayers, communion, etc.....) I always feel that singing during the ceremony feels a bit awkward. We still keep the ceremonies to 20ish minutes.

A friend sang in the middle of our ceremony while we awkwardly looked at each other for 3 minutes -- I don't recommend it.