Wedding music mythbusting

Let’s talk about the two biggest wedding music myths. 

Myth number 1: Wedding DJs are less expensive than solo wedding musicians.

Reality: Wedding DJs are almost always more expensive than solo wedding musicians.

Myth number 2: MP3 players or CDs are an acceptable substitute for live music at your wedding.

Reality: It’s your big day and you and your guests deserve better than pre-recorded music. Here’s why:

01. A live musician adds class to any event of a deep and personal nature such as a wedding. It is associated (quite rightly) with sophistication, elegance and good taste.

02. A live musician closely follows the action during the processional, ceremony and recessional and adjusts the music to the flow of events, starting and stopping gracefully as required. Try getting a CD to do that.

03. There are small touches you might not even notice that enhance your wedding for everybody present. For example your wedding musician might play quietly in the background during lulls in your ceremony to cover the sound of nearby traffic. MP3 players aren’t that thoughtful.

04. During the prelude, just before your ceremony, live music gives your guests something to watch as well as hear. It also provides a unified and elevated mood as your guests all warm to the music’s message: the bride is nearly here!

05. MP3 players can and do break down or run out of power. Wedding venue in-house PA systems can be very poor; crackly and under-powered. The person you choose to operate the MP3 player may or may not be feeling the pressure of his big moment and blow it. These are all examples of problems a professional live musician makes go away.

Follow your heart when choosing your live wedding music. But, and it is a very big but, make certain you are dealing with a professional who has played at many weddings before yours. There is no substitute for experience in the field of live wedding music performance. If you would like your photographer to have shot many previous weddings and have great reviews, expect nothing less from your wedding musician.

Finally, consider this: traditional works. It just does. For example, if you think a string quartet would suit your wedding you are right; it’s a great idea. Quartets are classy and dramatic for fairy tale weddings.

Alternatively, live instrumental guitar music is atmospheric and subtle, but can also create a variety of moods, without ever diverting the focus from the wedding couple or the proceedings. Singers and bands are wonderful, but they can, albeit inadvertently, distract attention from the bride. The wedding music I play will never do that.

Your wedding guitarist is Damon Winter, B. Mus. (classical guitar), Dip. Contemp. Mus.
I make live wedding music easy for busy brides.
Email: DamonWinter@email.com for a free consultation and quote.
Visit: www.WeddingGuitarist.com 

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