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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/chFpFwoIgreCrJg3_Prx7bofGu4/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/chFpFwoIgreCrJg3_Prx7bofGu4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://weddingsongsandmusicideas.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wedding songs for your ceremony background music.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When guests arrive for your wedding ceremony, they should be greeted by a beautiful setting, a comfortable atmosphere, and appropriate wedding background music.  These songs are heard before the official start of the ceremony, which is usually keyed by the first processional, or the parents processional (which will be covered later here at Wedding Songs and Music Ideas).  Of course, Metallica and the Black Eyed Peas are probably not what you want to play here, but that doesn't mean you have to use music that will put your guests to sleep!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of people will go the classical route, playing string quartet or trio music from artists such as Bach, Brahams, and the like.  Another typical route would be piano, guitar, or some other solo instrument playing the same.  If this is what you have always dreamed of hearing before the start of your wedding, then go for it.  Many couples use classical for their ceremony music or have that solo instrument playing classical.  These are fine, but in today's wedding arena, people are spreading their wings and branching out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recently had a string quartet playing love song arrangements from the Beatles, Journey, and Dave Matthews.  of course, they needed to get the sheet music for these songs, but they did so for free, as an investment for their group.  There's also modern pianists, like Steve Siu, who recently put out his versions of contemporary songs from Toni Braxton, Josh Groban, and even Coldplay!  There is an electric harpist named Hillary Stagg that has some great pre-ceremony music on CD.  Another popular artist is Enya. I know, seems a little too early 90's but she's always putting out new stuff that works great for before the ceremony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, picking love songs, old or new, works well if kept at the appropriate level.  Just about every artist on the planet has recorded a love song so it shouldn't be too hard to find the 5 to 10 artists that work for you.  Give your list of 20 songs to your DJ or put them on a disc and you're ready to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wedding songs you pick for before the ceremony should reflect your music ideas, style and taste.  Don't be afraid to express yourself.  It is, after all &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;your&lt;/span&gt; wedding.  Choose your wedding songs.  Your music ideas.  Be yourself and your guests will love you for that!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2482671293434571275-3767959486140849087?l=weddingsongsandideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WeddingSongsAndIdeas/~4/w3vjq7BE4Gk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="related" href="http://weddingsongsandmusicideas.blogspot.com" title="Wedding Songs and Music Ideas For Your Ceremony" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://weddingsongsandideas.blogspot.com/feeds/3767959486140849087/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2482671293434571275&amp;postID=3767959486140849087&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2482671293434571275/posts/default/3767959486140849087?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2482671293434571275/posts/default/3767959486140849087?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WeddingSongsAndIdeas/~3/w3vjq7BE4Gk/wedding-songs-and-music-ideas-for-your.html" title="Wedding Songs and Music Ideas For Your Ceremony" /><author><name>Jimmy Loram</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14414860825225437591</uri><email>jloram@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="12638567681447565025" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://weddingsongsandideas.blogspot.com/2010/01/wedding-songs-and-music-ideas-for-your.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkIAQ3w9fCp7ImA9WxBRF04.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2482671293434571275.post-4323638905943674372</id><published>2010-01-05T13:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-05T14:29:02.264-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-01-05T14:29:02.264-08:00</app:edited><title>Wedding Songs and Music Ideas</title><content type="html">
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EFDFBoy-pQEoG0TZRKdci79BWPQ/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EFDFBoy-pQEoG0TZRKdci79BWPQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EFDFBoy-pQEoG0TZRKdci79BWPQ/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EFDFBoy-pQEoG0TZRKdci79BWPQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Welcome to Wedding Songs and Music Ideas!  &lt;br /&gt;This site provides song suggestions for brides and grooms planning weddings along with great music ideas and fun advice for the soon-to-be newlyweds.  Songs for your ceremony, processional, recessional, unity candle, bridal march, reception, grand entrance, first dance, father daughter dance, mother son dance, parents dance, wedding party dance, bouquet toss, garter toss, money dance, dollar dance, last dance, cocktail hour, dinner music and more will be covered here.  If you have any questions or any ideas for articles you'd like to see covered, please email me--I'm here to help you!&lt;br /&gt;Once again, welcome to Wedding Songs and Music Ideas and thank you for visiting!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2482671293434571275-4323638905943674372?l=weddingsongsandideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WeddingSongsAndIdeas/~4/d-eyjJyFX-o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="related" href="http://weddingsongsandmusicideas.blogspot.com" title="Wedding Songs and Music Ideas" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://weddingsongsandideas.blogspot.com/feeds/4323638905943674372/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2482671293434571275&amp;postID=4323638905943674372&amp;isPopup=true" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2482671293434571275/posts/default/4323638905943674372?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2482671293434571275/posts/default/4323638905943674372?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WeddingSongsAndIdeas/~3/d-eyjJyFX-o/wedding-songs-and-planning-ideas.html" title="Wedding Songs and Music Ideas" /><author><name>Jimmy Loram</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14414860825225437591</uri><email>jloram@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="12638567681447565025" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://weddingsongsandideas.blogspot.com/2010/01/wedding-songs-and-planning-ideas.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

