Choosing Memorable Wedding Music Lyrics
Wedding music lyrics are an important part of any wedding ceremony. There is no doubt that a songwriter can express a couple's feelings for one another even better than the couple can themselves. Choosing appropriate lyrics for the ceremony can be fun because of the amazing variety of songs available.
Some couples choose wedding music with lyrics that are meaningful because of their relationship - lyrics that relate to where or how they met, how they became engaged etc. Other couples want to use traditional wedding music, with lyrics that reflect the couple's commitment and new beginnings together.
While live soloists still sing at some weddings, most couples today prefer to play a recording of a popular artist singing the lyrics. Wedding music is usually played from the beginning of the ceremony through the end of the reception, so there are plenty of opportunities to fit in the wedding music lyrics that the couple wants.
When Are the Songs Played?
Wedding music, sometimes with lyrics, sometimes instrumental only, is played before the ceremony as guests are being seated, during the processional when the bride and bridesmaids walk up the aisle, during the ceremony, and during the recessional, when the newly married couple walks back down the aisle together.
At the reception, wedding music lyrics might be played during the bride and groom's first dance, during the bride's father-daughter dance with her father, the groom's mother-son dance with his mother or during a dance of the wedding party only. Music is also played while the cake is being cut, during the "dollar dance," when the maid of honor and best man collect money for the couple, during the garter and bouquet toss, and during the last dance of the night that marks the end of the wedding reception.
Wedding Music Lyrics During the Ceremony
During the wedding ceremony, the couple might want to play one of several songs that have a time honored tradition as wedding music. Lyrics to these songs often refer to the couple's love for each other or their new life together. For example:
Unchained Melody, originally recorded by The Righteous Brothers, who sing, "My love, my darling, I hunger for your touch…I'll be coming home. Wait for me."
In My Life, originally recorded by The Beatles: "Though I know I'll never lose affection for people and things that went before, I know I'll often stop and think about them; in my life, I love you more.
Love Me Tender, recorded by Elvis Presley or Norah Jones: "You have made my life complete, and I love you so."
These three sentimental favorites have classic lyrics. Wedding music during the ceremony often includes one or more of these songs. The lyrics of the music the DJ plays during the reception are also important, but reception music is primarily dance music, so the lyrics often play a background role to a music's melody and beat.
