All Entries in the "Entertainment" Category
Hiring a DJ: Points to Consider
Hiring a DJ: Points to Consider When you plan a party of any sort, your objective is to ensure that your guests have a good time, period. Your choice of entertainment, particularly if you are considering a DJ, is crucial to that end. Who you choose for your wedding reception or special event will have [...]
Hiring a DJ: Points to Consider
Hiring a DJ: Points to Consider When you plan a party of any sort, your objective is to ensure that your guests have a good time, period. Your choice of entertainment, particularly if you are considering a DJ, is crucial to that end. Who you choose for your wedding reception or special event will have [...]
Wedding Day Dancing
Wedding Day Dancing The Wedding Dance Groom: C’mon, honey…It’s time for our first dance together as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. Bride: OK, but remember, you promised you’d help me out with this. Groom: I know…Hey, wait! This music is a lot faster than I remember it! Bride: Just fake it, and smile. You’re the [...]
Trends in Wedding Music and Planning
Trends in Wedding Music and Planning This article will explain some recent trends in wedding planning and wedding music. Some recent trends include: 1) THEME WEDDINGS 2) DESTINATION WEDDINGS 3) RETURN TO ELEGANCE 1) Theme Weddings – These theme weddings include some of the following: A) Multiple bands at a wedding reception combining American as [...]
Tips on choosing wedding musicians
Wedding Reception Music Tips on choosing wedding musicians You’ve got the ring, your ceremony and reception sites are booked, and now your attention turns to the selection of entertainment for your wedding reception. Your decision will have a great impact on the outcome of your party. You know that music is a key ingredient in [...]
Choosing the Music for Your Wedding Ceremony
Choosing the Music for Your Wedding Ceremony Listen to over 80 Wedding Ceremony Songs! If you are like most brides and grooms, the music that will be played during your wedding ceremony is very important to you — but you may not have a clue how to go about selecting it! Here are some guidelines [...]
Suggestions For Booking Entertainment
Suggestions For Booking Entertainment Try to remember the last wedding you attended. Was it six months ago? A year? Perfect. Now try to remember what hors’douvres were served during cocktail hour. Tough one, right? How about this, do you remember the favor you got? Maybe, maybe not. Now here’s an easy one: Did you have [...]
Surviving the First Dance – Ten Tips
Surviving the First Dance – Ten Tips Most couples intend to dance the traditional first dance, but most of them also know nothing at all about dancing! So as the big day approaches their sense of panic increases. Avoid anxiety by following a few easy tips. 1. Plan ahead: You’re planning everything else associated with [...]
The Wedding Reception: Music details
The Wedding Reception: Music details People always ask me what music is best for a wedding reception. As you might guess there is no exact answer because a lot depends on the reception itself. For example: If the reception is being held in a small room adjacent to a church and there is no dancing [...]
Your First Dance
Your First Dance Of all the wedding day rituals, the first dance as a newly married couple is perhaps, the sweetest. It reminds us all of the promise that having a lifetime partner holds and recalls our thoughts of romance and permanence. Of course, it can also be a source of stress for the couple [...]
Choosing A Wedding Band
A WORD FROM YOUR WEDDING SINGER Choosing A Wedding Band For many years wedding rituals have stayed the same, but the key steps to finding the band for your reception have changed dramatically. Today, most brides are finding the music for their wedding on the Internet. Via the World Wide Web, you can now see [...]
Ten Tips for Using Live Music
TEN TIPS FOR USING LIVE MUSIC by Natalie Cox Classical To Go 1. Choose your favorite style of music. Live performers contribute immeasurably to the mood of any gathering, and that magic is yours to create. If you are not sure what kind of music you want, ask for suggestions and keep an open mind. [...]
Shall We Dance?. . . and First Dance Song Suggestions
Shall We Dance?. . . and First Dance Song Suggestions Dancing at your wedding reception is a wonderful way to celebrate your special day with your friends and family. There are some traditions relating to “first dances” that are worth following. After the bride and groom are formally introduced to their guests as “Mr. and [...]
Wedding Ceremony Music: Selecting Your Wedding Processionals
Wedding Ceremony Music: Selecting Your Wedding Processionals Wedding Ceremony Music: What to Ask Your House of Worship If your wedding ceremony is to take place in a church or synagogue, then it is advisable for you to confer with either your priest, minister, rabbi or with your church music director/organist, minister of music or cantor. [...]
Wedding Ceremony Music: Selecting Ceremony Musicians
Wedding Ceremony Music: Selecting Ceremony Musicians On your most special day, your wedding ceremony music, at it’s very best, will enhance your cherished moments and help to create beautiful memories. Your families and wedding guests will compliment you on the music if it was beautifully and exquisitely performed. Memories of your wedding day will be [...]