When looking for that perfect song for walking down the aisle, this Chicago wedding band highly encourages you to always listen to that little voice inside.
I’ll never forget the music planning meeting we had with a couple last year.
They walked in the door, and the tension was palpable. Chris & I exchanged a quick and knowing glance that people who have been married for 16 years can do in a heartbeat.
Did it just get weird in here?
Maybe it was the traffic. Or a long week at work. Or the wedding planning process just taking a toll on them.
We started to drill down.
She was nervous and excited.
He would rather have been anywhere else in the world.
Planning out their wedding ceremony music seemed like such a girly thing to him, and he just wanted to show up and get married already.
After a glass of wine and a couple of well-placed ice breakers (we’re pretty good at that if I do say so myself), we started to understand a little more about what was going on.
See, she wanted to have an elegant ceremony, but one that still spoke to the people that they were.
He wanted to be able to grab onto something, anything that he could identify with musically. He was a self-proclaimed geek, and everyone near and dear to them knew it. He’d seen all 9 Star Wars movies again and again and again.
She told him, I’ll choose the song that I walk down the aisle to, and you can choose the song that we both walk out to at the end, ok?
Marriage is built on compromise – remember that!
His ears perked up when we presented him with this option, and it was a done deal:
Fast forward to their wedding day. She walked down the aisle to her favorite song and was absolutely radiant. At the end of the ceremony, they were beaming together as we jumped into the Star Wars theme, and absolutely everyone in the room exploded into cheers and applause because it was so so perfect for them.
Mission accomplished.
Embrace your inner geek, and may the force be with you 😉
