I hope you dance, just not to THAT song.

I spent a lot of time wedding planning today and a huge part of that was looking at different songs to use during our wedding. I am not a huge fan of the traditional when it comes to weddings. Yes, I'm wearing a (shade of) white dress, having an officiant, a venue, etc. BUT one thing I really don't like is when DJs play their go-to cliche, wedding songs. I really don't want to do the Macarena, Chicken Dance or Electric Slide at my wedding. I don't. And I will go a step further.. I am going to BAN them lol. Even if I have to give my DJ a list of songs he is forbidden to play, I will. I don't want to do a Conga line and I don't want to dance to the YMCA. If you want to listen to the Bee Gees and rock out to Brick House, my wedding will not be the place to do it. I'm all for having fun but I'd rather play music you can dance to.. and not a choreographed dance that makes you look ridiculous. Call me a wedding grinch, but I just don't like it.

I am really excited about the music for our wedding though! We are working with one of my fiance's family friends right now to hopefully book her for our ceremony/cocktail hour. She is a professional harpist and from what I hear a pretty damn good one. I think it'll be pretty to have instrumental music but once again I'll stray from the completely traditional. I don't think I'll walk down the aisle to "Here Comes the Bride" but I guess we'll see. That just might happen as I'm still kind of torn. She also said she does some Disney songs and Taylor Swift and she said she'd learn some songs for us too. I hope we can finalize things soon and book her! Then I just need to pick a DJ haha.

There's seriously so much to do for a wedding I had NO idea. Some of these things I simply hadn't thought of. Like the fact that you need a cake cutting song.. a special song to play while you are cutting your cake. It's crazy the thought that goes into the little details that people probably don't even notice. Insanity.

Luckily after some much needed wedding talk today my song list is coming along. I plan on playing lots of country and some good rap and pop music that people can actually dance to. Hopefully I can put a ban on Techno/House music as well. I don't think I'm a bridezilla but when it comes to the music I guess I'm just a tad picky.

I saw an episode of How I Met Your Mother (seriously one of my favorite shows EVER) where they made a list of wedding cliches they refused to have at their wedding. I think this is a FANTASTIC idea. Consider the music ban item number one on the list haha.

Until Next Time,

Nora