Well, after a minor mountain involving bridesmaids dresses, wedding planning is humming along smoothly. The church and pastor are scheduled, the pianist reserved, the reception site booked, the rehearsal dinner planned, the photographer booked, the wedding director chosen, the bridesmaids' dresses ordered, the reception menu planned, and the bridesmaids' luncheon menu chosen. Thanks to my wonderful family this has all been accomplished while I've been in California for the last month!
Now all I have is: music for the ceremony (any favorite suggestions, Embly?), invitations, cake (this should be a tasty endeavor), flowers for the ceremony, tuxes for the guys, and some fun parties to go to.
Oh yeah, and my dress. I guess that should be more in the front of my mind. I have such a hard time shopping for clothes anyway, the thought of a wedding dress is simply numbing. It's probably the most important article of clothing I'll purchase. Wow.
I haven't thought about linguistics much for the past two days. Is that sentence well-formed? I should say, I haven't thought much about linguistics for the past two days. Maybe? Hm.
4 comments:
It's well-formed because you said it naturally--what are you, a prescriptivist?
I think I'm a closet prescriptivist. My conscious self would like to be a not-prescriptivist, but things that reveal my true nature keep cropping up.
or maybe I just have a constant fear of being judged by prescriptivists (that's a fun word).
oh goodness suggestions? well I suppose that suggestions would have to be tempered by what exactly you are going for/have in your budget. People love love love to have Pachabel's canon as their processional music, it's fairly traditional and can be adjusted to however long it takes to have people walk down then aisle. However if you ask a string quartet to do it show your cellist some extra love, it's a really boring part. (pachabel's canon can be played on any instrument, so don't worry about quartets)
But then the real question is what are you going for? The traditional music that has been sung or played at weddings for now 100 years (I won't contend that many of these traditions have any deeper roots than that) or what is your and your fiance's taste in music. Because ultimately that's what it should reflect.
I don't however necessarily support the singing of vows to each other and broadway reviews. Not that I don't love broadway musicals I do. Time and place, that's all.
So in summary, you should tell me what it is you want/like and I can work from there. I clearly know the most about singing at weddings (as I have personal experience there) and duet/trio/quartet string arrangements, because I've done a bit of that as well.
ps. Just to tell you about an awesomely over-the-top wedding I sang at in Arlington heights...full choir, organist (who was terrible, make sure you get a good organist if you go that way) and a cornet player. man the decorations, dress everything just screamed opulence. I mean I've seen full choirs at weddings before, but never one for hire, normally it's a conductor's wedding or someone in a choir gets their friends...
I ramble
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