Orlando wedding ceremony music selected today by most brides and grooms is personal to them.  Most brides and grooms used to select from the same few traditional selections, e.g. “Here Comes the Bride”.  Now it has become more popular to personalize your Orlando wedding ceremony music.  Brides and grooms often pick wedding songs, wedding music ensembles or musical styles that are personal to them.  If having unique and personal wedding ceremony music is something that you are thinking about, here are some fun and unique ideas.

• Have a dixieland band parade your wedding guests from your traditional ceremony to the wedding reception or cocktail hour location.  This is a fun way to transition from a quite and romantic ceremony to a celebratory and party mood.
• Have a dixieland band parade the bride and groom down the aisle for the recessional after the wedding ceremony.  This can be done instead of the dixieland parade to the reception if the reception site is too far for your guests to walk.  This can also be done in addition to the parade to the wedding reception or cocktail hour location.
• Use nontraditional music for your Orlando wedding ceremony music.  Many Orlando wedding couples choose to use music that is special to them rather than the traditional classical music.  Music Remembrance had one couple that choose to have alternative 1980’s rock music like songs of “the smashing pumpkins” performed at their Orlando wedding ceremony.  In order to make it more serious feeling and enjoyable for older guests they had the music performed by a classical guitar and bass duo.  This way that had music that was unique and personal to them that still fit the tone they wanted to set for their wedding ceremony and their guests.  If you are a jazz fan, romantic jazz ballads always make a beautiful edition to wedding ceremony music.  They can be performed by vocalists or by instruments such as the trumpet, trombone, saxophone accompanied on piano or guitar.  You could also have jazz ballads performed on solo guitar or solo piano.
• Use traditional music on nontraditional instruments.  If you are a fun couple that would like to do something unique you may elect to have traditional classical wedding music played on  nontraditional instruments.  Electric guitar or electric guitar duo, electric guitar and bass duo, small rock band, singer with electric guitar, traditional organ with an oboe, english horn, french horn or other nontraditional instrumental soloist, bagpipe ensemble, solo bagpipe (has a limited classical repertoire), accordion, blue grass band, banjo or steel guitar are just a few choices.
• Use instruments that are special to you.  If you met your fiancé at a concert, if you met your fiancé in a school band or at a concert, or if one or both of you play instruments you might consider using those instruments.  If you met at a John Mayer concert you could use a guitarist/singer that performs his music.  If one of you played trombone and the other piano a trombone and piano duet might be a fun and unique choice that your guests will enjoy.
• Ethnic music is a great way to personalize your Orlando wedding ceremony music.  If you have an ethnic background or would like to pay tribute to a grandparent or parent from another country, Ethnic music can be so personal and unique.  You can choose from using the style of music, the authentic ethnic instruments or both.  I have yet to see a German band at a wedding so you could be the first in Orlando.

Whether you choose traditional music or something unique and personal for you, your Orlando wedding music will help set the tone and make your ceremony a day to remember.

Author-Andrea Rowlison. Music Remembrance. For more event and wedding music tips please visit the Music Remembrance blog or Published Ezine Articles by Andrea Rowlison.