Your guests are expecting the typical processional music played by a DJ and a cliché twenty-minute speech they heard at another wedding or on the internet previously. Your ceremony is the only part of the day truly unique to your story, and hiring professionals to officiate and provide live music provides 100% customizability to memorably share your story through your ceremony.

As creatives, we want you to feel empowered to make your wedding ceremony personalized to you as a couple, and we are here to help! If you want the processional to be Canon in D, great! If you want to walk down the aisle to the theme from Harry Potter, we are all for that as well. Adding live music breaks the expectation of a track played over and over during your processional, and a ceremony that shares details about you two, details most of your guests won’t know, invites them into your lives and prevents grandma from falling asleep. Nothing is more awkward than a snoring grandma right as you profess your love.

Listening to music is a sensory experience that has a powerful ability to evoke emotions through expertly timed transitions and notes. When you incorporate live music into your wedding ceremony, musicians are prepared to time the music perfectly to your processional and unity ceremony. Just like a movie soundtrack sets the tone for an emotional scene, music timed by live musicians can do the same! Professional musicians have the experience to accommodate transitions during your prelude, ceremony, and postlude that cannot be replicated by a Spotify playlist.

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Another benefit to live music is that if the flower girl takes a little too long walking down the aisle or something happens unexpectedly during the ceremony, live musicians can whip up a few measures of music from songs of your choice to prevent awkward silences or repeated lyrics, often an issue from recorded pieces.  Not only does this provide that customized element you’re looking for, it also helps your guests know how to feel during unplanned moments in addition to those that are planned.

Nobody likes to hear the same speech they’ve heard 1,000,000 times before at other weddings. Trust me, if you think nobody has heard the ceremony you pulled off Google, they have. While that might be a great option for some couples, a majority of couples want their guests to be a part of their story. A professional officiant has years of story training and knows how to write your story beautifully without any awkward references Uncle Joe might make if he was officiating.

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Additionally, having live music in your processional and recessional gives your guests something to actively pay attention to while waiting for you and your bridal party to walk down the aisle. There’s nothing more spectacular than seeing artists in their element, especially if they’re in their element for you!