I've started about five other blog entries in recent months, but have yet to actually push publish. I often have grandiose ideas, but halfway through articulating them, I either decide that they are never going to be finished, or delve into something that I don't really want to go into. So they remain drafts.
But here is something short, sweet, and worth a laugh, at least to me.
The latest wedding-related planning we've done is choosing processional and recessional music. Do we have a DJ and/or sound system on which to play these things? Well, no. But that's not the point.
The point is, I had 3 ideals in my head:
1. Avoid cliche (This includes the 4 CDs worth of music my mom lent us for "inspiration", with such album titles as "A Day to Remember" and "Heartbeats, Now and Forever")
2. It would be instrumental
3. The lyrics would, although not heard, actually be appropriate should people recognize the song.
This has led us to spending a lot of time with the Vitamin String Quartet Discography. At one point in the process, Doug had queued up a bunch of options for us to give a listen to.
One song was Yellowcard's Gifts and Curses, which, while a pretty song with a rather pronounced storyline, refrains to the following:
I see your face with every punch I take,
and every bone I break, it's all for you.
And my worst pains are words I cannot say,
still I will always fight on for you.
Ahem. Not entirely the message I was hoping to convey. Especially because the storyline is Spiderman loving MJ, but has to, you know, put saving the world every day over personal relationships. Right.
Moving on to batter #2, REM's The One I Love.
First line:
This one goes out to the one I love
Looking good, right?
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
Dammit. Always foiled by line #2.
In the end, we found a song for the bridal party to walk to, a song for the bride to walk to, and a recessional. One is still a song inspired by Spiderman. Probably only one song will be recognized by the majority of the guests, but that's OK too.
Now, you know, on to figuring out how everyone *else* will hear the songs we've chosen at the actual wedding...
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