Ceremony Music Help!

[sandk]

Hey Everyone! We are getting married in the wedding pavillion, so we'll have the organist. I'm having such a hard time picking our ceremony music because we want it to be pretty low-key. The organ sounds great, but we don't really want that "church organ" sound in the songs. For example, I'm walking down the aisle to Canon in D.

We know what we want for the prelude and my entrance, but everything else we are clueless. Anybody have any suggestions? I'm not opposed to traditional songs, but I just don't want them sounding really loud and formal.

 

[lurkyloo]

Well, I think we're straying even farther from convention - we're doing a CD with music from the "The Incredibles," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and a James Bond movie!

However, I have heard that the organ in the Wedding Pavilion can sound like any instrument (like you can do with an electric keyboard), so I'd imagine they have several varieties of "organ" sound. You could tell your wedding planner you don't want the big, churchy organ.

Lots of brides have the organist play Disney songs, of course, and there are plenty of popular classical tunes (the names of which escape me, but I bet they have a list on Weddingchannel.com or the like) - what about some of the ones from "Fantasia," like the Pastoral Symphony?

 

[mhcueball2]

As above, the organ has many types of sounds to it. I don't like the "old church organ" sound, so we asked for "strings" sounds and some other options. It sounded great. If you look around at video demos, you might catch a few.