I love weddings! It is such a joyous and wonderful occasion celebrated with friends and family. What I love even more, is singing at weddings. I’ve been a wedding singer for YEARS and I have absolutely no memory as to when this all started. I cannot even remember the last time I was at a wedding where I did not sing at least one song. But nevertheless, I love it. I’m not sure what it is, but I just feel like I am somehow contributing more joy to this already joyful day.
I usually sing at weddings with my good mates Josh and Janice, who accompany me in the endless list of love songs. We would spend hours upon hours to rehearse our songs before getting the grandmas all giggly by unleashing Richard Marx old time favourites or pleasing the younger generation with some Taylor Swift and One Direction. I must admit however, singing so many love songs over and over can become a bit of an overkill. That’s why I welcome non-wedding gigs where I can sing a few more depressing songs….. just to balance it out a bit you know?
As I am writing this, I am amused by the connotations that wedding singing is all about impressing the single ladies and planting the seeds in a potential’s heart that maybe one day, just maybe, you’ll be in the same position as the couple who hired you in the first place. Maybe there is some truth to that…….. Either way, is wedding singing anything like that Adam Sandler movie or that TV show “Wedding Bands”? Absolutely not!
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