Music…hmmm…

It was the one thing I have been pondering long and hard about. Not necessarily what music to play at the reception, but rather what music to play for the ceremony. Filipino weddings typically are saturated with special performances, i.e. your cousin who thinks she can sing wants to sing 3-4 songs at the ceremony, then sing them again at the reception. I am not for that; as a guest I find it uncomfortable and cannot help but judge whatever attention-mongering singer is up there.

I have contacted a young brother/sister violinist and cellist to play. It is uncertain whether they can commit, but as a backup I have decided on two different songs by a relatively unknown artist (at least, in North America!) whose lyrics speak volumes. The melodies are charming, simple, heartfelt…hardly pretentious or oozing of the superficial “I love you/I cannot live without you” type themes that most wedding songs are.

And as much as my father wants our Father/Daughter dance to be to “Butterfly Kisses”, there will be none of that. My father and I have hardly had a relationship like the one portrayed in the song, and it would be wrong to portray that in front of friends and family who know better.