I come from a very musical family. Two of my uncles and my youngest brother are incredible guitar players, and Mr. Blue Moon’s brother has a great voice. I’ve lived in three amazing places for music: Nashville; Macon, Georgia, a mecca for Southern rock; and the Mississippi Delta for the blues. You would think that by now I would have at least made some time to learn to play an instrument with some proficiency or something. I guess it’s just not to be.

Brother S and my two uncles jamming last Christmas / Personal Photo
That said, I LOVE music even if I can’t really make it. Choosing music for both our wedding ceremony and the important dances at the reception was a lot more difficult than I anticipated, so I thought I would share some of my process for whoever is struggling with this like I did.
For the ceremony, I started by thinking about what I DON’T want. Blue Mom was all for having everything stay very traditional. “Canon in D,” Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus,” and pretty much everything she had in her wedding. All of these ideas would make a beautiful wedding ceremony, but I considered how we might be able to personalize some of the music to who we are as a couple.
With that goal in mind, Mr. Blue Moon and I picked a couple of songs from movies that we love or songs that have an important meaning to us to be played instrumentally as part of the ceremony.
I have dozens of songs I love from movie soundtracks, so we d...