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The one and only COMPLETE wedding music guide and planner is designed to help brides and grooms plan every special musical moment of their wedding. This step-by-step guide advises couples what to do and what NOT to do for all weddings - small and large, formal and informal...for all music budgets - $100 or $10,000...before a band or DJ is hired...and AFTER! World-renowned Emmy Award-winning music expert GLORIA SKLEROV and co-writer BARBARA ROTHSTEIN reveal the secrets of planning magical music for the wedding of your dreams.
They share their unique 3-step method, offering inside information every engaged couple should know about hiring bands and DJs - the key questions to ask AND the right answers to get...detailed information about equipment and combining different instruments for different moods and styles...a contract checklist and an actual music services contract - explained in everyday language that gives brides and grooms the knowledge and guidance they need for negotiating with bandleaders and DJs like a pro...extensive listings of the best, most popular and traditional wedding songs - broken down into categories for each and every part of the wedding - from the prelude to the last dance, from ethnic music to different musical styles for all ages - as well as advice about selecting music, 'choreographing' events and writing scripts to announce special moments...PLUS sample music programs, helpful time-saving recommendations for some of the best music and wedding web sites, planning tips, additional workbook pages including pages for personal "Notes & Reminders" and budget planning, and much, much more. Among some of the tips offered in the book are:
The most important part of wedding music planning takes place AFTER the band or DJ is hired. If a couple's participation is limited to choosing a few favorite songs and artists, they are leaving the most emotional part of their wedding to chance - to people they hardly know. Music expresses the feelings they can't put into words, so great care must be taken in selecting the right music for the right moment.
Do some sleuthing. Find out which special songs were played at the weddings of family and friends for their First Dance, and then play those songs at various times during your reception. This never fails to bring your loved ones to the dance floor as they relive the emotions of their own weddings.
A wedding is even more beautiful when thoughtfulness and care are extended to others through your musical selections. Not everyone is a part of a couple. Single, widowed and divorced guests appreciate group dances that allow them to participate. It's also important to consider the elderly for whom even slightly loud music can be uncomfortable. Make sure they are seated away from the speakers.
For the first time, Barbara and Gloria have put this valuable information together in one purse-sized indispensable resource. "How To Set Your Wedding To Music" is the first and only complete wedding music planner and workbook available anywhere. A gold mine of valuable information (valuable even to wedding coordinators and music professionals), it guides couples through a simplified and well-tested music planning process. The book is comprehensive yet concise. It de-mystifies and un-complicates the once overwhelming task of music planning. Every page is easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-use with practical and valuable planning tips that highlight important details.
Not only is "How To Set Your Wedding To Music" the one and only comprehensive wedding music guide and planner, it is also available with an exciting new wedding music CD. In addition to the tremendous help and guidance the book provides, the CD is a real advantage when dealing with musicians, DJs, emcees, wedding planners, coordinators, and each other. Even at large formal weddings, CDs have become in-creasingly popular and every band comes equipped and prepared to play couples' favorite artists and recordings. "Set Your Wedding to Music", the CD, may be used for all the special moments at any kind of wedding, including the most lavish. It contains 18 updated productions of familiar wedding standards and new 'traditionals'. Available for the first time anywhere are songs featured in wedding scenes from "The Guiding Light" and "Another World" (including the 1997 Emmy Award-winning song of the year) - the lush instrumental version of Andrea Bocelli's international hit, "Con Te Partiro" (the hot new wedding processional) and many more, all from Grammy and Emmy award-winning professionals.
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About the Author
GLORIA SKLEROV has been a professional songwriter, producer and publisher for over 25 years. She has won two Emmy Awards (and is a five time nominee) for songs featured as wedding themes on "The Guiding Light" and "Another World" and is a recipient of numerous BMI and ASCAP song awards, winner of the 1997 Amnesty International Song contest for the world, and the Gold Medal winner of the Tokyo Song Festival. She has been a staff writer for Garrett Music, Interworld Music and Arista Music, an instructor at UCLA Recording Arts and Sciences Department and USC School of Music, and a guest lecturer for the Songwriters' Expo in Los Angeles. In addition to seven #1 international hits and fifteen chart records in the United States, countless numbers of her songs have been performed worldwide in motion pictures and on television and have been recorded by such superstars as Frank Sinatra, Cher, Dionne Warwick, Peggy Lee, Kenny Rogers and many, many others. Anne Murray's release of Gloria's song, "I Just Fall In Love Again" was recognized as Billboard's #1 Country Song of The Year, adding to the long list of her successes. The song has become a favorite wedding standard. Her work has been consistently used for character themes and featured performances in wedding scenes in various soap operas, giving her music a widely based audience of fans and followers among daytime television viewers.
BARBARA ROTHSTEIN began writing songs while practicing law in 1982. After becoming the one and only simultaneous winner of two Grand Prizes in the national American Song Festival (one for lyrics, one for song), she went on to become a professional songwriter, leaving the practice of law behind her. Her songs have been recorded by Bobby Womack, Lisa Fisher, Melba Moore, Carl Anderson, Kathy Lee Gifford among many others, as well as European and Japanese artists. She has numerous film and television credits, including songs penned for the hit children's film, "Barney's Great Adventure", proving her range and talent for composing special material.
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"How To Set Your Wedding To Music - The Complete Wedding Music Guide & Planner"
Award-winning wedding music experts share their secrets and tell you how to save time and money, avoid mistakes and create a musically perfect wedding
Have you always dreamed of your wedding?--the dress you'll be wearing on that wonderful day? Have you visualized the setting--the color of your flowers--your bridesmaids' dresses? When you let your imagination take you to that exciting time have you heard the sound of the music that will be playing at that very moment? Now at last your dream has come true and you're planning your once-in-a-lifetime day--your wedding day. Imagine the beautiful surroundings you've chosen. Perhaps you plan to be united in a garden setting, under a gazebo draped with romantic antique yellow and lavender roses. Graceful swans are floating gently on the lake beyond--your family and friends gathered in the garden on this perfect day. Or you might prefer the warm intimacy of a small home wedding. Whatever the setting, it has only been enhanced by the classic and elegant selections of music playing in the background as your guests arrive.
Just when everyone has been seated and there is the hush of anticipation, the sound of the Celtic flute introduces "The Wedding Song (There Is Love)", expressing the spirit and meaning of why you are all there. After this emotional moment, as the procession is about to begin, we hear the strains of the beautiful "Greensleeves". The wedding party is beginning to walk gracefully down the aisle. And then...it's the moment of your grand entrance - the highlight of the procession and of the wedding. The music is now at the height of emotion, enhancing this breathless gorgeous moment. For your entrance, perhaps you hear the traditional "Lohengrin" (Here Comes the Bride) or possibly a dignified orchestration of Pachelbel's "Canon in D". Just how will you decide? So many possibilities, so little guidance...until now. Finally, "How To Set Your Wedding To Music - The Complete Wedding Music Guide", and companion music CD, "Set Your Wedding To Music" has been created, especially for you.
We will help you plan the music for the wedding of your dreams, from your first romantic vision, to the very last dance. Together we will visualize your entire wedding, imagining all the emotion and feeling you'll experience on your wedding day, encouraging you to think of every nuance and detail. "How to Set Your Wedding to Music" contains all the information you'll need, organized and specially designed to lead you step-by-step through a simple systematic process. Workbook sections follow three easy-to-read chapters filled with ideas and fundamentals. . . by the time you finish those few chapters and fill in Workbook Section I (your Wish List), you will be able to look for locations and interview and audition bands, DJs and emcees like a PRO. (If you have already found a location, you'll understand its musical implications even better) . . . You'll be creating a wish list (Workbook Section I), refining your program (Workbook Section II) and completing an actual script for your final program (Workbook Section III). Even if you have a band or DJ already lined up, the Guide will be invaluable in planning your program with them.
We invite you to make the most of and enjoy every minute of planning and choosing the perfect music for your wedding. Indeed, we're here to help you 'Set Your Wedding to Music'!
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