When Michelle emailed me about featuring her wedding, I didn’t have to look past the first sentence to know it would be a perfect fit! I’m loving how much she shared, as it’s a great insight to the day…and to her and Graham as a couple!

Music was the foundation to my husband and I’s relationship. It was our common ground and throughout our relationship we have seen countless numbers of bands together. It was actually the way he proposed to me! He made a trail with tickets to monumental shows we had been to over the 5 years we dated, all with a little story as to why that show was important to our relationship. He was waiting at the end, with the ring! Because music is such a huge part of who we are as a couple we knew we wanted to create our own play list for our wedding. I work for an audio-visual company so we rented speakers, a mixer and played all our music off our ipod. Graham was in charge of putting together our mixes, he was always better at putting mixed cd’s together than I was! I wanted people to hear us through out music but I also wanted everyone to have a great time, It was a little difficult to make the two work but Graham pulled it off perfectly! Our guests never stopped dancing!

We wanted music to peek through in other parts of our wedding as well. Throughout our wedding we used the lyrics “Its just me and you, our nation of two” which is from the song ‘On Husbands Wives’ by Quiet Company. It was used in our engagement shoot, our invitations, stir sticks and pin back buttons I designed. I used my now mother in law’s old piano music sheets when making our flower toss cones. I also used the music sheets to make heart shaped table confetti. The band Dredg is Graham’s favorite band. He made their first fan based website and so they have maintained a relationship far before I knew Graham. The bassist Drew Roulette hand painted our cake topper which was extremely special for us to have on our big day.

Here is the music breakdown:

Ceremony
Processional: Hear you me (instrumental version) by Jimmy Eat World – They have been my favorite band since High School so I knew walking down the aisle to one of their songs would be most meaning to me.
Recessional: On Husbands Wives by Quite Company

Cocktail Hour
We had these instrumental albums playing outside and the Beatles anthology playing inside
DREDG – Down To The Cellar
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY – Your Hand In Mine
A DANCING BEGGAR – Prelude
A DANCING BEGGAR – The First Day Of Spring
A DANCING BEGGAR – Sand Between Our Toes
A DANCING BEGGAR – Branches And Nettles
A DANCING BEGGAR – 22 Summers
A DANCING BEGGAR – We Flew Over England’s Fields
A DANCING BEGGAR – Daytrip To Glynde
A DANCING BEGGAR – Our Distant Memories, Our Idle Dreams
A DANCING BEGGAR – Dawn Breaks, New Beginnings
A DANCING BEGGAR -Skinny Trees
A DANCING BEGGAR – Llywelyn’s Remorse
I SPELL IT NATURE – The Distance Between Where You Are And Where You Want To Be
I SPELL IT NATURE – Ducks Fly Together
I SPELL IT NATURE – This Is Your Journey
I SPELL IT NATURE – .’of, relating to, or resembling a colossus’
MOONLIT SAILOR – Sunbeams
MOONLIT SAILOR – Hope
MOONLIT SAILOR – Landvetter
MOONLIT SAILOR – New Zealand
MOONLIT SAILOR – Fresh Snow
MOONLIT SAILOR – A Week Without Sunlight
MOONLIT SAILOR – The Cheers On The Parade
MOONLIT SAILOR – 1994
MOONLIT SAILOR – Waiting For Nothing

Reception
First Dance: Between The Trees – Changed By You
Father/Daughter Dance: Ben E King – Stand By Me
Mother/Son Dance: Screams – I Play For You

Jason Derulo – In My Head
Outkast – Hey Ya
Jimmy Eat World – Here It Goes
Minus The Bear – My Time
Cobra Starship – Good Girls Go Bad
Flo Rida – Low
T.I. – Whatever You Want
Boyz II Men – Thank You
Lady Gaga – Just Dance
Vampire Weekend – A Punk
J Geils Band – Centerfold
Journey – Any Way You Want It
Blues Brothers – Soul Man
Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love
Eye Alaska – Roll Right Over
Tony Toni Tone – If I Had No Loot
Bell Biv Devoe – Poison
Boyz II Men – Motownphilly
Fake Problems – Diamond Rings
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Miami Sound Machine – Conga
Mariachi El Bronx – Cell Mates
Bon Jovi – Livin On A Prayer
A Ha – Take On Me
Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
Nappy Roots – Aw Naw
Big Tymers – Still Fly
Kevin Rudolf – Let It Rock
Mr. Big – To Be With You
Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music White Boy
The Jakes – Cough Syrup
The Hollies – Bus Stop
Band Of Horses – No Ones Gonna Love You
The Pale Pacific – Gravity Gets Things Done
The Urge – Jump Right In
Two Door Cinema Club – Undercover Martyn
Phoenix – 1901
Kenna – Say Goodbye To Love
Justin Timberlake – Sexyback
Jimmy Eat World – Sweetness
Fun – All The Pretty Girls
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives me Crazy
Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
Tonic – If You Could Only See
Dave Matthews Band – You And Me
Jonny Craig – Istillfeelher Part III
The Cars – Just What I Needed
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
The B52’s – Love Shack
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
House Of Pain – Jump Around
Foreigner – Cold As Ice
Tom Petty – American Girl
The Archies – Sugar Sugar
Waking Ashland – I Am For You
Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
Danzel – Put Your Hands Up In The Air
Jimmy Eat World – A Praise Chorus

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Photos by: Jason Keiter and Carrie Wildes Photography