Real Life Musical

My deepest, darkest desire is to have a "my life is suddenly a musical!" moment.




And Zooey does it so well. The new She and Him album comes out the 23rd!

Girl Power

I grew up in the age of the Spice Girls. I still love them, and I'm not embaressed! Their songs are perfect running music.

Ryan, for whatever bizarre and unfounded reasons, doesn't share my love for the Spice Girls. Weird, I know. Needless to say, I have been limited to ONE Spice Girls song at the reception. One.

I am torn, ladies, TORN.

Spice Girls Say You'll Be There
Uploaded by skinandbones. - Watch more music videos, in HD!

Watch Wannabe in Music | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com


Toughest wedding decision yet!

I can't be the only person who wanted to be a certain Spice Girl, so fess up...which Spice Girl did you secretly want to be?

Nearness of You

I love this song, I just put it on our wedding reception playlist. Isn't it sexy and sweet?

Reception Playlist

So the reception play list has been the project that has been the most worked on lately. I listen to Internet radio at work, and when I hear a song I like I jot it down, and Ryan e-mails me songs he thinks of.

Our play list is all over the board. Ryan suggested this song, which I love!






Another song from a commercial, Let Your Love Flow by Petra Haden.





Ryan picked this one, and I dig!



And I have to have some Patsy...I grew up to the woman, what can I say?





Our play list is fun to put together. Ryan abhors country, but I have to have Brad Paisley's "Then." Have to have it. So baby, I'm asking for 2 country songs...2! If you are reading this studly runner, 2 country songs isn't so much to ask...I'm from Southeast Missouri, I can't stop myself!

Other than the 2 country songs Ryan doesn't care for, I think there's only been a couple of his songs that I didn't care for. And we have drastically different music taste, so that's a pleasant surprise. We need to separate songs into "reception party music" and "laid back during dinner/pre-ceremony music"-right now its all clumped into one big list.

Have you had fun putting your play list together? Do you and your honey have different music tastes?

PS This is my first time embedding videos, so excuse the disorder of this post!

Processional Song Picking Craziness

We had a little too much fun picking processional music!

I really want "Dawn" from Pride and Prejudice for my processional. My mom and my sister Alli aren't sure how I'm going to walk to it, but I love it.

The processional song picking didn't end there, oh no....we started laughing about goofy songs, and here is where the craziness ensued....

I suggested the Jurassic Park theme song...hehehe....when I was away at college, I had a (um, still do) weird fascination with this movie. I can watch it multiple times in a week and I don't get sick of it. I love Dr. Grant! Not in a weird way, he's just great.

Source

So Mary started acting like she was a pterodactyl going down the aisle, complete with sound effects....



We were all dying laughing. Then we pulled up the Russian Dance from the Nutcracker on the computer. When Alli and I were little, we used to dance to this song all. the. time. Our "dance" involved us running around in circles and jumping when the music calls for it. So I had to show Mary how it's done:


Anyway, we all laughed our *sses off and had a total blast. As of right now, I'm walking down to Dawn and the parents and bridesmaid's will probably walk to Canon in D, but it's certainly up for debate.

What's your processional? Did craziness and hilarity ensue in any portion of your wedding planning?