Indie and Classic Wedding Songs: Reception

For our reception, we mixed classic songs with a few indie ones. We let my dad and Chris's mom choose their respective songs, which added another unexpected layer of meaning to the process (the back-and-forth with each parent and one another about song choice and the lyrics of each contender was time-consuming, but so worth it in the end).

Some choices were easy. Nothing was going in place of Beyonce for the bouquet toss, and we decided on Peter Gabriel's version of Book of Love right after we got engaged.

The David Bowie, Edward Sharp, and Icona Pop picks all came within the last few weeks before the wedding. Last-minute inspiration was definitely working in our favor. (Also, I really recommend doing a more wider known penultimate dance song (Home) and then picking it up a dance-y notch with a faster last one. It felt like the entire wedding hall was shaking when Icona Pop started playing with all our guests already on the dance floor ready to go after the group Home sing-along/dance-it-up.)

Our entrance song
David Bowie: Golden Years

Our first dance
Peter Gabriel: Book of Love

Father/daughter dance (picked by my dad)
Tom T. Hall: Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine

Mother/son dance (picked by Chris's mom)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Simple Man

Bouquet toss
Beyonce: All the Single Ladies

Penultimate dance
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes: Home

Last dance
Icona Pop: I Love It!

A Place at the Table documentary

Our tiny and awesome neighborhood grocery store in.gredients hosted a free screening of the documentary A Place at the Table last night, which was quite moving and illuminating. I had never heard of the idea of food deserts in America, have you? The fact that America has enough food to feed everyone in the states but somehow doesn't (for all the reasons explored in the documentary) is mind-boggling. Ways that you can help can be found here.

Trailer:


A glimpse of the screening:

Indie Wedding Songs: Processional & Recessional

Since Chris and I were engaged for a year and a half, we had a long time to choose all the music for our wedding. And rechoose. And rechoose. It was definitely a process. But one that ended amazingly. Here are some of our final choices for our ceremony.

Prelude:
Sigur Rós: Track #3
Sigur Rós: Hoppipolla
Sigur Rós: Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur

Track 3 (or Untitled 3)

Hoppipolla
 
Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur


Wedding party processional:
Sigur Rós: Staralfur

Staralfur


Bride's processional:
Daniel Johnston: True Love Will Find You in the End

True Love Will Find You in the End 


Recessional:
Jónsi: Go Do

Go Do

(Image via Amazon)

This and That

Slash: the emergence of new conjunction/conjunctive adverb.

Omelette-making dog short. So cute.

Love this Naomi Shihab Nye poem. (Also, we used to recite this one to our creative writing teachers to try to get out of deadlines.)

Did not know this! NYC's Daffodil Project.

Also, Charles Simic has a blog?!? Another poet I love being awesome.

(Photo via Pinterest)

Cindy Sherman at the DMA

Getting excited about seeing the Cindy Sherman exhibit at the DMA this weekend. I just read this on the museum website: In addition, the exhibition includes a site-specific photographic mural produced in 2011–12, on view for the first time in the United States. YES.

(Image via MoMA)

This and That

Peach and gold dot dish.

Love the simple packaging on this site.

Too much cheddar and jalapeno muffins.

Gorgeous DVF flatware.

How to break up with a two-year-old. 

A lovely home.

(Image via the New Yorker)

Books

S: Currently reading Dearie and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.