I was just running through these, and, I think they’re rather illuminating.
First wedding: Processional: Andres Segovia - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
a track I associate with family ski trips
Recessional: The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony let’s not talk about the implications
It should be noted that our vows were “for as long as it works.”
Second round: Processional (and this was truly brilliant): Harry Belafonte - Hole in the Bucket (careful what you first fuck to)
Recessional: Chihiro Onitsuka - Innocence
a track I looked up after an ad from Applied Materials
I always like sharing this.
https://youtu.be/fXtsKSqeiLA?si=UoHYbpb0sm1_CeHJ
The intro started playing to let the party know that things were about to start. Processional was from 0:43 - 1:03, recessional begins at 1:30 and faded into dance music at ~1:50.
We got married on Friday, October 13th 2017 (had a true anniversary this year!), and decided we would include as many subversive horror themes as we could sneak by certain family members. Centerpieces with Gomez and Morticia, the carpet from the Overlook Hotel, Frankenstein’s monster and his bride, and a few Lovecraftian reliefs were backlit on various vase shapes for our guests. The one for the head table was that scene from George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead - you know the one, where the woman in a white dress crests the hill and you can just make out the horde behind her.
Fun fact: our wedding favor was a bottle opener that looked like a historical key. Because of who we are, several of our guests spent an hour or two looking for what they unlocked before they saw me open some bottles with it.