In today's blog, I wish to touch on the most rewarding part of my musical wedding work: hearing that my playing made the bride and groom very happy, as I recently heard from the bride I served last month in Boston.  

It is no small task to bring all of the elements of repertoire selection and organization, in consultation with the bride/groom/wedding planner, to create a beautiful, exciting, and lively tapestry of music for a wedding day.  For my latest booking, I was asked to play a classical cocktail hour after the wedding ceremony, and their confidence in me invited me to rise to my highest playing self for one of the greatest occasions of life for which one could possibly play piano music:  a wedding.

While I have played for concerts, musicals, church services, corporate affairs, and more, there's nothing like playing/singing for a wedding.  One slaves away to coax the most beautiful and romantic sounds possible from a piano, let alone on a behemoth of a piano such as the roughly 9 foot Steinway upon which I found myself last month.  

Videos cannot always do a piano's full sound justice; they can just give an idea.  It is what it is.

It brings to mind my playing on small organs in the corner of a church and then on humongous, majestic organs, which blast every single note one plays and force a player to hold themselves to the highest standards possible.