Today, I am inspired to talk about what makes the wedding pianist different from other wedding vendors, such as videographers, photographers, DJs, caterers, and florists. 

What sets the wedding pianist apart from from these other vendors is that, while the other vendors spring into action on site for the wedding on the wedding day or just the day before, a wedding pianist can be doing their rounds of four-part wedding music practice for a ceremony and/or reception over a stretch of weeks and even months leading up to the wedding such that by the time the wedding musician arrives at the wedding, a great bulk of work has already been done, in addition to the work done on the actual day of the wedding.  

For example, I have been rehearsing about 80 pages of music on a fairly daily basis, sometimes repeatedly, over a stretch of weeks, in preparation for an upcoming wedding featuring all-classical music for the ceremony and cocktail hour.  On the playlist will be music by Liszt, Ravel, Debussy, Chopin, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Handel, Haydn, Anton Rubinstein, and much more.  

It's going to be great.