Big Fat and Wide

A friend of mine is getting married.
I am so excited for her, so very happy for her.
She is my age (a few months older actually)
and I think she has wondered if these days
would ever come for her.
Well, they are here.
And I am so glad she waited for
the great guy that God had for her
all along.

So this friend asked me to help her
pick music for her wedding. She kept saying that
she knew how I just loved all kinds of music
and how important music is to me
(I was surprised to hear her say this.
Is this something that people know about me?
Other than you, Dear Reader,
who gets regularly subjected to my musical selections.).

I am supposed to be getting together a list of ideas of songs.
This is where you come in.
Do you have any helpful suggestions?
Anything that you ever thought of as
THE perfect wedding song?
Any tips?
I don't mind stealing your ideas.
I have already stolen an idea from one of the 1.5 of you.
I wonder if I ever told you that. We had the same
pianist at our weddings (now you know who you are)
and that pianist told me you had used
Tarah's Theme from Gone With the Wind
at your wedding. I thought that was such a lovely idea
(as well as a lovely song) that I stole it.
That's what they played as my wedding party entered.

So I would love to hear your ideas
....and quickly steal them and claim them for my own.

I'll tell you an idea of mine that I won't be telling
my dear friend about for her wedding.
Not everyone would find this interesting, but I do.
This is something I have thought of for years,
ever time I hear this song.

Okay, do you know the song "Layla"
by Derek and The Dominoes?
(And if you do, don't freak out--hear my idea first!)
At the end of that long song, it suddenly slows down
and this piano starts playing. That's where
I would start it--cut off the front of the song.
From that point on, it's just this pretty, happy, alternative
instrumental and I can just see that starting
to play as soon as the preacher says
"I now pronounce you man and wife" and the
happy couple turns to face the world.
It would be such a lovely piece for them and the rest
of the wedding party to walk out on.
I always picture it being played live
at a wedding in a garden.
(I just went and added this song
to the juke box. It's the bottom of the list.
But it's a seven minute song and the first part
is SO not wedding material....but if you are not familiar
with it and you can make it through until
the piano kicks in
[at about three minutes and fifteen seconds]
and it gets pretty...well, then you
can see what I am talking about.
You might still think I am crazy though.)

What a day I have had here.
A good day.
Just an ordinary day, the kind I like.
I feel like it should be night time by now, but it's not
even three o'clock. I have gotten stuff done today.
It snowed this morning. Lovely K and Sweet T went
out to play in it. Big E was not interested in joining them;
he stayed in his room listening to his multiplication
tables and playing with his Star Wars men.
But now the sun is sort-of shining and all the snow
is melted. That's my kind of snow!
Now you see it, now you don't.

I am waiting on my hamburger meat to get
adequately thawed out so that I can make
Salisbury steaks for supper
(to go with mashed potatoes and green bean casserole).
Oh, and guess who is screaming again?
Is this his new midday activity?
I hope not.

I'm looking forward to
any musical suggestions you have for me, Dear Reader.
Let's try to stay away from Kool and The Gang.