I need to crowd source some wedding junk - help

[bowies]

What are your favorite literary romances?  I'm talking more Elizabeth/Mr. Darcy here than Lord Cocknballs and Mistress Wildinbed.

What songs did you use for your wedding ceremony, or, what wedding-y songs would be feasible for an acoustic guitar soloist?

Bonus question: How soon are we supposed to register?

[flamingeaux]

Kitty and Levin in Anna Karenina

[fussbucket]

Re the registry, realistically I don't see why you'd need to register any sooner than the day your shower/wedding invites go out. Then again, if you're doing STDs 3 months out and you just know that your people are going to be, like, ON that shit, I'd aim for sooner. It's just a convenience for your guests, so do what you think would be most helpful for them -- you know them better than we do.

[esdreturns]

Our song was Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce. I think that would sound awesome with an acoustic guitar. I'd register a bit before you send out your shower invites.

[gault]

All of the literary couples I can think of were tragic. Probably not the best wedding karma

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We registered about a month before I sent the invites out and NO I did not include the stupid cards that BB&B give you to put in your invites. WTF is wrong w/ them??

I am no help on the wedding music. You know we had bagpipes and he played a lot of traditional Irish wedding music, which sounded nothing like normal wedding tunes people are used to.

[broc]

Jane Eyre & Mr. Rochester are the only couple I can think of off-hand who end up together, but it's not exactly a happy ending. Maybe go for some real couples too, like FDR & Eleanor? IDK.

We used Sleepers, Awake by Bach as our processional. It's fairly popular, and has been arranged for guitar. Here's a link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI7VrDXmKGI This arrangement is a little wacky, but there are plennnty of others you might like better in the related vids if you're interested.

[bowies]

I'm not planning on having a shower, so this is a can I can kick down the road then. The online checklists I've found have said 8 months out, and I'm all WTF? over that.

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Feb 21, 2013 9:17:55 GMT -5 bowies said:

I'm not planning on having a shower, so this is a can I can kick down the road then. The online checklists I've found have said 8 months out, and I'm all WTF? over that.

8 months? Seriously? 

[esdreturns]

8 months out is a bit far. I don't see any need to register that far in advance.

[neonpink]

Our 1st dance song was Better together by Jack Johnson. Before that during the cocktail hour it was a lot of classic standards and modern versions like Michael Buble.

As for Literary Romance. Trying to think of happy couples after Elizabeth and Mr Darcy they tend to be tragic. I did love the Princess Bride book so is Buttercup and Wesley to new? O. Henry's Jim and Della in The gift of the Magi. Are all I can think of.

Registering. I think we registered a few months before we had a wedding shower.

[fussbucket]

FDR and Eleanor? He was with his longtime mistress when he died.

www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1908008_1908007_1907977,00.html

[dixienormous]

Buttercup and Westley - The Princess Bride is one of my all time favorite books.

And why not see about the love theme from the movie?

[gozf]

Time in a Bottle is one of my favorite songs ever.

If I were to marry again, I'd want this song to be a part of it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs4T3OkTy_c

[smock]

broc, processional twinsies! Although ours was for cello. *high five*

And 8 months is stupid ridiculous for registering. We registered on the early side, and several things we registered for went out of stock or no longer were carried. I'd say 3 months in advance would be fine.

Literary romances . . . I'm drawing a blank on that. All the ones I can think of involve cheating or something scandalous.

[Wrath0fKuus]

An acoustic guitar soloist could play Firehouse's "Love of a Lifetime".

[Muddled]

We registered early, too, because momdads wanted to buy us things off the registry for other holidays. We ended up having to switch it up several times and it was super annoying.

That is the only thing I have to add to this conversation.

[gault]

Someone played an acoustic version of the theme from Harold and Maude at a wedding I went to a few years ago. It was really pretty. I've never seen the movie so I don't know how creepy this is.

And register whenever you fucking feel like it.

[jojoandleo]

You could just do some Jane Austen Romances:

Emma and Mr. Knightley; Fanny and Edmund; Anne and Wentworth.

I read a lot of Austen in High School...

[PinkSquirrel]

Feb 20, 2013 23:37:16 GMT -5 esdreturns said:

Our song was Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce.

Just when I thought you couldn't be more awesome, you come out with this.  I love Jim Croce.

For the ceremony we used Storybook Love by Mark Knopfler, which is obviously playable on an acoustic guitar. 

I wouldn't register too early, a lot of items change (colors ect) every few months so registering for towels 8 months in advance means you may be picking new colors 1-2 times before the wedding actually hits.  I would say 3-4 months before the wedding is perfectly fine especially if you're not having a shower.

[sillygoosegirl]

We registered like as soon as we were engaged, after reading on the Internet that people would want to buy us engagement gifts. In hindsight, I wouldn't recommend that... It was annoying for stuff to be discontinued before it was even time to think about the shower.

Also, it turned out that the people who wanted to get us engagement gifts didn't want to buy off the registry anyway, they already had stuff in mind... like a subscription to a Catholic magazine about natural family planning.

[kaneen]

Feb 20, 2013 21:08:48 GMT -5 bowies said:

What are your favorite literary romances?  I'm talking more Elizabeth/Mr. Darcy here than Lord Cocknballs and Mistress Wildinbed.  Gone With the Wind but that's not at all wedding appropriate, obviously. 

What songs did you use for your wedding ceremony, or, what wedding-y songs would be feasible for an acoustic guitar soloist?  We danced our first dance to the Van Morrison version of "Have I Told You Lately".  I heard a new Neil Diamond song (yes, he has put out music that can be considered new!) recently that I thought would be great for a wedding.  It's called "We".

Bonus question: How soon are we supposed to register?  As soon as you are ready or at least before you have a shower.

[kmw325i]

I'm not much help on literary romance, so I'll skip to what I know. I spent like, 3 months on music. Tunes on my list of pre-ceremony music included The Watson Twins cover of Just Like Heaven, Iron & Wine's Such Great Heights, Adele's version of Make You Feel My Love...I walked down the aisle to Sister Hazel's 'This Kind Of Love'.

Don't register too far out, otherwise you just have to do it again when everything goes out of stock. I'd say 3 months tops.