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More Broadway love songs for your first dance

Broadway has produced a plethora of passionate love songs over the decades. But you’ve got to carefully review the lyrics, because not every Broadway love song works for your first dance. For example, the epic “If I Loved You” from Carousel is an endearing love song with a melody that…

Columbus Pro DJsDecember 14, 2020

Dance

Best Broadway songs for your first dance

This blog loves to write about the great songs you can consider for your first dance. There are so many options. We’ve written about contemporary and classic songs couples request for their first dance. Today’s blog considers some of the best Broadway songs for your wedding reception first dance. In…

Columbus Pro DJsDecember 7, 2020

Ceremony

Music for your unity candle ceremony

The unity candle ceremony is a late 20th century American innovation. Following the exchange of vows and rings, the bride and groom light a larger, “unity,” candle with two smaller tapers, symbolizing the unity of two lives and two families. Some trace the origin of the tradition to an early…

Columbus Pro DJsNovember 30, 2020

Culture

Marriage is a good investment

Marriage makes you richer. No matter where you live, government data shows marriage is a good financial move. The Journal of Sociology explains: What impact do marriage and divorce have on wealth? US data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), which tracks individuals in their 20s, 30s and…

Columbus Pro DJsNovember 24, 2020

Toasting

Make ‘em cry and you’ve given a great wedding toast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCYlgGWaJ78 The best Columbus wedding toasts make your audience laugh and cry. Here’s the rub: it’s harder to make people laugh than cry. Not everything is funny. So Owen Wilson’s advice to Rachel McAdams in "The Wedding Crashers" (above) is spot-on: speak from the heart, make e’m cry, and your…

Columbus Pro DJsNovember 16, 2020

Dance

Stevie Wonder’s classic first dance song

Stevie Wonder released his best-selling album, “Songs in the Key of Life,” in 1976. He jammed 21 songs into the album which explored a wide variety of musical genres. One track from the album, “As,” is a popular wedding song, having appeared on The Knot's list of popular classic first…

Columbus Pro DJsNovember 9, 2020

Budget

How a lopsided wedding budget can spoil your celebration

How would you like to attend a wedding where the bride wears a $33,931 wedding gown? But there are no flowers. No ceremony music. No wedding reception. No dancing. No food. No cake. No photography. No invitations. No honeymoon. Nothing, because she blew her entire wedding budget on the gown?…

Columbus Pro DJsNovember 2, 2020

Dance

The most romantic first dance song

The Knot lists John Legend’s “All of Me” as the 8th most romantic first dance song around, perfect for your first wedding dance song. (It was first on the list just a year or two.) “All of me” became Legend’s first #1 hit when it was released on 2013. He…

Columbus Pro DJsOctober 26, 2020

Wedding venue

Banquet halls decline in popularity when it comes to wedding venues

The Knot surveys wedding trends each year. Their 2018 survey found that couples are getting increasingly creative in searching for cool wedding venues, at the expense of banquet halls. As recently as 2009, banquet halls represented 29% of all venues according to surveyed couples. But by 2017, the number dropped…

Columbus Pro DJsOctober 19, 2020

Dance

Cole Porter for Millennials

Katharine McPhee sings Cole Porter Cole Porter transformed music in America by writing smart, witty, and totally catchy songs for theater and popular culture. And yet he is even less known among millennials than George Gershwin, who we wrote about last week. Millennials should get to know this giant, because…

Columbus Pro DJsOctober 12, 2020

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More Broadway love songs for your first dance

Best Broadway songs for your first dance

Music for your unity candle ceremony

Marriage is a good investment

Make ‘em cry and you’ve given a great wedding toast!

Stevie Wonder’s classic first dance song

How a lopsided wedding budget can spoil your celebration

The most romantic first dance song

Banquet halls decline in popularity when it comes to wedding venues

Cole Porter for Millennials

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