I've been kicking around so many ideas for a processional, and thus far come up pretty dry.
All of the music at our wedding will be chorale music - Maurice Durufle's chamber music, etc. - so I've been trying to find something like that to walk down to, but there just doesn't seem to be anything that fits.
I invested in a notebook with my tax refund and took it to Starbucks last night to test it out in public (because I could, lol) and I heard the most beautiful song. It's a cover of Coldplay's "Yellow" and it's sung by Jem (I don't know who that is). If anyone is interested in getting their hands on a copy of it, and I believe you will be, I've been told that it is available on SBucks's latest Valentine's Day CD, "Sweetheart: Our Favorite Artists Sing Their Favorite Love Songs." Anyway, I sat in the comfy, overstuffed chairs listening to this song over a sleepy Grande chamomile tea, and I swear to you, I saw our lives flash before my eyes. The night we met at a Ska concert in high school 10 years ago, our first Valentine's day together, every moment we took care of each other when we were sick, the first time we make love on our wedding night (have I mentioned that we're both still virgins and have never been happier about another decision?) putting our son to sleep at night, comforting our daughter the first time a boy breaks her heart, watching them go off to college and create families of their own, growing old together and marveling at how surprising and yet predictable life is.
I've come across a lot of loud, boisterous songs with much fanfare and pomp and circumstance to walk down to, and I'm just not comfortable with any of it. Is it crazy, in the midst of all of the traditional solemnity of our ceremony, to even consider this?
