St. Augustine Wedding

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I played a lovely, beach-house wedding and cocktail hour this weekend as a harp/cello duo! AND I got to partner with an excellent musician through String Theory Music 🙂

Our requested music covered pretty much all genres! Check out this song list:

• Guest Seating – Chapel of Love (Dixie cups)

• Bridal Party & Groom – Rainbow Connection (from The Muppets)

• Bride’s Entrance – Love Me Tender (Elvis)

• Recessional – Higher Love (Whitney Houston)

• Cocktail Hour – Dreams (Stevie Nicks), 2 Become 1 (Spice Girls), PIMP (50 Cent), Levitating (Dua Lipa), Havana (Camila Cabello), Do You Realize (Flaming Lips), God Only Knows (Beach Boys)

The White Room – St. Augustine

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What an absolutely PERFECT day for a rooftop wedding at The White Room! I play at this venue often, and the view never gets old…. check out those blue skies!!

With a Pi Day wedding date (3.14), this couple wanted their music theme to be “nerd chic” 🙂 Great song choices:

~ Guest Seating – All My Loving (Beatles), I Won’t Give Up (Jason Mraz), A Thousand Years (Chrstina Perri)

~ Honored Guests & Bridal Party – With A Little Help From My Friends (Beatles)

~ Bride’s Entrance – Song of Fire & Ice (Game of Thrones Theme)

~ Recessional – Marry You (Bruno Mars) and Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)

The White Room – St. Augustine, FL

 

Treasury on the Plaza – St. Augustine, FL

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Treasury on the Plaza – St. Augustine, FL

It’s always a delight to play at the Treasury in downtown St. Augustine! Built and used as a bank in 1926, this building is our city’s first and only skyscraper. I play here often, and its always gorgeous!!

The bride and groom chose these songs for the big day:

~ Guest Seating – A Whole New World, A Thousand Years, Come What May (from Moulin Rouge), and Beauty and the Beast

~ Honored Guests & Bridal Party – The Prayer

~ Bride’s Entrance – Angel of Music (from Phantom of the Opera)

~ Communion – Eidelweiss  (Sound of Music)

~ Recessional – Here Comes The Sun (Beatles)

 

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Treaty Oak Park – JAX

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This live oak tree is downtown Jax is estimated to be 250 years old. What a great place for wedding vows, which are meant to last forever ♥

Congratulations Bob & Elly, and I loved their song choices!

~ Guest Seating – Baby I Love Your Way, Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You (Frankie Valli), Just The Way You Are (Billy Joel)

~ Groom’s Entrance – The Rose

~ Bride’s Entrance – Endless Love

~ Recessional – From This Moment On

~ Guest Exit – All My Life (K-C & JoJo), Faithfully (Journey)

Castillo de San Marcos – St. Augustine, FL

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Beautiful wedding on the lawn at the Castillo! What a fabulous setting for vows, and so great to be able to play music at one of St. Augustine’s most notable landmarks.

The bride & groom had such sweet music requests for their special ceremony with family and closest of friends:

~ Guest Seating – Somewhere Over The Rainbow & What A Wonderful World

~ Bridal Party Entrance – All You Need Is Love (Beatles)

~ Bride – I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You (Elvis Presley)

~ Sand Ceremony – Because (Beatles)

~ Recessional – Three Little Birds (Bob Marley)

St. Augustine Harpist – Castillo de San Marcos

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church – Palatka, FL

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A beautiful Christmas wedding at St. Mark’s! I always love to play in historic places, and this church was built in the 1850’s. Bonus history lesson for you….one of its founding members was the first governor of Florida, and it was occupied by Union soldiers during the civil war.

For my part in the ceremony, I played during guest seating and for the bridal party entrance. The rest of the music was done on the church’s stately pipe organ.

Prelude ~ Arioso (Bach), Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach), Butterfly Waltz (Brian Crain)

Bridal Party Entrance ~ Canon in D (Pachelbel)

Villa Blanca

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Villa Blanca – St. Augustine, FL

Yet another fabulous wedding ceremony at the White Room’s Villa Blanca 🙂 This venue and I are good friends, and I really loved the addition of the gorgeous arbor!

Here are the songs requested by the bride and groom ~

• Guest Seating – All of Me (John Legend), Yellow (Coldplay), Unchained Melody, Marry Me (Train)
• Seating of Mothers/Grandparents – The Four Seasons, Winter (Vivaldi)
• Bridal Party’s Entrance – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
• Bride’s Entrance – Canon in D (Pachelbel)
• Unity Ceremony – A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)
• Recessional – The Four Seasons, Spring (Vivaldi)

Beaches Museum Chapel – JAX Beach

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Beaches Chapel

Such a pretty wedding at the Beaches Chapel in Jacksonville Beach! Given my love of historical buildings (not to mention the superb acoustics), I had a great time at this lovely venue.

• Guest Seating – Prelude in C (Bach), Ode to Joy (Beethoven), Air from Water Music (Handel)
• Seating of Mothers – Ave Maria (Schubert)
• Bridal Party Entrance – Just The Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
• Bride’s Entrance – Canon in D (Pachelbel)
• Special Song (sung by the mother of the bride) – the Gift of Love (Folk Tune/Hopson)
• Unity Sand Ceremony – The Prayer
• Recessional – The Four Seasons, Spring (Vivaldi)

River House – St. Augustine, FL

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Got to play at the River House here in St. Augy this weekend! Such a gorgeous venue overlooking the water ♥

This event was a wedding cocktail hour, so I got to play  for about an hour on the veranda with a great view….if you look closely you can spot the light house 🙂

Ancient City Baptist – St. Augustine

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Ancient City Baptist Church

A beautiful Christmas wedding at Ancient City Baptist in downtown St. Augustine! The church dates back to the 1800’s, and is such a lovely place to say ‘I Do’.

For this ceremony I played the prelude and first processionals, and a guitarist did the rest:

Prelude ~ A mix of classical and modern love songs at the bride & groom’s request: Butterfly Waltz (Brian Crain), God Gave Me You (Dave Barnes), Beloved (Kari Jobe), Prelude in C (Bach)

Grandparents’ and Mothers’ Entrance ~ Morning Has Broken (Hymn)

Bridal Party’s Entrance ~ Beautiful Things (Gungor)