Got questions about wedding music planning?

Hey – We need your help with the new wedding website we’re putting together.

We’re going to include a Q&A section to help answer any questions you may have about wedding music planning/etiquette. Please help us get started with this section by submitting some questions in the comments area of this blog.

Also…stay tuned for more requests like this. We’re also going to add a section where couples can tell us all about the music they selected for the big day and upload pictures to go along with their stories. We’ll let you know when we’re ready to start accepting submissions for that and provide an email address.

Here are the top song and sheet music downloads for October 2006:

Top 10 Wedding Song Downloads

1. The Wedding Song - Download
2. Canon in D - Download
3. Bless the Broken Road - Download
4. I Can Only Imagine - Download
5. Bridal Chorus (Here Comes The Bride) - Download
6. Hymne - Download
7. Falling in Love - Download
8. Wedding March - Download
9. Canon in D - Download
10. From This Moment On - Download

Top 10 Wedding Sheet Music Downloads

1. Hymne Sheet Music
2. The Wedding Song Sheet Music
3. Reminiscent Joy Sheet Music
4. The Road That Never Ends Sheet Music
5. Bless the Broken Road Sheet Music
6. Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride) Sheet Music
7. Falling in Love Sheet Music
8. The Prayer Sheet Music
9. The Gift of Love Sheet Music
10. I Can Only Imagine Sheet Music

Happy Thanksgiving,
Tim & Ryan

Online Wedding Music Resources

We’re in the process of developing our own comprehensive wedding music resource site with great features like a national database of recommended wedding musicians, tools for helping you choose songs for the big day, a list of common wedding music Q&As, and a Celebrity Corner where you can check out what music celebs are choosing for their big day.

In the meantime, we thought we’d share a list of other great places on the web to look for tips about selecting music, musicians. Here are just a few:

The Knot
Wedding Channel
WedAlert
About.com

Best of luck with your wedding planning as we head into the busy holiday season!

Take care,
Tim & Ryan

Visit the wedding music page of our website at pianobrothers.com.

Top Songs for September and Other Notes

Hi Folks,
We’re hard at work putting together a fun new website full of wedding music resources and planning tools. Stay tuned for more information on that in the coming weeks, as well as some fun surveys and contests to help us launch it.

In the meantime…here are the top song and sheet music downloads for last month:

Top 10 Wedding Song Downloads

1. Canon in D (from A Day to Remember, Vol. I)
2. Bless the Broken Road
3. The Wedding Song (Kenny G)
4. Bridal Chorus (Here Comes The Bride)
5. I Can Only Imagine
6. Wedding March
7. Hymne
8. From This Moment On
9. I Will Be Here
10. The Wedding Song (There is Love)


Top 10 Wedding Sheet Music Downloads
1. Hymne
2. The Wedding Song (Kenny G)
3. Bless the Broken Road
4. The Road That Never Ends
5. Reminiscent Joy
6. Falling in Love
7. I Will Be Here
8. I Can Only Imagine
9. The Prayer
10. Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride) (tie)
10. The Wedding Song (There is Love) (tie)

Special note to our MN fans: we’re performing two holiday concerts in your area this year. Check out the details on our website: http://www.pianobrothers.com/news/concerttour2006.htm. We hope you’ll come see us.

Tim & Ryan

Top Picks for August and Holiday Wedding Music Ideas

To Make You Feel My Love makes its debut on the top-10 most downloaded wedding songs list this month, bumping off our very own Falling In Love. The rest are pretty consistent with last month, with Bless the Broken Road still anchoring the number one spot.

Top 10 Wedding Song Downloads
1. Bless the Broken Road
2. Canon in D (from A Day to Remember: Volume I)
3. Bridal Chorus (Here Comes The Bride)
4. The Wedding Song (Kenny G)
5. Hymne
6. From This Moment On
7. I Can Only Imagine
8. Wedding March
9. Canon in D (from A Day to Remember: Volume III)
10. To Make You Feel My Love

There’s a bit of a shift toward the traditional on the sheet music list this month, with The Wedding Song (There is Love), Rondeau (Mouret) and Canon in D taking the place of more contemporary pieces like From This Moment On, I Can Only Imagine and I Will Be Here.

Top 10 Wedding Sheet Music Downloads
1. Hymne
2. The Road That Never Ends
3. Reminiscent Joy
4. Falling in Love
5. Bless the Broken Road
6. The Wedding Song (Kenny G)
7. I Can Only Imagine
8. The Wedding Song (There is Love)
9. Rondeau
10. Canon in D (from A Day to Remember: Volume I)

If you’re planning a holiday wedding, be sure to check out our newest CD release, Holiday Home. Many brides gravitate toward traditional holiday favorites for weddings around Christmas and New Years, and those songs are perfectly fine to incorporate into the ceremony.

Happy Wedding Planning,
Tim & Ryan

Reception Advice from Beverly Clark

(MS) - When it comes to wedding receptions, couples are looking for ways to give a unique, personal flair to their celebration, says Beverly Clark, wedding book author, and designer of the Beverly Clark Collection. "More and more brides and grooms want to express their own style, and they don't want to have a cookie-cutter wedding," she says. "So they are branching out to more elaborate and unique receptions, locations and themes." For example, Clark says that, most recently, her No. 1 selling wedding collection has been her beach-themed Seashore Collection, with many couples opting to get married on the beach and then tie in sand and seashell décor with their reception.

How can you add some personal touches to your wedding?

· Slideshows. During the reception, present a slideshow set to music with photos of you and your spouse from birth to present.
· Themes. Incorporate you and your spouse's heritage into the décor and food. Some possible wedding themes may also stem from your favorite hobby, a season, a historical period (such as the Roaring '20s or Renaissance eras), or a fairytale theme complete with a castle-shaped wedding cake.
· Creative table numbers. Instead of using numbers to identify tables, name your tables after phrases or words that have special meaning to you as a couple, such as your favorite travel spots.
· Monograms. Make your name part of the day. For example, wedding planner Tracie Morris had a client whose new last name started with an "M," so the couple put the letter "M" on top of their wedding cake and on their cocktail napkins. They also used a video projector to project an "M" onto the dance floor during the couple's first dance as husband and wife.
· Poetry. Write letters or poems to one another and read it during the reception.

Top Tunes for Walking Down the Aisle in July 2006

Here are the most popular wedding song & sheet music downloads from www.pianobrothers.com for the month of July. The lists are very similar to the results for May and June, with a few songs trading places and a couple new ones moving up.

Top 10 Wedding Song Downloads
1. Bless the Broken Road
2. Bridal Chorus (Here Comes The Bride)
3. Canon in D (From A Day to Remember: Vol. I)
4. The Wedding Song
5. I Can Only Imagine
6. From This Moment On
7. Canon in D (From A Day to Remember: Vol. III)
8. Hymne
9. Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
10. Falling in Love

Top 10 Wedding Sheet Music Downloads
1. The Wedding Song (Kenny G)
2. Hymne
3. Reminiscent Joy
4. Bless the Broken Road
5. Falling in Love
6. The Road That Never Ends
7. The Prayer
8. From This Moment On
9. I Can Only Imagine
10. I Will Be Here

As always, we’d love to hear what you decided to use for your big day. Please post your favorites in the comments section.

Tim & Ryan

We're on MySpace

One of our biggest fans has created a MySpace page for us. Take a look if you're a MySpacer:
http://www.myspace.com/pianobrothers

Be sure to tune in to QVC on Tuesday morning, August 8th between 6-8am Central time to see us perform Wind Beneath My Wings and other favorites from the Reflections 3-CD set (http://www.pianobrothers.com/music/reflections/index.asp).

Have a nice weekend!
Tim & Ryan