🎵 Open Mailbag

Anything on your mind. Now's your shot.

I’m opening the mailbag. Hit reply with whatever you’re stuck on, and I’ll answer as many as I can in an upcoming issue.

The song you can’t place. The room you couldn’t read. The thing a couple asked you for that you didn’t know how to answer.

That last one comes up more than anything else. A few that have hit my inbox:

• “Play our playlist in order, start to finish, don’t change anything.” Do I do it?

• They sent 200 songs for a four-hour reception. How do I choose?

• Their playlist has no dance music in it at all. Do I say something?

And the ones about the room:

• The floor filled at 8:30 and was empty by 9:15. What did I do wrong?

• Building a cocktail hour set for a room I’ve never seen. Where do I even start?

Nothing is too basic, and nothing is too specific. “How do I handle mixed crowds” gets you a general answer. “How do I bridge a Filipino family and an Irish family in a 90-person room” gets you a useful one.

Answers run anonymous unless you tell me otherwise.

And if something I’ve written doesn’t match what you see on Wedding Nights, send me that. It’s the most useful email I could get.

Reply by Sunday, September 20.

Next week: the full job list. Thirty-three things a wedding song can be hired to do.

The Wedding Music Canon came out yesterday. If you missed it, check it out.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers,

Matthew Campbell

Wedding MusicLetter