Have I said this before? I've stopped calling myself the wedding "expert" a while ago. I'm going to say during Henry's wedding. I'm not really that useful as far as weddings go. I mean, I'll help to the best of my ability, but not really that useful.
Unless it involves music. Then I think I do OK. Just, I've not messed up yet, it's always above average, and sometimes I think it goes quite well. I dunno, that's where I'm most useful I think. I only have one regret music wise, maybe two. One was where I accompanied Donna singing Just Let Me Say. My mistake was, I was slavish to the way the piano is played on the recording. It was fine, especially since she has a gorgeous voice. But it could have gone better on my end. Just for some reason I was stubborn about playing it the way it was recorded.
What happened was, there was another song in this particular wedding that I didn't accompany, and it ended up sounding better than the song I did, I think. And, this is petty, but that bothered me. Just, I held us back by being a slave to the recording. I still regret that.
The other regret is that sometimes with music I can be a Nazi. Like it's well known that I scared Sammy before my own wedding. Other stuff like that. I dunno, that's wrong. One thing about "ministry" we've learned is that the process is even more important than the goal. That is, encouraging the people you're working with is more critical than the final product. Not that the final goal doesn't matter, it's just a matter of priority.
I think that's true of weddings also, at least as far as music goes. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong. At the very least, I think I could have been more balanced about things in the past, not being such a Nazi about every musical detail. That's my other regret.
Uh, that wasn't a photo description, that was a though. Oh well. Love of the game.