What was your JW wedding song?

NikL

I got to thinking the other day about how JWs, at least when I got married in the Hall could not use secular music for the ceremony. We there fore were forced to use kingdon melodies. Anyone else have fond memories about your wedding song?
My wife and I chose, "We thank you Jehovah". It seemed to be the most popular and the closest to a wedding march we could get.

Kismet

For the aisle march , the two most common were "shulamite Maiden" and "Marriage is God's arrangment" (best sung to the tune of the Muppet Show theme song)

As far as the first song at the reception... it was wide and varied and changed through the years (I was Djing Witness weddigns since 1986)

Kismet

Angharad

We had song number 50 - Responding to God's Love & God's Promise of Paradise, there was one little elder who came rushing and gave me a right grilling over when he found out we werent having Marriage is God Arrangement, there had been quite a few wedding at the hall before us and ALL of them used it, we were so sick of it, I thought no way was I having it

ozziepost

Is this going to be a test of marital fidelity - like remembering your anniversary?

If so, I'm done for as I can't remember the song(s). Hope Mrs Ozzie can. All I know is, they were from a very old song book. remember the old green one?

Cheers,
Ozzie

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

Anonymous

Thirdson

I can't remember what the marching up the aisle song was. This was 1984 and the WTS had recently clamped down on secular music at KH weddings. (The year previously, my best friend from school got maried and the entrance music was from a period-piece TV program).

The first song sang was "the Prayer of God's Servant" (song 88 in the brown book). I chose this because it is just a prayer, I liked the melody and this song doesn't use the name "Jehovah".

I always liked the song "the Marriage of the Lamb" from the old book (pink) because it sounded like a wedding march. This one of the songs deleted although I am not sure the tune was recycled in the new book.

The worst thing about the music at Witness weddings (at least every one I ever attended) is that it is always pre-recorded. The wedding starts, the music plays, the bride and her father walk in, every one turns to gaze and smile, they bride reaches the front and the music abruptly stops with a screech of the needle lifted-off the record...nicely done brother DJ!

Kismet,

I laughed out loud when I sang "Marriage is God's Arrangement" to the Muppet Show theme. If I ever go to a Witness wedding again, I'll sit there smirking at the thought of a muppet audience.

Still on the muppet theme, the priest who officiated at mine and Mrs Thirdson's wedding used to work for Jim Henson's muppet company when she was first out of college and living in New York.

Thirdson

'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'

Englishman

Hmm, going back to my short-lived dub marriage I think we did the Power of Kindness which did have good lyrics such as :

When faced with problems that perplex
We will very often find
That their solution simply lies
In being mild and kind.

In retrospect, 'Fight the good fight' might have been more appropriate.

As for hi-jacked dub songs, We thank you Jehovah is a plagiarisation of Haydn's Creation. Eyes on the prize = Some day my prince will come.
Dwelling in unity = Looney Toones at half speed.

Englishman,

Bring on the dancing girls!

NeonMadman

For my first marriage, it was "Living Up to Our Name." My ex-wife then spent the next 23 years abusing me and my daughter, later finally committing "porneia" and leaving me because I was an apostate. Of course, the elders went along.

For my second marriage, I was nowhere near a Kingdom Hall, mentally or physically.

Tom
"The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure; to live it you had to explode." ---Bob Dylan

Mrs Rocky

We married when there was still a piano in the KH. Think we had "Shulamite Maiden" out of the old pink songbook. Personally, I think something died in me when they went to canned music. Used to play piano for weddings and memorial services, most of the meetings too. I must have been mistaken, but I thought music was supposed to be a heartfelt expression of love for God...canned music doesn't cut it.

ozziepost

Keep Music Live!

Cheers,
Ozzie

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

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siegswife

Ewwwwww!

What was your JW wedding song?

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