Music.

I don't have much on my mind today. Well, that's not true. I'm trying to get the hotel room block situation straightened out now that we have the football conflict. And I'm thinking about photographers and registries and makeup and favors. But I thought I'd talk for just a moment about music.

We're thinking that we'll probably have a DJ for the reception. A band is great, but we're worried they couldn't cover quite as much ground. Plus, they're more expensive. We need to book this person by January, maybe even earlier. We'll be looking at lots of sites, I assume. I'm not looking forward to sifting through all that.

We'll have to think of something for cocktail hour since it's in a different location. I guess we should find out if they have speakers and just make a playlist of jazz or motown or maybe stuff from Wes Anderson's movie soundtracks. The acoustic stuff - though that might set a weird tone. And we have a plan for the ceremony, but I can't share it quite yet.

I think the most interesting part for us will be picking an appropriate playlist for the event. Something that works for the older and the younger crowds. Slow songs and fast songs. We're basically planning a prom. That made me shudder just a bit.

I am especially thinking about that first dance. We don't really have a song. I mean, when we first started dating, we danced to MIA's Paper Planes, but I doubt gunshots and cash registers are really wedding appropriate. Now we're kind of stumped. Any song we use won't really be a song that means a lot to us. Though I guess afterwards it will. Is this how people get to the "our song" stage? Did they not have that song before the wedding? I mean, unless you marry someone from high school you probably haven't gone to many dances together. Appropriate dances, that is.

My fiance (hi) is also what you'd call a music snob (sorry) so I'm very interested to see how this goes. Perhaps we'll have to set up percentages of how many songs should be in each genre or targeted towards each age group or appropriate for slow dancing.

Or perhaps we'll just play Arcade Fire on loop and call it a day.